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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She's been tempted by a nobleman, but she's a working class woman and she remains true to her husband.
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And...
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What's striking about this scene, and again, you know, really drawing on Chaucer, is we're set, it's set in a farmhouse.
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There's just a sort of crude brick floor.
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There are some chickens walking around, which is a very nicely Chaucerian image.
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And we're seeing ordinary life playing out here with the supplicant nobleman who has been literally brought to his knees by the loyalty and the nobility of this young working class farm girl.
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So your point, I think, is really right, Jonti, that Pre-Raphaelites are not just influenced by literature, but it's almost like their manifesto is that the kinds of stories that are being told in literature and the kind of cultural prestige of English literature, it's time for it to migrate across into British art.
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And actually, the placard accompanying the picture says that before Shakespeare's, before the house was restored, it had graffiti on the walls left by people, including Dickens, who seems to be all over the place,
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John Keats, amazingly.
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Well, he's rocking a kind of hipster.
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He's got a tache.
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Yeah,
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got his kind of bohemian hair and his little sort of punk, his punk boots.
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eco-realism.
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She's very beautiful.
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sad story.
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And so the fact that her most famous modelling job is as Ophelia is kind of as it should be.
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Because poor old Ophelia gets the worst of the patriarchy, I think.
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actually lots of others that Ophelia doesn't mention.
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I love a flower.
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