Ulysses (broadcast)
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The Ulysses broadcast occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882).[1] The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally[2] and won a Jacob's Broadcasting Award in recognition of its achievement.
The novel Ulysses contains about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words.[3] This record-breaking and historic[1][4] literary broadcast was originally released on 20 audio cassettes in 1982[5] and later digitally remastered on CD in two formats: as a 32-CD boxed set, and as a three-CD set of MP3 audio files, released in 2004 (OCLC 315482641 and 605276262).[6]
Track listing (MP3 version)
| Disc 1 | Length 9:57:05 | |
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| Track | Episode | Time |
| 01 | Telemachus | 45:52 |
| 02 | Nestor | 32:26 |
| 03 | Proteus | 48:07 |
| 04 | Calypso | 45:44 |
| 05 | Lotus Eaters | 42:25 |
| 06 | Hades | 1:08:58 |
| 07 | Aeolus | 1:07:59 |
| 08 | Lestrygonians 1 | 52:06 |
| 09 | Lestrygonians 2 | 31:45 |
| 10 | Scylla and Charybdis 1 | 56:11 |
| 11 | Scylla and Charybdis 2 | 20:14 |
| 12 | Wandering Rocks 1 | 1:01:06 |
| 13 | Wandering Rocks 2 | 24:12 |
| Disc 2 | Length 10:02:29 | |
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| Track | Episode | Time |
| 14 | Sirens 1 | 1:10:04 |
| 15 | Sirens 2 | 27:08 |
| 16 | Cyclops 1 | 1:02:11 |
| 17 | Cyclops 2 | 1:11:08 |
| 18 | Nausicaa 1 | 58:34 |
| 19 | Nausicaa 2 | 45:15 |
| 20 | Oxen of the Sun 1 | 57:13 |
| 21 | Oxen of the Sun 2 | 1:03:10 |
| 22 | Oxen of the Sun 3 | 20:06 |
| 23 | Circe 1 | 1:07:56 |
| 24 | Circe 2 | 59:44 |
| Disc 3 | Length 9:45:21 | |
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| Track | Episode | Time |
| 25 | Circe 3 | 1:09:00 |
| 26 | Circe 4 | 1:01:19 |
| 27 | Circe 5 | 30:53 |
| 28 | Eumaeus 1 | 1:01:14 |
| 29 | Eumaeus 2 | 1:11:34 |
| 30 | Ithaca 1 | 55:05 |
| 31 | Ithaca 2 | 58:39 |
| 32 | Ithaca 3 | 42:43 |
| 33 | Penelope 1 | 59:08 |
| 34 | Penelope 2 | 54:46 |
| 35 | Penelope 3 | 21:00 |
| Total length 29:44:55 | ||
Broadcast personnel (the RTÉ Players)
Narrators [7]
- Conor Farrington
- Peter Dix
- Brendan Cauldwell
- Aiden Grennell
- Tomas Studley
- Deirdre O'Meara
Cast
- Leopold Bloom – Ronnie Walsh
- Molly Bloom – Pegg Monahan
- Stephen Dedalus – Patrick Dawson
- Buck Mulligan – Gerry McArdle
- Mr. Deasy – Brendan Cauldwell
- Myles Crawford – Seamus Forde
- Bantam Lyons – Jim Reid
- Simon Dedalus – Eamon Keane
- Haines – Laurence Foster
- Miss Douce – Colette Proctor
- Miss Kennedy – Barbara McCaughey
- Nosy Flynn – Gerald Fitzmahony
- Ben Dollard – Breandán Ó Dúill
- Ned Lambert – Denis Staunton
- W.B. Murphy – Liam O'Callaghan
- Cyril Sargent – Brendan Conroy
- Colm – Colm Hefferon
- Zoe Higgins – Marcella O'Riordan
- Bella Cohen – Eileen Colgan
- John Henry Menton – Eoin White
- The Nymph – Cathryn Brennan
- Virag – Christopher Casson
- Old Gummy Granny – Neasa Ní Annracháin
- Stephen's Mother – Joan Plunkett
- Mrs. Yelverton-Barry – Daphne Carroll
- Cissy Caffrey – Kate Minogue
- Alf Bergin – Joe Taylor
- The Gaffer – Ivan Hanly
Production personnel
- Text Consultant – Roland McHugh
- Sound Supervision – Marcus McDonald
- Executive Producer – Micháel Ó hAodha
- Director – William Styles
References
- ^ a b 1982 Recordings. RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
- ^ Cue the magical music of memory, Irish Times. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
- ^ Analyzing Ulysses by Avinash Vora, 2008-10-20. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
- ^ Fair City actor Brendan Cauldwell dies at 83. Irish Independent, 2006-01-13. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
- ^ Library catalogue entry. UCD. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
- ^ Reading Ulysses. RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
- ^ Cast list. RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.