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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 34 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 6.

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Secret Life of Books · Greek Lessons by Han Kang · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

Because last week, where the book was essentially a lighthearted book, we needed jokes in the synopsis. voice-verified

This time we've got a synopsis which is all about tragedy, domestic violence, and now you've decided to pepper it with jokes, which is just so off key. voice-verified

Marvellous. voice-verified

Marvelous Sophie Well. voice-verified

What great. voice-verified

I mean, as I say, I think it was t totally a bit off, but I appreciate the effort. voice-verified

And I'd I admire the fact that you listened to the feedback and and responded to it. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Okay, I'm gonna give us a reading from the book. voice-verified

And and Sophie, I was very struck in in the introduction you did that for you, this is a book about blindness, or at least that's the kind of core image and metaphor running through the book. voice-verified

But of course, it's only one of two stories. voice-verified

There are two main characters. voice-verified

There's the unnamed man, as you say, who's the one who's going blind, and the woman character has lost her voice. voice-verified

She has become mute. voice-verified

And for me, it's that side that. voice-verified

I was much more, much more drawn to, and I would have in introducing this book, I think talked more about loss of language and the role that language is playing. voice-verified

And th the reason why I mentioned that is that it it's just speaks to the power of Hung Kung's writing that she can create a short story, and and this is a short novel, it's about 150 pages, and yet we can have such a radical different engagement. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I'm gonna read a section from where she's looking back on her life. voice-verified

She she lost her voice twice in her life. voice-verified

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