by James Joyce , adapted by John Scotney in 16 parts, and introduced by Seamus Heaney.
1: The young poet Stephen has been recalled from
Paris to Dublin to be at his mother's deathbed.
But he refused her last wishes: to kneel and pray for her.
Now, holed up in his
Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day, and by night the vision of "her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my soul".
Reader Stephen Rea. Producer Peter Kavanagh
(First broadcast on Radio 4)