F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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Classic Serial: The Great Gatsby First broadcast: Sun 6th May 2012, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM 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. 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. Dramatised by Robert Forrest [Two episodes combined as one] 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

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