Last of six conversations with Alastair Hetherington When Michael books a room for the honcumoon with twin beds that are screwed to the wall, people say it must be autobiographical. It's not. That gives me satisfaction, that people usually guess wrongaboutwhat's' autobiographical and what isn't.
David Lodge , satirical novelist, Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham University, and winner of the Hawthornden and Whitbread prizes, on how the academic rates the novelist and how the writer rates the academics, structuralists included. Producer LOUISE PURSLOW