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Afternoon Reading: F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories

Martin Jarvis

Archie Scottney

F Scott Fitzgerald

Afternoon Reading: F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories: Episode 2: Teamed with Genius

The Pat Hobby Stories

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Episode 2: Teamed with Genius

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories

Teamed with Genius

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Pat has the chance of a shared screen credit with a British writer on a ballet picture.

Hollywood writer Pat gets the chance to share a screen credit with a British writer on a ballet picture. Read by Alfred Molina.

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney.

Studio head Jack Berners calls hack writer Pat Hobby into his office. Surprisingly he has a writing job for him. Pat seems ready for it. Berners teams him with British writer, Rene Wilcox. It's ballet picture. As Pat leaves the office Berners calls him back and puts some dollars in his hand. 'Get a new hat,' he says, 'You used to be quite a boy around the secretaries in the old days. Don't give up at forty-nine!' But over in the Writers' Building Pat discovers that Wilcox has never written for the cinema before, and doesn't want to collaborate. Can Hobby survive? Will he have to do some proper writing at last? 


Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis 
A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4.

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F Scott Fitzgerald's stories about down-and-out 1940s Hollywood screenwriter Pat Hobby

By F Scott Fitzgerald. Short stories about down-and-out 1940s Hollywood screenwriter Pat Hobby

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