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The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Episode 1

Duration: 2 hours, 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

F Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel of the Jazz Age and the elusive dream of self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Meet narrator Nick Carraway - an educated, but lost veteran of the Great War who enters the dazzling, seemingly rarefied high society of Long Island.

So begins the story of nihilistic abandon, moral questioning and aspiration.

The first of two parts, read by Kyle Soller.

Producer: Julian Wilkinson Show less

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