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Phil Short

Phil Short

Podcast guest known for appearances on Telegraph podcasts (The Daily T, Murder in the Masai Mara) and WJR Detroit's Focus with Paul W. Smith.

Aug 31, 2026

27:02
That is
27:03
really something.
27:03
Tell us how it works.
27:06
Well, what happens is parents can go online either to our website or to Imagine Library and they enter their residency.
27:13
And if there's a partnership within their residency where they live, they can get confirmed to the program.
27:20
And once they get accepted into the program, they get a book delivered to them once a month.
27:25
With the first book, of course, being The Little Engine That Could, which knowing Dolly and the American and the Imagine Library, that message of perseverance, resiliency, especially nowadays, is just critical for young children.
29:21
But did she set something up so the Imagination Library can continue for quite some time?
3:07
That is
3:08
really something.
3:09
Tell us how it works.
3:11
Well, what happens is parents can go online either to our website or to Imagine Library and they enter their residency.
3:18
And if there's a partnership within their residency where they live, they can get confirmed to the program.
3:25
And once they get accepted into the program, they get a book delivered to them once a month.
3:31
With the first book, of course, being The Little Engine That Could, which knowing Dolly and the American and the Imagine Library, that message of perseverance, resiliency, especially nowadays, is just critical for young children.
5:26
But did she set something up so the Imagination Library can continue for quite some time?
2:11
And Phil Short, her friend from the big yellow truck, sheds some light on why Julie's family may not have known.
2:18
I was very close to her very early on and I noticed that she sometimes faded out.
2:28
So I said to her, have you got a hearing problem? She said, yeah, I've got tinnitus.
2:32
I've had it for a long time.
2:34
She said, I don't tell anybody.
2:37
I said, I don't think my family know.
2:40
which did really surprise me, I must admit.

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