Jilly Cooper
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Sep 11, 2026
speaker_2HOST
On Wednesday, November 11th, they're dropping the six-episode second season of Rivals.
speaker_3HOST
Adapting the infamously raunchy 1988 novel by Jilly Cooper, this is the absolute zenith of the bonkbuster genre.
speaker_2HOST
Okay, we definitely need to define bonkbuster for anyone who didn't grow up near a British bookstore in the 1980s.
speaker_3HOST
It is a colloquial British term for a specific subgenre of commercial fiction that exploded in the '80s.
speaker_3HOST
They are the literary equivalent of a soap opera but with a much higher budget for champagne and helicopters.
speaker_2HOST
Yeah.
speaker_3HOST
Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles are the gold standard of the genre.
speaker_2HOST
And Season 2 is leaning into that legacy hard.
Cariad LloydHOST
I forgot it was a book.
Cariad LloydHOST
[laughs] It's very fashionable to like Jilly Cooper.
Cariad LloydHOST
Lots of people are big fans of Jilly Cooper, but I've never really got into it-
Sara PascoeHOST
No
Cariad LloydHOST
...
Samantha CarrHOST
You had that book, um, quite a few other local...
Samantha CarrHOST
I remember coming to the bookshop and you had a b- I think it was Danny Care, and you've had Jilly Cooper.
Jane BlackGUEST
Yes.
Jane BlackGUEST
Dame Jilly Cooper came, yes.
Samantha CarrHOST
Not long before she sadly died.
Jane BlackGUEST
Yeah.
Rachel InnesHOST
Yeah.
Ellie HewerHOST
Um, and then I have to add the all-time, the only, Dame Julie Cooper.
Rachel InnesHOST
Okay.
Ellie HewerHOST
Because you would not know it from the kind of books I read now-
Roisin McGeeGUEST
So, yep, we've 100% got those as well.
Martin BosleyPANELIST
I thought you were about to ask about Jilly Cooper just then, Paddy.
Martin BosleyPANELIST
Oh, Jilly Cooper.
Martin BosleyPANELIST
Yeah, you're
Paddy GowerHOST
a fan of Jilly Cooper, Martin.
Paddy GowerHOST
No, no, I was just...
Paddy GowerHOST
That's horse stuff.
Paddy GowerHOST
Folly Foot, Black Beauty, anything?
Maya DunphyGUEST
You're aware of Rivals, the Disney, the...
Maya DunphyGUEST
Julie Cooper.
Maya DunphyGUEST
Julie Cooper.
Maya DunphyGUEST
Yes, I've heard.
Maya DunphyGUEST
I mean, it's fantastic.
Elizabeth HeldGUEST
And then you see it happen every once in a while.
Elizabeth HeldGUEST
Jilly Cooper's like bonk busters in the 1980s.
Elizabeth HeldGUEST
That is what the TV show Rivals is based on.
Elizabeth HeldGUEST
Quick
Jess ParmarHOST
those kind of books, I do love a trashy book as well.
Justine EdmondsGUEST
You know, a bit of Jilly Cooper, no problem.
Justine EdmondsGUEST
A bit of Mills and Boone.
Justine EdmondsGUEST
But I do like, you know, your Stephen Coveys, your Ken Blanchards.
Libby BrodieGUEST
So we'd flown over to New Zealand, had a worldwide tour, and we had like a...
Libby BrodieGUEST
Another show that I'd worked for five years with Jilly Cooper.
Libby BrodieGUEST
I was turning one of her books into a musical and that had been greenlit and that was about to go off touring the UK.
Libby BrodieGUEST
I had another show by Danny Robbins who went on to have the massive hit right after, what would it be my show, 222.
Philip HensherGUEST
I'm sure that most people who like Martin Amis, if he said to them, give us a sentence from Martin Amis, they'd be able to come up with one.
Henry OliverHOST
And lastly, Jilly Cooper.
Philip HensherGUEST
Oh, yes.
Philip HensherGUEST
Do you know, people always roll their eyes when I say, I don't see why Jilly Cooper shouldn't be the novelist from our time that survives in posterity.
Philip HensherGUEST
She's got a lot of the qualities that actually make for a good prospect of survival.
Philip HensherGUEST
Her characters sound distinct.
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