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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And the book, if you haven't guessed by now, is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
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And it's all about the river as a site of pleasure, of freedom, of a kind of P.G.
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Woodhousian satire on the absurdities of the upper middle classes and young men in boating attire.
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And this is a moment where they are on the river, actually above London.
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They're travelling between Kingston-on-Thames and Oxford for their jolly summer holiday that obviously goes continuously awry in a sort of delightful anticipation of some of the jolly japes that are going to befall Bertie Worcester not very long afterwards.
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So here we go.
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We sculled up to Walton, a rather large place for a riverside town.
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As with all riverside places, only the tiniest corner of it comes down to the water, so that from the boat you might fancy it was a village of some half-dozen houses, all told.
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Windsor and Abingdon are the only towns between London and Oxford that you can really see anything of from the stream.
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All the others hide round corners and merely peep at the river down one street.
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My thanks to them for being so considerate and leaving the riverbanks to woods and fields and waterworks.
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Even Reading, though it does its best to spoil and sully and make hideous as much of the river as it can reach, is good-natured enough to keep its ugly face a good deal out of sight.
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Caesar, of course, had a little place at Walton, a camp, or an entrenchment, or something of that sort.
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Caesar was a regular up-river man.
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Also Queen Elizabeth, she was there too.
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You can never get away from that woman, go where you will.
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Cromwell and Bradshaw, not the guide man, but the King Charles's head man, likewise sojourned here.
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They must have been quite a pleasant little party altogether.
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So he's kind of turning the river into the middle class's fight back
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the encroachments of the industrialization of England.
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