Geoffrey Roberts
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243 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Geoffrey Roberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I worked in the docks, all the kind of like classic blue collar occupations.
Very well-paid jobs, of course.
Well, I had the privilege of having various grants, public grants.
I didn't have to work.
Well, I did work well at college, obviously, but I didn't have to work my way through college.
Yeah, that's an interesting question you asked me.
I never felt there was any, like, class or cultural distance between myself and Cathy.
when I'm engaging with her letters and also when I met her in person in New York in 2002, what struck me about it was the way she, and I say this in the book, the way she was able to transcend class and cultural barriers, right?
They weren't a kind of an impediment to her engaging with people during the war, okay, at the very top level, but also what she called, this is her words, not mine, the little people as well, or from engaging as well, right?
So I never felt, look, I don't,
After she died, Marie Brenner wrote an article about Cathy in Vanity Fair, right?
Which kind of like focused on her kind of like American upper class kind of background and roots and influences and stuff like that.
Which kind of made me think that maybe I'd missed a sort of dimension.
of my reading of Cathy and her series.
So that kind of broadened my perspective.
But I never felt there was any gap in my understanding of her arising from the fact that we had very radically different class origins.
But how did you feel?
Did you feel there was any... Did you have any problems?
I think she would be intrigued and amused by it, yeah.
If Cathy didn't want her...
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