Podcasts about Monstrous Regiment

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel are flitting to and from the Discworld like confused Chelonauts.This month, we're back on the Disc to explore gender and celebrate the Glorious 25th of May! VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/OXJYfghjUDA SHEPHERD'S CROWN MENTIONED SPORADICALLY from 00:07:40 UNTIL 00:33:05. No story-breaking spoilers but purists should skip this section. Gender? I Hardly Know ‘er!Find us on the internet:BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Help us challenge the Supreme Court's judgment on trans rights | Good Law ProjectThings we talked about:UK: Court Ruling Threatens Trans People | Human Rights Watch Grace Petrie7: Equal Rites Pt.1 (My Knee Doesn't Have Lungs) - The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Wikipedia Support our Glorious allies!LIVE DATES | ★ MARC BURROWS ★PratchatGabrielle KentDesert Island Discworld House to Astonish » PodcastCaimh McDonnellRhianna Pratchett       Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com 

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Episode Notes We return from our unannounced hiatus to explore the horrors of war and take down the real enemy: our friends and peers. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whowatchesthewatch Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/rZzbbQp

Kiwi writer and poet Freya Daly Sadgrove joins Liz and Ben from Sydney as we adjust our uniforms and march into the horrible realities of war (class, gender and literal) to discuss Terry Pratchett's thirty-first Discworld novel, 2003's Monstrous Regiment. Polly Perks has cut off her hair, put on some trousers and joined the army under the name of Oliver, all so she can find her strong but gentle-minded brother, Paul. Is soon turns out that her regiment, led by the infamous Sergeant Jackrum who swears to look after “his little lads”, is quite possibly the last one left in all of Borogravia. In her search for Paul, Polly will have to deal with the enemy, the free press, a vampire who might kill for a coffee, Sam Vimes, and The Secret: she might not be the only impostor in the ranks... Coming in between the first two Tiffany Aching novels, Monstrous Regiment - which is also monstrous in size, possibly Pratchett's second longest novel - is the last truly standalone Discworld story. It introduces a wonderful cast of characters who, sadly, we'll never see again. Not only that, but it gives major supporting roles to old favourites Sam Vimes and William de Worde, with a side order of Otto von Chriek! Critics at the time compared it to Evelyn Waugh, Jonathan Swift and All Quiet on the Western Front, and it remains one of Pratchett's most beloved and celebrated novels - both for what it says about war, and about gender. Did you know The Secret before you read Monstrous Regiment? What's it like re-reading it when you do know? How do you feel about the ending(s)? How does Pratchett's handling of gender hold up against our modern understanding? What would you prohibit, in Nugganite fashion? And would you rather have a type of food or clothing named after you? Get on board the conversation for this episode with the hashtag #Pratchat76. Freya Daly Sadgrove (she/her) is a pākehā writer and performance poet from New Zealand, currently living in Sydney. Her first book of poetry, Head Girl, was published in 2020 by Te Herenga Waka University Press, and she is one of the creators of New Zealand live poetry showcase Show Ponies, which presents poets like they're pop stars. Her first full-length live show, 2023's Whole New Woman, blended poetry with live rock music. Freya has a website at freyadalysad.com (though it might not be available at the moment), and you can also find her as @FreyaDalySad on Twitter. As usual you'll find comprehensive notes and errata for this episode on our website, including lots of photos of the components we discuss. Next episode we're discussing two short stories about animals: “Hollywood Chickens” (found in A Blink of the Screen) and “From the Horse's Mouth” (from A Stroke of the Pen). Our guest will be the author of The Animals in That Country, Laura Jean McKay. Get your questions in by mid-April 2024 by replying to us or using the hashtag #Pratchat77 on social media, or email us at chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

Your hosts continue their journey to center of the Discworld with Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett. They discuss performative gender, unexpected allies, and supportive camraderie. They also talk about a character's near miss with fatphobia, underexplored backstories, and overexplored hair. This episode contains a hat-centric words are weird.Find us on discord: https://discord.gg/dpNHTWVu6b or support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionfanspodThanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Our Monstrous Regiment episode still isn't quite ready, so we've had to push it to April. In the meantime, Ben gets nerdy about some recent Discworld and Pratchett news about books and roleplaying games. A few brief notes: “50 Years of Terry Pratchett” was actually announced in November 2021, marking fifty years since the publication of The Carpet People in 1971. (In Ben's defence, those early pandemic years all blur into one.) It kicked off with a new print and audiobook edition of that book; the new audio version was read by David Tennant! The new Discworld audiobooks and paperbacks from Penguin were published between 2022 and 2023, though the audiobook of Hogfather was released early for Christmas 2021, using the same artwork as the 25th anniversary paperback edition. For more on the books released as part of 50th anniversary celebrations, see the L-Space wiki “50 Years of Terry” article. You can check out the cover design for the new edition of The Last Hero on the Gollancz website. The new paperback edition of Eric was published on 23 February 2023. The new audiobook, read by Colin Morgan, had been previously released with the other Wizards books on 7 July 2022. The Collector's Library edition of Dodger can be seen in the terrypratchett.com announcement. You can see the “Forty Years of Discworld” logo at terrypratchett.com. The “Year of Discworld” was announced on the day of the fortieth anniversary, promising “more on that soon”. Both the terrypratchett.com announcement and Modiphius announcement for Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Adventure in Ankh-Morpork include links to Modiphius' fan survey (it's a Google form). Modiphius also has a mailing list you can sign up to for more news. Ben forgot to mention this, but Modiphius' license is for Discworld “tabletop games”, including board games. No news on those yet, though! We'll be back with #Pratchat76, our proper Monstrous Regiment episode on 8 April. Then in May we'll be reading “Hollywood Chickens” (which you can find in A Blink of the Screen) and “From the Horse's Mouth” (from A Stroke of the Pen, or in earlier form as “Johnno, The Talking Horse” in The Time Traveling Caveman and Other Stories) with guest Laura Jean McKay. Send in your questions about those stories via email, or using the hashtag #Pratchat77 on social media.

Our Monstrous Regiment episode won't be ready until later in the month, but we didn't want to let International Women's Day pass without some kind of comment. So here's a mini episode in your feed recommending some other Pratchett and Discworld podcasts hosted by women and non-binary folks. Here's a list of the Discworld podcasts Ben mentioned: The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret, hosted by Francine Carrel and Joanna Hagan. They covered Monstrous Regiment over three episodes in April 2023: “[REDACTED]”, “The Implication of Hippo” and “Gender is a Fake Drug”. You can support them on Patreon. Disc Coverers, hosted by Iris Jay, Grace Lovelace, Balina Mahigan, and Juniper Theory. Nanny Ogg's Book Club, hosted by Tessa Swelha and Nigel. Their Monstrous Regiment episode was in September 2023. Teaching My Cat to Read, hosted by Eli, M, Ro and Lotti. You can support them on Ko-Fi. Fiction Fans, hosted by Sara and Lily. You can support them on Patreon. Other links from this episode: Our wiki indexing Discworld podcasts is the Guild of Recappers and Podcasters. There's a page for Monstrous Regiment listing all the episodes discussing it. The Melbourne-based charity is independent feminist organisation the Victorian Women's Trust. They've produced their own podcasts, including Money Power Freedom, which was co-hosted by Cal Wilson. We won't link to it, but don't go to internationalwomensday.com; instead you want the official UN Women site, unwomen.org. Our April episode, #Pratchat77, will be with guest Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country. We'll be discussing the short stories “Hollywood Chickens” from A Blink of the Screen, and “From the Horse's Mouth” from A Stroke of the Pen. An earlier version of “From the Horse's Mouth” is “Johnno, the Talking Horse”, which was collected in The Time-Travelling Caveman and Other Stories, and in deluxe editions of The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories.

