Amy Nicholson

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5,140 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

Amy Nicholson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 14 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.

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Unspooled · The Odyssey (with Lucas Matthew Herchenroeder) · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

I I don't believe that like the best version of the Odyssey ever would have to be like completely committed to every single line of what the Odyssey was. podcast-host

I mean, A, that'd be like impossible to film. podcast-host

And B, I love his confidence in taking this classical gigantic epic and just saying, chop this, cut this, move this, add this. podcast-host

I have ideas of what I want this story to say to me today in, you know, the year of podcast-host

Of our Zeus twenty twenty six. podcast-host

No, it's true. podcast-host

I mean, when you go back to to this time of like inventing stories, you know to like Euripides and podcast-host

And Aeschylus and everybody you start to get this headset of like the ancient Greek poets were thinking of characters like Odysseus and Medea as the way we might talk about, you know, Batman and Supergirl. podcast-host

You know, they were taking podcast-host

figures that people were familiar of, like their basic personality. podcast-host

Okay, if it's a Batman story, I expect him to be a little bit like moody. podcast-host

I expect him to have a complicated relationship with his parents. podcast-host

And then from there you can shape it in different directions to kind of fill out parts of the story that you want that you think are the most interesting as an author. podcast-host

Now in the ancient days, would somebody like a Homer have been like the character we see even opening this film? podcast-host

A guy in a banquet room podcast-host

hitting the floor with this poll and saying, Let me tell you a story. podcast-host

Is that how these stories were performed? podcast-host

Is that how like the Odyssey was staged? podcast-host

It did. podcast-host

It helped you I think it helped you really get into the mindset of what this era was like. podcast-host

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