Jonty Claypole

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11,327 appearances 34 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard today

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Secret Life of Books · Charlotte Higgins on Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

And I mean uh you know, unbelievably be uh poignant as well, bearing in mind what you told us beforehand about the fate her fate as as well. podcast-host

There's a description in the book where you describe a poetry reading happening in a basement near the front line and the complete engagement of everyone there. podcast-host

And I have podcast-host

Say, as somebody who spends quite a bit of time in poetry readings, where you can sort of feel people checking their phones and thinking about other things. podcast-host

I found it incredible this description you give of a of a poetry reading where for the people in the room it is the most important thing happening at that moment and the way that they're hanging on every word of whoever is reading was podcast-host

It's you know, it's unbelievable. podcast-host

You know, it's unbelievable. podcast-host

It's unbelievable. podcast-host

So you've done your hostile podcast-host

Environment training course. podcast-host

I imagine when you went there, you were not thinking this is going to be the start of something that is just going to continue it in my life from now on in perpetuity. podcast-host

I sort of imagine you probably went and thought you'd come back and write a uh, you know, a long article and stay in touch and follow the story. podcast-host

But you just went deeper and deeper into it. podcast-host

And the book is called You Create. podcast-host

Ukrainian lessons because you start to learn Ukrainian. podcast-host

And what I w I want to ask you a question about motive. podcast-host

What was it about the situation that got you so committed that you just started going back the whole podcast-host

the whole time. podcast-host

You know, I know quite a a lot of foreign correspondents and there is the adrenaline factor, the adrenaline of being in a war zone. podcast-host

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