Laurie R. King -The Beekeeper's Apprentice In the Mary Russell series (first entry: The Beekeeper's Apprentice), fifteen-year-old Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs in 1915, becoming his apprentice, then his partner. The series follows their amiably contentious partnership into the 1920s as they challenge each other to ever greater feats of detection. King has won the Edgar and Creasey awards (for A Grave Talent), the Nero (for A Monstrous Regiment of Women) and the MacCavity (for Folly); her nominations include the Agatha, the Orange, the Barry, and two more Edgars. She was also given an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Laurie R. King -The Beekeeper's Apprentice In the Mary Russell series (first entry: The Beekeeper's Apprentice), fifteen-year-old Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs in 1915, becoming his apprentice, then his partner. The series follows their amiably contentious partnership into the 1920s as they challenge each other to ever greater feats of detection. King has won the Edgar and Creasey awards (for A Grave Talent), the Nero (for A Monstrous Regiment of Women) and the MacCavity (for Folly); her nominations include the Agatha, the Orange, the Barry, and two more Edgars. She was also given an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

In this very three-quarters-of-a-century episode, Liz, Ben and guest Dr Melissa Rogerson get out the eight-sided dice and roll for initative - or at least cunning - as we play the 2011 board game, Guards! Guards!, designed by Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw, and based on the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. The eight great spells have escaped from Unseen University's library, ready to unleash chaos on Ankh-Morpork! Thankfully Commander Vimes has taken charge. He's assigned members of the Watch (that's you) to liaise with four of the Guilds to round up volunteers and bring those spells back. But Guild rivalries run deep, and surely the Patrician will look kindly on whoever saves the day the most. So if one of the other Guilds' volunteers should go missing or explode or fall into the Ankh, your Guild would only be too willing to shoulder more of the burden of saving the city... Created by two Irish Discworld fans who approached Terry with the idea (see David Brashaw's great interview with The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret), Guards! Guards! A Discworld Board Game sees players roaming about a hexagon-based map of Ankh-Morpork collecting Discworld characters, casting spells from scrolls, equipping magic items and occasionally fighting dragons. Which sounds suspiciously like a very different kind of game... Originally published in 2011 by BackSpindle Games and Z-Man Games, and reprinted with a revised rulebook in 2012, Guards! Guards! was a hit with fans - but board game hobbyists were less enthusiastic. Have you played Guards! Guards! - and if so, how long did it take you? Do you like the kind of game where being mean to the other players is part of the fun? Do you think it captures the essence of the source material, and if so, which books in particular? Is this the best name for the game, or do you have a better suggestion? (Ours was Guilds! Guilds!) And should we play an exhibition match at the Australian Discworld Convention, of this or one of the other games? We'd love to hear what you think: use the hashtag #Pratchat75 to join the conversation. Dr Melissa Rogerson is a Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. She was last on for #PratchatPlaysThud, “The Troll's Gambit”, discussing the first Discworld board game in Nivember 2022. Melissa's current research is about hybrid games which use both physical and digital components, as well as the possibility of using games to tell the stories of older people. You can find out more about her work at hybridgameresearch.net, melissarogerson.com, or find her on Twitter and Mastodon as @melissainau, and on BoardGameGeek as melissa. (A mentioned last time, Ben is on there too, as beejay.) As usual you'll be able to find notes and errata for this episode on our website...but not just yet. Watch this space! Next episode we'll be discussing a Discworld novel for the first time in ages - and not just any Discworld novel, but one of the most beloved! Yes, for #Pratchat76 we're finally talking about Monstrous Regiment. Get your questions in before the last week of February to give them a chance of getting on the show! Use the hashtag on social media (Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and BlueSky), or email us at chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

Callum McSorley is an award-winning writer based in Glasgow.In this episode we discuss awards, Ally McCoist, the importance of finding the time to read, why failing is good and how a part-time job helped him become a best-seller.The authors and books we discuss are:Haruki Murakami Predator's Gold by Philip ReeveJohn Boyne's The Hearts Invisible FuriesLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusThe Buried Giant and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinHis short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, New Writing Scotland, Typehouse Literary Magazine, The Glasgow Review of Books, Monstrous Regiment, and many more.His debut novel, SQUEAKY CLEAN was published by Pushkin Vertigo in 2023 and won The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023. Squeaky Clean is out now, you can buy here.“Loved it… One of the best books I've read in a while. Excited to see what Callum McSorley does next. A serious talent.” KEVIN BRIDGES, comedian and author of The Black Dog.“A manic tale of blood and suds told with laconic humour and warmly engaging characterisation. Callum McSorley is definitely a talent to watch. I knew within a page that I was in good hands.” CHRIS BROOKMYRE.

For my last podcast episode of 2023, I sat down with my frequent co-host and even more frequent daughter, Emma Cole, and two of her friends, Emma Pappas and Myles Bradley, to discuss the book they'd just read for their friend-group book club, Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment.

Don't have time for terrible books? Aimee and Kim help out with a review of Terry Pratchett's ‘Equal Rites' (with reference to Episode 100: Terry Pratchett's ‘Monstrous Regiment'). We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

“A woman promoted to sit in the seat of God, that is, to teach, to judge or to reign above man, is monstrous in nature, contumelious to God, and a thing most repugnant to his will and ordinance.” John KnoxSubscribe to The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGodlyTroublemakerPodcastFollow  The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on Rumblehttps://rumble.com/c/c-2255994Follow The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on Gabhttps://gab.com/godlytroublemakerpodcastFollow The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/godlytroublemakerpodcast/Andy's Social MediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/realandyparkerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/realandyparker/Gab: https://gab.com/realandyparker

“A woman promoted to sit in the seat of God, that is, to teach, to judge or to reign above man, is monstrous in nature, contumelious to God, and a thing most repugnant to his will and ordinance.” John KnoxSubscribe to The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGodlyTroublemakerPodcastFollow  The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on Rumblehttps://rumble.com/c/c-2255994Follow The Godly Troublemaker Podcast on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/godlytroublemakerpodcast/Andy's Social MediaTwitter:  https://twitter.com/realandyparkerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/realandyparker/Gab: https://gab.com/realandyparker

