Fetch the Codfish

I have no particular brief for Mariella Frostrup, but kudos to her for skewering Sebastian Faulkes new series on books, whose episode on the hero character only contains one female hero out of seven. Apparently he's not telling that story. Perhaps he's telling the wrong story. It got worse. Apparently there are no heroes - although when she suggested counter examples these were suddenly genre rather than mainstream. I didn't recognise his version of what the study of English Lit is either