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The Great Gatsby

Classic Serial: F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby: Episode 1

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Episode 1

Nick Carraway arrives in wealthy Long Island.

Nick Carraway arrives in wealthy Long Island. The Jazz Age decadence and fallibility of the American dream. Stars Bryan Dick.

F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. 

Nick Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everything - but one thing will always be out of his reach. 

Dramatised in two-parts by Robert Forrest.

Nick ..... Bryan Dick
Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott
Tom ..... Andrew Buchan
Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Jordan ..... Melody Grove
Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson
Klipspringer ..... Sam Dale
Wilson ..... Gerard McDermott 
Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell
Catherine ..... Tracy Wiles
Chester ..... Patrick Brennan
Lucille ..... Christine Absalom
Alice ..... Amaka Okafor

Director: Gaynor Macfarlane.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.

Classic Serial: F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

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The decadence and excess of the Jazz Age and the fallibility of the American dream

F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel provides a portrait of the decadence and excess of the Jazz Age and the fallibility of the American dream. Dramatised by Robert Forrest

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