F Scott Fitzgerald: BBC Radio Collection
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age - a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received critical acclaim after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This collection includes four BBC Radio dramatisations of his novels, as well as readings of five of his short stories. The Great Gatsby 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 Dramatised by Robert Forrest Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012 Tender Is the Night Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a young film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets that hold them together. Dick Diver ..... Simon Harrison Nicole Diver ..... Melody Grove Rosemary ..... Kelly Burke Tommy ..... Finn den Hertog Abe North ..... Mark McDonnel McKisco ...... Laurie Brown Violet/Baby ..... Anita Vettesse Mother ..... Anne Lacey Franz/Warren ...... Nick Underwood Collis/Buddy ..... Alasdair Hankinson Swanson ...... Laurie Brown Baby ..... Anita Vettesse Kathe/Caroline ..... Anne Lacey Franz/Warren ...... Nick Underwood Collis ..... Alasdair Hankinson Narrator ..... Sam Dale Dramatised by Robin Brooks Director: Gaynor Macfarlane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015 The Beautiful and Damned Anthony Patch, presumptive heir to a vast fortune, marries renowned beauty, Gloria Gilbert. True socialites, the pair are the essence of glamour: a golden couple, spoiled and selfish, who descend through the wild partying of the Jazz Age into despair and alcoholism. Anthony Patch ..... Joel MacCormack Gloria Gilbert ..... Jessica Hardwick Fred Passmore ..... Rhashan Stone Maury Noble ..... David Sturzaker Joseph Bloeckman ..... Tom Mothersdale Muriel Kane ..... Melody Grove Adam Patch/Bounds ..... Ben Onwukwe Haight/Percy ..... David Seddon Adapted by Robin Brooks Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021 The Last Tycoon Haunted by the death of his wife, 1930s Studio Head Monroe Stahr works eighteen hour days, each one a collision of talent meetings, set visits, script brainstorms and preview screenings. He's the "last of the princes", is making the studio millions and seems bullet proof. But then he meets the mesmerising Kathleen. As their affair plays out, we follow the disintegration of the great Hollywood legend, and witness the darker heart of the Hollywood machine as a paranoid fear of communism comes to the fore. Munro Stahr .... Aidan Gillen Kathleen .... Charlotte Emmerson Bremmer .... Jack Shepherd Cecilia .... Hilary Connell Brady .... Michael Feast Tony Rodriquez .... Karl Johnson Boxley .... Trevor Ray Fleishacker .... John Guerrasio Miss Doolan .... Angela Douglas Adapted by Bill Bryden Directed by Bill Bryden First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2013 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" performed by Scott Brick; "The Lost Decade," performed by Paul Michael Garcia; "Three Hours between Planes," performed by Jeff Cummings; "The Bridal Party," performed by Grover Gardner; and "Babylon Revisited," performed by Ray Porter. First broadcast May 2007
