Secret Life of Books
A podcast by Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole
52 Episoade
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Jane Austen goes to the dark side: social turmoil and scandalous texting in Sense and Sensibility
Publicat: 21.01.2025 -
Cannes, a white mess jacket, and the pure joy of P.G. Wodehouse's "Right Ho, Jeeves"
Publicat: 14.01.2025 -
The Craft of Writing, the Booker Prize from Australia: Charlotte Wood on My Name is Lucy Barton
Publicat: 07.01.2025 -
Literature's great parties: launch 2025 in style with Lady Macbeth, Count Dracula and the Mad Hatter
Publicat: 31.12.2024 -
Did Dickens Change the Face of Christmas Forever? Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the First Ever Turkey
Publicat: 24.12.2024 -
The Albatross Curse, Bad Weddings and Lots of Opium: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Publicat: 17.12.2024 -
Victorian dresses, teenage passions and fiction’s scariest picnic: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Publicat: 10.12.2024 -
Please Sir, may we have some more? Oliver Twist, sex work and criminal underclasses in Victorian London
Publicat: 03.12.2024 -
The world's most famous classicist on the world's most famous classic: Mary Beard and The Odyssey
Publicat: 26.11.2024 -
Bonus Live Ep: hosts' secrets revealed and the classics stripped bare!
Publicat: 22.11.2024 -
Jane Austen does gothic horror with insta-ready clothes and great interiors: Northanger Abbey
Publicat: 19.11.2024 -
James: National Book Award global hit; a Huck Finn rewrite the world needed; plot twists you'll never guess
Publicat: 12.11.2024 -
Huckleberry Finn: but wait, maybe THIS is the great American novel?
Publicat: 05.11.2024 -
Hamnet: sexy witches replace skulls and soliloquies
Publicat: 29.10.2024 -
Hamlet: Shakespeare's secret double or pain in neck?
Publicat: 22.10.2024 -
Midsummer Nights Dream: are true love and sexual attraction magic tricks?
Publicat: 15.10.2024 -
Go Tell It On The Mountain: growing up Black, poor and gay in 1930s New York
Publicat: 08.10.2024 -
The Great Gatsby: is this THE great American novel?
Publicat: 01.10.2024 -
To Kill a Mockingbird: racism, gun violence and coming of age in the 1930s South
Publicat: 24.09.2024 -
Wolf Hall: is this the best historical novel ever written?
Publicat: 17.09.2024
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.
