Sophie Gee
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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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I'm a young PhD student at the very beginning of her career, struggling to decide on a topic for her research and deciding that some really comprehensive history of the literary history of the River Thames would be a gripping narrative with which to regale her supervisors.
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But at the crucial meeting, she's fatally discouraged by them.
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They say it's a terrible idea and she shouldn't do it.
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Oh,
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I know.
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I'm speaking of myself.
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wanted to write my PhD thesis on the Thames.
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And my supervisor, Barbara Lewalski, who at the time was the world's most famous Miltonist, said that she thought it would end up being a situation where I would just be saying, here's a river, there's a river.
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Yeah, and it was a failed idea.
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And you know what?
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Preparing for this episode, I came to the conclusion that she was wrong.
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Does it run softly?
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Yes, indeed.
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OK, so I'm going to tell us some vital statistics about this river.
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Yes, exactly.
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Asterisks.
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tribute moment.
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And the thing that is really striking about the Thames is that it has a very significant rise and fall in the tidal stretch, which is the stretch involving London.
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So the difference between high tide and low tide in the Thames and metropolitan London is seven meters.
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And from Oxford, which is not the head of the Thames, but it's kind of nearer to the beginning of the Thames, it drops by 55 metres to the estuary.
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