Catherine Nixey
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366 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Catherine Nixey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Intelligence from The Economist · In it to bin it: Nigel Farage v Count Binface · 16 Jul 2026
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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 herumphing over everything, from the actress playing Helen, too black, the colour of the plume on Odysseus' helmet, the style of the soldier's armour, also too black, and too Batman-like.
And the vocabulary of Odysseus's 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 war hammer toys.
The Okar and Candlelight Palaces do not resemble warlords' lairs, but boutique hotels.
During the beach scenes with the nymph Calypso, Odysseus seems to be less in agonizing exile than on a Caribbean minibrake.
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.
In the 18th century, Alexander Pope's translation managed to make Odysseus sound like an effete Enlightenment poet rather than an ancient warlord.
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