Podcasts about Rincewind

"They say the heat and the flies here can drive a man insane. But you don't have to believe that, and nor does that bright mauve elephant that just cycled past."The wizards are making mischief in pre-history FourEcks and Rincewind fails to put it together. Can our hosts do any better? Not likely, mate. The blokes from Belfast dig in on a trip down under to The Last Continent, mostly to whine about cartoon Rincewind. We discuss the pros and cons of the faculty, of soap opera and fantasy, and Andy really, really likes talking about Farscape. We share our own experiences of times spent in Australia and there's the full-on glorious return of TREE TIME!Thanks to our video production assistant at Ditto Multimedia https://www.instagram.com/ditt0gram_I've Never Read Discworld is available on Bluesky, Facebook and YouTube @discworldgnuAnd be sure to check out check out some more of our wares:Holly Miles' Another Time, co-edited by Andy books2read.com/anothertimeCoastlines: After Dark books2read.com/coastlinesafterdarkAndy's YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@AndrewLukePJ Hart's 'Country Rogues' (BBC iPlayer) feat. James Martin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022d39PJ Hart's 'The Divil's Own' (BBC Sounds/Illumination podcast) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhg4

Wenn es um das Genre der Funny Fantasy geht, führt kein Weg an Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) und seiner Scheibenwelt vorbei. Seine Romane haben ganze Generationen amüsiert und ich begrüße mit Christian Endres sowohl einen Fan als auch ausgewiesenen Experten für Rincewind & Co.

This week we're discussing The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. Twoflower, a tourist, takes a break from his job as an insurance adjuster to explore Ankh-Morpork, a destination that he has read and heard so much about. He wants to see the famed heroes, dragons, bar fights, and have an adventure! However, Twoflower has no idea of the danger that he is in, and Rincewind, a mediocre, sort-of wizard, is tasked with keeping him safe. Rincewind and Twoflower's travels take them through an inferno of a city, into the temple of the Soul Eater, across a land populated by dragons before reaching the very edge of the world, narrowly escaping Death each time. Join us!

Los pajaritos periféricos, compañeros de vida de Rincewind.

Sino y Dama, la lucha de dos dioses, pilla a Rincewind y a Dosflores en medio del campo de batalla.

In this episode, we discuss Sourcery, where Rincewind pre-emptively runs from a sourceror bringing reality-bending amounts of power to the Unseen University. Find out why the villain acts as a dark mirror of Rincewind and why we weren't so impressed with his travelling companions.   You can find the Podcast on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/DiningTableDiscworld BlueSky: dtdiscworld.bsky.social Our intro and outro music is Beyond Infinity by user BlenderTimer on Pixabay.

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El Patriarca de Mordork entrevista a Rincewind. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/angel-martinez2/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/angel-martinez2/message

The CCC Podcast presents a blast from the past! A fun throwback to one of our earliest episodes, including an interview with super cool creator Emily S. Whitten. Plus reviews, witty banter galore and more!

Your hosts get back on the Discworld turtle with “The Last Continent” by Terry Pratchett. They discuss Rincewind's character arc, Definitely-Not-Australia, and the wizards of Unseen University dipping their toes into workplace satire. This episode also features a Words are Weird segment around the phrase “eating tea” with a special mention for “throbbing stem.”Thanks 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

This episode we're talking about the genre of Economics! We discuss economic philosophy, Excel spreadsheets, micro vs macro, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis, translated by Jacob Moe Other Media We Mentioned Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa  Adam Hochschild The Colour of Magic by Terry Prachett “Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language. What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement by Vladimir Lenin (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things If Books Could Kill - Freakonomics Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek (YouTube) Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek - Economics Rap Battle Round Two Peter Singer (Wikipedia) Unspeakable Conversations: Harriet McBryde Johnson on debating Peter Singer “He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was.” If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad Saltwater and freshwater economics (Wikipedia) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Wikipedia) Another normal day of mining in Africa (Reddit) Belt and Road Initiative (Wikipedia) Report exposes solar panel industry Uyghur forced labour links Ouija (Wikipedia) Chinchilla (Wikipedia) Social media is doomed to die (The Verge) Reddit: Antiwork Reddit: Late Stage Capitalism 25 Economics books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson and Arthur Manuel Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard Can't We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions by Rupal Patel The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddist Economics for the 21st Century by Sulak Sivaraksa Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 16th we'll be talking about some old genres we've covered and whether we'd read them again. Then on Tuesday, June 6th we'll be discussing the genre of Fantasy! 

The Three Rivers Boys return to Terry Pratchett's Discworld to examine the second book in the failed wizard Rincewind's adventure's as the tourist Twoflower's guide. We discuss the characters, themes, plot, and of course our favorite bits from The Light Fantastic. This episode will include full spoilers for both The Light Fantastic and the Colour of Magic, so listeners be warned! Check out our other episodes on Discworld novels if you enjoyed this series! Please follow us on Twitter for the latest updates and new episode alerts: @ThreeRiversBoys

