Fowles In Dorset

FOWLES IN DORSET (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th September 2022

Best-selling author John Fowles was also curator of Lyme Regis Museum.

Chris Ledgard reveals how he recorded local people and the relationship the writer had with the Dorset town of Lyme Regis, the setting for his most famous work the French Lieutenant's Woman.

John Fowles, who died in 2005, was one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the 20th century. But he had another job - curator of Lyme Regis Museum. He carried out a series of interviews piecing together Lyme's oral history. In this programme Chris Ledgard explores those tapes and discusses the author's link with Lyme Regis and its history.

Producer - Chris Ledgard

Contributors:-
Chris Ledgard
Ken Gollop
John Fowles
Louise Curtis
Jo Draper
Ivy Caddy
Liz-Anne Bawden
Barbara Austin
Jean Wellings
Sarah Fowles
Cecil Langford
Fred Britton
Elsie Clark
Charles Drazin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.