Bloomcast | Episode 5 | Sirens & Cyclops

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 through this radical, sublime, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in 1922. In episode five, Lex regales the group with song as he unpicks the musicality of the Sirens episode, Alice ponders the relationship between music and alcohol, and Adam makes the case for Bloom and Chaplin’s Tramp being long-lost siblings. Please share your thoughts on the book and anything you’d like to hear us discuss: [email protected] Links: Adam Savage’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC11DSFBbzg Terence Killeen presents Sirens: https://youtu.be/nnFw-haE2n4 A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy. Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux. * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES All episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026 Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandco In addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop’s non-profit. * Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman. Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/ Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals. Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpS Visit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot. Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/ Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/