To tie in with Birmingham's festival of music written in the 1920s - Towards the Millennium - Radio 3 is presenting a month of programmes looking at the cultural life of the decade, of which Main Street, USA is the first.
Its subject is the Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis , the most renowned American novelist of the 1920s. The author of Main Street, Babbitt and It Can't
Happen Here, his titles are mainstays in the American language, yet his work is little known today. Russell Davies travels to
Minnesota and New York to assess the reputation and legacy of a forgotten literary figure.
Producer Noah Richler
(More 20s Season programmes tomorrow and throughout the week)