Jonty Claypole
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10,992 appearances
33 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
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Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And rather than
than just getting on and doing so, he decided this was the moment to take a principled stand against organised religion.
I'm definitely on his mother's side in this one.
It's just like just get on your knees and do it, Stephen.
We follow Stephen over the course of the morning, including teaching a class at the school where he works, then returning to the same bloody beach where he spent so long ruminating in the prequel.
He is lost in his life and needs rescuing.
Smash cap to Leopold Bloom starting his day.
This is I wrote this last week.
It's a very good synopsis, Sophie, if I say so myself.
Bloom is thirty eight years old, Jewish, works in advertising, although we're nowhere near madmen territory here.
He's on the very lowly end of the advertising ladder.
And he's married to a professional singer called Molly.
Bloom has a poo, which I think is probably our favourite scene in the book, goes for a bath, admires his penis, goes to a funeral, does a bit of work, has some lunch, spends a lot of time thinking about sex, wanders around Dublin, masturbates while looking at a young woman on the beach, and goes to dinner.
All this takes about four hundred pages.
I mean, it's quite incredible how Joyce stretches it out.
eventually.
Bloom falls in with the young Stephen Dedalus, who is on a spree with some of his chums, and they all end up at a a brothel because we are in the manosphere here.
Finally, Stephen has the ship beaten out of him by a soldier.
I think we're definitely on the soldier's side by this point.
Leopold Bloom comes to the rescue, takes Stephen home to patch up his wounds and talk about literature, and then goes to bed.
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