Jonty Claypole

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11,327 appearances 34 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 4d ago

Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

All we see are representations of the truth. voice-verified

And he says, you have to imagine us all like prisoners who are chained up in an underground cave. voice-verified

We cannot turn around. voice-verified

We can only look forwards. voice-verified

And behind us, at the back of the cave, is a big fire casting light. voice-verified

And in between the fire and the back of our heads, some rather malevolent people are parading images. voice-verified

And the shadow of those images is cast on. voice-verified

On the wall in front of us. voice-verified

So all we are seeing is images of the truth of and he calls them forms. voice-verified

He says that behind every idea or behind everything we see is an abstract form that ordinary people cannot see. voice-verified

But to those prisoners, that's us chained up, we think these you know poultry shadows, these representations are the real thing. voice-verified

Think they're the truth. voice-verified

And he says that what the philosopher is able to do, the philosopher is somebody who's able to escape their bonds and leave the cave and go into the outside world and see things as they really are. voice-verified

But unfortunately, the philosopher is doomed to be misunderstood. voice-verified

Because if the philosopher goes back into the cave, the philosopher will find that because their eyes have adjusted to the sunlight, they'll be blind. voice-verified

And this is where voice-verified

the kind of imagery of blindness becomes so important in Greek lessons. voice-verified

And the philosopher will stumble around making a fool of himself, saying, Everyone, you need to get a you need to get out of this cave. voice-verified

You need to escape these chains and come out with me and you'll see things as they really are. voice-verified

And meanwhile he's tripping over people's legs. voice-verified

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