Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was known as the Patagonian Samson.
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Which so that's an interesting little historical detail.
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And it was then dragged on wooden sledges to the banks of the Nile, put on a barge, shipped to Cairo, then Alexandria, and then finally to London.
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where it arrived in 1818.
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Now interestingly, by the time it actually got to London, Shelley, about whom we're going to speak, had already written and published his poem, Ozzy Mandius.
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So he actually wrote this poem without ever having seen the Ramesses II bus, but it was He knew it was coming.
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He knew it was coming.
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He knew it was coming and it was so famous.
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He knew it was coming and it was so famous.
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And the technical term for London being a gog with excitement during this period was Egyptomania.
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And it it swept the nation.
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It it people were possessed and when Ramesses finally made it to his home in the British Museum, all of London, it was like the Notting Hill Carnival of eighteen eighteen.
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Yeah, it shut down London.
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having a coffee.
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So shall we treat shall we treat our listeners to the poem itself?
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Yeah.
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I met a traveller from an antique land who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
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Near them on the sand, half sunk, that's the French, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions red which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things.
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The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed, and on the pedestal these words appear.
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My name is Ozzimandias, King of Kings.
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