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). The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally 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. This record-breaking and historic literary broadcast was originally released on 20 audio cassettes
in 1982 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).
Cast
Production personnel
Bloomsday
Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904...
1982
1982 in Ireland
-Events:*January 21 - Kildare TD, Charlie McCreevy, is expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party for criticising Charles Haughey.*February 1 - Corporal punishment is banned in schools in the Republic....
when the Irish
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio
RTÉ Radio
RTÉ Radio is a department of Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels....
, transmitted an uninterrupted, 30 hour, dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players
Radio Éireann Players
The Radio Éireann Players were a repertory company for radio in Ireland, formed in 1947, which performed in regular drama productions for Irish broadcaster, Radio Éireann. After the depredations of the war-time years and a devastating fire in the Abbey Theatre in 1951, the Radio Éireann Players'...
, of the entire text of James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
's epic novel, Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...
, to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth, (born 2 February 1882). The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally 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. This record-breaking and historic literary broadcast was originally released on 20 audio cassettes
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
in 1982 and later digitally remastered on CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
in two formats: as a 32-CD boxed set, and as a three-CD set of MP3 audio files
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
, released in 2004 (OCLC 315482641 and 605276262).
Track listing (MP3 version)
| Disc 1 | Length 9:57:05 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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- Conor Farrington
- Peter Dix
- Brendan CauldwellBrendan CauldwellBrendan Cauldwell was an Irish radio, film and television actor.-Career:Brendan Cauldwell was born in Fairview, North Dublin. He was educated at O'Connell's Irish Christian Brothers School and went on to work in the insurance industry before becoming a full time actor...
- Aiden Grennell
- Tomas Studley
- Deirdre O'Meara
Cast
- Leopold BloomLeopold BloomLeopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in The Odyssey....
– Ronnie Walsh - Molly BloomMolly BloomMolly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not, having an affair with...
– Pegg Monahan - Stephen DedalusStephen DedalusStephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses...
– Patrick Dawson - Buck MulliganBuck MulliganMalachi "Buck" Mulligan is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. He appears most prominently in episode 1 , and is the subject of the novel's famous first sentence:...
– Gerry McArdle - Mr. Deasy – Brendan Cauldwell
- Myles Crawford – Seamus Forde
- Bantam Lyons – Jim Reid
- Simon DedalusSimon DedalusSimon Dedalus is a fictional character in two works by James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. He is the father of Stephen Dedalus, a principal character in both books, and a friend of Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses...
– Eamon KeaneEamon KeaneEamonn Keane was an Irish actor.Keane was born in Listowel, Co. Kerry and was a brother of the playwright, John B. Keane. He was a member of the Radio Éireann Players and appeared in many of the station's drama productions on both radio and television... - 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 CassonChristopher CassonChristopher Casson was an English-born actor who became a citizen of Ireland in 1946. His work included stage, screen, radio and television roles...
- 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