Tabitha Syrett

British podcast producer and broadcaster. Co-host of The Book Club alongside Dominic Sandbrook, and previously the producer of The Rest Is History, which she took over in 2023 — overseeing its live shows and the series that won Apple Podcasts Global Show of the Year.

Syrett came to presenting from the production side of Goalhanger’s history slate, and the pairing is deliberate: Sandbrook supplies the historical context in which a novel was written, while Syrett reads as a reader — what the book is like to sit with, where its interest holds and where it slackens. On Brave New World she is the host who defends Huxley’s diagnosis of the present, against Sandbrook’s resistance to it. On My Brilliant Friend she is the one who reads Lila’s dissociative episodes as evidence that the brilliant friend is in fact the fragile one, and who states the episode’s firmest opinion — that writers should be free to write what they have not lived.

Show

The Book Club — a weekly literary podcast from Goalhanger, running since 17 February 2026. One novel per episode, from classics to contemporary fiction, covering themes, historical context and the author’s life, and closing with the two hosts ranking the book out of ten. Free, on YouTube and all major podcast platforms, with an accompanying newsletter. YouTube channel: @TheBookClubPodHQ.

Episodes hosted

• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on Brave New World, Fordism, and Huxley's Ambivalent Dystopia (11 August 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on My Brilliant Friend, Female Friendship, and the Unreliable Narrator (4 August 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Wind in the Willows, the Edwardian Idyll, and the Refusal to Grow Up (8 July 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Moral Picture, and Wilde's Fall (9 June 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on Frankenstein, the Creature's Humanity, and the Modern Prometheus (31 March 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Secret History, the Reverse Murder Mystery, and Dark Academia (24 March 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on 1984, Newspeak, and Orwell's Vision of Power for Its Own Sake (17 March 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on The Great Gatsby, the American Dream, and the Irrecoverable Past (3 March 2026)
• Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett on Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, and the Misread Romance (17 February 2026)