In Our Time: The Great Gatsby

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, one of the great American novels of the 20th century. It is told by Nick Carraway, neighbour and friend of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby. In the age of jazz and prohibition, Gatsby hosts lavish parties at his opulent home across the bay from Daisy Buchanan, in the hope she'll attend one of them and they can be reunited