I played the Discworld video game, remarkably, before I'd read a single Terry Pratchett book. I don't know if that speaks more to the cultural cache of video games, or to my own literary ignorance growing up, but getting to the age of 11 in the United Kingdom of the late twentieth century without having read a Terry Pratchett book is quite an astonishing un-achievement. One that I quickly remedied, of course. This was decades ago (I am old), and you'd think that, if anything, the acceptance of video games as a valid form of artistic expression would have progressed somewhat since then. I'm not sure it has, although mercifully we do seem to have seen the back of the dreaded "are games art?" debate, if only because everyone who ever got involved in it either died or got so bored of the subject that they happily conceded that it didn't matter either way. Who cares, just shoot the demons dumbass (or, indeed, the demon's dumb ass). But I can't help but think that Pratchett, by all accounts a deeply thoughtful, kind hearted, and forward-thinking man, would have had a more progressive attitude toward my getting into his work via a PS1 game starring Eric Idle rather than, say, by being made to read Only You Can Save Mankind as part of a syllabus. More progressive than, say, Andrzej Sapkowski's, who is on record about his view that gaming is an unserious form of entertainment that has trivialised his work.  Terry loved games. He adored The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and at the time when I was playing the point and click adventure based on his Rincewind novels, he was enjoying Tomb Raider on the PS1, and in the process helping to forge his daughter Rhianna's deep love of the medium. She would, of course, go on to become a titan of this industry, whose extensive CV includes modernising Lara's character and origins for the acclaimed 2013 reboot, and writing an extremely rare example of genuinely funny video game fantasy in the form of the Overlord series. Books and games are always doing this little dance, it seems. They pilfer each other for characters, settings, themes, and concepts. Their respective industries feed each other with talent. And, most importantly of all, their intertwined relationship inspired the topic for this very podcast, which is: The best game based on a book that nobody who played it has actually read That is the topic of Episode 24 of this podcast.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Independent pro wrestler Max Zero visits the island to talk crafting a persona, LGBTQ+ representation in wrestling, and the 17th Discworld novel, Interesting Times

Content warnings for this episode include: implications of child abuse, the inherent racism and misogyny of being a white British man, and human sacrifice and torture.This week, everybody's favorite rat man Rincewind is back; now he and a young demonologist go on a time and space adventure and thwart the corporate legions of hell. It's not a very good book.This week in the Disc-Course: a street rat starting a one man band, local water parks, Rincewind and Squeaky Voiced Teen, one of those guys who hates me, monkey's pawed, the worst tortillas, a big wooden horse, Blind Iowa, the anti-Holly, plot critical sandwich, ten thousand years detention, quicksand, Rincewind goes to Hell, Ted Dancin', and so many colored pencils.Click here for the Water Country jingleClick here for a not great cover songFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 56 in Moving Pictures (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'His fingers closed around a small, unexpected rectangle. He pulled it out and looked at it. Silverfish's card."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's an illustrated Discworld crossover special as Georgina Chadderton rejoins Liz and Ben to talk gods, dragons and outer space in the twenty-seventh Discworld novel, 2001's The Last Hero, illustrated by Paul Kidby. Genghiz Cohen, Emperor of the Agatean Empire, has deserted his throne, and along with his horde is heading for the mountain at the hub of the world. He is planning to pay a little visit on the gods, and "return what the first hero stole" - with explosive interest. According to the wizards, this will destroy the source of the Disc's magic and thus end all life on (and under) it. A rag-tag team of misfits is quickly assembled - a dangerously genius inventor, a stout and honest officer of the Watch, and a reluctant "wizzard" - to take a risky flight looping around the Disc, and intercept Cohen before its too late... The second large-format illustrated Discworld novel, The Last Hero - subtitled "A Discworld Fable" - is a relatively short story, but crosses the streams of the various sub-series more than any other book, providing Paul Kidby with the chance to showcase a whole host of characters and places - including the Disc as seen from above and below! It both feels like a throwback to some of the earlier books - the whole world at stake, Rincewind and Cohen on wild Disc-crossing adventures, the gods playing games with mortals - and a fitting last hurrah (more or less) for two of Pratchett's most beloved characters. Is this a fitting send-off for Cohen? What's happening in the Agatean Empire now its Emperor is gone? How many hours have you spent poring over the illustrations finding references, in-jokes and Easter eggs? And what do you imagine the minstrel's saga sounds like? Join the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat55 on social media. Guest Georgina Chadderton (aka George Rex) is a comic book creator and illustrator based in Adelaide. She was last our guest way back in #Pratchat7 in 2018 to talk about the first illustrated Discworld novel, Eric. Since then she's continued to make delightful autobiographical comic (including her upcoming book), run comic-making workshops, organise the Papercuts Comics Festival, and even found the time to create the cover art for Pratchat! You can find her online at georgerexcomics.com, where you can find out about Georgina's upcoming events and also buy all manner of cool comics, postcards and stickers. You can also follow her on Instagram at @georgerexcomics. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our website. Over the next two months we're returning to Pratchett's sci-fi work. In June, we're discussing his 1990 short story "#IFDEFDEBUG + 'WORLD/ENOUGH' + 'TIME'" with science fiction author Sean Williams. That'll leave us (and you) a bit of extra reading time before July for the third Long Earth novel, The Long Mars, which we'll be discussing with our old friend Joel Martin! But in the meantime, you can send us your questions for the short story using the hashtag #Pratchat56, or via email to chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

