Download Proms Extra: Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark - 31 August 15
The American novelist Willa Cather's 'The Song of the Lark' was first published a hundred years ago in 1915. Her biographer Dame Hermione Lee talks to New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon about Cather's story of a young girl who leaves her home town in Colorado to pursue a career as an opera singer. The reader is Laurel Lefkow.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.
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