Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce

Season 1 for... Ulysses by James Joyce. The unabridged text, read by more than a hundred writers, artists, comedians and musicians

Season 2 for... Bloomcast. A deep-dive into the text with Adam Biles, Alice McCrum and Lex Paulson, as well as other bonus episodes.

To celebrate a hundred years since Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s Ulysses, and to encourage readers to engage (or re-engage) with this spirited, funny, life-changing book, Shakespeare and Company, Paris—in partnership with Penguin Classics and Hay Festival—created an ensemble recording of the unabridged text, released as a free podcast between the centenary of the publication on 2nd February 2022 and Bloomsday on June 16 2022.

Read by more than a hundred writers, artists, comedians and musicians from all over the world— including Sally Rooney, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry, Pete Buttigieg, Kae Tempest, Ben Okri, Ali Smith, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley and many, many more... (full cast list below)—Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses is a polyphonic and diverse celebration of this Modernist masterwork.

Conceived and produced by Adam Biles, Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris

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Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses

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Featuring (in order):

Will Self

Jeanette Winterson

Paul Murray

Ishion Hutchinson

Caoilinn Hughes

Eddie Izzard

Lola Peploe

Nathan Englander

Joe Dunthorne

Kate Stables

Jarred McGinnis

Nicholson Baker

Richard Barnett

Amy Sackville

Chigozie Obioma

Erica Wagner

Patrick Marber

Claire-Louise Bennett

Aleksandar Hemon

Ryan Van Winkle

Cressida Brown

Holly Pester

Adam Thirlwell

Catherine Lacey

Ciaran Farrell

Lauren Elkin

Andrew Hankinson

Conor Horgan

Andy Miller

Preti Taneja

Salena Godden

Sinéad Gleeson

Luke Kennard

Sophie Gorman

Nicole Flattery

John Freeman

Aysegul Savas

Daniel Levin Becker

John Butler

John Mitchinson

Sigrid Rausing

Max Porter

Eimear McBride

Keith Ridgway

Philip Hoare

Deborah Landau

Karthika Nair

Cerys Matthews

DBC Pierre

Katharina Volckmer

Mark O’Connell

Marcel Theroux

Sylvia Whitman & David Delannet

Lenny Kaye

Sarah Churchwell

Olivia Laing

Katie Kitamura

Ali Smith

Keri Walsh

Lesley Blume

Patrick Hastings

Ben Okri

Colm Toibin

Chloe Aridjis

Stephen Fry

Douglas Stuart

Pete Buttigieg

Tara Mulholland

Paul Muldoon

S&Co Table Readers (Anne Bielec, Ben Brown, Amanda Dennis, Linda Fallon, Heather Heartley, Octavia Horgan, Conor Lee Bourke, Lex Paulson, Kate Poston, Francesca Reece)

David Keenan

Tom McCarthy

David Szalay

Jesse Ball

Carter Bays

James Gregor

Will Burns

Declan McCavana

Greg Proops

Jennifer Canada

Sam Jordison

Eloise Millar

Hollie McNish

Michael Pedersen

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sasha Foer

Ethan Hawke

Rob Doyle

Roisin Kiberd

Lucy Sante

Caitlinn O Keefe

Deborah Levy

Meena Kandasamy

Joanna Lumley

Susan Philipz

Sylvia Whitman

Bonnie Greer

Emilie Pine

Margaret Atwood

Kae Tempest

Lou Doillon

Sally Rooney

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Pages 672 - 703 │ Circe, part IV │ Read by the S&Co Table Readers

Read by Adam Biles, Ben Brown, Heather Hartley, Octavia Horgan and Kate Poston. With Linda Fallon as Leopold Bloom and Lex Paulson as …

00:47:42 | Thu 12 May 2022

Pages 641 - 672 │ Circe, part III │ Read by the S&Co Table Readers

Read by Adam Biles, Ben Brown, Amy Burgess, Amanda Dennis, Heather Heartley, Octavia Horgan and Kate Poston. Featuring Francesca Reec…

00:54:26 | Wed 11 May 2022

Pages 599 - 641 │ Circe, part II │ Read by the S&Co Table Readers

Read by Adam Biles, Ben Brown, Heather Hartley, Octavia Horgan, Kate Poston, Francesca Reece. With Linda Fallon as Leopold Bloom and L…

01:12:37 | Tue 10 May 2022

Pages 561 - 599 │ Circe, part I │ Read by the S&Co Table Readers

Read by Anne Bielec, Ben Brown, Amanda Dennis, Heather Heartley, Octavia Horgan, Conor Lee Bourke, Kate Poston, Francesca Reece. With L…

01:05:15 | Mon 09 May 2022

Pages 554 - 561 │ Oxen of the Sun, part VIII │ Read by Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belf…

00:21:44 | Sun 08 May 2022

Bloomcast | Episode 7 | Circe

Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in …

01:36:13 | Fri 06 May 2022

Pages 547 - 554 │ Oxen of the Sun, part VII │ Read by Tara Mulholland

Tara Mulholland is a screenwriter and translator. Born in London, she grew up in Ireland, and moved to France in 2002.

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00:14:13 | Thu 05 May 2022

Pages 540 - 547 │ Oxen of the Sun, part VI │ Read by Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg currently serves as the 19th Secretary of Transportation. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, Secretary…

00:14:35 | Wed 04 May 2022

Pages 532 - 540 │ Oxen of the Sun, part V │ Read by Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the Na…

00:16:13 | Tue 03 May 2022

Pages 525 - 532 │ Oxen of the Sun, part IV │ Read by Stephen Fry

Writer, actor, broadcaster, that sort of thing

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00:18:58 | Mon 02 May 2022

Pages 515 - 525 │ Oxen of the Sun, part III │ Read by Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis is the author of three novels, Book of Clouds, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder, set in…

00:18:04 | Sun 01 May 2022

Pages 507 - 515 │ Oxen of the Sun, part II │ Read by Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, his most recent novel and the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The…

00:17:26 | Thu 28 Apr 2022

Pages 499 - 507 │ Oxen of the Sun, part I │ Read by Ben Okri

Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw first hand the consequences of war, and London…

00:22:29 | Wed 27 Apr 2022

Pages 494 - 499 │ Nausicaa, part VI │ Read by Patrick Hastings

Patrick Hastings is the English Department Chair at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Martha, and his t…

00:14:32 | Tue 26 Apr 2022

Pages 488 - 494 │ Nausicaa, part V │ Read by Lesley Blume

Lesley M. M. Blume is a journalist, historian, and a New York Times best selling author, most recently of ‘Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and…

00:16:48 | Mon 25 Apr 2022

Pages 482 - 488 │ Nausicaa, part IV │ Read by Keri Walsh

Keri Walsh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the edito…

00:15:46 | Sun 24 Apr 2022

Pages 468 - 482 │ Nausicaa, part III │ Read by Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages.

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00:24:27 | Thu 21 Apr 2022

Pages 459 - 468 │ Nausicaa, part II │ Read by Katie Kitamura

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