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The Last Continent is about Fourecks, a country legally distinct from Australia because Sir Terry says so--and because it's a country of original people and accidental new inhabitants, rather than colonial powers. Also it hasn't rained for a very long time.Pratchat is a podcast from Splendid Chaps Productions in which hosts Elizabeth Flux and Ben McKenzie have embarked on a six (ish) year mission to read every Terry Pratchett novel*, one a month, and discuss them with special guests. Elizabeth Flux (Pratchat Library Captain) is a freelance writer with a focus on film and pop culture, and previous editor of Voiceworks magazine. She has been published in Film Ink, Metro, Junkee, The Lifted Brow, Spook and Kill Your Darlings and can be found tweeting terrible puns @ElizabethFlux. Pratchat is Elizabeth's first podcast.Ben McKenzie is a comedian, writer and game designer. His work includes the VR game Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown and time travel radio comedy Night Terrace (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra). He also teaches creative writing for 100 Story Building and comedy writing for the Australian College of the Arts. Ben tweets at @McKenzie_Ben, his favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus, and his favourite element is helium. Ben has previous hosted and produced the podcasts Splendid Chaps, re:Discovery and On the Terrace, some of which may return.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/

It's bloody-minded, and it's also too sapient to be a thing, but in the Last Continent, the Luggage truly discovers its softer side as it falls in with a group of female impersonators who are *really* into shoes. Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anything we do. And we know you love your Pratchett! Facebook page: Tales from the DrumWebsite: https://www.podpage.com/Tales-From-the-Drum/YouTube channel: Tales from the Drum email: medievalgnome@gmail.Discord server: Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions Patreon page: Medieval Gnome Productions Medieval Gnome Productions is-- CEF: Holly Goze; Engineer: Ivy “Munchkin” McDoodles; host: The Medieval Gnome; and, our new media consultant Artimas the Chill.The Turtle MovesGNU Terry Pratchett 

There's one of everything on Mono Island—until the UU faculty show up. I doubt I have to draw you a picture. Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anything we do. And we know you love your Pratchett! Facebook page: Tales from the DrumWebsite: https://www.podpage.com/Tales-From-the-Drum/YouTube channel: Tales from the Drum email: medievalgnome@gmail.Discord server: Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions Patreon page: Medieval Gnome Productions Medieval Gnome Productions is-- CEF: Holly Goze; Engineer: Ivy “Munchkin” McDoodles; host: The Medieval Gnome; and, our new media consultant Artimas the Chill.The Turtle MovesGNU Terry Pratchett 

Mrs. Whitlow manages to get herself stranded on a desert island with several of the UU faculty. She is the soul of propriety, but she does get a pretty big kick out of some of the gentlemen's ideas (and ignorance.) Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anything we do. And we know you love your Pratchett! Facebook page: Tales from the DrumWebsite: https://www.podpage.com/Tales-From-the-Drum/YouTube channel: Tales from the Drum email: medievalgnome@gmail.Discord server: Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions Patreon page: Medieval Gnome Productions Medieval Gnome Productions is-- CEF: Holly Goze; Engineer: Ivy “Munchkin” McDoodles; host: The Medieval Gnome; and, our new media consultant Artimas the Chill.The Turtle MovesGNU Terry Pratchett 

Fifteen years after his debut in The Color of Magic, Rincewind takes a final bow as protagonist in The Last Continent, the 22nd Discworld novel, published in 1998.Thanks for popping in for some Pratchips! We love all you guys. We love anyone who derives pleasure, enjoyment, or solace from anything we do. And we know you love your Pratchett! Facebook page: Tales from the DrumWebsite: https://www.podpage.com/Tales-From-the-Drum/YouTube channel: Tales from the Drum email: medievalgnome@gmail.Discord server: Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions Patreon page: Medieval Gnome Productions Medieval Gnome Productions is-- CEF: Holly Goze; Engineer: Ivy “Munchkin” McDoodles; host: The Medieval Gnome; and, our new consultant Artimas the Chill.

Science comedian and public health nerd Alanta Colley joins Liz and Ben on their second trip through Discworld into Roundworld, as they join Rincewind and the wizards of Unseen University in Pratchett's second collaboration with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen: 2002's The Science of Discworld II: The Globe. While on a team-building exercise in the woods near Unseen University, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully and his faculty are accidentally swept along when something makes its way through the Discworld into Roundworld. That something turns out to be elves - nasty, parasitic lifeforms who feast on the imagination and emotions of others. Roundworld - the universe in a bottle created by the wizards' experiments, which somehow runs without any magic - has been altered by their presence. Now the wizards - including Rincewind, the long-suffering Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography - have to find a way to get rid of them without dooming the local human population in the process... Having entirely missed humankind in The Science of Discworld, the wizards are back for another go! And so are science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - but this time, they don't want to explain cosmology, basic physics and the history of the Earth, but instead sell you on the idea that storytelling is the essential ingredient that makes humans...human. Are we really Pans narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee, rather than Homo sapiens, the "wise man"? Is it wise to write a popular science book with an author who will guarantee the book will be read again twenty years later - and to include some "cutting edge" science, no less? What do a debunked psychological experiment, the term "overcommitment", and filthy explanations of fairytales have to do with it? And who's this shrewd and world-wise street wizard named Rincewind, and can we have some more of his adventures please? Let us know what you think using the hashtag #Pratchat47 on social media, and join in the conversation! Guest Alanta Colley is a comedian, science communicator and storyteller whose solo shows include Parasites Lost (about parasites), Days of Our Hives (about beekeeping) and The Origin of Faeces (you can probably work that one out yourself). She also wrote and performed the "comedy experiment" You Chose Poorly with our own Ben McKenzie. Since 2017 Alanta has also been the host and producer of Sci Fight, a series of comedy science debates; both Ben and Liz have been guest speakers, along with previous Pratchat guests Anna Ahveninen (#Pratchat35) and Nicholas J Johnson (#Pratchat38). You can hear Ben and Anna's last appearance on Sci Fight in this episode of the Climactic podcast, or see the first online debate for Melbourne Science Gallery on YouTube here. Visit scifight.com.au to sign up to the mailing list, and you can find Alanta as @lannyopolis on Twitter and Instagram, via Facebook or at alantacolley.com. You can find out more about what Liz has been writing by following her as @ElizabethFlux on Twitter or Instagram. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. Next episode we read one of the few precious Discworld novels left to us, though luckily we got a little preview this time around; yes, we're joining up with Susan, Death and the history monks for the very timely Thief of Time, which we'll be discussing with journalist Ben Riley! Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat48, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com

