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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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
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- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 123
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Pages 293 - 302 │ Wandering Rocks, part III │Read by Aysegul Savas
Pages 293 - 302 │Wandering Rocks, part III│Read by Aysegul Savas
Ayşegül Savaş is the author of the novels Walking on the Ceiling and White on White. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Pa…
Pages 288 - 293 │Wandering Rocks, part II│Read by John Freeman
Pages 288 - 293 │Wandering Rocks, part II│Read by John Freeman
John Freeman founded and edits the literary annual Freeman's, the current theme to which is change. He is also the author and editor of …
Pages 280 - 288 │ Wandering Rocks, part I │ Read by Nicole Flattery
Pages 280 - 288 │Wandering Rocks, part I│Read by Nicole Flattery
Nicole Flattery's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Stinging Fly, the White Review and the London Review of Books, amongst o…
Pages 274 - 280 │ Scylla & Charybdis, part VI │ Read by Sophie Gorman
Pages 274 - 280 │Scylla & Charybdis, part VI│Read by Sophie Gorman
Sophie Gorman is an Irish journalist living in Paris.
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Pages 269 - 274 │ Scylla & Charybdis, part V │ Read by Luke Kennard
Pages 269 - 274 │Scylla & Charybdis, part V│Read by Luke Kennard
Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who lectures at the University of Birmingham. His fifth collection, Notes on the Sonnets, won the…
Pages 261 - 269 │Scylla & Charybdis, part IV│Read by Sinéad Gleeson
Pages 261 - 269 │Scylla & Charybdis, part IV│Read by Sinéad Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards a…
Pages 252 - 261 │Scylla & Charybdis, part III│Read by Salena Godden
Pages 252 - 261 │Scylla & Charybdis, part III│Read by Salena Godden
Salena Godden is a poet, performer, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Pes…
Pages 243 - 252 │ Scylla & Charybdis, part II │ Read by Preti Taneja
Pages 243 - 252 │Scylla & Charybdis, part II│Read by Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja is a writer and activist, and Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK. Her debut n…
Pages 235 - 243 │ Scylla & Charybdis, part I │ Read by Andy Miller
Pages 235 - 243 │Scylla & Charybdis, part I│Read by Andy Miller
Andy Miller is a reader, editor and author of books, most recently The Year of Reading Dangerously (4th Estate/HarperPerennial). He has …
Bloomcast | Episode 4 | Scylla & Charybdis and Wandering Rocks
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 227 - 234 │ Lestrygonians, part VI │ Read by Conor Horgan
Pages 227 - 234 │Lestrygonians, part VI│Read by Conor Horgan
Conor Horgan trained as a photographer before moving into writing and directing film. His first feature film One Hundred Mornings garnered …
Pages 217 - 227 │ Lestrygonians, part V │ Read by Andrew Hankinson
Pages 217 - 227 │Lestrygonians, part V│Read by Andrew Hankinson
Andrew Hankinson is a freelance journalist and author in Newcastle upon Tyne. His two books are: 'Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't. …
Pages 211 - 217 │ Lestrygonians, part IV │ Read by Lauren Elkin
Pages 211 - 217 │Lestrygonians, part IV│Read by Lauren Elkin
Lauren Elkin is the author of No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute (Semiotext(e)/Les Fugitives) and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto…
Pages 204 - 211 │ Lestrygonians, part III │ Read by Ciaran Farrell
Pages 204 - 211 │ Lestrygonians, part III │ Read by Ciaran Farrell
Ciaran Farrell is a former employee of Shakespeare and Company and current resident of Lower Drumcondra where, as Joyce correctly poi…
Pages 196 - 204 │ Lestrygonians, part II │ Read by Catherine Lacey
Pages 196 - 204 │Lestrygonians, part II│Read by Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey is a novelist.
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Pages 190 - 196 │ Lestrygonians, part I │ Read by Adam Thirlwell
Pages 190 - 196 │Lestrygonians, part I│Read by Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell, born in 1978, is a novelist and essayist. His work has been translated into 30 languages. His essays appear in the NYRB an…
Pages 185 - 189 │ Aeolus, part VI │ Read by Holly Pester
Pages 185 - 189 │Aeolus, part VI│Read by Holly Pester
Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with BBC Radio, Women’s Art Library and Wellcome Collection. She i…
Pages 178 - 185 │ Aeolus, part V │ Read by Cressida Brown
Pages 178 - 185 │Aeolus, part V│Read by Cressida Brown
Cress was awarded the National Theatre Studio’s Bulldog prinsep bursary in 2007. She directed Macbeth for Shakespeare and Company in 2017.
Work sh…
Pages 171 - 178 │ Aeolus, part IV │ Read by Ryan Van Winkle
Pages 171 - 178 │Aeolus, part IV │ Read by Ryan Van Winkle
Ryan Van Winkle is an author, artist and producer based in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Po…
Pages 164 - 171 │ Aeolus, part III │ Read by Aleksandar Hemon
Pages 164 - 171 │Aeolus, part III│Read by Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays. He teaches at Princeton University, He produces music as Cielo Hemon. He is…