Saturday, 9 November 2019

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD - THE GREAT GATSBY (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 26th & 27th September 2019

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.

Dramatised in two-parts by Robert Forrest.

Director: Gaynor Macfarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.

THE GREAT GATSBY - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 26th September 2019

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.

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

THE GREAT GATSBY - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th September 2019

Nick has fallen in with the wealthy crowd on Long Island. His neighbour, Gatsby, asks Nick to engineer a meeting with his lost love, Nick's cousin, Daisy.

Nick ..... Bryan Dick
Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott
Tom ..... Andrew Buchan
Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Jordan ..... Melody Grove
Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson
Klipspringer/Michaelis ..... Sam Dale
Wilson/Gatz ..... Gerard McDermott
Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell
Alice ..... Amaka Okafor

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