Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole

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 B...

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Secret Life of Books

Episodes (113)

Tuesday Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights": is the hype worth it?
Tue Feb 10th Wuthering Heights: Is this really the greatest love story of all time?
Fri Feb 6th Frankenstein in Oxford: A Conversation with Richard Ovenden, OBE

Secret Life of Books

Feb 17, 2026
53 minutes
48 MB

Best Valentine’s Day ever! SLOB’s “Wuthering Heights” watch-party. Sophie and Jonty take it character by character – inanimate characters included — to decide who are the winners and who are the losers in the Fennell-Robbie-Elordi mash-up adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel. And in the episode’s gripping second half they move onto the really meaty questions: race, class, sex, domestic violence, and pets. As the movie poster says, Come Undone - with SLOB - this Valentine's season. Become a subscriber by signing up at Apple: http://apple.co/slob Or join our Patreon comm...

Secret Life of Books

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

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole

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