Jonty Claypole
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9,840 appearances
30 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think if somebody's reading Ulysses, you start to, you know, there's a bit of a porny vibe about them, isn't there?
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Is porny an adjective?
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Yeah, it is now.
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The Ulysses reader has a pervy vibe in the way that the Odyssey reader doesn't.
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That's what I think.
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What about you?
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Your question is the perfect segue into the theme of this new series for Secret Life of Books, which is both a continuation of The Odyssey, but also something a little bit different as well.
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This is The Secret Life of Books.
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I am Jonty Claypole.
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I have just spent an evening at a Christmas party looking at my wife, thinking how extraordinary and wonderful she is and looking forward to getting back home with her, not knowing that all the time she's thinking of her first lover, not me.
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Terrible, terrible realisation I'm going to have.
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Get on the boat, Sophie, and find out.
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To finish our series on the Odyssey and rewritings of the Odyssey in English, we're of course going to spend time talking about what's probably the most famous version of all, James Joyce's Ulysses.
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No one comes to James Joyce or Ulysses without preconceptions, not least myself and Sophie in The Secret Life of Books, because we have mentioned Ulysses quite a few times during the course of this podcast.
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But
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generally with a sort of unfavourable tone to our voices when we do so.
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Which we are trying to park.
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So to back up, no one comes to James Joyce without preconceptions.
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He's the greatest literary genius of the 20th century, possibly even of all time.
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He's the writer who figured out how to get language and storytelling to do impossible things.
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