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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modernism.
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So I was going to treat us to a little bit of Henry James, but I feel time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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And instead, I'm going to give us...
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I think the last gasp, very purposeful last gasp, of the great Victorian stories of empire.
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And this one is the opening of a very, very famous novel that is a savage critique of
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Yeah, that starts in the estuary of the Thames from 1901.
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Is it
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It sure is.
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The Nelly, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails and was at rest.
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The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
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The sea reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
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In the offing, the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint.
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And in the luminous space, the tan sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked with gleams of varnished spirits.
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A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in the vanishing flatness.
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The air was dark above Gravesend and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom brooding motionless over the biggest and greatest town on earth.
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And that's how Heart of Darkness starts.
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The Heart of Darkness is London.
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It's the Thames before we go to Africa.
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30,000
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