Here it is—a structured Pratchips format: (!)Mondays—a Discworld bookTuesdays—a Discworld Person (aka character)Wednesdays—a Discworld place (aka place)Thursdays—a Discworld thing (oh baby this one covers a lot of ground)Today's book, selected by random number generation, is Interesting Times. Check it out. And let me know how you like this format vis-à-vis the previous freeform approach. You can reach me at randy@mindkindle.net. The Turtle MovesGNU Terry PratchettMind How You Go

This week we consider wizardry and witchcraft on the Disc. Specifically, we look at how they are portrayed over time in the series. Wizards and wizardry begin and end as buffoonish. They are comic relief.Witchcraft, on the other hand, is serious business, and we learn more and more about this as time goes on. Ultimately, we realize that, at least day-to-day, wizardry is superfluous, and witchcraft important, and often vital to the lives of the inhabitants of the Discworld. Remember that we have two contests going on: The Portal Poetry Contest, and the Name That Show Contest. Deadline for entries for each contest is NEXT FRIDAY, August 20th.        The Poetry Contest is your chance to get creative, and to maybe win a custom episode of the Portal just for you. Send you poems to me at randy@mindkindle.net, and I will read them on the show (unless you'd rather I didn't). I'll also select three winners from among the entries, and those three winners will each receive their own custom episode. You aren't limited to one poem—send is as many as you'd like.         The Name the Show Contest also has a deadline of September 20th, and as with the Haiku Contest you can send in as many name suggestions as you want. My decision as to the winner will be final, and alas! the winner will have to sign a legal thingie transferring rights to the name to Medieval Gnome Productions.        The goal is simple: to come up with a new name for the show which is more likely to attract Terry Pratchett/Discworld fans and readers. The name does not have to include the word portal. Check the names of other Discworld-related podcasts if you need some inspiration.        The winner of this contest will be announced on October 1st (the last episode for season 10.) The prize for this contest is a copy of the brand-new book, The Ankh-Morpork Archives. The book won't be published until August 10th, but I have pre-ordered a copy for our lucky contest winner.        So tell me, what should the new name for this show be? And, PLEASE send me some new questions for Granny! You can ask her anything.You can send your emails to me at randy@mindkindle.net.You're also invited to come join our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions! Just go to the main Discord page and enter “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.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=trueGNU Terry Pratchett The Turtle MovesMind How You Go

There apparently is an anthropomorphic personification of the Creator of the Disc. He's a little old man who carries the universe around in a sack. Maybe. Rincewind meets him twice, and he's a bit different the second time. But then, who isn't?You can reach me at randy@mindkindle.net. I'd love to hear from you!The Turtle MovesGNU Terry PratchettMind How You Go

Our showrunner Edward Champion discusses the first chapter of "Pattern Language." Subjects discussed include his hesitations about creating, the dangers of revealing too much, Chris Ware, being dubious about your own work, why the first part of "Pattern Language" was split into two parts, why Pete Lutz is a marvelous man, how an old UCB trick resulted in the strange mix of Shakespeare and I Love Lucy, designing custom vernacular, the absence of slang in fantasy stories, Total Meats as a metaphor for Whole Foods, scouring through mythology to come up with obscure beast and creature names, the influence of Hitchhiker's, Douglas Adams, the number of alternative Eds buried within The Gray Area, why Leanne Troutman is a magnificent actor, Peter Falk impressions, the importance of being present as a director, the number of takes you should do with an actor, using every spatula in the house for the BBQ sound design, how being a prolific cook inspires fictitious food dishes, convincing eating moments on film, Moonstruck, how his opposition to self-checkout in stores inspired worldbuilding, London store technology, people and robots, creating fictitious geography, why the Johnsons matter in The Gray Area, the fajita demon origin story, the influence of Fritz Leiber, Terry Pratchett and the Rincewind novels, recording electrical sounds for the Gray Area, having doubts as an artist, stylizing the demons as wiseacres, showing the humanity of outliers, why the demons are obsessed with exercise, using music to cloak deficiencies, Terminator 2, and telling a story from the demon's perspective.  (Running time: 19 minutes, 8 seconds.)

This second instalment in our experiment in three-minute podcasting is a bit of musing about the development of transportation in the Discworld series, both in terms of the form (fantasy to mundane) and of the richness and variety of transportation means over the course of the Discworld series. 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 

