' The older one gets, the more startling and agreeable it is to discover a major writer who was always there to be discovered, if one had only known.'
The novelist A. S. Byatt reinterprets the novels of Willa Cather , a contemporary of Henry James. who grew up in Nebraska and whose deceptively matter-of-fact and atmospheric tales of pioneer fe unfairly earned her a reputation for naivety. Reader BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT Producer LOUISE PURSLOW