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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So they get home, Bloom goes to put the kettle on to make some tea, and we get a question.
What did Bloom do at the range?
And then we get the answer.
He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron kettle to the sink.
In order to tap the current by turning to force it to let it flow.
Did it flow?
Yes, from Roundwood Reservoir in County Wicklow of a cubic capacity sixty four of two thousand four hundred million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipage, constructed at an initial plant cost of five pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle Raffdown Glen of the Downs and Callow Hill to the twenty six.
six acre reservoir at Stillorgan.
I mean, it's completely brilliant and joyful and maverick.
And th these sections are to me.
It's amazing at its best.
And on that, let's get to his master stroke because the final episode of the book, episode eighteen, is called Penelope.
And Penelope is Odysseus' wife.
In this, it becomes Leopold Bloom's wife, Molly Bloom.
Now, one of the things that's complete genius of making the entire last episode this this sort of singular first person narration from Molly Bloom half asleep in bed.
Is that it gives a voice to the Penelope character, which the Odyssey doesn't have.
The Odyssey begins in book one with Telemachus telling his mother Penelope to shut up and go upstairs.
He says that's where women belong.
I'm going to sort things out.
And at the end of it, Odysseus gets back at the end of the Odyssey and comes in and lays waste to the suitors who have been after his wife, and then says the same thing.
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