About this season
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections.
Episodes (7)
1. Episode 1
Aired 9 October 2020 • 29 min
Sara Cox is joined by Phil Wang, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tom Allen and Sara Pascoe to share their favourite books and to discuss "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig and Sara's book "Sex, Power, Money".
2. Episode 2
Aired 16 October 2020 • 29 min
Lolly Adefope, Ellie Taylor, Ricky Wilson and Richard Osman share the books that make them cry. They discuss Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud and Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club.
3. Episode 3
Aired 23 October 2020 • 29 min
Rebecca Front, Sophie Ward, Ade Adepitan and Bill Bailey discuss this week’s book group picks, Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh and Sophie Ward’s Love and Other Thought Experiments.
4. Episode 4
Aired 30 October 2020 • 29 min
Sara Cox is joined by Jo Brand, Andi Osho, Ade Edmondson and Will Young to discuss this week’s book group picks, This Lovely City by Louise Hare and Will Young’s new book, To Be a Gay Man.
5. Episode 5
Aired 6 November 2020 • 29 min
Sara Cox is joined by Laura Whitmore, Anita Rani, Russell Kane and Alan Davies. They share their favourite books and discuss Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers and Alan Davies’s Just Ignore Him.
6. Episode 6
Aired 13 November 2020 • 29 min
This week, Sara is joined by actor and writer Meera Syal, rapper Guvna B, comedian Dave Gorman and newsreader Babita Sharma.
7. Episode 7
Aired 20 November 2020 • 29 min
Sara Cox is joined by Ben Miller, Grace Dent, Desiree Burch and Graham Norton. They reveal the books they pretend to have read but haven’t and the book they would give someone on a first date.