Sophie Gee
speaker
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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Right.
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Unmarried Sexual Attachments.
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She is a mistress and he is her lover.
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And it looks as though the room has just had a gut reno.
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And so
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been especially set up for her.
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And so it's this warning but also vivid depiction of the...
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attraction of sex and sexuality in the mid-Victorian period.
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there was some suggestion that this was supposed to be Little Emily from David Copperfield.
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International Airbnb.
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Yeah.
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So what we're seeing is social realism on the canvas and literary realism brought to life on canvas for the first time in Britain.
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a real prestige.
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You're going to say they're overrated.
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going to jump the other way.
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I'm going to say they're underrated.
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I always despised the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood before we did The Secret Life of Books.
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And last time I was in this room, I was in a very contemptuous frame of mind, which was probably a decade ago.
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And now I'm looking at them and I'm thinking their garishness and their overstatement and their hyper-detail and all the things that offend our modern society.
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sensibilities and our sense of what's chic and cool, all the ways in which they're transgressing that is exactly what makes them interesting.
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