James Joyce's Ulysses begins at eight o'clock in the morning in the Dublin suburb of Sandycove where we meet Joyce's alter-ego, a young teacher called Stephen Dedalus. Striking photographic negatives from the archives of University College Dublin, of a young James Joyce, have a story to tell about the creator of a modernist masterpiece. The feature-length Arena film decoding Ulysses, 100 years after it was first published in book form, is streaming now on BBC iPlayer: https://bbc.in/3U0X0Uv | BB

Kirk Douglas is Ulysses (1954) Ulysses is a 1955 3-D Italian adventure movie. It is based on Homer's poem The Odyssey, and tells of Odysseus's attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress, Circe. Kirk Douglas stars the Greek hero, Ulysses. Anthony Quinn plays Antinous. | Because We Love Classic Cinema