Jonty Claypole
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10,520 appearances
32 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4d ago
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 32 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 6.
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And this is the moment when.
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When she first realizes she has this relationship, she's a young girl and she's been studying words, studying dictionaries, and starting to think about the role language plays in this world she's been born into.
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The only person who knew that her life was split violently in two was she herself.
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The words she had jotted down in the back of her diary wriggled about of their own volition to form unfamiliar sentences.
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Now and then words would thrust their way into her sleep like skewers, startling her awake several times a night.
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She got less and less sleep, was increasingly overwhelmed by sensory stimuli, and sometimes an inexplicable pain burned against her solar plexus like a metal brand.
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The most agonizing thing was how horrifyingly distinct the words sounded when she opened her mouth and pushed them out one by one.
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Even the most nondescript phrase outlined completeness and incompleteness, truth and lies, beauty and ugliness with the cold clarity of ice, spun out white as spider's milk from her tongue and by her hand those sentences were shameful.
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She wanted to
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vomit.
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She wanted to scream.
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It's very symptomatic of Hung Kung's writing, this this ca this physicality that that her characters, not just in the in this book, but other stories as well, feel.
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They're deeply embodied her characters.
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And their awareness of their bodies and and the way that ordinary phenomena affect them vi vissus, affect their bodies, I think is a sort of trademark.
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element of Hong Kong style.
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Yeah.
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I mean for me the point about the middle voice is as you're saying, I think Hung Kang is making the the point in this book that language is not just a tool that human beings use for communicate.
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And when and I think often we think about language in the way that we might think about any other sort of tool, like a spade or a fork.
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It's something we're in control of.
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And I I think the point is that language happens to us exactly as you're
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