Episodes

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 2

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 2
    Apr 9 2026
    In which Stephen Wanders through the familiar precincts of college, exchanging barbed banter and earnest discourse with his comrades on the nature of art, beauty, and nationality, his thoughts often veering between the lofty and the mundane with a quietly biting wit. Amidst playful jostling and deepening reflections upon the soul's birth and the artist’s quest, he wrestles with youthful passion and philosophical musings until, alone at dawn, a fragile moment of poetic inspiration kindles within him a luminous longing that flickers and fades with the morning light.
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    47 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 1

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 1
    Apr 7 2026
    In which a young man, caught between the loathsome domesticities and clogged lanes of a sodden cityscape, walks its sodden streets reflecting on ashes of learning and entwined friendships under the greying light of morning; and in the shadowed theatre of a university, he engages with the austere austerity of a dean, the bustling pulse of student life, and the stirrings of uneasy discourse about art, faith, and society.
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    55 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 4

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 4
    Apr 5 2026
    In which the devout youth navigates the intricate rhythms of piety and doubt, wrestling with the solemn call to the priesthood and the restless allure of a freer existence beyond sacred walls. The day wanes over sea and sand as he contemplates his place between the ordered life he is prepared to leave and the wild beckoning of his own soul’s flight.
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    58 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 3 Part 2

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 3 Part 2
    Apr 3 2026
    In which a young soul, heavy with secret transgressions, wrestles through the shadows of guilt and the fiery visage of divine judgment, seeking the uneasy solace of repentance within the sacred walls of the chapel. Amidst whispered confessions and the gentle light of mercy, he finds a fragile peace in absolution, dreaming of a life purified and bright beneath the watchful gaze of heaven.
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    45 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 3 Part 1

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 3 Part 1
    Apr 1 2026
    In which a boy’s conflicted soul roams between hunger, desire, and religious awe under the dimming light of a winter evening, as the solemn retreat and its fearful sermons consecrate thoughts of sin, judgement, and the eternal horrors of hell. Through fervent prayers and haunting memories, he contemplates his frailty and the inscrutable mercy of saints, while the shadow of divine justice and mortal doom gathers quietly about him.
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    57 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 2 Part 2

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 2 Part 2
    Mar 30 2026
    In which Stephen Dedalus endures the ignoble torments of schoolboy rivals and finds fleeting escape in the cloak of theatrical performance, while his restless mind wrestles with manifold calls to duty and desire. A sojourn to Cork with his father unfurls a poignant mosaic of memory and loss, as Stephen navigates the twilight of youth with a fierce longing that burns both bright and barren within him.
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    31 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 2 Part 1

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 2 Part 1
    Mar 28 2026
    In which a boy absorbs the subtle rhythms of everyday life in Dublin—amid family routines, school amusements, and youthful imaginings of adventure and affection—while feeling himself both a part of and apart from the world about him. His keen observations are laced with the gentle stirrings of ambition, restlessness, and those tender moments that quietly shape a soul awakening to its own peculiar journey.
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    55 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 1 Part 2

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 1 Part 2
    Mar 26 2026
    In which a household gathering kindles fierce debate on politics and religion, revealing the tangled loyalties and passionate convictions of its members, while a young boy quietly absorbs the weight of their words and unspoken tensions. Later, the boy faces harsh punishment at school, yet finds a cautious reprieve in a compassionate authority, leaving him to wander beneath the soft, grey evening and the lingering sound of cricket bats.
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    38 mins