The Book Club: Wuthering Heights

Hello, everybody. It's Dominic here from The Rest is History, and I'm here to tell you about a thrilling new show that we have been working on here at Goldhanger. It is called The Book Club, and it is presented by me And me, Tabitha Syrett. And it will be coming out every Tuesday. And each week, we delve into some of the greatest, the most fascinating, the most intriguing books of all time. And it'll alternate every week between something a bit older, more classical, so for instance, Wuthering Heights, and then something maybe newer and a bit more contemporary, so The Secret History by Donna Tartt or Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. And we will be digging into the kind of secret hidden stories behind the story. We'll be uncovering the truth about the author themselves. We'll be delving into the context, the history behind the book, and also kind of unraveling the book itself a bit for you. Yes. So to explain the background to this, Tabby and I have been working together on The Rest is History for three glorious years, Tabby. Feels like thirty, but it's actually only been three. And we'd often be nattering about books when we're off doing our Rest is History tours and whatnot. And we decided that we would do a little bonus series for members of the Restless History Club, didn't we? So we did The Hobbit and In Cold Blood and The Handmaid's Tale and so on and so forth. And we were I think the technical term was blown away by the reaction to that from the club members. We were absolutely thrilled. Yeah. We were over the moon. And so we have spent the last couple of months putting together an exciting list of episodes for you. So we start with, of course, Wuthering Heights, the truth behind this iconic, famously kind of overwrought story and obviously reflecting a little bit on the new movie. Then we do Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. And then what comes next, Dominic? So we've got The Great Gatsby. We have Hamnet. We have Nineteen Eighty Four. So in two days' time, we're recording an episode of your favorite book, I think, of all time? No? Sarah j Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses. So this has been a Don't pretend that wasn't your idea. So this is my first foray into the world of romantacy. So so, basically, each week, we're doing a different book, and it's a little bit like the rest is history. We will be talking about the author and their lives and the social context, when the book was written and so on. But also, it's a little bit more personal, I suppose, because we're also talking about our own reactions to the books. We're having arguments about which characters we liked and which we didn't. You have a unique identity, don't you? Because you're simultaneously ludicrously well read. Yeah. …