Sophie Gee
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10,871 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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complete libelous character assassination and creative assassination of every single well-known writer in the country.
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The hubris of it, the daring of it is simply extraordinary.
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He was.
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And it sort of spawned this whole kind of sub-industry.
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Pope was nothing if not unbelievably canny as a figure in commercial publishing.
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He realised that by doing something so provocative, he was actually going to bring about this wave of spin-off merchandise around his poems.
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So there were endless keys to the lot published, sub-poems and trademarks.
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prose treatises exposing the truth about this poem, who all the characters were.
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And the incredible thing about The Rape of the Lock is that he successfully annihilated all of his literary competitors.
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all of those names, Sibber and Smedley and Richard Bentley and Lewis Theobald, all these figures who were really very well regarded and often...
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talented and...
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Not just pleasant people, but actually quite adept poets and good writers were just effaced from the literary
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for the next 300 years.
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And actually some of them are now coming back and being recognised as quite interesting writers.
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But Pope, you know, he, well, he dropped them into the quaking mud and sewer of the Thames successfully.
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All right, so I'm jumping us forward a bit more than a century.
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And I'm taking us into a moment, I think, where the Thames becomes this kind of conduit for a certain kind of narrative about London.
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So we've seen that the Thames is, it's dirty, it's dark, but it's also in some ways, this kind of glorious symbol of trade and commerce and bustling movement.
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It's
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