Sophie Gee
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11,571 appearances
41 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard today
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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color is incredibly heightened the the gestures that the figures are making are sort of exaggerated the way that the joseph figure leans over the carpenter's table is very pronounced the mother and daughter make this kind of hyper intimate scene the glances of the other people in the room are exaggerated it's almost chiaroscuro yes chiaroscuro
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He's got a sort of scrap of fur around his middle.
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know who led the charge of the protests?
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It was Dickens.
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didn't like it, which I actually find really surprising.
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It must have been that Dickensian thing of, like, someone's on my turf.
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You know, I'm the guy who goes into the squalid working classes.
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real tell.
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When Dickens gets really hit up about something, it means that he's pissed that someone else stole his idea.
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Yes, because he is, of course, the father of English literature.
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And the reason that Chaucer is thought of as the father of English literature, right from the Canterbury Tales, but also Troilus and Crusade that we did a couple of weeks ago, is that he was writing in the vernacular.
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He was writing in ordinary Middle English instead of in Latin or French or one of the other elevated kind of intercontinental languages that he would have known from his work.
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Because as we've said about Chaucer, he
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was extremely cosmopolitan and travelled frequently between England and the continent.
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But what we're now looking at is a painting by Ford Maddox Brown, who is connected to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but he's in some ways was thought of as the most Hogarthian of the Pre-Raphaelites.
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And you can really see it in this image.
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It's a painting called Chaucer at the Court of Edward III.
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So it's sort of the poet as the...
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inspiration and the great champion of the tradition of English monarchy.
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I think the idea that Ford Maddox Brown is getting at in this painting is that monarchy depends on poetry, that power depends on literature, and the court is a pretty sort of heegledy-piggledy, ragtail bunch.
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