Jonty Claypole
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11,327 appearances
34 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
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And his heart was going like mad, and yes, I said, yes, I will, yes.
God you meant full Meg Ryan and when Harry met Sally there, Sophie?
I'm dead and passed.
I was
Okay, let's back up.
And I'm gonna propose that we j just
Split the backstory into the conception of this book, which sort of happens before the First World War, and then the execution of it, which happens in wartime.
Because I think they're quite different periods.
And I think by the time he's actually sort of writing the book, he's he's in a very different mental state to when he first comes up with it.
So he had the idea in Rome in nineteen oh seven.
It's still early on in his time in
in in Italy.
He and Nora had moved to Trieste and they spend I think it's about a year and a half in Rome.
No.
And while in Rome in nineteen.
And he's working as a bank
That's right.
And and while there he finishes The Dead, which is the final story of Dubliners and the masterpiece of Dubliners.
And he's only just starting Portrait of the Artist.
So he's already got this idea and he talks about it explicitly of these books being i interlinked, that Dubliners is going to lead to portrait and portrait is going to lead to Ulysses.
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