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The James Joyce BBC Radio Collection: Ulysses, a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Dubliners by Gordon Bowker, James Joyce

4.0

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Andrew Scott is a great Stephen Daedalus, as tiresome as Stephen can be. Nevertheless, Scott plays the role beautifully, and especially so in the careful abridgement of Ulysses. This collection also includes the whole of Dubliners read by Stephen Rea. It is a fine reading, but Jim Norton's reading for Naxos is more to my taste. This BBC collection is capped off with a brief but entertaining biography of Joyce. All told, this collection is an excellent dramatization of works which demand an almost monastically studious and silent reading.