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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They're sitting around
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chatting, they're bored, they're kind of going to sleep, they're talking to one another, they're quite distracted.
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There's a little dog down here sitting in a kid's lap.
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There's some flirtation.
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There's some babies who are obviously sort of wanting their dinner.
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The king is paying attention, but he's sort of bored by it.
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here.
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And the friend, for some reason, is writing it down.
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So actually what it is, is an incredibly Chaucerian scene.
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And we're seeing this kind of tradition of painters who included William Blake, who also did a very famous painting of Chaucer and the Pilgrims.
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We're seeing this tradition of painters who think of literature as kind of giving them their subject matter, that it's English literature that elevates England to being of kind of, well, European reputation, Jonty, being of global importance, and that the painters are sort of bouncing off that.
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Well, I'm looking and it says that it's a copy of a painting, also made by Brown, that was intended for the Houses of Parliament.
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And so I'm wondering whether Richard II is just too provocative a figure because he's deposed, because he's associated with political instability, whereas Edward III is connected to sort of monarchical stability and the formation of nationhood.
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What do you think?
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He's too much of a troublemaker.
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He's a more solid proposition.
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The one next door is another Chaucerian subject.
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This one's by Frederick George Stevens.
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And it's called The Proposal, but it's basically a redo of a scene from The Clark's Tale.
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In the Canterbury Tales, with the hyper-loyal figure of Griselda, who's this kind of allegory of womanly loyalty to her husband.
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