Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard today
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yep.
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came, saw and got back on the Eurostar.
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That's
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Yes, that's one of the things I really love about the history of Londinium.
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And it's because the estuary of the Thames, especially before the 19th century or the 18th century, when a lot of the marshland was drained, was very wide.
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It was relatively shallow, had a lot of marshland, but it was a massive port and there was huge amounts of coming and going.
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And it was strategically a very...
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sort of valuable but also quite precarious entry point into Great Britain.
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So, for example, the Vikings made heavy use of the Thames to do some of their raids and invasion because it's a highly navigable river.
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Many human bodies, both on and off the pages of literature.
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As I tried to say to my supervisors, it's the ultimate literary conduit.
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It's never static.
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It's always changing.
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idealizers
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i love that so we agreed at the beginning of this before we started recording that we were going chronological but neither of us yet has shown our hand so what's your earliest bid
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win.
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You win,
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It's significant literary background, though, that the sanitation crisis around the Thames was already in play in the 1360s because, for me, it's Chaucer time, Jonty.
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I'm kicking us off with the Canterbury Tales.
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Well, the Canterbury Tales starts on the river.
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