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 3 of our recap of “Monstrous Regiment”. Man? Woman? Soldier!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsSteamed Hams - YouTubeThe Origins of Pneumatic Railways - London ReconnectionsAt Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson - Goodreads  Faerie Queen - song and lyrics by Heather Alexander - Spotify Discovery - YouTubeMonstrous Regiment Playlist (BatSuitClad) - Spotify11 things we learned from new Terry Pratchett doc ‘Escape to the Discworld' - Penguin Steeleye Span - The Ups and Downs - YoutubeList of foods named after people - Wikipedia   Clothing terminology - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com 

CALLUM McSORLEY chats to Paul Burke about his new Glasgow set crime novel SQUEAKY CLEAN, Glasgow, humour in crime, what it's like when your mum see your novel in a bookshop.  SQUEAKY CLEAN: Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up.No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride. One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like 'Keep Yer Kneecaps' with any poor bastard who crosses him.Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. That's if she doesn't get herself killed first.CALLUM McSORLEY is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland. Squeaky Clean is his debut novel, inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow's East End.Recommends Happiness is Wasted on Me &Sadie, Call the Polis by Kirkland CicconeProduced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimePaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023&CWA Daggers 2023

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 2 of our recap of “Monstrous Regiment”. War! Gender! Coffee! (This could be a tagline for the entire podcast tbh)Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsPneumatic Clocks - Nature Paris pneumatic post - Wikipedia Sonderv0gel's Comment - R/TTSMYFPratchett audio interview from 2003 – one I'd not come across before - r/TTSMYF Bucephalus - WikipediaThalacephalos - Discworld WikiAppendix:Glossary of British military slang and expressions - Wiktionary James Gillray - Lambiek Comiclopedia  Hablot Knight Browne - Wikipedia  Fizz - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki    "We Belong Dead" (Final Scene) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - YouTube Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 1 of our recap of “Monstrous Regiment”. Soup! Boots! Women?!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsNo Such Thing as a Fish Scheibenwelt Convention Trans Day of Visibility: A Global Perspective | Stonewall  Tim Clare enthused writing thread - TwitterMonstrous Regiment - Colin Smythe  Terry Pratchett interview - Monstrous Regiment - YouTube   The World Turned Upside Down - Wikipedia Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down - Youtube Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) - YoutubeSweet Polly Oliver - Wikipedia The Warrior Women Project - Wayne StateList of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com 

Don't have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee have taken a leap into Terry Pratchett's Discworld with ‘Monstrous Regiment'. Could this be your next read? Listen in to find out! We LOVE it when our listeners ask us to read books! Please hit us with your suggestions via Twitter @or_treasure or email trashortreasurepodcast@outlook.com

Looking at how ugly speech on display from Beth Moore defenders motivates me, and how women who truly love Jesus can be inspired by their mob mentality. Tune in to find out how! This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/08/25/the-continual-trumpet-blast-from-the-monstrous-regiment-of-beth-moore-battle-axes/

"There is no one alive who will get every joke in a Terry Pratchett book." - Marc BurrowsMonstrous Regiment is a book about war, gender politics, queerness, and socks.Our guest, Marc Burrows, can be found at https://www.marcburrows.co.uk/ and @20thcenturymarc on Twitter. He is the author of the Locus award-winning biography of Sir Terry, The Magic of Terry Pratchett, and several other books, including the upcoming book The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream . He is a delight.***Check us out on twitter at @atuin_podHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Follow individual hosts at @urizenxvii, @The_Miannai, and @JustenwritesWe can also be found at www.compleatdiscography.pageOur art is by the indomitable Jess who can be found at @angryartist113Music is by Incompetech and used under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chanceFuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5044-fuzzball-paradeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On April 15th 1929  Colonel Victor Barker was sentenced at the Old Bailey to  nine months imprisonment Colonel Barker was in fact a woman who earlier in life had married and given birth to two children. She then adopted several male aliases and married again. The unbelievable story, that is begging to be made into a film, is told by Rose Collis.  

Ghostlore is an anthology of writing inspired by the folklore of ghosts and the supernatural. Edited by writer and audio dramatists Lyndsey Croal our second episode Hauntings, features the work of 11 writers and explores folklore from around the world. The readers are Sally Walker Taylor, Marie-Claire Wood, Lindz McLeod, Lyndsey Croal, Hadiya Morris, Chris Gregory, Amy Boucher and Christina CastanedaOur pieces and writes areThe Witch by Amy Boucher Amy Boucher is a passionate advocate of her native Shropshire's folklore, ghostlore and local History. You can find her blog her https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/ and on twitter @g0blineggWe Cower in a Ruined Castle and Hope Not to Hear a Ghost by Elou CarrollElou Carroll likes to tell ghost stories. You can find her work on www.eloucarroll.comGhost Feet by Ellen ForkinEllen Forkin is a writer and artist living in the magical Orkney Islands. Find her on Instagram @ellen_forkin and Twitter https://twitter.com/ellen_forkin Unrest by Vanessa JaeVanessa Jae writes horrifically beautiful anarchies, reads stories for Apex Magazine and translates for Progressive International https://twitter.com/thevanessajaeHuntress, Enchantress, Murderess by Lyndsey CroalLyndsey is a writer, audio dramatist and editor from Edinburgh. Find out more about her and her work here https://lyndseycroal.co.uk/Welcome Home by Ai JiangAi Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, an immigrant from Fujian, and an active member of HWA. Find her on Twitter @AiJiang_  and online http://aijiang.caNaart Stuyck by Signe Maene Signe Maene is a writer, folklorist and audio dramatist from Belgian.  Her work has been featured frequently in this podcast and a new audio play is in preparation.   signemaene.com/links/ Ye Tak The Ghost Road by Callum McSorleyCallum McSorley is an author based in Glasgow. His short stories have been published by New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, and Monstrous Regiment among others. https://twitter.com/CallumMcSorleyThe Accordionist by Anna OrridgeAnna Orridge is a writer from Croydon, whose short story 'Backdrop' was adapted for a an acclaimed Alternative Stories audio drama. You can find out more about her activism and writing on Twitter https://twitter.com/orridge_annaA Fate Worse by Marisca Pichette Marisca Pichette writes speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is on Twitter as https://twitter.com/MariscaPichette  and Instagram as @marisca_write. Her website is: www.mariscapichette.comThe Island of Dolls by Sam W PisciottaSam W Pisciotta is a writer and visual artist who believes, with his whole heart, that the glass is half-full.  Follow him on Instagram @silo34 and Twitter  https://twitter.com/silo34 Music and production are by Chris Gregory More bio notes on our participants https://tinyurl.com/ncxpzm95 Sound effects are from freesound.orgSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/alternativestories)

