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. Also featuring Bloomcast . A deep-dive into the text with Adam Biles, Alice McCrum and Lex Paulson, as well as othe
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BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬
Jun 15, 20262h 41m
Recorded for Bloomsday 2026. If you're in Paris and it's still June 16th, join us between 2pm and 5pm at Shakespeare and Company, 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris. Find the film here : https://vimeo.com/408613317 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7xAM_eXuuk Adam Biles and Lex Paulson reunite after an eighteen-month hiatus for a live commentary on the 1967 Joseph Strick film adaptation of Ulysses . They discuss Joyce's real-life role launching Dublin's first cinema, the film's scandalous festival history (Cannes brawl, Irish ban, New Zealand sex-segregated screenings), and Milo O'Shea's towering performance as Leopold Bloom. Along the way: Circe's Monty Python energy, the "Me Too" moment, and why Joyce (thanks to Nora) remains decades ahead of us all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
Jan 13, 20251h 1mS3
<p>For the second part of this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from Claire-Louise Bennett and Foad Dizadji-Bahmani to explore how it challenges conventional ideas of narrative, language, and meaning. As always, our Bloomcasters invite listeners into a spirited and thought-provoking conversation that bridges literary analysis, philosophical inquiry, and personal reflections…before topping of the conversation with a game so contrived it would make Blazes Boylan blush.</p><br><p>*</p><br><p>Alice McCrum is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Princeton University. Before starting her graduate work, Alice live...
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
Jan 6, 202558 minS3
<p>Happy Joycension Day!</p><br><p>For this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam reunited for a lively discussion of Watt by Samuel Beckett, asking: How does Beckett’s minimalist, disintegrative style compare to James Joyce’s expansive, celebratory storytelling? What makes this novel so uniquely absurd and profound? And why does Watt feel both so playful and deeply unsettling? Is Watt a meticulously structured puzzle or an exercise in unraveling structure itself? What does Watt tell us about Beckett’s influence on modern literature?</p><br><p>Setting this enigmatic work against the context of Beckett’s...
BEASTCAST! Lex and Alice quiz Adam about his novel Beasts of England
May 3, 20241h 20mS3
<p>In this special episode, the Bloomcasters take on their trickiest task yet : criticizing one of their own. </p><br><p>Adam Biles’ “Beasts of England”, a canny and hilarious sequel to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, has received rave reviews and is already heading into translation in France and India -- but is it really any good?</p><br><p>Bloomcasters Alice and Lex take the reins, pushing Adam into the darkest corners of his fascination with farmyards and political arcana. How does one pen a sequel to a classic? What can satire show us about our dysfunctional age that no other...
<p>Our Bloomcasters reconvene on January 6th, “Joycension Day”, to discuss The Dead : the final piece in Joyce’s Dubliners, described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the greatest short stories ever written". </p><br><p>Leaning heavily as always on the wisdom of honorary Bloomcasters Declan Kiberd and Colm Toibin, they cover orchestrated dinner parties, ego death, the circularity of human life, the music of words, and much more.</p><br><p>Carrying forth a Bloomcast tradition, they also play a festive game, populating competing dinner parties with characters from Dubliners and Ulysses.</p><br><p>Happy New Year (a...
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