It’s June 2022 and we’re celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses with a series of podcasts exploring Anthony Burgess’s love of the novel. In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation looks at Burgess’s formative visits to Dublin, and how his passion for Joyce’s work led to his television documentary, Silence, Exile and Cunning.
Find out how Burgess first discovered the work of James Joyce, how it chimed with his own experiences as a lapsed Catholic, and how he ended up visiting the ruins of Leopold Bloom's home in Dublin. You can also hear Burgess read from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and hear Burgess's thoughts on Joyce and Dublin in archive recordings.
This episode was written and narrated by Andrew Biswell
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