Imagined Paris Podcast
Dina Oktaviani
Show overview
Imagined Paris Podcast launched in 2025 and has put out 46 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 4 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 5 min and 6 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 26 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Dina Oktaviani.
From the publisher
"I just lie here being blue, spilling my heart to you - Paris, Paris, comment vas-tu?"Paris memoirs from Imagined Paris (imaginedparis.com), written by Dina Oktaviani, London-based poet and parisian partout dreaming, living, and writing Paris.
Latest Episodes
View all 46 episodesIP66: Light in the heat
IP65: Precious perception
IP64: Free and in love
IP63: My inner river
IP62: Familiar unknown
IP61: Open, always
IP60: Tant mieux !
IP59: Softer
IP58: Balance
IP57: Rest
IP56: Little bird
IP 55: No distance
IP54: To Vienna
53: Embrace
"Almost greedily, Paris, I am consuming everything that is beautiful and temporary this morning has to offer for me – everything that is music, everything that is light, everything that is warm, everything that is carnal, and in the process, I feel your embrace embodied. Who knew love isn’t in anything eternal? Who knew, that as the objects come and pass, love travels so that it has a chance to evolve..."(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)
IP52: Wonderful troubles
"I’m rejoicing in this very hour of freedom, to breathe and to write my heart out from this warm barge on the River Thames under the Albert Bridge and to reach your ears and your heart’s peripheries and make you feel less alone, maybe even less afraid...."(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)
IP51: It feels quiet
"Can one be on the wrong path when wishing only good things? Can one be on the wrong path wishing no harms on others? Is it enough – wishing and wanting? And which ‘others’ – is there only one? I feel that my questions about the world are no longer fake..."(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)
IP50: I feel like trusting you
"To experience to be accepted without having to perform is to learn how to love others more unconditionally. Oh, to feel so free! I wouldn’t know which came first – the freedom to be myself or being accepted for myself, but the impact on my journey is profound and I am most grateful..."(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)
IP49: Like your river
"Your river, Paris, she is deep and wide enough for vessels to travel. My heart is deep, and more so in continuous heavy rain, but has it been wide enough for vessels to travel? And is it safe enough for one to stay, especially when it is overflowing?"(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)
IP48: My liberated love
"My little heart, pretending to be big, who gets the hurt from my strong conviction, can handle it. But perhaps I lied when I said my heart didn’t need soothing when I broke it with my rational decision— to break up in December, par exemple — or at least I was confused. Now, after waves of pain, guilt, and even anger, which surprised my heart a little, I know my rational conviction, my principles are what soothe my pain, because they give meaning to it and meaning is as important as life itself, if not more..."(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)
IP47: Je suis prête
"Ça va, Paris ?""How have you been in the last few hours? You looked after me so well for the past week that there was not a moment that I didn’t feel loved, and London was so welcoming this morning with its persistent rain, which I welcomed with my persistent smile..."(Read the full text on imaginedparis.com)