Upon my oath, I am not a podcasting man, but I have brought you a discussion of the most gender novel in the Discworld series, Monstrous Regiment! Discord - https://discord.gg/ZtA7xUe Twitter - https://twitter.com/WyrdSistersPod Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wyrdsisterspod/ Tumblr - https://wyrdsisterspodcast.tumblr.com/tagged/episode Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsisterspodcast

On this week's episode, Chelsee and Christina chat with Anna Kochetkova, author of the book Bi & Prejudice and founder of the @biandprejudice Instagram community. You can preorder Anna's book here: bit.ly/MyBiBook. You can find the Bi-ble essay collections that Anna recommended through Monstrous Regiment: https://www.monstrous-regiment.com/shop/new-testimonials. She also recommended the love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://buttondown.email/TheBiPod Follow us on Tumblr: https://thebipod.tumblr.com You can follow us on Instagram @TheBiPod. You can email us as thisisthebipod@gmail.com. Transcripts of our episodes are available on our website: thebipod.com. The Bi Pod is hosted by Chelsee Bergen and Christina Brown. This episode was edited and produced by Chelsee Bergen. Our theme song is Coming Home by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/61307 Ft: Analog By Nature.

Know a coffee addict? On the Disc, the vampire Maladict uses coffee as a substitute for the B-word. Today we look at some other Black Ribboners' substitutes for… well, you know.Check out our new webpage at www.podpage.com/witches-and-wizards-portal.Beginning on Saturday September 11th, the previous week's Pratchips, and the regular episode, will be available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQAll Pratchips episodes for the coming week are now available to all Patreon supporters (at whatever level) on our Patreon page, and to all members of our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions in the Pratchips channel.Our Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueYou can join our Discord community by searching for it on the Discord home page, or by clicking here: https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPPEmail us at www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!!  Thanks for listening.  

Yes, that lovely little nation that has a word that means, “the sun has risen. Let's make war!” Borogravia is the aggressor in Monstrous Regiment—except according to them. According to them, it's everyone else that pushed them into war. They're that kind of country. Check out our new webpage at www.podpage.com/witches-and-wizards-portal.Beginning on Saturday September 11th, the previous week's Pratchips, and the regular episode of the Portal, will be available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQAll Pratchips episodes for the coming week are now available to all Patreon supporters (at whatever level) on our Patreon page, and to all members of our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions in the Pratchips channel.Our Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueYou can join our Discord community by searching for it on the Discord home page, or by clicking here: https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPPEmail us at www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!!  Thanks for listening.  

There's a vampire in the Monstrous Regiment. Name of Maladict, in fact. Coffee addict. Black Ribboner. Hallucinator, in flashsides, that he's in Vietnam when he runs out of coffee. Very scary. Check out our new webpage at www.podpage.com/witches-and-wizards-portal.Beginning on Saturday September 11th, the previous week's Pratchips, and the regular episode of the Portal, will be available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQAll Pratchips episodes for the coming week are now available to all Patreon supporters (at whatever level) on our Patreon page, and to all members of our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions in the Pratchips channel.Our Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueYou can join our Discord community by searching for it on the Discord home page, or by clicking here: https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPPEmail us at www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!!  Thanks for listening. 

A Discord member (and Patreon subscriber) requested that Monstrous Regiment be this week's book. And so it is.As you'll hear in this episode, Monstrous Regiment takes on some weighty topics, all in the inimitable STP style. Good stuff, Maynard! Check out our new webpage at www.podpage.com/witches-and-wizards-portal.Beginning on Saturday September 11th, the previous week's Pratchips, and the regular episode of the Portal, will be available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQAll Pratchips episodes for the coming week are now available to all Patreon supporters (at whatever level) on our Patreon page, and to all members of our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions in the Pratchips channel.Our Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueYou can join our Discord community by searching for it on the Discord home page, or by clicking here: https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPPEmail us at www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!!  Thanks for listening. 

In which v flies solo for the first time, and talks about one of the many books in the Discworld series - Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett | Email us! cannibalizingthecanon@gmail.com | Check out our merch! Our EU store here: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/vehlr/all or our US/Canada store here: https://vehlr.threadless.com/ | #shoutouttodavid

Why did Sir Terry give the Disc's version of Transylvania a German name? The issue came up in a discussion on our Discord server, and I'm sharing what I learned from that discussion with our listeners. What we learn is that Sir Terry was well-versed in European history and an excellent linguist as well. That shouldn't surprise anyone who's read Monstrous Regiment, or Raising Steam, in particular. I say “in particular” because many of the Lancre books reference Uberwald, and Moist von Lipwig (Going Postal, et al.) hails from there.There's a big bilingual pun at the heart of it all, in fact. Great stuff, but as usual if you don't get the pun it doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the book(s). Uberwald is a cool name for a place with vampires, werewolves, and Igors in it, after all.Many thanks to Bas and Malocaptain, who participated in the above-referenced discussion on Discord, and thus enlightened us about another STP pune, or play on words. If you have thoughts about this experiment in three-minute podcasting, please shoot me an email at randy@mindkindle.net. I'd love to hear from you; I will answer you; and if you are a first-time emailer I'll include a recording of the Clacks episode with my reply. That's the only way you can get a copy of the Clacks episode, short of using a second email addy and a fake name! You are also cordially invited to come join our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions! Just go to the main Discord page and search “Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions.” Alternatively, you can use this link: https://discord.gg/45JxBKUYuA. Btw, it costs nothing to join the server, and there's a lot of exclusive content on there, plus the opportunity to interact with other Pratchett fans, and participate in our Discord person, place or thing challenge. Sort of like 20 questions, and lots of fun.You can also pop onto our Patreon page if you're in the mood to underwrite the efforts of Medieval Gnome Productions (or just want to see some more exclusive content). There's also patron-only content there. Here's the URL. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueI also ask that you consider sending a one-time PayPal payment to randy@mindkindle.net. Our listenership, alas, is shrinking, as are our Patreon supporters. If you don't want to commit to a monthly subscription, please think seriously about a one-time PayPal donation. Even the price of a latte will help with our expenses.  The Turtle MovesMind How You GoGNU Terry Pratchett   

Details, credits, errata: This week we have the delightful Rob Weinert-Kendt, editor of American Theatre magazine and contributor to America, The New York Times, and many other discerning publications, and absolutely one of our favorite people. His terrific pitch was to watch Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent drama The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of many movies made from the story of Joan’s trial, largely because, as Rob observes, there’s lots of documentary material about the trial, notably the transcript, available in English here.There are lots of Joans of Arc; Sam did indeed go to see the Manhattan Theatre Club’s terrible production of the George Bernard Shaw play with Rob, though he got the lead, Condola Rashad, mixed up with the lead from another bad Shaw production on Broadway, Sally Hawkins in Mrs. Warren’s Profession at the Roundabout. Poor Shaw. He’s a good playwright. Other notable Joans include The Messenger, starring Milla Jovovich and John Malkovich and directed by Luc Besson, his and Jovovich’s follow-up collaboration to their sci-fi flick The Fifth Element (The Messenger is not a success in any sense, but The Fifth Element slaps). Joan has been used by other playwrights, notably Bertolt Brecht, in Saint Joan of the Stockyards, which resets the story among unionizing Chicago meatpackers, and novelists including Terry Pratchett, whom you may remember from a few episodes ago, in his lovely Discworld novel Monstrous Regiment. Other filmed versions include George Méliès’ Jeanne D’Arc, which I’ll include below this paragraph on our website, and Das Mädschen Johanna, a Nazi version of the story. You can read Graham Greene’s review of it in The Spectator here.Our theme song is Louis Armstrong and His Hot 5’s Muskrat Ramble, made freely available by the Boston Public Library and audio engineering shop George Blood, LP through the Internet Archive. The Passion of Joan of Arc is in the public domain, and the image at the head of the page is from the film. All other material is copyright 2021 Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at yammpod.substack.com/subscribe

It's war!

