12. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

Empire: World History

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Join William and Anita as they discuss the extraordinary life of Princess Sophia. Her story includes a debut at Buckingham Palace, a meeting with Gandhi, fierce involvement in the suffragette movement, and the First World War. LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire Twitter: @EmpirePodUk goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.4	W.
0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Well hello and welcome to Empire with me William de Rimpel
0:33.4	I'm me Anita Arna I don't like this why do we do it the other way around
0:39.2	that was the longest fours ever but I won't get on your case but I won't get on your case.
0:43.0	I feel all discompopulated.
0:45.0	Anyway, today we have a particularly tricky guest,
0:49.0	the wonderful Anita unand.
0:52.0	Oh, she's awful. But she's written a very good book
0:55.0	She's written a very good book
0:58.0	She's written a very good book
1:00.0	called Sophia Sophia
1:02.0	Sophia what you call her?
1:03.7	The Fire, Princess.
1:06.4	Sophia, she would have caught herself.
1:07.8	Sophia, Princess suffragette revolutionary.
1:12.4	And it is, I have to say say one of those stories that as a
1:15.0	non-fiction writer when you see that somebody else has written it you do suffer a
1:19.2	little little surge of envy because it's kind of a perfect story. It's an astonishingly good story.
1:26.2	It takes our old friend the Coinor, which is why we're doing it now, almost as a sort of epilogue to our quartet of co-inore episodes. It has
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