On Saturday 16 June, BBC Radio 4 will feature an ambitious production of James Joyce’s classic and controversial 1922 novel Ulysses, presented in seven parts and spread throughout the station’s schedule during the entire day. The play features Andrew Scott in one of the leading roles, so it’s worthy of your attention. We’ve collated the times of the episode broadcasts below for your reference, as well as a live stream link so you can test and see if you can listen to the broadcast.

From the BBC’s Press Pack on the production:

First published in its entirety in 1922, Ulysses traces the progress of Leopold Bloom, an advertising agent, as he makes his way through Dublin on an ordinary day – June 16th, 1904. A work of staggering inventiveness, Ulysses oscillates between gentle realism and wild surrealism, taking the reader on Bloom’s odyssey in the company of larger than life characters like Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and Buck Mulligan.

The new Radio 4 dramatisation by Robin Brooks (I Claudius, Radio 4) tells the story of Bloom’s journey in seven parts spanning five-and-a-half hours. The cast is led by Henry Goodman (Yes, Prime Minister, West End) as Leopold Bloom, with Andrew Scott (Sherlock, BBC One) as Stephen Dedalus, Niamh Cusack (A Touch Of Frost, ITV) as Molly Bloom and Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line, BBC Two) as the narrator.

All times below are in British Summer Time [BST].

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The play will be available on BBC iPlayer after broadcast - availability duration is TBC.

Part 1

09.00 – 10.30: Saturday Live

From the Martello Tower to School

Part 2

10.30 – 11.00

From Bloom’s House, through the Morning Streets, to a Funeral

Part 3

12.00 – 12.30

From the Beach, to a Newspaper Office, into Davy Byrne’s Pub

Part 4

14.30 – 15.30

The Library, Through the Lunchtime Streets, to the Ormond Hotel

Part 5

17.30 – 18.00

In Barney Kiernan’s Pub

Part 6

20.00 – 22.00

From Sandymount Beach at Evening, to the Maternity Hospital, and into Nighttown

Part 7

23.00 – 00.00

From a Cab-man’s Shelter, to Eccles Street and Home