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
Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com
Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses
Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home
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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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 123
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Pages 433 - 439 │ Cyclops, part VI │ Read by Lenny Kaye
Pages 433 - 439 │ Cyclops, part VI │ Read by Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer, record producer, and writer, and is a founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band. In 2011 he was…
Bloomcast │Episode 6 │Nausicaa and Oxen of the Sun
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 Paris. Join them as they muddl…
Pages 419 - 433 │ Cyclops, part V │Read by Sylvia Whitman & David Delannet
Sylvia Whitman and David Delannet run Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
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Pages 407 - 419 │ Cyclops, part IV │ Read by Marcel Theroux
Pages 407 - 419 │ Cyclops, part IV │ Read by Marcel Theroux
Marcel Theroux is the author of Far North, Strange Bodies, and The Secret Books. His new novel The Sorcerer of Pyongyang will be published i…
Pages 396 - 407 │ Cyclops, part III │ Read by Mark O’Connell
Pages 396 - 407 │ Cyclops, part III │ Read by Mark O’Connell
Mark O'Connell is the author of Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Roo…
Pages 387 - 396 │ Cyclops, part II │ Read by Katharina Volckmer
Pages 387 - 396 │ Cyclops, part II │ Read by Katharina Volckmer
Katharina Volckmer was born in Germany in 1987. She lives in London, where she works for a literary agency. The Appointment is her first…
Pages 376 - 387 │ Cyclops, part I │ Read by DBC Pierre
Pages 376 - 387 │ Cyclops, part I │ Read by DBC Pierre
Booker Prize-winning novelist dreaming of future works and a patch of warm flooring at Shakespeare & Co.
www.dbcpierre.com
Buy Meanwhile in Dopamin…
Pages 370 - 376 │ Sirens, part VII │ Read by Cerys Matthews
Pages 370 - 376 │ Sirens, part VII │ Read by Cerys Matthews
Cerys is a musician, author, broadcaster ( BBC radio 2, 6, 4) and former member of multi-million selling band Catatonia.
She has narrated Dyl…
Pages 365 - 370 │ Sirens, part VI│ Read by Karthika Naïr
Pages 365 - 370 │ Sirens, part VI│ Read by Karthika Naïr
Poet, fabulist and librettist, Karthika Naïr is the author of several books including the award-winning Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabh…
Pages 358 - 365 │ Sirens, part V│ Read by Deborah Landau
Pages 358 - 365 │ Sirens, part V│ Read by Deborah Landau
Deborah Landau is the author of five books of poetry including Soft Targets and Skeletons (forthcoming ‘23). Her poems appear in The New Yorker…
Pages 350 - 358 │ Sirens, part IV│ Read by Philip Hoare
Pages 350 - 358 │ Sirens, part IV│ Read by Philip Hoare
Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction. His Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. His latest book is A…
Pages 344 - 350 │ Sirens, part III │ Read by Keith Ridgway
Pages 344 - 350 │ Sirens, part III │ Read by Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London and the author of A Shock, Hawthorn & Child, Animals, and others.
Follow on Twitter: https://twi…
📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
In this special episode, we’re joined by Parisian jazz musician Alex Freiman, to discuss the process of composing the theme music for Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses
Hear more from Ale…
Pages 336 - 344│Sirens, part II│Read by Eimear McBride
Pages 336 - 344│Sirens, part II│Read by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride is the author of three novels: Strange Hotel, The Lesser Bohemians and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. The extended essay, Somethin…
Pages 328 - 336│Sirens, part I│Read by Max Porter
Pages 328 - 336│Sirens, part I│Read by Max Porter
Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Lanny and The Death of Francis Bacon
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maxjohnporter
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Pages 322 - 328│Wandering Rocks, part VII│Read by Sigrid Rausing
Pages 322 - 328│Wandering Rocks, part VII│Read by Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing is the Publisher of Granta Publications and the Editor of Granta Magazine. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Uni…
Pages 316 - 322 │ Wandering Rocks part VI │ Read by John Mitchinson
Pages 316 - 322 │Wandering Rocks part VI│Read by John Mitchinson
John Mitchinson is a writer and publisher and co-founder of Unbound (www.unbound.com), the crowdfunding platform for books and co-host …
Pages 310 - 316 │ Wandering Rocks, part V │ Read by John Butler
Pages 310 - 316 │Wandering Rocks, part V│Read by John Butler
John Butler is a writer and director of film and television. In 2021, he directed and wrote on The Outlaws with Christopher Walken and Step…
Bloomcast | Episode 5 | Sirens & Cyclops
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 Paris. Join them as they muddl…
Pages 302 - 310 │ Wandering Rocks, part IV │ Read by Daniel Levin Becker
Pages 302 - 310 │Wandering Rocks, part IV│Read by Daniel Levin Becker
Daniel Levin Becker is, most recently, the author of What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language (City Lights, 2022); the translator of…