Ulysses (broadcast)

Ulysses
James Joyce
Complete Recording
Studio album by RTÉ Players
Recorded 1982
Genre Drama
Length 29:44:55
Label RTÉ with the Lannan Foundation

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 1Length   9:57:05
TrackEpisodeTime
01Telemachus45:52
02Nestor32:26
03Proteus48:07
04Calypso45:44
05Lotus Eaters42:25
06Hades1:08:58
07Aeolus1:07:59
08Lestrygonians 152:06
09Lestrygonians 231:45
10Scylla and Charybdis 156:11
11Scylla and Charybdis 220:14
12Wandering Rocks 11:01:06
13Wandering Rocks 224:12
Disc 2Length   10:02:29
TrackEpisodeTime
14Sirens 11:10:04
15Sirens 227:08
16Cyclops 11:02:11
17Cyclops 21:11:08
18Nausicaa 158:34
19Nausicaa 245:15
20Oxen of the Sun 157:13
21Oxen of the Sun 21:03:10
22Oxen of the Sun 320:06
23Circe 11:07:56
24Circe 259:44
Disc 3Length   9:45:21
TrackEpisodeTime
25Circe 31:09:00
26Circe 41:01:19
27Circe 530:53
28Eumaeus 11:01:14
29Eumaeus 21:11:34
30Ithaca 155:05
31Ithaca 258:39
32Ithaca 342:43
33Penelope 159:08
34Penelope 254:46
35Penelope 321:00
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

  1. 1 2 1982 Recordings. RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
  2. ↑ Cue the magical music of memory, Irish Times. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
  3. ↑ Analyzing Ulysses Archived 2008-10-25 at the Wayback Machine. by Avinash Vora, 2008-10-20. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
  4. ↑ Fair City actor Brendan Cauldwell dies at 83. Irish Independent, 2006-01-13. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
  5. ↑ Library catalogue entry. UCD. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
  6. ↑ Reading Ulysses. RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
  7. ↑ Cast list. RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12.
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