The question is answered in four Irish accents - Belfast, Cork, Dublin and Galway - and Jim Norton does them all brilliantly

Jim Norton reads p140-1 of Finnegans Wake

Jim Norton reads the first of ten 100 letter thunder words, from the opening page of Finnegans Wake. It's the sound of Tim Finnegan's fall from the ladder, and made up of various words for thunder.

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!

Finnegans Wake Thunder Word

Talking about Henrietta Moraes, 4 May 2011

Sue MacLaine and Maggi Hambling on Woman's Hour

Ken Campbell's translation of 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' into Melanesian pidgin.

Ken wrote, 'What's it like then, Macbeth in Wol Wantok? An improvement. Reducing iambic pentameters to rude voodoo telegrams is just the thing the piece has been needing.'

Macbeth in Pidgin English

From Song in Finnegans Wake, a performance at the Clothworkers Concert Hall, University of Leeds on 15 July 1987, by Charles Peake and Company.
The song Enniscorthy is by Robert "Ballyhooly Bob" Martin. It was originally performed by E.J.Lonnen in the role of Mephistopheles in Faust up to Date, at the Gaiety Theatre London in 1888

When McCarthy took the Flure at Enniscorthy

Four versions of the opening of Ulysses. The first is from Joseph Strick's 1967 film, with T.P.McKenna and Maurice Roëves as Mulligan and Stephen. The second is the 1982 RTE broadcast, which gives the text as written, and has Gerry McArdle and Patrick Dawson as Mulligan and Stephen (narrator uncredited). The third is the Radio 4 'dramatisation' of 2012, with Andrew Scott as Stephen. The fourth is the 1992 Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, read by Stephen Rea.

Stately plump Buck Mulligan...

Three readings of the end of Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake 215.28-216.05), by Marcella Riordan, Siobhan McKenna and James Joyce

Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!

Brendan Behan bursts into song during a lecture to the nervous members of the New York James Joyce Society

Love is teasing

Bowhead whales and A.L.Lloyd singing for Sir John Franklin. Bowheads live to be 200, so there are whales in the Arctic today who would have seen Franklin's ships in 1845

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