Jonty Claypole
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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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And I do f spend a lot of my life feeling like a muddy pool, a muddy pool of water.
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How about you, Sophie?
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Great.
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You're referring to your white hair there as well, aren't you?
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Yeah, Sophie, wisdom.
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It's a very literal image you've come up with there.
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This is The Secret Life of Books.
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I am John T.
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Claypole, a middle-aged man who has signed up to do a evening class in ancient Greek, largely just out of loneliness, I think, but also because I have a a passion for for knowledge and for learning and for Sophia, which is Sophie, as we know, wisdom.
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This episode Greek Lessons by Han Kung.
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Today's author won the Nobel Prize for Literature a couple of years ago.
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And no podcast which is dedicated to classic literature can take itself seriously for so long without at some point covering one of the most recent Nobel Prize winners.
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And don't forget Tiresias, the blind seer, who appears throughout Greek m mythology, and it's implied that his his wisdom and his visions come come as a consequence of his blindness as well.
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Across all her novels, Hong Kong tells stories of pain, loss and suffering as pathways to unexpected transformation and freedom.
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She connects her themes directly to the long histories of violence in North and South Korea, and she also wants readers to know she's talking about all suffering and violence over human history.
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In today's episode, we're talking about how Hung Kang takes the coming of age novel from the version we know in Jane Eyre and other classic European novels and changes it into a form that is distinctly modern and Korean, but keeping its connections to the earliest literary stories.
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Sophie, tell us what's going on in this book.
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Great joke.
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One joke one.
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In fact, Sophie, can I stop you for a second?
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