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James Joyce's Ulysses

Part 6: From Sandymount Beach at Evening, to the Maternity Hospital, and into Nighttown

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Bloom cannot go home. For he knows that Molly has an adulterous appointment with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan. So he stands on the beach at nightfall watching Gerty MacDowell enjoy the fireworks. Meanwhile, at the maternity hospital in Holles Street, Mina Purefoy is still struggling - after three days - to give birth. Near the ward, Stephen Dedalus joins a raucous group of medical students and Bloom joins the party, which then moves off to Bella Cohen's brothel. Dramatised by Robin Brooks. Contains strong language.

Narrator...Stephen Rea
Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman
Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott
Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack
Bella Cohen...Frances Barber
Gerty MacDowell...Denise Gough
Cissy Caffrey, Nurse Callan...Bronagh Taggart
Edy Boardman...Grainne Keenan
Tommy...Aidan Dunlop
Lenehan...Lorcan Cranitch
Malachi Mulligan...Kevin Trainor
Private Compton...Peter Hamilton Dyer
Private Carr...Ronan Raftery
Rudolph Bloom... Pip Donaghy
Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan... Sean Campion
Zoe... Susie Riddell
With Christine Absalom, Aidan Dunlop,
Jonathan Forbes, Stephen Hogan
John Rogan, Harry Livingstone,
Gerard McDermott, Janet Moran
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jonquil Panting
Produced by Jeremy Mortimer

(Ulysses chapters 'Nausicaa', The Oxen of the Sun', 'Circe', 'Eumaeus'). Show less

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