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Landmark: Finnegans Wake

To mark Bloomsday on 16th June, Matthew Sweet is joined by novelist Eimear McBride, Finn Fordham, Eleanor Lybeck and Derek Pyle to discuss James Joyce's experimental novel.

Eimear McBride is the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and The Lesser Bohemians
Professor Finn Fordham from Royal Holloway, University of London is the author of Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: I do I undo I redo: and he edited Finnegans Wake for Oxford World Classics
Eleanor Lybeck is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker teaches at the University of Oxford and is the author of All on Show: The Circus in Irish Literature and Culture.
Derek Pyle is the director of Waywords & Meansigns, an experimental project that sets Finnegans Wake to music
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Producer: Luke Mulhall

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