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Part 4: The Library, through the Lunchtime Streets, to the Ormond Hotel

Stephen explains his theory of Hamlet at the National Library, while Bloom hears Stephen's father sing at the Ormond Hotel.

Stephen tries to get commissioned for an article at the National Library, while Leopold Bloom takes lunch at the Ormond Hotel and listens to Simon Dedalus and Benjamin Dollard sing at the piano. It is mid-afternoon and Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan is on his way to his adulterous assignation with Molly Bloom in Eccles Street. Dramatised by Robin Brooks.

Narrator...Stephen Rea
Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman
Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott
Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack
Simon Dedalus...Des McAleer
Richard Best...John Rogan
John Eglinton...Peter Hamilton Dyer
Malachi Mulligan...Kevin Trainor
Patrick Dignam...Joshua Ellershaw
Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan...Sean Campion
Lenehan...Lorcan Cranitch
Benjamin Dollard...Gerard McDermott
Martin Cunningham...Stephen Hogan
Miss Kennedy...Denise Gough
Miss Douce...Bronagh Taggart
With Aidan Dunlop, Peter Hamilton Dyer,
Jonathan Forbes, Grainne Keenan,
Harry Livingstone
Produced and Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

(Ulysses chapters 'Scylla and Charybdis', 'Wandering Rocks' and 'The Sirens').

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  • Sat 16 Jun 2012 14:30