In Our Time: F. Scott Fitzgerald/The Great Gatsby

McGowan, Philip (Participant)

School of Arts, English and Languages

Impact

Description of impact

With over 2 million weekly listeners and listed as one of GQ's best podcasts fo 2021, In Our Time is the BBC's flagship arts and culture panel programme.

Who is affected

Radio 4's demographic ranges far and wide across all age groups and countries. With the addition of downloadable podcasts, In Our Time now reaches audiences across the world beyond its immediate broadcast event.

Narrative

Given my editorial work and research on Fitzgerald, as well as my being a member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Executive Board, I was invited to be a panelist on what is arguably the BBC's most prestigious arts and culture discussion programme.

Impact status	Completed
Impact date	14 Jan 2021

Keywords

F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Modernism
Politics
American culture

Documents & Links

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 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. They were lovers as teenagers but she had given him up for a richer man who she soon married, and Gatsby is obsessed with winning her back. The image above is of Robert Redford as Gatsby in a scene from the film 'The Great Gatsby', 1974. With Sarah Churchwell Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London Philip McGowan Professor of American Literature at Queen’s University, Belfast And William Blazek Associate Professor and Reader in American Literature at Liverpool Hope University Produced by Simon Tillotson and Julia Johnson