Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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pulling a pair of skulls very easily.
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The man with his rudder line slack in his hands and his hands loose in his waistband kept an eager lookout.
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He had no net, hook or line and he could not be a fisherman.
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His boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, no inscription, no appliance beyond a rusty boat hook and a coil of rope and he could not be a waterman.
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His boat was too crazy, it moves around too much in the water, and too small to take in cargo for delivery.
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and he could not be a lighterman or river carrier.
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There was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something, and with a most intent and searching gaze.
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The tide, which had turned an hour before, was running down, and his eyes watched every little race and eddy in its broad sweep.
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As the boat made slight headway against it or drove stern foremost before it, according as he directed his daughter by a movement of his head, she watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river.
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But in the intensity of her look, there was a touch of dread or horror.
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And that's how the story opens.
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And I guess what's worth noting is that we've now shifted to the working classes who are making their living off the river, but they're not making it in some reputable trade, that they are searching for the most hidden and horrifying secrets that are held by this body of water.
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But I think you could make the case, Jonty, that they're not really looking for the dead body.
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They're looking for the history of the novel.
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Yeah.
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And what's going to happen to narrative.
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I'm going to chuck one tiny little extra thing in before we leave the Dickensian world behind.
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And it's from almost exactly the same year that Our Mutual Friend was written.
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It's Nathaniel Hawthorne, the American writer, the guy who wrote The Scarlet Letter.
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He paid a visit to London, as many Americans did, and he wrote a piece for the Atlantic magazine about London.
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