Ellen Desmond and Lauren Nickodemus run Monstrous Regiment Publishing together, an intersectional feminist press, based in Leith, that they created to publish books and stories that are missing from bookshelves. The books they've published so far include The Bi-ble: Essays and Narratives About Bisexuality, New Testimonials: Essays and Narratives About Bisexuality, and So Hormonal: Essays About Our Hormones, along with their Monstrous Regiment magazines, Crimson and Emerald. Ellen and Lauren tell us about what it was like to start their own publishing press, how they put together their books, feedback they get from readers, their relationship with the creative community in Leith, and their upcoming novel, Duck Feet.

Singer, songwriter and storyteller Kate Nyx visits the island to talk growing up online, making your own crowd and the 31st Discworld novel, Monstrous Regiment. Visit Desert Island Discworld at http://desertislanddiscworld.com, on Twitter at @DIDiscworld, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/DIDiscworld, or contact us at desertislanddiscworld@gmail.com.

Meet the women of The Monstrous Regiment, our new podcast set to drop every Wednesday (starting July 11) and be prepared to be taken by a storm of righteousness and justice.

Steve and Colm discuss this grim little outlier in the Discworld canon. Expect lots of talk about gender roles, internalised misogyny, propaganda and comparisons to post-Independence Ireland. Abominations unto Nuggan abound!

Our guests today are members of a group they comicly refer to as a “literary gang”, a book club called The Monstrous Regiment, a name based on a book by author Terry Pratchett that features a feminist manifesto. Hannah Zimmerman and Amelia Reesor started the group 3 ½ years ago with a focus on female-centric books, although as you will soon realize, every rule is meant to be broken in this high energy crowd of both male and female 20 and 30 somethings. Hannah and Amelia talk to us about the difference between being a group that is female-centric versus feminist, why having male members adds interesting insights to their book discussions, and how they were surprised that the group has gone from a typical book club to a supportive social network.   Books Mentioned in this Episode: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett Beloved by Toni Morrison My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Power by Naomi Alderman The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Medallion Status by John Hodgman The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Winter's Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg You can find us on FB, instagram (@perksofbeingabookloverpod) and on our blog site at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com Perks airs on Forward Radio 106.5 FM and forwardradio.org every Wednesday at 6 pm, Thursdays at 6 am and 12 pm. We have purchased the rights to the theme music used.

Our guests today are members of a group they comicly refer to as a “literary gang”, a book club called The Monstrous Regiment, a name based on a book by author Terry Pratchett that features a feminist manifesto. Hannah Zimmerman and Amelia Reesor started the group 3 ½ years ago with a focus on female-centric books, although as you will soon realize, every rule is meant to be broken in this high energy crowd of both male and female 20 and 30 somethings. Hannah and Amelia talk to us about the difference between being a group that is female-centric versus feminist, why having male members adds interesting insights to their book discussions, and how they were surprised that the group has gone from a typical book club to a supportive social network. You can find us on FB, instagram (@perksofbeingabookloverpod) and on our blog site at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com Perks airs on Forward Radio 106.5 FM and forwardradio.org every Wednesday at 6 pm, Thursdays at 6 am and 12 pm. We have purchased the rights to the theme music used.

本期节目我们一期聊下英国女性剧作家的卡罗尔·丘吉尔（Caryl Churchill） 1982 年首演的全女班话剧，Top Girls。这出戏写于英国第一位女性首相如日中天的八十年代，同时英美都处于自由经济高速发展，社会主义阵营萎缩的时期。本期嘉宾是方曌和Gigi。支持文化土豆，请访问我们的官网： www.culturepotato.com大英百科全书对丘吉尔对介绍：When Churchill was 10, she immigrated with her family to Canada. She attended Lady Margaret Hall, a women’s college of the University of Oxford, and remained in England after receiving a B.A. in 1960. Her three earliest plays, Downstairs (produced 1958), Having a Wonderful Time (produced 1960), and Easy Death (produced 1962), were performed by Oxford-based theatrical ensembles.During the 1960s and ’70s, while raising a family, Churchill wrote radio dramas and then television plays for British television. Owners, a two-act, 14-scene play about obsession with power, was her first major theatrical endeavour and was produced in London in 1972. During her tenure as resident dramatist at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Churchill wrote Objections to Sex and Violence (1974), which, though not well-reviewed, led to her successful association with David Hareand Max Stafford-Clark’s Joint Stock Company and with Monstrous Regiment, a feminist group. Cloud 9 (1979), a farce about sexual politics, was successful in the United States as well as in Britain, winning an Obie Award in 1982 for playwriting. The next year she won another Obie with Top Girls(1982), which deals with women’s losing their humanity in order to attain power in a male-dominated environment. Softcops (produced 1984), a surreal play set in 19th-century France about government attempts to depoliticize illegal acts, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Serious Money (1987) is a comedy about excesses in the financial world, and Icecream(1989) investigates Anglo-American stereotypes. The former received an Obie for best new American play.The prolific Churchill continued to push boundaries. In 1997 she collaborated with the composer Orlando Gough to create Hotel, a choreographed opera or sung ballet set in a hotel room. Also that year her surrealistic short play This Is a Chair was produced. She later explored issues of identity in A Number (2002), about a father and his cloned sons. For the drama, Churchill won her third Obie for playwriting. Also in 2002 she won an Obie for sustained achievement. Her subsequent works included Love and Information (2012) and Escaped Alone (2016).节目中提到的作品信息话剧Top Girls，卡罗尔·丘吉尔播放流国内：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av8515768播放流国外：https://youtu.be/iGWD0r0f9GoS话剧愤怒回首，奥斯本https://book.douban.com/subject/3295251/小说金色笔记，莱辛http://culturepotato.com/blog/085话剧Owners，卡罗尔·丘吉尔https://www.douban.com/location/drama/25765933/皇廷剧场Royal Courts Theatrehttps://royalcourttheatre.com/about/电影洛基恐怖秀 , Richard O'Brienhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/1292050/电影三块广告牌， 马丁·麦克唐纳https://movie.douban.com/subject/26611804/博客伊莎贝拉·伯德的中国摄影之旅https://book.douban.com/review/7479519/回忆录不问自语/とはずがたり，後深草院二条https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Lady-Nijo/dp/0804709300/油画Mad Mag，Pieter Bruegel the Elderhttps://www.museummayervandenbergh.be/en/page/mad-meg人物琼安教皇https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/女教宗瓊安人物耐心的格瑞塞达https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_(folklore)非虚构通往维根码头之路，奥威尔https://book.douban.com/subject/26587222/电影饮食男女，李安https://movie.douban.com/subject/1291818/电影海街日记，是枝裕和https://movie.douban.com/subject/25895901/电影珠光宝气，戚其义https://movie.douban.com/subject/2996855/电影千年女优，今敏https://movie.douban.com/subject/1307394/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After a dip into the Medicine Makers and Purveyors section of Directory of Ankh-Morpork Merchants, Traders and Services, we give a nod to the city's three greatest culinary figures. Then we consider Harry King, and his transformation from King of the Golden River to the Disc's first Railway Baron. Finally, we consider the speed with which Ankh-Morpork develops in the brief time between The Color of Magic and Raising Steam, and realize that really just doesn't matter. All this, and another sausage inna bun. The Discord server link is https://discord.gg/K9s6BSW. Please come take a look at the Portal's Patreon page, at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045 where there is some nifty free content, and where you can also become a supporter of the show. The Portal continues to exist because of your generosity. As always you can reach me at randy@mindkindle.net, and remember you can find the Portal blog, Gnomic Musings, at https://mindkindle.net/gnomic-musings-the-discworld-portal-blog/.This week's contest quote: “Clear my appointments this morning, will you? I will see the Guild of Town Criers at nine o'clock and the Guild of Engravers at ten past.”“I wasn't aware they had appointments, sir.”“They will have,” said Lord Vetinari.  Is that quote from Monstrous Regiment, The Truth, or The Fifth Elephant? E-mail your answer (or guess) to me at the above email address. As usual, no animals, Ankh-Morpork merchants, goblins, or even grags were harmed in the production of this show. Remember only you can perform Random Acts of Kindness. As always, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE. Chelonian mobile. 

