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

And part of what I love about that opening, and I just was very struck by it, again, getting ready for this episode, I'd always remembered the opening, but I'd sort of forgotten that he does this. podcast-host

He uses the Thames to link up successive empires that have risen and fallen, and the common thread is darkness. podcast-host

And it's this kind of deep history of empire that's actually very, very contemporary for us. podcast-host

It's this recognition that the kind of calamity and catastrophes that we're now looking at podcast-host

globally are kind of held by this deep time of empires. podcast-host

And Conrad gets that at the turn of the century. podcast-host

And actually, it takes us to tradition and the individual talent, because Eliot's argument about literary history is that there aren't these individual genius people. podcast-host

You enter into this stream of history. podcast-host

It's like the Thames. podcast-host

You enter into this continual flow of voices and artists and people who've told stories since the beginning of history. podcast-host

of written literature, and that that is what literary history is. podcast-host

It's this continual, constantly changing flow, but also one that you're always permanently immersed in. podcast-host

So I want to finish up with a bit of a pivot. podcast-host

If you're ready for a pivot into pleasure, Jonty. podcast-host

River as Pleasure Ground. podcast-host

So Henry James remarks on it in his English Hours that he writes throughout the 19th century that the river has a business end and a pleasure end. podcast-host

And they're very different, but obviously, because it's a river, they're interconnected. podcast-host

Now, I'm going to cheat a little bit with time because it's a 19th century story, but it was blown out of the water, as it were, by a 1975 screenplay written by Tom Stoppard called podcast-host

And an adaptation for television starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin. podcast-host

it was the right place for me to alight from my journey. podcast-host

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