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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Exploring music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

Sunday Feature: Literary Pursuits

Sunday Feature: Literary Pursuits: Episode 4: James Joyce's Dubliners

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Episode 4: James Joyce's Dubliners

Literary Pursuits

James Joyce's Dubliners

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Literary Pursuits, James Joyce's Dubliners

Sarah Dillon recounts James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.

Sarah Dillon recounts James Joyce's epic struggle to publish Dubliners, including battles with publishers, fire at the printers and a direct appeal to the English king.

James Joyce went to extraordinary lengths to publish his first book, Dubliners. He personally rescued the manuscript from fire, lost a major standoff with his publishers over revisions, orchestrated a press campaign, wrote a despairing letter to the king of England and left Ireland for good. Sarah Dillon recounts the story, investigates the manuscripts and sees how Joyce's astonishing literary career nearly fell at the first hurdle.

Reader: Damien Molony
Producer: James Cook.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Sarah Dillon on the stories behind the stories of how great novels were written.

Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind the stories of how great works of literature were written.

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