Sophie Gee
speaker
10,871 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You enter into this continual flow of voices and artists and people who've told stories since the beginning of history.
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of written literature, and that that is what literary history is.
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It's this continual, constantly changing flow, but also one that you're always permanently immersed in.
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So I want to finish up with a bit of a pivot.
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If you're ready for a pivot into pleasure, Jonty.
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River as Pleasure Ground.
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So Henry James remarks on it in his English Hours that he writes throughout the 19th century that the river has a business end and a pleasure end.
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And they're very different, but obviously, because it's a river, they're interconnected.
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Now, I'm going to cheat a little bit with time because it's a 19th century story, but it was blown out of the water, as it were, by a 1975 screenplay written by Tom Stoppard called
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And an adaptation for television starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin.
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it was the right place for me to alight from my journey.
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And the book, if you haven't guessed by now, is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
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And it's all about the river as a site of pleasure, of freedom, of a kind of P.G.
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Woodhousian satire on the absurdities of the upper middle classes and young men in boating attire.
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And this is a moment where they are on the river, actually above London.
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They're travelling between Kingston-on-Thames and Oxford for their jolly summer holiday that obviously goes continuously awry in a sort of delightful anticipation of some of the jolly japes that are going to befall Bertie Worcester not very long afterwards.
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So here we go.
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We sculled up to Walton, a rather large place for a riverside town.
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As with all riverside places, only the tiniest corner of it comes down to the water, so that from the boat you might fancy it was a village of some half-dozen houses, all told.
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Windsor and Abingdon are the only towns between London and Oxford that you can really see anything of from the stream.
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