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which reads the Odyssey all the way through and talks about it for the next, I don't know, nine months, year, however, long it takes us.
Aug 24, 2025 • 22:15 - 22:24
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
So the idea of him settling into Aristophanes or whatever, I think. I think you could do worse than Tales from the Odyssey.
Aug 24, 2025 • 25:05 - 25:12
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
So we were kind of getting ourselves into Odyssey book two. And is Homer's Odyssey a page turner?
Aug 24, 2025 • 22:24 - 22:31
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
How long in total? I mean, I know Ulysses is long, but how long? 26 hours.
Aug 30, 2025 • 31:21 - 31:25
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
Where are the pictures? Don't worry, Ian, we're reading the Odyssey before you go to bed.
Aug 24, 2025 • 25:33 - 25:38
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
This is her dad's jazz odyssey, Ulysses, I don't know, million CD collection. Until this podcast began, David, I thought Ulysses was, you know, written by Euripides or something.
Sep 16, 2025 • 4:54 - 5:07
WDWDY #38: Trainspotting • Midweek Mayhem
You know what I mean? Ulysses is such hack to do a 26 hour saxophone piece about.
Aug 30, 2025 • 32:45 - 32:50
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
And is it Jason and the Minotaur? Who in mythology finds the way out of the labyrinth using a piece of wool?
Apr 11, 2026 • 49:35 - 49:43
S4 EP15: Isy Suttie • Interview
I think I did have the, I had the stories from the Odyssey read to me, but I don't think I have to confess.
Aug 24, 2025 • 28:32 - 28:39
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
Oh, my God. Ulysses. Data through the galaxies. That bit. Maybe that comes in in CD6.
Aug 30, 2025 • 34:14 - 34:21
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
Yes. Well, he has the same thing, except... Is it Theseus? Isn't it Theseus? The wool is coming directly out of his butt.
Apr 11, 2026 • 49:43 - 49:50
S4 EP15: Isy Suttie • Interview
Theseus. Theseus. Not Jason Orange. It wasn't Jason Orange. It was Theseus. Well, let's get Mary Beard back on and ask her if Jason Orange ever swallowed a jumper and then had wool coming out of his butthole.
Apr 11, 2026 • 49:51 - 50:06
S4 EP15: Isy Suttie • Interview
26 hours. That's where I want to be when I'm that age. It's a great sentence that you go, my dad also had a Ulysses.
Aug 30, 2025 • 1:14:11 - 1:14:18
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
It's... Well, that was the lunch. I mean, okay, we're talking about the Odyssey, but it was the two very large glasses of brown I said to go.
Aug 24, 2025 • 53:00 - 53:06
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
And lots of reaction to her dad's Ulysses. Mary said, I'd never wanted to read Ulysses more than I do after listening to this.
Sep 16, 2025 • 4:47 - 4:54
WDWDY #38: Trainspotting • Midweek Mayhem
And he'd, he said he'd written one word and it was, it's in Ulysses. It's the sound that the sea makes when it's coming in.
Dec 21, 2025 • 48:58 - 49:05
S3 EP27: Rob Auton • Interview
Oh, wow. In having this Achilles accident, if I was to compare you to anyone from history, it would be Achilles himself, who famously had an Achilles problem.
Feb 16, 2025 • 28:11 - 28:22
S2 EP7: Mark Watson • Interview
Have you read Ulysses? I haven't. I'd love to though. I read it when I was little.
Dec 21, 2025 • 49:15 - 49:19
S3 EP27: Rob Auton • Interview
You're in the lap of the gods there. Yeah. It reminds me of Sara Pascoe's dad's 16-hour exploration of themes from Ulysses on jazz, tenor, sax.
Oct 19, 2025 • 42:24 - 42:33
S3 EP18: Ian Smith • Interview
And I hardly need elaborate on the exquisite similarities between the dominant theme of Nish Kumar's day and the, at the time, scandalous, outhouse scene in Part 2, Episode 4, or Calypso for those who prefer the American titles of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Sep 23, 2025 • 12:07 - 12:22
WDWDY #39: Georgia on my mind... • Midweek Mayhem
hero's journey. There's some sort of, you set up a dilemma at the start, like whatever.
