Today on From the Vault we present a short story that has stood the test of time, The Dead, from James Joyce’s classic 1914 book The Dubliners. This short story is read by the classic Irish American actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, whose Hollywood work included a starring role opposite Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), alongside Sir Lawrence Oliver in Wuthering Heights (1939), and Watch on the Rhine (1943).
Then we present an excerpt from Pacifica Radio’s 30th Anniversary Bloomsday broadcast featuring actor Alec Baldwin reading from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s take on Ulysses.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
First broadcast on Friday, August 19, 2011.
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