James Wood
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815 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
James Wood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have Mary McGregor killed off and so on.
We continually were given these little glimpses of what became of the girls once they grew up.
So it's this amazing form, though, as I was saying, roughly speaking, there is a sort of deep chronology that guides us through the book.
It would be hard to read if there wasn't.
And roughly speaking, the deep chronology of the book is Miss Brodie is in charge of a junior class between the ages of 10 and 12.
And she has some favoured girls who are known in the school, famous in the school for being part of Miss Brodie's set.
Actually, we're told that being famous for being in Miss Brodie's set means that they were held in suspicion and not much liking.
So I'll come back to that interesting definition of what it is to be famous at this school, which in the novel is called Marcia Blaine's School for Girls.
So, the deep chronology is that we have this group of girls, particularly Miss Brodie's set, Sandy, Jenny, Eunice, Rose, Mary, and we encounter them first at the age of, well, we actually encounter them at the age of 16, but we, in the deep chronology, we're interested in them at the age of, between ages of 10 and 12, in the two years that they have with Miss Brodie.
And the novel, in this deep sense, moves through a story in which Miss Brody is disclosed as a brilliant and brilliantly tyrannical teacher, charismatic, punitive, eccentric, deeply loved and admired by the girls.
It tells the story of her control of what's
I'll get to this control in a second.
It tells the story of Miss Brodie's thwarted love affair with the art teacher, Mr. Lloyd, I think the man that she really loved and who loved her too, though Mr. Lloyd, unfortunately, inconveniently is married.
and her calmer love affair with Mr. Lowther, the music teacher.
It tells the story of the girls' fascination with these two relationships.
They spend a lot of the novel trying to parse out what Miss Brodie is up to with these two men.
And of course, because it's a fabulous novel about being on the cusp of adolescence,
These girls are extremely interested in not only the romance, but of course, the idea, the whole idea, the whole mysterious idea of sex.
What is it like to, well, what is sexual intercourse is the question that the girls come back to again and again.
And the novel tells the story of Miss Brody's increasingly tyrannical control, particularly as the girls themselves enter adolescence and depart from her immediate control because they've now entered the senior school.
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