Sleep Stories: The Great Gatsby

Light and dark grey patches of clouds mottle the sky and a cool breeze blows in, signaling the end of summer. The breeze ebbs and flows from gentle to gusty and clothes flap and flutter on a clothesline. The changing temperatures bring a dry thunder that rumbles periodically as t ...  Show more

A river flows with a gentle white noise while birds and other animals chirp and sings from the trees and brush surrounding the trail up to Machu Picchu.Download the White Noise App for continuous playback. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss F Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, published in 1925, one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It is told by Nick Carraway, neighbour and friend of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby. In the age of jazz and prohibition, Gatsby ho ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss F Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, published in 1925, one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It is told by Nick Carraway, neighbour and friend of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby. In the age of jazz and prohibition, Gatsby ho ...  Show more

This year, F Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby enters the public domain. What will this mean for one of America's best loved novels?Ian McMillan is joined by the academic and writer Sarah Churchwell, author of 'Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the invention of The Gr ...  Show more

A wealthy man in his early 30s. An army man. A German immigrant. A bootlegger. A lover. Who was Jay Gatsby? And if he was based on a real person, what do we know about them?

To delve into one of the most famous fictional characters of the 20th century (from one of Do ...