Lilacs on my Birthday

By Sarah Gambito 

By Heather Christie 

by John Pidgeon (read by Barbara Rosenblatt) 

This year is the 100th anniversary of Ulysses by James Joyce, a landmark modernist novel and one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Ulysses is the story of one day in the life of a young Irishman in Dublin; that day, June the 16th, is now known as Bloomsday. To ma ... Show More

Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Katherine Mullin discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.Many novelists choose their own young life as the subject for their first book. But ... Show More

Sophia de Mello Breyber 

With Roger Scruton 

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's novel Ulysses. First published ninety years ago in Paris, Joyce's masterpiece is a sprawling and startlingly original work charting a single day in the life of the Dubliner Leopold Bloom. Some early readers were outraged by its se ... Show More

Autora: Daniela Muntean 

Autor: Ricardo Rodrigues 

Leitor: Ruben Couto - 8ºG