John Fowles in conversation with Melvyn Bragg
"One thing that seems to me to have gone wrong with the British novel and the American novel is this notion that the novelist has to write for an intellectual elite.
If you can write for a wide audience, then you ought to."

John Fowles has done just that, since his first novel, The Collector, was published in 1963. The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower have all topped the best-seller lists in this country and America. He has just published his first major new novel for eight years - Daniel Martin.
Fowles now lives in Lyme Regis, where Melvyn Bragg went to talk to him, both about his career as a writer and about his other love - nature.