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

of collecting that became the British Museum, which is the Harley Manuscript Collection, and that too was in need of a home. podcast-host

So they needed to find a building and they need to needed to put it somewhere so that it could be open for the benefit of the nation. podcast-host

And this is how Montague House comes into play. podcast-host

Chronologically by empire. podcast-host

the last of the empires. podcast-host

The empire of capitalism. podcast-host

As you pointed out when we were in Edinburgh, Auntie, I love merch. podcast-host

busted me on numerous occasions looking at merch, but here we are, looking at the ultimate piece of merch actually. podcast-host

This is the statue of Ramses the Second. podcast-host

So Ramses the Second is one of the kings of ancient Egypt, obviously, the nineteenth dynasty. podcast-host

And his claim to fame was extensive building campaigns. podcast-host

I didn't know that there were any pharaohs for whom extensive building campaigns weren't a feature. podcast-host

Well one of the items in Ramesses the Second's extensive building campaigns was the Ramesseum, which presumably was not what he called it, um which is a funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, and that is where this statue is taken from. podcast-host

So, John T give us a visual description or a ver uh give us a verbal description of what we're looking at here. podcast-host

There was a there were many there was many a slip twixt Pole and British Museum. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

And it changed hands from the French, uh, who found it half buried in the sand. podcast-host

That phrase podcast-host

back in. podcast-host

It was then excavated in 1816 by an Italian gentleman, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, who interestingly enough was a circus, a circus performer. podcast-host

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