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was the queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII. She restored, to the Church, some of the property taken from it in the previous two reigns. She was not able to legislate to force those who, at that time, held property which had been plundered from the Catholic Church and the monasteries. During her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions, which led to her denunciation as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents. At her funeral service, John White, bishop of Winchester, praised Mary: "She was a king's daughter; she was a king's sister; she was a king's wife. She was a queen, and by the same title a king also." She was the first woman to successfully claim the throne of England, despite competing claims and determined opposition, and enjoyed popular support and sympathy during the earliest parts of her reign, especially from the Roman Catholics of England. Mary's attempts to undo the reforming work of her brother's reign faced major obstacles. Despite her belief in the papal supremacy, she ruled constitutionally as the Supreme Head of the English Church, a contradiction under which she bridled. She found herself entirely unable to restore the vast number of ecclesiastical properties handed over or sold to private landowners. Protestant writers at the time, and since, have often taken a highly negative view of Mary's reign. By the 17th century, the memory of her religious persecutions had led to the adoption of her sobriquet "Bloody Mary". John Knox attacked her in his First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558), and she was prominently vilified in Actes and Monuments (1563), by John Foxe. Subsequent editions of Foxe's book remained popular throughout the following centuries and helped shape enduring perceptions of Mary as a bloodthirsty tyrant. Mary is remembered in the 21st century for her vigorous efforts to restore the primacy of Roman Catholicism in England after the rise of Protestant influence during the short-lived reign of her half-brother, Edward. Protestant historians have long denigrated her reign, emphasizing that in just five years she burned several hundred Protestants at the stake in the Marian persecutions. In the mid-20th century, H. F. M. Prescott attempted to redress the tradition that Mary was intolerant and authoritarian, and scholarship since then has tended to view the older, simpler assessments of Mary with increasing reservations. A historiographical revisionism since the 1980s has to some degree improved her reputation among scholars. Christopher Haigh argued that her revival of religious festivities and Catholic practices was generally welcomed. Haigh concluded that the "last years of Mary's reign were not a gruesome preparation for Protestant victory, but a continuing consolidation of Catholic strength." Catholic historians, such as John Lingard, thought Mary's policies failed not because they were wrong but because she had too short a reign to establish them and because of natural disasters beyond her control. In other countries, the Catholic Counter-Reformation was spearheaded by Jesuit missionaries; Mary's chief religious advisor, Cardinal Reginald Pole, refused to allow the Jesuits into England. Her marriage to Philip was unpopular among her subjects and her religious policies resulted in deep-seated resentment. The military loss of Calais to France was a bitter humiliation to English pride. Failed harvests increased public discontent. Philip spent most of his time abroad, while his wife remained in England, leaving her depressed at his absence and undermined by their inability to have children. After Mary's death, Philip sought to marry Elizabeth but she refused him. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehistoryexpress/support

On this week's episode, we're discussing found families! The tentpoles are “Stilinski's Home for Wayward Wolves” by owlpostagain, Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, and the pilot episode of Firefly.     What We’re Into Lately The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire Down to Agincourt by seperis Embers by Vathara (also on fanfiction.net) “Sunny with a Chance of Storms” by Mysecretfanmoments and SuggestiveScribe The Library of the Unwritten by  A.J. Hackwith The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer Undiscovered Country by shysweetthing The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk by Barbara Holland Other Stuff We Mentioned The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik “Yellow Emperor” by WerewolvesAreReal In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard Supernatural  Persona 5 “Chaos War” by astolat Yuri!!! On Ice Inception Serenity Farscape The Magicians Mean Girls Leverage Ocean’s Eleven franchise Black Sails Lord of the Flies Band of Brothers Regeneration Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett Teen Wolf Run with the Wind Sam Hawke (who is a cool author and not some sort of frog hitperson as Macey seems to imply) Glee Yakitate!! Japan Great British Bake Off  Haikyuu Prince of Tennis Hikaru no go Black Sails The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Leverage And I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You by astolat, and its sequel Champion @dynamicsymmetry’s twitter thread Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling Geek Social Fallacies The Shoebox Project by dorkorific and ladyjaida   For Next Time Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir   Transcript The transcript for this episode can be found here. Thanks as always to our scribes, who have been part of our little podcast-family since the very beginning

