Secret Life of Books
A podcast by Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole
52 Episoade
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SLoB's Secret Life of Pets
Publicat: 07.04.2025 -
George Orwell 6: What's in Room 101? 1984 Part 2
Publicat: 04.04.2025 -
George Orwell 5: Sex crime, anyone? 1984 pt1
Publicat: 01.04.2025 -
George Orwell 4: Come on, Eileen! Anna Funder, Mrs Orwell and Wifedom
Publicat: 28.03.2025 -
George Orwell 3: Murder in the Barnyard: Animal Farm
Publicat: 25.03.2025 -
World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Can poetry change the world? The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Publicat: 21.03.2025 -
George Orwell 2: The Revolution SHOULD NOT be televised: Homage to Catalonia
Publicat: 18.03.2025 -
World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III with Rachel Cohen
Publicat: 13.03.2025 -
George Orwell 1: The Best Gap Yah, great food writing and Paris hotels: Down and Out in Paris and London
Publicat: 11.03.2025 -
International Women's Day Bonus: Was Shakespeare a Woman? Jodi Picoult says yes!
Publicat: 08.03.2025 -
Magnetic chemistry, social anxiety, and the in-laws from hell: Pride & Prejudice (aka Meet The Bennets)
Publicat: 04.03.2025 -
Self-Help, dodgy marriages and the siren call of Australia: David Copperfield Part 2
Publicat: 28.02.2025 -
‘Umble beginnings, childhood neglect, and did Dickens steal from Charlotte Bronte: David Copperfield
Publicat: 25.02.2025 -
BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 2
Publicat: 21.02.2025 -
Free love in Paris, male wrestling and murder: Giovanni's Room
Publicat: 18.02.2025 -
BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 1
Publicat: 14.02.2025 -
Shakespeare does 'Succession': Rory Stewart on King Lear
Publicat: 11.02.2025 -
Wizards, Hobbits and WWII: Dominic Sandbrook on The Lord of the Rings
Publicat: 04.02.2025 -
Love and Beauty Bonus: Geraldine Brooks picks Gilead as the great modern classic
Publicat: 31.01.2025 -
Soldier Preachers, late-life love and Soapy the cat in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
Publicat: 28.01.2025
Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC. Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous backstory and above all the secret, mysterious meanings of books we thought we knew.-- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org-- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio: https://patreon.com/SecretLifeofBooks528?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkinsta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
