Sophie Gee
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10,523 appearances
38 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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I'm thinking as you're reading that, it's an absolutely bravura piece of writing by Johnson.
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I mean, he's basically saying the Fleet River, the Fleet Tributary, is the arsehole of the Thames.
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Yeah, I totally agree with you.
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He absolutely is.
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And as you were reading it, I was thinking to myself, I was remembering why I want to write my PhD about the Thames, because the paradox of the Thames is people's absolute disgust at it.
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And yet the way that they use it as this occasion to generate
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fabulously energetic, life-filled, you know, immortal writing that
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defines the city in this unforgettable way and actually makes the city of London very special, very distinctive in the history of literature.
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So that's a perfect segue to my next choice, Jyoti.
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And I think that I'm not gazumping you if I take us...
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forward in the stream of time to 1665.
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Are you happy for me to do that?
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And we're with our great friends.
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to be.
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Yeah, who doesn't?
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Just before the fire, in the winter after the plague has hit.
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And we're with our great friend Samuel Pepys, who is one of our favourite writers on The Secret Life of Books.
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The fabulous 17th century diarist who kept diaries of his life as a financier, a trader and a kind of man about town in London.
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during the 1660s.
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We did a great episode on Peeps as London.
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