Reading Ulysses RTÉ Radio 1, Thursdays 7.02pm

Series finished 2nd September 2004

Episode 19 - 2nd September 2004
 

In the final programme of the series, Barry McGovern and Bernard Clarke discuss the music of Ulysses.

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Introduction Joseph O'Connor, Edna O'Brien and Gerry O'Flaherty recall the events and characters of this day and explore why James Joyce's fictionalised events of an ordinary day should become such a literary masterpiece.

Episode 1 Telemachus Stephen breakfasts at the Tower in Sandycove.

Episode 2 Nestor Stephen teaches in Dalkey.

Episode 3 Proteus Stephen walks along Sandymount Strand.

Episode 4 Calypso Blooms has breakfast at 7 Eccles Street.

Episode 5 Lotus Eaters Bloom goes to the Post Office on Westland Row and then buys some soap at Sweny's.

Episode 6 Hades Bloom Attends the funeral of Paddy Dignam.

Episode 7 Aeolus At the offices of The Freeman's Journal, Bloom and Stephen cross paths.

Episode 8 Lestrygonians Blooms eats lunch in Davy Byrnes.

Episode 9 Scylla and Charybdis Discussions about Shakespeare at the National Library.

Episode 10 Wandering Rocks Dublin's citizens go about their day.

Episode 11 Sirens There is music at the Ormond Hotel where Bloom stops for food.

Episode 12 Cyclops The Citizen holds fort in Barney Kiernan's Pub.

Episode 13 Nausicaa Bloom watches Gerty MacDowell on Sandymount Strand.

Episode 14 Oxen of the Sun Blooms goes to visit Mina Purefoy at Holles Street Hospital, and then joins the Medical Students.

Episode 15 Circe Stephen and Bloom go to Nighttown.

Episode 16 Eumeus A sober Bloom looks after a drunken Stephen at the Cabman's Shelter.

Episode 17 Ithaca Bloom and Stephen go back to Eccles Street where they talk.

Episode 18 Penelope Molly Bloom recalls her day.

The music of Ulysses In the final programme of the series, Barry McGovern and Bernard Clarke discuss the music of Ulysses.