Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
For the second part of this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from Claire-Louise Bennett and Foad Dizadji-Bahmani to explore how it challenges conventional ideas of narra...
13 Jan 20251h 1min
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
Happy Joycension Day!For this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam reunited for a lively discussion of Watt by Samuel Beckett, asking: How does Beckett’s minimalist, disintegrative s...
6 Jan 202558min
BEASTCAST! Lex and Alice quiz Adam about his novel Beasts of England
In this special episode, the Bloomcasters take on their trickiest task yet : criticizing one of their own. Adam Biles’ “Beasts of England”, a canny and hilarious sequel to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm...
3 Mai 20241h 20min
BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
Our Bloomcasters reconvene on January 6th, “Joycension Day”, to discuss The Dead : the final piece in Joyce’s Dubliners, described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the greatest short stories ever written". L...
5 Jan 20241h 40min
Bonus Episode: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
A few weeks back we had our dear friend, Bloomsday MC, and eminent Bloomcaster Prof. Lex Paulson as a guest in the library to give a talk on Cicero, drawing on his book Cicero and the People’s Will: P...
15 Jun 20231h
BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL
This December—six months after saying goodbye—Bloomcast is back for a Holiday Special! Join Alice, Lex and Adam as they answer your questions, play games, tease each other, drink (tea, whiskey, Gimber...
15 Des 20221h 19min
Bloomcast | Episode 10 | Live at the American Library in Paris
Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as they muddle...
21 Jun 20221h 23min
