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"James Joyce" (25 results)
Today, poet and critic Tom Paulin examines the work of James Joyce, whose writing, once banned for obscenity, re...
Andrew Marr discusses Ulysses and the legacy of Joyce with writers Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin and Mary Costello.
Celebrating Ulysses at 100 by revisiting a very special 1982 documentary, featuring Ted Hickey looking at Joyce's rela...
Joyce's early life in Dublin, full of japes with friends and then an eye to exile. Narrated by Jim Norton with ...
Stephen Dedalus and Buck Mulligan look out over Dublin Bay. It is 8.00 am on the 16th June 1904. With Andrew Scott, Kevin Trainor and Stephen Rea...
A literary landmark and it's effect on a city; an examination of how Dublin has embraced Ulysses. With Peter White.
It's 100 years since one of the most influential novels of the 20th century was published. Hear the memories of some of the great I...
This year is the 100th anniversary of Ulysses by James Joyce, one of the most influential novels of the 20th Century. Ulysses is the story of on...
Mark Lawson chairs a discussion about the powerful influence of Ulysses today and in the years since its publication in 1922, with guests including Anne Fogart...
Adaptation by Allan McClelland of James Joyce's Ulysses, with Milo O'Shea as Bloom, June Tobin as Molly and Simon Ward as Stephen Dedalus.
A theatre company who travelled Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced his writing of Ulys...
Dermot Bolger's touching story of how James Joyce's Ulysses influenced and inspired one woman's life.
Bidisha discusses whether James Joyce's Ulysses could be a self-help guide in disguise,
Chris Power is joined by Colm Toibin and Merve Emre to explore the enduring legacy of James Joyce's Ulysses, as this ground-br...
Anne Enright selects the first episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, closely deciphers the opening pages, and examines th...
Maverick American director Joseph Strick talks about his film Ulysses - an adaptation of James Joyce's novel - from which the BBFC demanded 29 cu...
What made Joyce choose to set his “odyssey” within these confines? And what has been the cultural impact and long afterlife of the one-day ...
Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Johny Pitts explores the books of the 1920s with Alison McLeod, Bill Goldstein, James Clammer and Jo Hamya - as...
Clive Anderson is joined by the actors Niamh Cusack, Jaime Winstone and Tony Hawks. Emma Freud talks t...
Colm Toibin tells us how characters in Ulysses are connected by song. Colm selects a passage from the Sirens episode, wher...
John Patrick McHugh selects the opening of the Calypso episode, where we first meet the main character. John tell...
Mary Costello selects an episode full of questions and answers, known as Ithaca. In the passage she chooses, the reader ...
Nuala O'Connor chooses the final episode of Ulysses - Penelope - in which Molly Bloom speaks to us. In the pass...
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