Catherine Nixey
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98 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Catherine Nixey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then Orwell didn't have to live in a world with Instagram influencers.
It's hard to look at the era of the postcard and not feel a bit nostalgic.
I'll write my final one.
As the old phrase goes, wish you were here.
Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey was causing conniptions long before anyone had even seen the thing.
Ahead of its release on July the 17th, there was a harrumphing over everything, from the actress playing Helen, too black, the color of the plume on Odysseus' helmet, the style of the soldier's armor, also too black and too Batman-like, and the vocabulary of Odysseus' son, too American.
At one point he says, Dad!
On YouTube, the film's trailer was met with criticism.
One disgruntled commenter wrote that if they saw this on a plane, they would still walk out.
The film itself is unlikely to allay any anxieties about anachronisms.
Everything, from its scenery to its psychology, says far more about the modern West than it does about ancient Greece.
Startling liberties are taken with the plot to turn Odysseus, the archetypally flawed ancient hero, into a simple modern goodie by flattening those flaws.
Any bad behavior is explained away either by drug use, or it's hinted to be due to some kind of proto-PTSD, the overdiagnosis epidemic, apparently having reached the ancient shores of Ithaca.
The scenery is similarly unsuitable and often far too pretty.
Soldiers in elegant gunmetal grey look less like ancient warriors than like Warhammer toys.
The ochre and candlelit palaces do not resemble warlords' lairs, but boutique hotels.
During the beach scenes with the nymph Calypso, Odysseus seems to be less in agonising exile than on a Caribbean mini-break.
They are wearing lots of linen.
Every adaptation of an ancient text is as much about its own era as about the original work, less a lens than a mirror.
Ancient Athenians transformed Homeric epic into psychologically acute tragedy.
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