Sunday, June 16th, 2018

This Sunday Everything Old Is New Again is preempted for

RADIO BLOOMSDAY

Molly Bloom in bed

Radio Bloomsday returns for its annual broadcast on WBAI.

Sunday 7PM - 1AM

Hosted by CARAID O' BRIEN & JANET COLEMAN


This year's show  celebrates Father's Day, investigating the role of fathers, absent and present, dead and alive throughout James Joyce's Ulysses.  The Calypso episode will be performed in its entirety featuring Wallace Shawn as Leopold Bloom; and narrated by the Irish novelist Anne Enright.  Radio Bloomsday will also include a tribute to Samuel Beckett, Joyce's former secretary, starring the legendary actor Alvin Epstein.   Caraid O'Brien performs the complete Molly Bloom episode to close the show.  Other performers this year include Alec Baldwin, Derry Woodhouse, John O'Callaghan, Laura Simms, Shane Baker, Aaron Beall, Raluca Barbulescu, Anna Talhami, Merideth Finn, Jerry Stiller, David Dozer, Janet Coleman, Wendy Rule, Amy Stiller, Azzam Talhami, Marie Louise Bowe, Mara McEwin and many others. 
Join us this Father's day for Radio Bloomsday where artists celebrate James Joyce's Ulysses for over 40 years, here on WBAI.