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
insta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/
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Latest Episode
BONUS: Grantchester's James Runcie on the Golden Age of Crime (09.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- Queens of Crime 1: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
- By George (Eliot) She's Done It! The road to Middlemarch
- A SLoB Christmas Cracker
- The Women Who Made Jane Austen
- Big Cat Theory: William Blake's The Tyger
- Henry James 3: Turn of the Screw
- Henry James 2: Colm Tóibín on Henry James
- Henry James 1: The Portrait of a Lady
- Greece Lightnin': My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
- American Horror 3: Salem's Lot by Stephen King
- American Horror 2: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
- American Horror: The Haunting of Hill House
- Montaigne pt2: A Montaigne out of a mole hill (with Rowan Tomlinson)
- Montaigne pt1: Climb Every Montaigne (with Stephen Greenblatt)
- SLoB's Four (literary) weddings and a funeral
- Wilkie Collins 2: The Moonstone
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- Wilkie Collins 1: The Woman in White
- SLOB Reads: The Sonnet with Paul Muldoon
- The Secret Life of Trains: how rail travel changed fiction - for ever
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