Secret Life of Books
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40 h 27 min
Guns and (war of the) Roses. The irresistible rise of Shakespeare's Richard III
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BONUS: The Disappearance of Agatha Christie
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Hercule Poirot, a Tunisian dagger and an evening of Mah Jong: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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77:21
Who watches the Watchmen?: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen
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64:03
SLoB's Secret Life of Pets
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58:07
George Orwell 6: What's in Room 101? 1984 Part 2
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55:49
George Orwell 5: Sex crime, anyone? 1984 pt1
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57:41
George Orwell 4: Come on, Eileen! Anna Funder, Mrs Orwell and Wifedom
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60:06
George Orwell 3: Murder in the Barnyard: Animal Farm
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80:13
World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Can poetry change the world? The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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54:19
George Orwell 2: The Revolution SHOULD NOT be televised: Homage to Catalonia
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83:03
World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III with Rachel Cohen
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51:10
George Orwell 1: The Best Gap Yah, great food writing and Paris hotels: Down and Out in Paris and London
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International Women's Day Bonus: Was Shakespeare a Woman? Jodi Picoult says yes!
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49:44
Magnetic chemistry, social anxiety, and the in-laws from hell: Pride & Prejudice (aka Meet The Bennets)
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84:39
Self-Help, dodgy marriages and the siren call of Australia: David Copperfield Part 2
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54:17
‘Umble beginnings, childhood neglect, and did Dickens steal from Charlotte Bronte: David Copperfield
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61:58
BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 2
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43:48
Free love in Paris, male wrestling and murder: Giovanni's Room
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BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 1
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49:20
Shakespeare does 'Succession': Rory Stewart on King Lear
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Wizards, Hobbits and WWII: Dominic Sandbrook on The Lord of the Rings
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78:47
Love and Beauty Bonus: Geraldine Brooks picks Gilead as the great modern classic
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Soldier Preachers, late-life love and Soapy the cat in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
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Jane Austen goes to the dark side: social turmoil and scandalous texting in Sense and Sensibility
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75:42
Cannes, a white mess jacket, and the pure joy of P.G. Wodehouse's "Right Ho, Jeeves"
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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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50:16
Literature's great parties: launch 2025 in style with Lady Macbeth, Count Dracula and the Mad Hatter
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58:17
Did Dickens Change the Face of Christmas Forever? Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the First Ever Turkey
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59:14
The Albatross Curse, Bad Weddings and Lots of Opium: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Victorian dresses, teenage passions and fiction’s scariest picnic: Picnic at Hanging Rock
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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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66:08
The world's most famous classicist on the world's most famous classic: Mary Beard and The Odyssey
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57:00
Bonus Live Ep: hosts' secrets revealed and the classics stripped bare!
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30:07
Jane Austen does gothic horror with insta-ready clothes and great interiors: Northanger Abbey
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62:48
James: National Book Award global hit; a Huck Finn rewrite the world needed; plot twists you'll never guess
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Huckleberry Finn: but wait, maybe THIS is the great American novel?
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58:48
Hamnet: sexy witches replace skulls and soliloquies
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Hamlet: Shakespeare's secret double or pain in neck?
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Midsummer Nights Dream: are true love and sexual attraction magic tricks?
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