Sophie Scott
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374 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Sophie Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And to give him a plausible out, like I was just messing around.
But of course he can say, oh, they're laughing.
They're fine.
They're enjoying it.
There's a real complexity there that people's interpretation of laughter is as important as the intention somebody has with their laugh.
It can be something that people will also use to try and cover up other things that are more serious.
Lie to you, for example, and use the laughter as a sort of cloak to say, well, none of this matters.
This is all just fun.
So definitely that's possible.
And I think it's like a hall of mirrors, laughter.
The complexity of it in terms of both why it's being produced
and how it is perceived is very, very non-fixed.
Just because you want to laugh to be interpreted in a positive way doesn't mean to say somebody necessarily will do so.
So I had a horrible situation at work, just horrible, when a colleague rang up
A colleague with whom I already had quite a difficult relationship.
Not someone I knew well, but I relied on facilities associated with this person.
So I had to keep them sweet.
And they called up to complain about something.
And while they were calling up to complain, someone in the room with me started laughing.
And nothing I could say could prevent them from believing that not only had I offended them and they were complaining about it, but now we were all laughing at them.
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