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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But in the intensity of her look, there was a touch of dread or horror.
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And that's how the story opens.
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And I guess what's worth noting is that we've now shifted to the working classes who are making their living off the river, but they're not making it in some reputable trade, that they are searching for the most hidden and horrifying secrets that are held by this body of water.
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But I think you could make the case, Jonty, that they're not really looking for the dead body.
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They're looking for the history of the novel.
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Yeah.
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And what's going to happen to narrative.
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I'm going to chuck one tiny little extra thing in before we leave the Dickensian world behind.
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And it's from almost exactly the same year that Our Mutual Friend was written.
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It's Nathaniel Hawthorne, the American writer, the guy who wrote The Scarlet Letter.
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He paid a visit to London, as many Americans did, and he wrote a piece for the Atlantic magazine about London.
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And I think his description of the Thames is so good that I want to give him his moment in the sun, even though this has been dominated by British writers.
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Here's what Hawthorne
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Exactly.
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Here's Nathaniel Hawthorn.
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The aspect of London along the Thames, below bridge as it's called, is by no means so impressive as it ought to be, considering what peculiar advantages are offered for the display of grand and stately architecture by the passage of a river through the midst of a great city.
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It seems indeed as if the heart of London had been cleft open for the mere purpose of showing how rotten and drearily mean it had become.
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A sort of guilty conscience, as it were, unwholesome with the rivulets of sin that constantly flow into it.
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It's just a dismal stream to glide by such a city.
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Which is so strange because, I mean, you look at those Whistler images now and they are absolutely extraordinary, really beautiful and really definitive the way we think of London.
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