Secret Life of Books
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.
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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=copyLink
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Latest Episode
Virginia Woolf 2: To The Lighthouse (19.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- BONUS: Virginia Woolf, the not-so-Common Reader (with Alexandra Harris) 15.08.2025
- Virginia Woolf 1: Mrs Dalloway 12.08.2025
- Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 05.08.2025
- The Secret River with Kate Grenville 29.07.2025
- Keeping Up Appearances with the Pooters: The Diary of A Nobody 22.07.2025
- The Secret Life of Summer Holidays: sunburns, family arguments and holiday cottages in classic literature 15.07.2025
- BONUS: Move Over Bridgerton: James Boswell's Big Romance 11.07.2025
- A Date With Signor Gonorrhea: James Boswell's London Journal 1762 08.07.2025
- Plague, fire and hanky-panky in Swinging 1660s London: Samuel Pepys' Diary 01.07.2025
- Breakfast with Jane Austen 24.06.2025
- Oscar Wilde 4: Doing rhyme: The Ballad of Reading Gaol 17.06.2025
- Life and love with MND: Lisa Genova's Every Note Played with Prof Dominic Rowe 13.06.2025
- Oscar Wilde 3: "A Handbag?!" The Importance of Being Earnest 10.06.2025
- Happier with Henry Wotton: Gretchen Rubin on Aphorisms and the Importance of Being Oscar Wilde 06.06.2025
- Oscar Wilde 2: If Looks Could Kill: The Picture of Dorian Gray 03.06.2025
- Classic Books vs Trump: Jill Lepore on reading her way through the first 100 days 27.05.2025
- Oscar Wilde 1: The Happy Prince and Other Stories 20.05.2025
- BONUS: More 'Rivals': Actor Katherine Parkinson on the joy of Jilly Cooper and playing Lizzie Vereker in the television adaptation 16.05.2025
- Bollinger, Board Battles and Bonking Galore: Jilly Cooper's Rivals 13.05.2025
- The Epic of Gilgamesh with Robert Macfarlane 09.05.2025
