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 podcast

In 1922, James Joyce's version offered sex, stream of consciousness, and that modernist literary staple, boredom.

So Christopher Nolan's retelling is part of a time-honored tradition.

It is manifestly a product of the present day.

Female characters offer frequent apologias for feminism.

The Kazuspelli of the Trojan War is given as a desire to improve trade routes.

But then, the Odyssey contains multitudes.

In the three millennia since it was composed, it has been on an Odyssey all of its own.

The poem has become a play, a TV series, and a porn film.

Odyssey: The Ultimate Trick.

It is therefore not surprising that Odysseus had been transformed by Christopher Nolan.

Though in other ways it is surprising, as the Odyssey has been a filmic wrecker of reputations.

A 2024 film starring Ray Fynes was dismissed as dull.

A movie of 1954 starring Kirk Douglas was described as weird and vapid.

Though Christopher Nolan has form on tricky topics, his previous film, Oppenheimer, about nuclear weapons, graced almost one billion dollars at the box office.

Still.

Even he has probably learned that the Odyssey is not an easy book to film.

Its structure is tricky.

It is about Odysseus, but readers do not meet him for four books.

But then it's also very famous.

The first penguin classic ever printed was the Odyssey.

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