by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
'It was an age of miracles; it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, it was borrowed time - the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of grand dukes and the casualness of chorus girls ...'
In a reading related to the preceding edition of Bookshelf, Fitzgerald's description of the 1920s is read by Peter Marinker Producer JOHN KNIGHT