Jan 5, 2025 • 42:20 - 42:24
S2 EP1: Dara Ó Briain • Interview
Oh, God, Max. The first stage, I believe, is that you have to have read Ulysses.
Aug 30, 2025 • 33:40 - 33:44
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
It's like the end of a war. The Greeks had just come back from defeating whoever the Greeks would defeat and yeah, but that's every Thursday. Every Thursday, yeah. It's great. Can't believe my luck.
Feb 9, 2025 • 59:15 - 59:29
S2 EP6: James Buckley • Interview
Indeed, the capture after the Battle of Ipsus of King Pyrrhus, best remembered today for inspiring the term Pyrrhic victory, i.e. an achievement that takes such a devastating toll on a person,
Aug 12, 2025 • 11:13 - 11:25
WDWDY #33: You can't do a live gig in shorts... • Midweek Mayhem
Yeah. Or when I was in university. I watched the cartoon. The Ulysses. The Ulysses.
Dec 21, 2025 • 49:20 - 49:25
S3 EP27: Rob Auton • Interview
You know that awful moment where they open the wooden horse of Troy and it just starts to ooze out and fills Troy.
Aug 12, 2025 • 11:42 - 11:51
WDWDY #33: You can't do a live gig in shorts... • Midweek Mayhem
O'Dowd or my brother, maybe.
May 30, 2026 • 59:39 - 59:41
S4 EP22: Briony May Williams • Interview
I invaded Dublin. I sailed from Norway to Dublin. I rode. I rode. My mother is an enigma and she would just occasionally give me a thing that I wasn't expecting.
Jun 18, 2025 • 1:04:53 - 1:05:10
WDWDY #25: Why are you telling me off? • Midweek Mayhem
My dad had a Ulysses, but his was just, I think, 10 songs inspired by passages in Ulysses that I think he did it with Louis Stewart, the famous jazz guitarist anyway,
Aug 30, 2025 • 1:13:59 - 1:14:11
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
So I've got Ida. He's a kind of pirate fellow who was in the army.
Jan 18, 2026 • 47:47 - 47:52
S4 EP3: Christopher Macarthur-Boyd • Interview
David O'Doherty's over there. Welcome, David. Hello, Lord Percy of Dingbat. Already. Another one of his characters.
Jun 18, 2025 • 1:39 - 1:47
WDWDY #25: Why are you telling me off? • Midweek Mayhem
Is it them together? It's them together. It's Ellis and Jason Orange. They kill the Minotaur and then they notice that this wool is sticking out of Ellis' arse and that's how Jason Orange lives.
Apr 11, 2026 • 50:46 - 50:57
S4 EP15: Isy Suttie • Interview
I don't know. Or maybe that's a sort of a motif throughout it that only fans of the cartoon Ulysses would recognise.
Aug 30, 2025 • 34:21 - 34:28
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
But have you asked him about the process? How do you put Ulysses to jazz?
Aug 30, 2025 • 33:34 - 33:39
S3 EP11: Sara Pascoe • Interview
The sequel to Eric the Viking. The Vikings were all lads. OK, we know this.
Mar 23, 2025 • 24:39 - 24:45
S2 EP12: Jess Knappett • Interview
White gloves as well, yeah. That is a revolution for me. You know, you can think, you know, I've got to read some of those boring old articles about the second book of the Odyssey,
Aug 24, 2025 • 54:48 - 54:58
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview
They've had a nice time. And Darius does not arrive. Interruption. You say the lads.
Jul 30, 2025 • 36:42 - 36:50
WDWDY #31: Lowering The Tone • Midweek Mayhem
And of course, the Christopher Nolan movie is coming up next year. So I reckon that everybody's going to want to know what the real Odyssey is like.
Aug 24, 2025 • 22:38 - 22:47
S3 EP10: Dame Mary Beard • Interview

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