Jonty Claypole

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10,520 appearances 32 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3d ago

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

Yes. voice-verified

Okay, I'm gonna give us a reading from the book. voice-verified

And and Sophie, I was very struck in in the introduction you did that for you, this is a book about blindness, or at least that's the kind of core image and metaphor running through the book. voice-verified

But of course, it's only one of two stories. voice-verified

There are two main characters. voice-verified

There's the unnamed man, as you say, who's the one who's going blind, and the woman character has lost her voice. voice-verified

She has become mute. voice-verified

And for me, it's that side that. voice-verified

I was much more, much more drawn to, and I would have in introducing this book, I think talked more about loss of language and the role that language is playing. voice-verified

And th the reason why I mentioned that is that it it's just speaks to the power of Hung Kung's writing that she can create a short story, and and this is a short novel, it's about 150 pages, and yet we can have such a radical different engagement. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I'm gonna read a section from where she's looking back on her life. voice-verified

She she lost her voice twice in her life. voice-verified

She became temporarily mute for the first time as a teenager, and she's done so again in adulthood. voice-verified

And it's implied that she's always had a very problematic relationship with language. voice-verified

And there's a scene where she remembers being a young girl and learning words, and words for her. voice-verified

Have never been a mere tool for communication. voice-verified

Words have had a menace and a weight and a physicality and a violence to them that has always ensured she's been in a very uneasy relationship with them. voice-verified

And I think it's why at moments in her life she loses the ability to speak. voice-verified

She becomes overwhelmed by the physicality and violence of language. voice-verified

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