Sophie Gee

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11,180 appearances 40 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard yesterday

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Secret Life of Books · Secret Life of the River Thames · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

That would be the version in the sort of the Chloe Zhang version of the story. podcast-host

That would be what would happen with everyone kind of. podcast-host

you know waving their arms in rapture at the modern erection just for the sake of strict historical accuracy we've mentioned that it was a particularly freezing cold winter and in fact the ground was too hard to dig yeah to put the foundations in so they had to store the timber and the thatch in a secret location until the spring came and then they put the globe up podcast-host

No, podcast-host

I think it's going to be a fart. podcast-host

Right. podcast-host

Which Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift are going to just absolutely lap up. podcast-host

They're going to chow it down podcast-host

we get to the 18th century. podcast-host

I'm thinking as you're reading that, it's an absolutely bravura piece of writing by Johnson. podcast-host

I mean, he's basically saying the Fleet River, the Fleet Tributary, is the arsehole of the Thames. podcast-host

Yeah, I totally agree with you. podcast-host

He absolutely is. podcast-host

And as you were reading it, I was thinking to myself, I was remembering why I want to write my PhD about the Thames, because the paradox of the Thames is people's absolute disgust at it. podcast-host

And yet the way that they use it as this occasion to generate podcast-host

fabulously energetic, life-filled, you know, immortal writing that podcast-host

defines the city in this unforgettable way and actually makes the city of London very special, very distinctive in the history of literature. podcast-host

So that's a perfect segue to my next choice, Jyoti. podcast-host

And I think that I'm not gazumping you if I take us... podcast-host

forward in the stream of time to 1665. podcast-host

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