Jonty Claypole
speaker
11,327 appearances
34 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3d ago
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 34 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 6.
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Total poetry as well.
I don't even think I know what they are.
Oh, I do, yes.
They're odyssey adjacent.
They're odyssey adjacent.
You've been listening to The Secret Life of Books.
Quick public service announcement.
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So it turns out that James Joyce's Ulysses is quite a big book, and it's taking Sophie and I a little more time, a little longer than a week, to get our heads around this huge sprawling masterpiece.
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So to give ourselves more time, we are not releasing our third James Joyce episode this week on James Joyce's Ulysses.
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We're gonna give ourselves another week.
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And in the meantime, we are giving you an episode we recorded a few months back on Greek Lessons by the Nobel Prize-winning South Korean novelist Hang Kang.
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Happily, Greek Lessons is, of course, Odyssey adjacent.
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It it keeps more or less in the theme we've been on the last six weeks, which is Homer's Odyssey, because the book is about a group of people studying ancient.
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Greek to get closer to the Greek classics.
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That of course is not merely a happy coincidence because everything that happens on Secret Life of Books is in keeping with a rigorous master plan.
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So enjoy this episode and we'll be back next week with James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Well, Sophie, I've got to go for muddy pool because the name Claypole is Old English for muddy pool.
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And so I'm just gonna lean into the heritage of my name.
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We're in the world of nominal determinism, where our personalities are shaped by the names we have.
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