I suppose when you hold yourself out to be the internet's advice-giving big sister, it was only ever going to be a matter of time before somebody sent in a dating question. The problem? I'm now almost 10 years married, and have been known to remark that it anything ever happened to my husband I'd happily start collecting cats rather than put myself out there again. Dating in 2019 seems exhausting for this extroverted introvert, and I really admire those of you with the bravery - and energy - to put yourself out there again and again, making yourself vulnerable to new people in the hope that you might find a connection. So, to celebrate our first dating advice question, I've called in the experts! Monstrous Regiment (@MonstrousRgmt) is an Edinburgh-based micropress with a passion for intersectional feminism and sexuality, and for publishing marginalised writers. Their biggest project to date is The Bi-ble, an anthology of personal narratives and essays about bisexuality, which has recently been reprinted together with a second volume, New Testimonials. I'm joined by Lauren from Monstrous Regiment along with Rebecca Wojturska (@Becky_Wojturska), a writer who is featured in the new edition. Buy books: monstrous-regiment.com. Submit a question: https://lastyearsgirl.pixlet.net/podcast/. Follow the show: @FromYrBigSister

Curious what we're all about? Here's a brief intro to Women Are Fort Wayne, hosted by Stephanie Gottesman and edited by Traci Henning-Kolberg. A Monstrous Regiment production. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

* Agnieszka Checka is a writer. She has a zine about the experience of moving to Scotland, which is out now and available on Etsy. It’s called ‘One Of The Good Ones’. Her essay ‘When The Curtain Falls’ is going to be featured in the anthology The Bi-ble volume II: New Testimonials, which will be published by Monstrous Regiment in the summer. It’s about growing up queer in Poland.* Alison Phipps is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, and the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She is also co-convenor of GRAMNET, the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network. Her book ‘Decolonising Multilingualism’ will be published by Multilingual Matters in June 2019. If you would like to read more about her ideas on multilingualism before June, a good place to start is here. She also recently released a book of poetry written with Zimbabwean writer Tawona Sitholé, which you can find here. You can follow her on Twitter here.* Eva Hanna is a PhD student who studies multilingualism. She is also the parents of two multilingual children. She also has a couple of excellent blog posts about the value of multilingualism which you can read here and here.* Natalie Findlayson stopped speaking German as a kid, but once she’d left school she ended up studying it at uni, spending some time in Germany and becoming completely fluent. Her parents might have felt at the time like they hadn’t succeeded in raising a bilingual kid but, ultimately, in a roundabout way, they did. She now teaches German and French at the University of Glasgow.* Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney and based in Edinburgh. Their poetry collections Tonguit (2015) and The Games (2018) were both shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and Tonguit for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Harry Josephine was the 2009 BBC Scotland slam champion, founded Inky Fingers Spoken Word, and co-directs the performance platform Anatomy. Their participatory theatre has toured widely, including Forest Fringe (UK), NTI (Latvia), CrisisArt (Italy) and Teszt (Romania). Harry Josephine’s performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian's best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup – in the “But Is It Art?” category.* Andrew Macdonell lives in Brussels and tells people how to apply for research funding from the EU.

* Antonella Sorace is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She is a world leading authority on bilingualism over the lifespan.* Kyle Bettley is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Clyde College, teaching British Sign Language Studies and ESOL.* Diana Lugo López is a PhD student studying multilingualism at the University of Edinburgh.* Eva Hanna is a PhD student who studies multilingualism at the University of Glasgow. She is also the parent of two multilingual children. She has a couple of excellent blog posts about the value of multilingualism which you can read here and here.* Paweł is a teacher at Polska Szkoła Glasgow.* Agnieszka Checka is a writer. She has a zine about the experience of moving to Scotland, which is out now and available on Etsy. It’s called ‘One Of The Good Ones’. Her essay ‘When The Curtain Falls’ is going to be featured in the anthology The Bi-ble volume II: New Testimonials, which will be published by Monstrous Regiment in the summer. It’s about growing up queer in Poland.***Antonella is the founder of Bilingualism Matters, a research centre at the University of Edinburgh which has partner branches all over Europe and the US, run by an international team of researchers. They study bilingualism and language learning, and communicate what they know to enable people to make informed decisions based on scientific evidence. You can follow them on Twitter here, and you can read about some of the research they’ve been involved in recently here and here. Look for upcoming events here.***The social enterprise Lingo Flamingo run a programme of language classes for older people living in care homes across Scotland. Their paid-for classes for all ages help to fund the care home classes. You can sign up to learn Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, English, German or Polish with them, or you can volunteer to be a language teacher. You can follow them on Twitter here.***

Katie Grubbs, Jay Eldred, and Ilia Danner Grubbs celebrate Episode 100 with a discussion of Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment. For the Duchess!

Greetings all! An interlude this week, as we gear up for the next big serial. Listen to Tansy reading from her popular Discworld essay. Spoilers for the first 10 Discworld books & (very slight) for We Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett. If you enjoy this episode, check out Pratchett’s Women, a collection of Tansy’s critical essays on the portrayal of women in the Discworld, from Granny Weatherwax to Monstrous Regiment. Next week: Halloween is not a verb! Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Twitter at @tansyrr or @sheepmightfly, find me on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge. See you next week!

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April De Angelis has been writing for the theatre since the mid –eighties. Starting her career as an actor for the significant feminist theatre company Monstrous Regiment, she wrote her first play Breathless in 1987.

This episode covers the book Monstrous Regiment by author Terry Pratchett.   The book is about a group of women dressing in men’s clothing in order to fight in a war.    The author has a particular gift for describing boy’s walks.  We want suggestions for female authors from the listeners.