We've waited two and a half years for its 35th anniversary, but finally Joel Martin rejoins Liz and Ben to resolve the Discworld's first (and most literal) cliffhanger in The Light Fantastic, the second Discworld novel, first published on the 2nd of June, 1986. When we last saw them, failed wizard Rincewind, Twoflower the tourist and Twoflower's magical Luggage - a living chest on legs - had fallen over the Rim of the Discworld. But instead of tumbling forever through space, they mysteriously find themselves in the Forest of Skund, surrounded by talking trees, gnomes and gingerbread cottages. The senior wizards of Unseen University - including Chancellor Galder Weatherwax, and the second of his Order, Ymper Trymon - soon discover what's happened: the Octavo, the Creator's book of spells, wants to keep Rincewind alive. One of its spells is inside his head, and all eight need to be read to avert an impending apocalypse heralded by an ominous red star... While the usual story is that Pratchett only returned to the Discworld because The Colour of Magic proved popular, he did set himself up for a sequel by dropping his protagonists off the edge of the world. Unlike its predecessor, The Light Fantastic has a pretty straightforward plot about averting the end of the world - but that doesn't stop Pratchett from parodying everything from fairytales to druidic sacrifices and the conventions of fantasy writing. Plus this book introduces some concepts, and especially characters, who will come back later, including a certain no-longer-human Librarian, Death's adopted daughter Ysabell, and octogenarian barbarian Genghiz Cohen. (The rest of the supporting cast are less fortunate...) Does this feel like a "real" Discworld book yet? How do we reconcile these versions of Death and Ysabell with the ones we come to love later? Is it really a bad idea to start with the early books - or is it fun to begin with the early versions of ideas Pratchett would later develop more fully? And what on the Disc happens to Rincewind between this book and Sourcery? Use the hashtag #Pratchat44 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Joel Martin is a podcaster and writer who has joined us twice before: way back in #Pratchat14 to discuss The Colour of Magic, and then again in #Pratchat31 for The Long Earth. While his podcasts are currently on hiatus, there's soon to be exciting news regarding his speculative fiction writers festival, Speculate! You can watch for Speculate news on Twitter at @SpecFicVic, and join the festival's mailing list via specfic.com.au. Find Joel online at thepenofjoel.com or on Twitter at @thepenofjoel. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. Next episode we go back to another second book of a series, as we take a little break from the Discworld. Yes, it's book two of Pratchett's five novel collaboration with Stephen Baxter, The Long War! Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat45, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com

Let's talk about Sourcery by Terry Pratchett, the fifth Discworld book! Rincewind and a few new friends save the Disc from being destroyed by Sourcery while alcohol saves the world from ending. This episode contains spoilers for the first five books of the Discworld series. Cultural references for this book: https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/sourcery.htmlTwitter: @stuckonarrakisStraw Haired Chits Discord: https://discord.gg/TqPt9Pm Email: stuckonarrakis@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stuckonarrakis

This week Sourcery comes to a close, Rincewind and co. narrowly avert the Apocralypse! The four horsemen are there, the ice giants are there, the things from the dungeon dimensions are there, but unfortunately our hosts were less than thrilled.This week in the Disc-Course: We've never been funny, warfuckers, fondly regarding Quirm, Where's the stank?, reading to your children, Discworld months, The Books, Cohen 2, proto-Good Omens, an island off the coast of France, Daddy Vorebucks, the longest Ook, cock your sock, staff dad, destiny's children, wuzards, Nice Giants, we saved the Disc, Ridcully fucks, time for ice, sponge hammer, orangutan research, Jess' wizard boyfriend, that's enough activism, my ape strength, and in conclusion sourcery is a land of contrasts.Click here for a good Snuff coverClick here for a bad Snuff coverClick here for a good Equal Rites coverClick here for a good Mort coverFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 57 in Wyrd Sisters (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "The sargent looked up at her with an expression of mad gratitude. He said, "Argle."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While this is probably the best Rincewind we've seen, the book is weighed down by leaning hard on a mishmash of Fantasy Asia tropes... and then there's the Silver Horde and some repeated sexual assault jokes. We're not saying DON'T read the book, but approach it with open eyes and an understanding that it overall may not sit well with you. We didn't feel comfortable deeply dissecting the Fantasy Asia stuff considering our own backgrounds, but we want to circle and highlight it to you. That being said, there are some wickedly smart jokes throughout--and ample room for TwoWind shipping.For a much better resource on Fantasy Asia, we strongly encourage you to check out all the great work being done over at Asians Represent, both the podcast and related works.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/

As we continue Sourcery, Rincewind and his rag-tag squad must face a deadly prank tunnel and escape the crumbling palace as the Mage Wars 2.0 start up. Meanwhile Sconner and the Boys try to burn down the library.This week in the Disc-Course: Weird story perverts, Making up a guy to get mad at, Rincewind trans moments, stability wow, alligator escalator, martial lore, stop being a wizard, the baby war, Countess Common Terry, not very cash barbarian, your ideal woman, fried ape, Grandpa's Technohub, Bubbler brand loyalty, #notallwizards, TF2 Unusual, wow cool wizards, a chest that I treasured, used to be moths, that dress from a few years back, Doomer Rincewind, cringe wizardsona, and another great track for The Dark Ians.For those playing along at home: Finish Sourcery!-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we continue Sourcery, Coin's(?) reign of terror continues over the university, and we say goodbye to some beloved characters. Meanwhile, Rincewind and Conina say hello to the mismatched orientalist caricature that is the land of Klatch.This week in the Disc-Course: Happy birthday Grandma, Vetinari remade, boat spells, book covers, Archchancellor Roku, the most posted in thread of all time, go web go, more Zlorfs!, The Diddler Era, some kind of toxicity, the archchancellor's thong, little worlds, fuck them kids, a son who's so dangerous, sex mural, major league Idahos, fancy magic egg, rad tears, budget reports, audible comma, and the biggest disappointment of Jess' life.For those playing along at home: Read up to page 242 in Sourcery (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'Wha-' he began, which is a pretty poor syllable on which to end a life."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're starting Sourcery, in which a young boy has unimaginable power bestowed upon him to exact his father's revenge on Unseen University. But more importantly, our wizzerd boi Rincewind is back, and he's here to babysit a hat on a globetrotting adventure!Today in the Disc-Course: a Rincewind gaiden, feet, wwizard squared, Cats are nice, a merry chase, filler kids, Super-Archchancellor Chalmers, killer SEO, Ee or ai, Coin Incognito, dick joke speech, RIP Wayzegoose, van wizards, the seagull that stole Julie's breakfast burrito, pussy-ant, Spelter's Warm Milk, Lupin III, kick the soft bits, any Tom, Dick or Zlorf, men are cowards, Submit to the Hat, the new world must be smothered, Rankin/Bass B-sides, Magic! at the University, children are people, and The Favoritos.Click here for the Solstice WizardClick here to be reminded that Cohen fuckedClick here for Kubla Kraus and Here for Robot CarnivalFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 163 in Sourcery (depending on your edition of the book), ending on the line: "'Wooly underwear?'"-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phonebook under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. She rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join co host Emme as she chats with indie artist Autumn Dawn Leader in this exclusive interview, right here on Heart of Indie Radio! Autumn Dawn Leader (her real name and not a stage one!) is a classically trained contralto vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who writes emotively intense, often dark and brutal, trans-genre - sorta folkyish - music. She is a seasoned performer of over four decades (she started early, beginning her life in music at the tender age of four). Autumn resides in Loughborough, UK, with her husband Jamie, her two youngest children and a barmy cat named Rincewind.

