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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Are you happy for me to do that?
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And we're with our great friends.
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to be.
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Yeah, who doesn't?
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Just before the fire, in the winter after the plague has hit.
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And we're with our great friend Samuel Pepys, who is one of our favourite writers on The Secret Life of Books.
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The fabulous 17th century diarist who kept diaries of his life as a financier, a trader and a kind of man about town in London.
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during the 1660s.
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We did a great episode on Peeps as London.
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And so I didn't want to repeat the Thames passage that we chose for that, which is probably the most famous description that Peeps gives of the Thames when London is ablaze during the Great Fire.
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So listen to our episode for that because it's a truly unforgettable set piece of the Thames as this
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glowing orange sooty terrifying inferno and devastated londoners rushing down to the waters trying to get their belongings out of the flames and onto the barges so i sort of jumped the other way and i went with cold tents i went with frozen tents and pete gives us a couple of very short but memorable descriptions of the frozen river so this is january the first new year's day 1667
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Lay long, meaning he lay in bed for a long time, being a bitter cold frosty day.
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The frost being now grown old and the Thames covered with ice.
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Up and to the office, where all the morning busy.
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At noon's the change a little, where Mr James Hooblin and I walked a good while, speaking of our ill condition in not being able to set out the fleet, we doubt this year, and the certain ill effect that must bring, which is lamentable.
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Home to dinner, where the best pounded goose that I ever ate.
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Then to the office again and to Sir William Battens to examine the commission, going down to Portsmouth to examine witnesses about our prizes, of which God give a good issue.
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So Pepys is very involved in the world of the Navy, the ships, the Thames.
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So the Thames is at the absolute heartland of Pepys' business interests in London.
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