Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It starts on the stream of the Thames.
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Yeah.
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Bethel... LAUGHTER
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our Chaucer sound.
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Let's have our Chaucer sound.
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Be felled that in that season on a day, in Southwark at the Tabbard as I lay, ready to wenden on me pilgrimage to Canterbury with full devout courage, and meek to come into that hostelry, well me and twenty in a company of sundry folk by Aventury Fall in fellowship,
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the pilgrims were they all, that toward Canterbury Walden ride, the Chambres and the Stables were in wide, and well we were in acid at a best, and shortly, when the sun was to rest, so had I spoken with him every Sean, that he was of her fellowship in none, and no other forward early for Therese, to tuck our way, that there as I yew devise,
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So there
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they're completely horrified
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Well, it's the jumping off point for the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
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And basically, Chaucer chooses the Tabard Inn, which is in Talbot Square down near Borough Market now.
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near London Bridge, and they start by the side of the river and they go to the kind of spiritual heartland of England, which is itself, as we explained in our Canterbury Tales episode, a bit of a joke.
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And I think Chaucer's having a laugh about the fact that they're starting by this septic river that everybody likes to idealise so much.
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Yes.
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just thinking that.
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You're exactly right.
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And as we watched Much Ado About Nothing, I was thinking to myself how resonant for Shakespeare's audiences that they would have been standing basically next to the Thames watching that play, which is all about the movement of time and history and change.
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And there's the river outside.
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What's a rutty bank?
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Lovely.
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