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.