It's XBook, Chapter 7 - Ginger Is Summoned.  That book I wrote about half a lifetime ago returns with a new episode. Have I warmed up to the novel now that the story actually seems to be starting?  Be warned as there is an actual plot point when Ginger receives a telephone call.  To be fair, this is a chapter that is not for the queasy.  Each episode, I read out a chapter and then deep-dive analyse it. The term "Death of the Author" keeps popping up in this particular episode. It's an audiobook with added criticism from the author himself.  After I read the chapter, I talk about crucial Act 1 story elements such as the Inciting Incident, Point of No Return, and the Call to Action. I look at the movies Back to the Future, Battle Royale and Die Hard with a couple of mentions of Rincewind from Discworld to see how they deal with the same story elements that I discuss.  I also ponder how my use of anti-narrative surrealism works with more traditional narrative story-telling. Find out why I had an issue with Luis Bunuel's Viridiana.  00:02:49 The Chapter 00:16:47 General Notes (Story Structure) 00:40:13 Psychologist's Chair (Anti-Narrative vs Narrative devices)  00:48:11 Conclusion  

Episode watched: #138 "The Treasure of Pompeii and Venemous Snakes" In this episode, Lupin throws himself into snake hell to get his hands on some treasure that eluded even his grandfather. This week we talk about Holly fucked up, the lupin laptop, read my podcast, cooking corner, snantlers, professor Goemon, the summer of AD 79, Fujikoface, a different habit, centipede infested sex, scooby doo bullshit, voice powers, jump the nuns, is Lupin I problematic, big Rincewind energy, anime English text, hospital theft, snake reveal party, snaringan, snories, demolishes this man, 99 Snake Balloons, big fuckin' net, gum in the nose, the Lupin signal, descending hotness order, just be a girl, and new snake just dropped.

Hello friends, and welcome to another series! Let's talk about The Color of Magic, book one of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett! In this book, we meet Rincewind the failed wizard, Twoflower the disk's first tourist, and the INFAMOUS LUGGAGE!This episode only contains spoilers for the first book. Twitter: @stuckonarrakisStuck on Arrakis Discord: https://discord.gg/TqPt9Pm Email: stuckonarrakis@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stuckonarrakis

