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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Secret Life of Books · Greek Lessons by Han Kang · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

as she regains speech is going to drop away from her again and she's going to be back in the world of representations and inadequate language. voice-verified

That's what I think is going on. voice-verified

They qu to quote the back, they merge in a profound sense of unity, Sophie. voice-verified

Yeah, and it can sound very theoretical when we talk about this book. voice-verified

The idea of these people philosophizing them s uh their way through to well being can feel a bit theoretical. voice-verified

I've been thinking over this episode, Sophie, about why I was so struck that for you it was the the kind of man story and his blindness that dominated, where for me it was her and her relationship with language. voice-verified

And I think the reason why is that I've never gone mute. voice-verified

But I had, as I've mentioned before, I had a very bad stutter as a child. voice-verified

And that dogged me all the way through till my 30s. voice-verified

And I did endless speech pathology, different types of courses, which always felt like they were scratching the top of the iceberg. voice-verified

They were developing techniques for managing speech. voice-verified

And none of them are really asking the deeper questions about what is this relationship that we have with language? voice-verified

Why does language become so fraught for some? voice-verified

of us that we that we experience words as a form of violence. voice-verified

And when you stutter, you do. voice-verified

Every time in this book she talks about the the woman talks about feeling words like skewers, or words having a physicality and a violence. voice-verified

I think that's how people with stutters and people with other types of speech disorders can experience language as well. voice-verified

That that words have a sort of violence that can unravel us and can voice-verified

And can hurt us. voice-verified

You know, as you can tell, I'm now relatively fluent i in my speech now. voice-verified

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