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PlotLines began with a conversation between a father and daughter about how difficult it can be to picture the worlds of classic novels. Created through an ongoing collaboration with AI, it transforms out-of-copyright books into animated journeys, plotting characters, places and key moments on maps of their own era. Quotations, period images and carefully researched routes bring each story’s geography to life, while clearly identifying where locations or routes are uncertain.
The growing collection includes Dracula, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Pride and Prejudice, David Copperfield, Around the World in Eighty Days and many more. In this recording, we follow Professor Challenger and his companions from London to South America in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. As well as offering a new way to explore literature, PlotLines may inspire you to map your own ancestors’ travels, migrations and changing relationships with place.
Chris Moran is a former teacher and actor and is now the head of editorial innovation and AI at the Guardian. He created the audience team at the Guardian and co-created its realtime analytics tool Ophan. He spends his time experimenting with AI in journalism, and reflecting on what it means for the industry as a whole.
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