This week, we had some technical difficulties courtesy of Terry's ghost. In Discworld, the gang meets some pleasant people, meets some unpleasant people, and does some shopping and magic.Today in the Disc-Course: the worst ASMR imaginable, troll lore, Rincewind's onion hound, old rock times, lighting a fire in a troll's mouth, 50% of mercenaries, the worst Monster Hunter monster, bustin', Diamond Dentures, literary Gilligan cut, Weems, Pogflower, FMK, shantytown for Jesus, Millennium Potato, uses for paper, and the seachalet.For those playing along at home: Finish The Light Fantastic!-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com, follow the show @thedisccourse on twitter, or find us in the phone book under Zlorf!Our theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we continue The Light Fantastic where Rincewind must enter Death's domain to save his best friend/burden. Meanwhile Trymon stages a hostile takeover of Unseen University.Today in the disccourse: a ceremony to make the computer work, nerd priests, Ooo he thinn, 7 year old barbarian tactics, no lesbians, Caroc cards, gaming chairs, What's a gender?, Terry 'I am looking respectfully' Pratchett, fantasy jocks vs fantasy nerds, Death Valley Girl, dads and their orgies, and teacher dreams.Click here for Dog of WisdomYou can find the Eidolon Playtest (which Julie does the art for) on Audio EntropyFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 137 (depending on your edition of the book), up to the sentence: "No one ever asked its opinion about anything."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com or follow the show @thedisccourse on twitterOur theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz, Ben and science communicator Anna Ahveninen have the weird sensation of being a specimen in a jar as they discuss 1999's The Science of Discworld, co-written by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart. By bribing the Unseen University faculty with the promise of cheap heating, research wizard Ponder Stibbons gets permission to try splitting the thaum, the magical equivalent of the atom. The experiment is a success, but fills the University with dangerous raw magic. To use it up, sentient thinking machine Hex initiates "the Roundworld Project", the creation of a reality devoid of magic. The universe in a bottle that results has no narrative imperative, only one kind of light, and not a single star turtle. What it does have are rocks, flaming balls of gas and rules. This all seems very unnatural to the wizards, so there's only one thing to do: poke it with a stick and see what happens... After reading one too many "Science of Star Trek" books, science writers and Pratchett fans Jack and Ian joined forces with Sir Terry to write a book in which they would use the wizards' exploration of a bottle universe to explore our own, and the science that explains it. The concept was a bit of a gamble, and no-one wanted to publish it at first, but it proved a big hit, spawning three sequels and a major revision to this first volume, three years later. The Science of Discworld concentrates on the beginning and evolution of the universe and the history of life on Earth, with plenty of asides about the nature of science and how it is taught (including the now famous concept of "lies-to-children"). In between these essays, the Unseen University wizards poke our own "Roundworld" with a big stick and try to make sense of a world without magic - in part by forcing Rincewind into the role of virtual astronaut. What did you learn from The Science of Discworld? Do you enjoy the alternating fantasy and science chapters? How does it compare to the other "The Science of" books? And does the science still stand up, eighteen years after the revised edition of 2002? Use the hashtag #Pratchat35 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Anna Ahveninen is a science communicator, writer and (ex) chemist who currently works at the Australian Academy of Science. You can follow her on Twitter at @Lady_Beaker. Anna also wanted to give a shout out to the STEMMinist Book Club (the second M is for Medicine), who you can also find on Twitter at @stemminist, and on Goodreads. Turns out we jumped the gun a little with Collisions - the Liminal magazine fiction anthology won't be published until November! We'll remind you in a couple of episodes. Next month it's back to the Ramtops for our favourite coven's last hurrah, as Lancre is invaded by vampires in Carpe Jugulum! We'll be joined by actor, singer and cabaret star Gillian Cosgriff. Get your questions in via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat36, or send us an email at chat@pratchatpodcast.com. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

A Wizard, A Barbarian, and some sentient Luggage team up to save the world from an all powerful Sourcerer! This month we read Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. A Rincewind novel set in the Discworld. If you're not sure what any of that means, don't worry we've got you covered. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/WABPod)

This week brings a new beginning with the same old schmucks as we begin The Light Fantastic. Our lads get lost in the woods and meet a hardware engineer; meanwhile, Unseen University launches a wizzerdhunt to get the spell in Rincewind's head to fulfill a prophecy that will hopefully save the Disc from the big red star A'Tuin is on a collision course with! Phew....Today in the Disc-Course: a wizard book, Hot Local Tortoises in Your Super Cluster, sick vape tricks, TryHard Man, a real fun party, Mt. Get-a-Load-of-this-Guy, the tooth fairy, kids these days, sheet cake, My Goodness My Spells, kicked in the shins eternally, anti-Death box, a chest with a chest, the weather rock, and the Discworld zodiacClick here for a good vintage Guinness advertClick here for Spellbreak, the magic battle royaleYou can find the Eidolon Playtest (which Julie does the art for) on Audio EntropyFor those playing along at home: Read up to page 137 (depending on your edition of the book), up to the sentence: "No one ever asked its opinion about anything."-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com or follow the show @thedisccourse on twitterOur theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Weeelllll this book's problematic section isn't quite as long as Pyramids but there's a Mesoamerican parody that stuck out like a sore thumb. This book wants to be a few different things and doesn't quite do any of them--it's mostly "bad things happen near Rincewind" and historical/literary jokes. No invisible dragons, despite already being Discworld canon, and no Pope-bothering. On the plus side, there is a high percentage of the book taken up by the Luggage being a good good boy.Check us out on twitter at @atuin_podFollow individual hosts at @urizenxvii, @The_Miannai, @mynaminnarr, 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/

Well this podcast just got a mascot I guess Transcript available at pencilpaper.fandom.com

Episode Notes The things we do for our fans! This episode was late because we have to deal with the book 'Sourcery', which means talking about Terry's not good colonial tropes and weird horniness, but there's also a sad magic boy! I don't know folks, we're doing our best. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whowatchesthewatch

This month, Liz and Manning venture into the golden land of the Agatean Empire for the fifth Rincewind book, Interesting Times.   Discord Twitter Facebook Tumblr YouTube

This week we're treated to Terry Pratchett presents Cosmic Horror with 0 slur named cats. Twoflower bumbles into the lair of an eldritch beast, Rincewind meets some dryads, and the lads make a new friend.You can listen to Black Sunday by Federale here.Today in the Disc-Course: Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs, tree himbos, not!Europe, overheating trolls, Wizzerd, when Doctor Who was a good show that we liked to watch, psychic clams, Mark suffers for his art, and a sapiosexual sword.-----You can email us at thedisccoursepod@gmail.com or follow the show @thedisccourse on twitterOur theme music is by Maxie Satan; find her on bandcamp at Pastel Hand Grenade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Part 1 of our reread of The Light Fantastic! We're putting on our intellectual hats this week and talking about relevant topics like Sapir-Whorf, post-modern interpretations of King Arthur, misuse of archaeological terms, and whether Rincewind and Twoflower are boning! We are making a list of famous people we hate, and it's all of them.

An hour after Edward Colston drowned we recorded a podcast about funny Rincewind.

