Sophie Gee
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10,871 appearances
39 recordings
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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It's a place where the aristocracy go up and down in their fine boats.
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It's associated with the court, but it's also associated with these literary competitors.
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I'm taking us to Dickens's London now.
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On the book club, we're doing Bleak House at the moment, which is shaped by the...
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allegory and the and the literal reality of the fogs of London in the middle of the 19th century which as we've said often were not fogs in in the traditional sense it was a form of really extreme air pollution from industry having moved into the city of London and all and surrounds and just completely choking the air so similar things are happening with the the river
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which at this point is not just full of dead dogs, but full of dead bodies.
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And the unforgettable opening of Our Mutual Friend, which is a really terrific Dickens novel, consists of a waterman, someone who for a living takes a boat out on the Thames, going up and down with his daughter looking for a dead body.
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And here's how it starts.
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In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance with two figures in it floated on the Thames between Southwark Bridge, which is of iron, and London Bridge, which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.
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The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged, grizzled hair and a sun-browned face and a dark girl of 19 or 20, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his daughter.
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The girl rowed, which is in and of itself really interesting that she's doing the rowing.
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pulling a pair of skulls very easily.
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The man with his rudder line slack in his hands and his hands loose in his waistband kept an eager lookout.
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He had no net, hook or line and he could not be a fisherman.
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His boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, no inscription, no appliance beyond a rusty boat hook and a coil of rope and he could not be a waterman.
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His boat was too crazy, it moves around too much in the water, and too small to take in cargo for delivery.
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and he could not be a lighterman or river carrier.
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There was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something, and with a most intent and searching gaze.
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The tide, which had turned an hour before, was running down, and his eyes watched every little race and eddy in its broad sweep.
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As the boat made slight headway against it or drove stern foremost before it, according as he directed his daughter by a movement of his head, she watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river.
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