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Afternoon Reading: F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories

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F Scott Fitzgerald

Afternoon Reading: F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories: Episode 3: Pat Hobby Does His Bit

The Pat Hobby Stories

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Episode 3: Pat Hobby Does His Bit

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories

Pat Hobby Does His Bit

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It's difficult to borrow money from an actor on a set during the shooting of a movie.

It's difficult to borrow money from an actor on a set while shooting a movie. But Pat must save his car. Read by Alfred Molina.

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

It is a difficult business, in Hollywood, to borrow money from an actor on a set during the shooting of a moving picture. But Pat Hobby is desperate. 

It's the stiffest chore Pat has ever undertaken but he's doing it to save his car. His old jalopy might not seem worth saving but, because of Hollywood's great distances, it's an indispensable tool of the writer's trade. But what Pat doesn't foresee is that, because of this financial arrangement, his whole life in pictures is about to change. 


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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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