James Joyce kept a huge book - the Ulysses Notesheets - full of the “mad, obsessive” notes, facts and citations that would power his famous masterpiece. Most writers cut… Joyce was all about accrual. “And he knows so much. With Joyce, you can be pretty sure he has thought everything through”. The feature-length Arena film decoding Ulysses is streaming now on BBC iPlayer | https://bbc.in/3U0X0Uv | BBC Arts

Historian Jean Smith gives us five things we should know about Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who became president. More of our #PresidentsDay picks here: http://bit.ly/HistoryInFive | History in Five