Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole 154 - Secret Life of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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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Secret Life of Books

Епизоди

Secret Life of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Secret Life of the British Museum

Secret Life of Reading (with Maggie O'Farrell and Ben Alderson-Day)

Secret Life of Edinburgh

Secret Life of Trains 2 (Choo choo!)

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Charlotte Higgins on Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War

James Joyce 3: Ulysses

Greek Lessons by Han Kang

James Joyce 2: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Emily Wilson, the Odyssey and Why Epics Matter

A Podcast of One's Own x SLOB: Special Collaboration

James Joyce 1: Dubliners

The Odyssey 4: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey review

The Odyssey 3: Tennyson's Ulysses

The Odyssey 2: How the Odyssey conquered the world

The Odyssey 1: Mary Beard on Homer’s masterpiece

The Declaration of Independence at 250

TS Eliot 2: The Waste Land

TS Eliot 1: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Bleak House by Charles Dickens - SLoB Book Club returns! (feat. Bret Walker SC)

Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Wings and Things: John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale

Paths of Glory: Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Literary Pilgrimage in New York: From the Mixes Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Other Bennet Sister with author Janice Hadlow

Back to School 4: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Back to School 3: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

Back to School 2: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Back to School 1: Tom Brown's School Days

The Secret Life of (Literary) Honeymoons

Beowulf: Inside the Anglo-Saxon mind

"On Morrison": a conversation with Namwali Serpell

Toni Morrison 3: Beloved

SLoB Goes to the Oscars: Frankenstein vs Hamnet

Saved from Fire: the Toni Morrison Archives

Toni Morrison 2: Song of Solomon

The Other Bronte Girl: Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Jane Austen's Birthday: why everyone wants to party with Jane

Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights": is the hype worth it?

Wuthering Heights: Is this really the greatest love story of all time?

Frankenstein in Oxford: A Conversation with Richard Ovenden, OBE

Toni Morrison 1: The Bluest Eye

Queens of Crime 4: The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

To See or Not to See? Hamnet tune-up session

Queens of Crime 3: A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

Queens of Crime 2: Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

The Golden Age of Crime with Grantchester's James Runcie

Queens of Crime 1: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers