Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so the William Morris painting, which is actually the only oil painting he finished, was of a woman named Jane Burden, who he actually ended up marrying.
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And she's just a very modern, ordinary woman standing in her bedroom, looking at a mirror.
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Her bed's unmade.
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She's wearing a kind of medieval-ish outfit, but really you can
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Medieval adjacent.
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But she'd be very at home, I think, at a farmer's market now in Hackney.
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And what we're seeing here is this kind of merging of...
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literary realism and modernity with a kind of mythic or archaic past.
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That's sort of what the Pre-Raphaelites are trying to do.
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Yeah.
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The Lady in the Bath?
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very moving.
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Maybe she's got a sort of halo effect around her head.
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I noticed that the kind of red bird is paying tribute to her by dropping a white opium poppy in her hands.
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Do you think that's a reference to her laudanum addiction?
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So I can't decide if that's more sort of train-spotting or more... It's
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bit
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That was beautiful.
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You're really going the extra mile with the poetry readings.
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I noticed that you're blowing straight past Rossetti's version of Ovid,
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