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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Secret Life of Books · Secret Life of the British Museum · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

Some shouted, others sang. podcast-host

London was like a workshop. podcast-host

London was like a machine. podcast-host

We were all being shot backwards and forwards on this plain foundation to make some pattern. podcast-host

The British Museum was another department of the factory. podcast-host

The swing doors swung open, and there one stood under the vast dome as if one were a thought in the huge bald forehead which is so splendidly encircled by a band of famous name famous names. podcast-host

What a passage. podcast-host

and I noticed that you just went straight in with your with your Elgin Marbles reference, now known as the Parthenon sculptures. podcast-host

So, John T, before we go into that dome of which Virginia Wolfe spoke, let's just back it up for a second to talk about how this assemblage of male power and empire building came into being. podcast-host

So we've mentioned Sir Hans Sloan. podcast-host

He was a wealthy adventurer, traveller. podcast-host

And collector in the 18th century, and he dies in the middle of the 18th century in 1753, leaving his collection to the nation. podcast-host

It's an amazing collection. podcast-host

Which is the case with almost all of the podcast-host

Fortunes are mass during the eighteenth century. podcast-host

They're all plantation fortunes, basically. podcast-host

So this is an age where other people are also starting to leave big bequests to the nation. podcast-host

There's a collection called the Cotton Library, which had been left to the state by Sir Thomas and Sir John Cotton, and that contained a lot of really valuable stuff like the Lindesvahn Gospels and a manuscript of Beowulf and two of the four known copies of the Magna Carta. podcast-host

Then there's another element in the first round. podcast-host

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