Here in the BBC archive is a wonderful resource, a collection of interviews with writers. Following on from our conversation about The French Lieutenant's Woman, this evening I've been watching John Fowles talking to Melvyn Bragg about that book among others, about literary truths and the artificial nature of fiction, the relationship between reader and writer and the richness this brings to the experience of reading (and writing) fiction.
If you watch the film I'd be interested to hear your impressions of Fowles - we talked a lot in yesterday's post and comments about his presence in his own novel, and not everyone took kindly to his intrusion, but in person he comes across very differently, I think.
