Jonty Claypole
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11,327 appearances
34 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2d ago
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're gonna borrow the cliche of our friends at The Rest of History, with the storm clouds of war on the horizon, and then we're gonna come back and look at war, how the First World War, as much as anything else, as much as the Odyssey, as much as Dublin in the early years of the of the 20th century.
century shaped what this book becomes.
So Sophie, at the start of the First World War, Joyce has to leave Trieste, 'cause Trieste is part of Austro-Hungari Hungary.
Austro-Hungaria is allied with Germany, they're at war with England.
And so the Joyces flee to the neutral zone, which is Switzerland, and they end up living in Zurich.
And now Zurich in in Switzerland became in nineteen fifteen and nineteen sixteen this extraordinary convening point for many of the most brilliant and radical and non-conventional minds in Europe.
Joyce during these years was living often no more than a hundred or so meters away from Carl Jung, who was one of the founders of Psycho.
Analysis along with Freud.
And there is very clear evidence that Joyce knew about Jung.
He owned some of Jung's books.
He had his disagreements with psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience, but he was also very intrigued by these theories of the subconscious.
And you can see the evidence of that in the stream of consciousness approach in Ulysses.
He's living not far from Lenin.
There's evidence they were.
going into the same cafes.
This is Lenin who was about to unleash the Russian Revolution.
And he was also living a few hundred meters away from the cabaret Voltaire.
And I imagine you're not a huge Dada.
Please,
Yes, Tom Stoppard wrote a play in nineteen seventy-four called Travesties, which is a brilliant intellectual comedy, which is about Joyce writing Ulysses with Lenin and the Dadarists and psychoanalysism all thrown together in this amazing, amazing way.
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