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RT has today announced that an almost 30-hour production of James Joyce's Ulysses will be broadcast on its DAB and online worldwide channel RT Radio 1 Extra to celebrate Bloomsday. The full dramatised production - originally broadcast in 1982 to celebrate the centenary of Joyce, and totalling 29 hours and 45 minutes in duration will begin at the same time as both Stephen Dedalus' and Leopold Bloom's journey through Dublin begins in the book: 8am on 16 June. With Bloomsday 2020 one of many events in the nation's cultural calendar to be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, RT will mark the occasion with this unique and ambitious broadcast.
Jim Jennings, Director of Content, RT , said: With the rise in popularity of audiobooks and podcasts at the moment, this is a real cultural treasure from the RT Archives, which we are delighted and extremely proud to make available to audiences globally via our DAB channel and website. If you've never felt brave enough before, this is an ideal way to get into Joyce's masterpiece. Guided by the exquisite performances of the RT Players you will find yourself immersed in this stunning production within minutes. For those who have already read the book or enjoyed the original production in the 1980s, here is an opportunity to re-visit this unequalled moment in world broadcasting.'
The production was recorded by Marcus MacDonald, directed by William Styles, and performed by the RT Players, featuring Pegg Monahan, Patrick Dawson, Ronnie Walsh, Brendan Cauldwell, Colette Procter, Barbara McCaughey, Kate Minogue, Denis Staunton, Laurence Foster, Conor Farrington and D irdre O'Meara.
Audiences can listen live on RT Radio 1 Extra, or via podcast at www.rte.ie/ulysses
To complement the broadcast, RT has created a permanent website (rte.ie/ulysses) that will include 20 explainer' programmes, Reading Ulysses', hosted by Gerry O Flaherty and Fritz Senn. This comprises 18 episodes, plus an introductory programme with contributions from Edna O'Brien and Joseph O'Connor, and a programme hosted by Bernard Clarke and featuring Barry McGovern on the music in the book. RT is also including Joycesongs (music from the book performed by the RT Concert Orchestra) and other audio and visual archive material.
New writing is also part of this year's Bloomsday offering. RT Radio 1 has commissioned a half hour programme, specially scheduled to coincide with the publication of Edna O'Brien's new book. James and Nora: Portrait of Joyce's Marriage: A reading by Edna O'Brien will air on 6.30pm on RT Radio 1, Saturday 13 June 2020.
In addition, RT has commissioned a series of short essays focusing on a fundamental activity of James Joyce's Ulysses walking. Called Walking Out, in the days approaching Bloomsday a new short essay will be published daily on https://www.rte.ie/culture/ from acclaimed fiction writers and essayists Nuala O'Connor (Wednesday10 June), Joseph O'Connor (Thursday 11 June), Crist n Leach (Friday 12 June), Ian Maleney (Monday15 June) and Mary Costello (16 June, Bloomsday). Walking the pier with a first love, sustaining older relationships through art and walking, as well as the iconic walk taken into literary history by James Joyce and Nora Barnacle on 16th June 1904, are all features in a witty, thought-filled new writing collection.
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