Secret Life of Books
By Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole
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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.
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BONUS: The Disappearance of Agatha Christie
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Hercule Poirot, a Tunisian dagger and an evening of Mah Jong: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Who watches the Watchmen?: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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SLoB's Secret Life of Pets
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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George Orwell 6: What's in Room 101? 1984 Part 2
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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George Orwell 5: Sex crime, anyone? 1984 pt1
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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George Orwell 4: Come on, Eileen! Anna Funder, Mrs Orwell and Wifedom
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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George Orwell 3: Murder in the Barnyard: Animal Farm
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Can poetry change the world? The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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George Orwell 2: The Revolution SHOULD NOT be televised: Homage to Catalonia
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III with Rachel Cohen
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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George Orwell 1: The Best Gap Yah, great food writing and Paris hotels: Down and Out in Paris and London
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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International Women's Day Bonus: Was Shakespeare a Woman? Jodi Picoult says yes!
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Magnetic chemistry, social anxiety, and the in-laws from hell: Pride & Prejudice (aka Meet The Bennets)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Self-Help, dodgy marriages and the siren call of Australia: David Copperfield Part 2
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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‘Umble beginnings, childhood neglect, and did Dickens steal from Charlotte Bronte: David Copperfield
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 2
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Free love in Paris, male wrestling and murder: Giovanni's Room
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 1
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Shakespeare does 'Succession': Rory Stewart on King Lear
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Wizards, Hobbits and WWII: Dominic Sandbrook on The Lord of the Rings
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Love and Beauty Bonus: Geraldine Brooks picks Gilead as the great modern classic
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Soldier Preachers, late-life love and Soapy the cat in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Jane Austen goes to the dark side: social turmoil and scandalous texting in Sense and Sensibility
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Cannes, a white mess jacket, and the pure joy of P.G. Wodehouse's "Right Ho, Jeeves"
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Craft of Writing, the Booker Prize from Australia: Charlotte Wood on My Name is Lucy Barton
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Literature's great parties: launch 2025 in style with Lady Macbeth, Count Dracula and the Mad Hatter
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Did Dickens Change the Face of Christmas Forever? Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the First Ever Turkey
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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The Albatross Curse, Bad Weddings and Lots of Opium: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Victorian dresses, teenage passions and fiction’s scariest picnic: Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Please Sir, may we have some more? Oliver Twist, sex work and criminal underclasses in Victorian London
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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The world's most famous classicist on the world's most famous classic: Mary Beard and The Odyssey
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Bonus Live Ep: hosts' secrets revealed and the classics stripped bare!
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Jane Austen does gothic horror with insta-ready clothes and great interiors: Northanger Abbey
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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James: National Book Award global hit; a Huck Finn rewrite the world needed; plot twists you'll never guess
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Huckleberry Finn: but wait, maybe THIS is the great American novel?
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Hamnet: sexy witches replace skulls and soliloquies
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Hamlet: Shakespeare's secret double or pain in neck?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Midsummer Nights Dream: are true love and sexual attraction magic tricks?
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Go Tell It On The Mountain: growing up Black, poor and gay in 1930s New York
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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The Great Gatsby: is this THE great American novel?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird: racism, gun violence and coming of age in the 1930s South
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Wolf Hall: is this the best historical novel ever written?
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Dracula: vampires even weirder than you think. And they may have started WWI
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Frankenstein: the ultimate monster; the first A.I story; Mary Shelly's multi-generational grief
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Wuthering Heights: passionate love affairs and dysfunctional families go together
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Wide Sargasso Sea 1: tropical gothic in the West Indies and Jane Eyre disrupted
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Wide Sargasso Sea 2: bohemianism, madess and celebrity back in England
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Jane Eyre 2: the Brontes' real lives are even wilder than their fiction
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Jane Eyre 1: passion, madness, gaslighting and bad hair days
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Gulliver's Travels Part 2
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Gulliver's Travels Part 1
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Macbeth: terrorism, gunpowder and treason in James I's London
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May 28, 2024 |
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Alice in Wonderland: rabbit-holes, mad mathematics and the elephant in the room
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May 21, 2024 |
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Secret Life of Books Trailer
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May 21, 2024 |