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Remembers…
Season 4 · Episode 37
Sarah Churchwell Remembers… The Great Gatsby
0.014mSeptember 18, 2025
Sarah Churchwell looks at the origins of The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald's evocative novel of the Roaring Twenties, and the inspiration behind its plot and characters.
Episodes
- Episode 1Ruth Jones Remembers… Hattie
- Episode 2Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Cloud Howe
- Episode 3Vivien Heilbron Remembers… Grey Granite
- Episode 4David Herman Remembers… Face to Face
- Episode 5Adrian Lester Remembers… Company
- Episode 6Tony Marchant Remembers… Take Me Home
- Episode 7David Olusoga Remembers… Artists and Models
- Episode 8Willard White Remembers… Porgy and Bess
- Episode 9Jimmy McGovern Remembers… The Lakes
- Episode 10Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Priest
- Episode 11Gary Wilmot Remembers… Showstoppers
- Episode 12Jimmy McGovern Remembers… Common
- Episode 13Elaine Paige Remembers… A Night on the Town
- Episode 14Andrew Roberts Remembers… AJP Taylor's The War Lords
- Episode 15Simon Schama Remembers… The Power of Art
- Episode 16Laurence Rees Remembers… The Nazis: A Warning from History
- Episode 17Brian Cox Remembers… Bob Servant
- Episode 18Alison Steadman Remembers… Girl
- Episode 19Brian Cox Remembers… The Lost Language of Cranes
- Episode 20Romola Garai Remembers… Emma
- Episode 21Katharine Schlesinger Remembers… Northanger Abbey
- Episode 22Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson Remember… Persuasion
- Episode 23Frank McGuinness & Julie Nicholson Remember… A Song for Jenny
- Episode 24George Gallaccio Remembers… Miss Marple
- Episode 25Debbie Horsfield Remembers… Poldark
- Episode 26Nicholas Shakespeare Remembers… Mario Vargas Llosa
- Episode 27Debbie Horsfield Remembers… Cutting It
- Episode 28Patrick Marber Remembers… After Miss Julie
- Episode 29Helen Mirren Remembers… Gosford Park
- Episode 30Helen Mirren Remembers… The Little Minister
- Episode 31Michael Aspel Remembers… The War Game
- Episode 32Paul Lewis Remembers… Alfred Brendel
- Episode 33Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… Shooting the Past
- Episode 34Jasper Carrott Remembers…
- Episode 35Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… Perfect Strangers
- Episode 36Phil Davis Remembers… The Firm
- Episode 37Sarah Churchwell Remembers… The Great Gatsby
- Episode 38Anthony Wall Remembers… Arena
- Episode 39Waris Hussein Remembers… The Clothes in the Wardrobe
- Episode 40Bhasker Patel Remembers… Brothers in Trouble
- Episode 41William Nicholson Remembers… Sweet as You Are
- Episode 42Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers… The Great Philosophers
- Episode 43Lord Mervyn King Remembers… The Age of Uncertainty
- Episode 44David Hare Remembers… The Absence of War
- Episode 45Ian McNeice Remembers… Edge of Darkness
- Episode 46Emma Thompson and Paul Murton Remember… The Blue Boy
- Episode 47Matthew Bourne Remembers… Swan Lake
- Episode 48Graham Reid Remembers… The Precious Blood
- Episode 49Graham Reid Remembers… Life After Life
- Episode 50Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens Remember… Jane Eyre
- Episode 51Kay Adshead Remembers… Wuthering Heights
- Episode 52Michael Aspel Remembers… The Evacuees
- Episode 53William Nicholson Remembers… Shadowlands
- Episode 54Derek Griffiths Remembers… Bod
- Episode 55Michael Palin Remembers… East of Ipswich
- Episode 56Peter Egan and Penelope Wilton Remember… Ever Decreasing Circles
- Episode 57Samuel West Remembers… Prunella Scales