This Episode is titled, Knox, Knox, Who's There?John Knox was born in 1514 in the small burgh of Haddington, south of Edinburgh. At the age of 15 he entered the University of St. Andrews to study, not golf, but theology. After 7 yrs he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest and became a notary since his studies specialized in the Law. Being a gifted speaker, he was employed as a tutor for the sons of some local lairds, a term referring to lower rung of Scottish nobility.Dramatic events unfolded in Scotland during Knox's youth. Many were angry with the Roman church which owned more than half the land and gathered an annual income of almost 20 times that of the crown. Bishops and priests were more often than not political appointments, and many so morally corrupt, they didn't even try to hide their debaucheries. Cardinal Beaton, archbishop of St. Andrews, openly consorted with concubines, fathering ten children.The constant traffic between Scotland and Europe saw much Protestant literature smuggled into the country. Church authorities were alarmed by the pernicious German “heresy” as they labeled it and tried to suppress it. Patrick Hamilton, an outspoken Protestant convert, was burned at the stake in 1528.In the early 1540s, while tutoring the sons of Protestant families, Knox came under their influence, and at the preaching of Thomas Guilliame, joined them. Knox then became a bodyguard for the firebrand Protestant preacher George Wishart, at that time touring Scotland.In 1546, Cardinal Beaton had Wishart arrested, tried, strangled, and just to make sure everyone knew how mad he was, Wishart's body was burned. The Protestants decided such outrage would not go unanswered. So sixteen Protestant nobles stormed the castle, assassinated Beaton, and mutilated his body in retribution for what he'd done to Wishart, who posthumously could wonder where they'd been earlier. Might have been a little smarter for them to take the castle when he was still a prisoner. Oh well.With the castle now in Protestant hands, a fleet of French ships arrived and laid in a siege. Catholic France was an ally to Catholic Scotland. Though Knox was not party to the Cardinal's murder, he did approve of the action, and during a break in the siege, joined the besieged inside the castle to show solidarity.This siege wasn't your typical surrounding of a castle where the attackers try to starve the besieged into submission. It was a half-hearted, partial siege, more about appearances than an earnest attempt to bring the Cardinal's killers to justice. So, life wasn't disrupted for the people in the castle all that much. Things went on pretty much as normal.Then, during a church service one Sunday, Protestant preacher John Rough spoke on the election of ministers, turned to John Knox and asked if he'd please take on the office of resident preacher. When the congregation confirmed the call, Knox was overwhelmed and reduced to tears. At first he declined, thinking himself unqualified, but eventually submitted to what he quickly realized was the call of God. It was a short-lived ministry. In 1547, the siege of St. Andrews Castle was laid on in earnest and the Protestants had to surrender. Some were imprisoned while others like Knox were made galley-slaves. Which, if you know anything about that, sends a shiver up your spine. You'd be hard pressed to find a lower lot for a man to sink to. An ironic post for a man who'd just wept in humility at being called to pastor a church.A year and a half passed before Knox and his fellow galley-slaves were released. That they lived a year and a half is a miracle in itself. Knox spent the next five yrs in England, and his reputation for preaching boomed. When the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor inherited the throne from her brother Edward VI in Oct 1553, Knox fled to France.  Smart move, since Mary did her best to reverse the path toward Protestantism her brother had followed. She executed so many she's known to history as “Bloody Mary.”Knox's choice of France as a place of refuge seems odd, since things were little better there than in England. He soon realized that as well and made his way to Geneva, where he met John Calvin. Calvin described Knox as a “brother … laboring energetically for the faith.” Knox was so impressed with Calvin's Geneva, he called it, “the most perfect school of Christ that was ever on earth since the days of the apostles.”Knox was then sent by Calvin to the German city of Frankfurt to pastor a church of Protestant English refugees. There, he quickly became embroiled in controversy. The Protestants couldn't agree on an order of worship. Arguments became so heated one group stormed out, refusing to worship in the same building as Knox.I mention this little moment in Knox's life because it becomes sadly indicative of what begins to happen all across Europe as the Reformation spread. Once people split off from the Roman Church, they kept splitting off from each other. While it's difficult for us to understand this in our age of pluralism, the people of Europe in the 16th C assumed you had to be a part of some church. And that group was either allied with the State, or wanted to be. There just wasn't a large block of people who were unaligned religiously. Atheism was simply not tolerated. So once the monolithic hegemony of the Roman Catholic church was broken, the cracks that formed in religious faith kept going, like a windshield. And the various groups thought they needed to grab some kind of power or they'd end up the victim of someone else's. This helps explain why the usually pacifist Anabaptists became militant in Munster, as we saw in an earlier episode.My point here is that the rift that formed in Frankfurt over whether or not to use the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, and whether or not people ought to kneel while taking Communion was typical of the battles the Protestant church faced at this time. Looking back, we might shake our heads at such pettiness. But let's be careful. Do not our churches sometimes split over issues just as petty? We might think they aren't, but would believers 500 years from now call them so?While Knox was in Germany, Protestants in Scotland redoubled their efforts, and congregations formed all over the country. A group called “The Lords of the Congregation” vowed to make Protestantism the religion of the land. In 1555, they invited Knox to return to Scotland to inspire the reforming task. Knox spent nine months preaching all over Scotland before he was forced to return to Geneva.There in Geneva he published some of his most controversial tracts. In his Admonition to England he attacked leaders who allowed Catholicism back into England. In The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women he argued that a female ruler, like the English Queen Bloody Mary was “most odious in the presence of God” and that she was “a traitoress and rebel against God.” In another broadside he extended to ordinary people the right—indeed the duty—to rebel against unjust rulers. As he later told Mary, Queen of Scots, “The sword of justice is God's, and if princes and rulers fail to use it, others may.”Not really sure where Knox got that idea from Scripture, since Romans 13 does say it IS the duty of the civil government to wield the sword and citizens are to submit to that authority. It also says Vengeance belongs to the Lord – HE will repay. In any case, Knox made a case for rebellion against unjust government many found to their liking.Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, and again deployed his formidable preaching skills to increase Protestant militancy. Within days of his arrival, he preached a rousing sermon at Perth against Catholic “idolatry” which caused a riot. Altars were demolished, images smashed, and churches destroyed.In June, Knox was elected the Minister of St. Giles Church in Edinburgh, where he continued to exhort and inspire. In his sermons, Knox typically spent half an hour calmly exegeting a biblical passage. Then as he applied the text to the situation in Scotland, he vigorously pounded the pulpit, calling for people to immediately install the application.The English, now under the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, came to the aid of the Protestant Scots while the French aided the Catholics. Fired up by Knox's preaching, The Lords of the Congregation armed themselves and occupied several cities. In 1560 at the Treaty of Berwick, the English and French agreed to leave Scotland. The future of Protestantism in Scotland was assured.The Scottish Parliament then asked Knox and five colleagues to write a Confession of Faith, the First Book of Discipline, and The Book of Common Order—all of which cast the Protestant faith of Scotland in a distinctly Calvinist and Presbyterian mode.Knox finished out his years as preacher at St. Giles, helping shape the developing Protestantism in Scotland. During this time, he wrote his History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland.Though he remains a paradox to many, Knox was clearly a man of great courage: one man standing before Knox's open grave said, “Here lies a man who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.” Knox's legacy is large: his spiritual progeny includes some 750,000 Presbyterians in Scotland, 3 million in the US, and many millions more worldwide.When visiting Edinburgh some years ago, I had a chance to visit St. Giles. It's an impressive cathedral church. You can definitely see the difference from a classic Roman Catholic Cathedral, which it was before the Reformation. But long Protestant occupation has removed many of the ritual furnishings of a Catholic church.Down the street from St. Giles is Knox's house where he lived before being elected Minister at St. Giles. He lived there when Catholics ruled and he was banned from preaching in public. His multi-storied house juts out into the street, forming a little corner traffic has to flow around. So it was something of a bottleneck. Knox couldn't obtain a license for public preaching, but no one could stop him from saying whatever he wanted in his own home. So Knox would open his window overlooking the street and preach fine messages, knowing large crowds gathered outside to listen. He even engraved scriptures in his window and door frames.What's sad is that Knox's grave lies right next to St. Giles. But being some of the most prime real estate in all Scotland, just a few yards of the Royal Mile, today it lies under a parking space. Seriously! There's an asphalt parking lot with white lines for cars to park. And smack dab in the middle of one parking spaces is a little plaque marking that this is the burial place of John Knox.Hardly anyone knows it's there. When people are shown it, the response of many is, “Who's John Knox?”