We are going back to where it all began and read the first half of The Colour of Magic. Is this a good introduction to the Discworld series? How many times has Ankh-Morpork burned? And what's up with Death?

Sourcery marks the first book with some disagreement among our hosts, but what would life be without some healthy, well-mannered debate? Strengths include solid lore-building regarding the wizards, including why they're forbidden from boning down, and more of Terry's musings on identity. Weaknesses include coherence as an overall novel and some uncomfortable orientalism. CW: frank discussion of child abuse in at 46:22 out at 55:13Check us out on twitter at @atuin_podFollow individual hosts at @urizenxvii, @The_Miannai, @mynaminnarr, and @JustenHunterWe 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.

In episode 29, Liz, Ben and guest Fury join Rincewind on a journey to a strangely familiar land in Pratchett's 1992 loving Discworld parody of Australia, The Last Continent. (A quick content note: this one has more swearing than usual, but we bleeped the c-bombs out.) The Librarian of Unseen University, long ago turned into an orang utan, is suffering from a magical illness. Archchancellor Ridcully and his faculty could help him - if only they knew his original human name. Unfortunately the only person likely to remember is former Assistant Librarian Rincewind, and the wizards sent him to Agatea - and then accidentally propelled him across the Disc. He ended up in XXXX - aka Fourecks, aka the Last Continent, aka “that place far away full of deadly animals” - but he’s managed to survive. The locals out in the desert seem friendly enough, at least until he asks when it will rain. But something isn’t right. The land needs a hero. What it’s got is the Eternal Coward... Pratchett came to Australia many times, and his experience of the country seems to have rubbed off. Fourecks affectionately parodies Australian music, slang, politics and culture, including Mad Max, The Man From Snowy River, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, thongs, corks on hats, the cultural cringe, Vegemite, pie floaters and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. It’s quite the ride for the Australian reader... Rincewind is moulded into the stereotypical “bush hero”, but his touchstones aren’t entirely post-invasion - Pratchett also tries for a nuanced and deep Discworld interpretation of Aboriginal culture and beliefs, even if he doesn’t include any actual Aboriginal characters. Do you think he makes it work? Could you follow all the Australian references? Is there enough of a plot, or is it just an excuse for a bunch of jokes? Use the hashtag #Pratchat29 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Fury is a writer, illustrator and performer who previously appeared on Pratchat in episode 19, discussing Soul Music. They were recently seen in Gender Euphoria, a touring multi-disciplinary show celebrating trans experiences which has played in Melbourne and Sydney. Fury’s book I Don’t Understand How Emotions Work is available online now. You can also find out more about them at their web site furywrites.com, or follow them on Twitter as @fury_writes. Next month's episode was going to cover Pratchett’s 2012 sci-fi collaboration with Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth, but we've had a change of plan! Instead, we'll be taking a month off from book discussion to answer your questions about how to get into Pratchett, about past episodes, and about his work in general. Listen out for a special announcement with more information, and get your questions in via the hashtag #Pratchat30 by April 3rd. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

In episode 28, players Liz, Ben and guest Steve Lamattina press start and blast away at Pratchett's 1992 novel of kids, war and videogames, Only You Can Save Mankind. Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell isn't the best at computer games, but he loves them all the same. While playing Only You Can Save Mankind, a space combat simulator, he's taken by surprise when the Captain of the enemy ScreeWee fleet offers to surrender. After he accepts, the game starts to invade his dreams, and the aliens disappear - from everyone's computer. Something weird is going on - but at least it's a distraction from the war on TV and the Trying Times at home... Only You Can Save Mankind - dedicated to Pratchett's daughter Rhianna, now a renowned videogame writer - is explicitly about the first Gulf War (1990-1991), at a time when games looked more real and televised war looked more like a game. In early 2020, many themes of the book seem alarmingly current - even as the experience of computer games it describes is very firmly rooted in the past. Did you connect with Johnny's experience? Do you like videogames? Does this episode contain too much Pokémon and Freddi Fish? Use the hashtag #Pratchat28 (and maybe #DeliciousPokémon) on social media to join the conversation! Guest Steve Lamattina is a writer and editor who has worked in film, music, education and tech. He was also CEO of youth publishing company Express Media, and has written about food, events, movies, games, social media and much much more. You can find him on Twitter as @steve_lamattina. Next month it's back to the Discworld, and close to home - more or less - as we catch up with Rincewind in 1998's The Last Continent, and welcome back a returning guest: Fury! We'll be recording in late February, so get your questions in before then via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat29. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

¿Quieres escuchar el audiolibro completo? Muy pronto en www.megustaescuchar.comUn nuevo día, sereno y apacible, empieza en el Mundodisco. Como es habitual, la gran tortuga navega por el éter entregada a reflexiones inescrutables, sosteniendo en su caparazón a los cuatro elefantes sobre los que descansa el mundo. Sin embargo, se avecina una inexorable colisión con una malévola estrella roja, y solo una persona puede poner remedio al inminente desastre: Rincewind, el inepto y cobarde hechicero. Por desgracia, Rincewind fue visto por última vez cuando caía por el borde del mundo...Esta serie de novelas está considerada la más divertida y heterodoxa saga fantástica jamás escrita. Como ha señalado la crítica, «las novelas de Terry Pratchett deberían ser lectura obligada para aquellos que se toman la vida demasiado en serio». See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Season 3 Episode 11We conclude our look at the wizards, and wizardry, of the Discworld. Our attention centers on the evolution of wizardry during the course of the Discworld novels. We take a look at the hierarchy of wizardry in the early books, and examine the evolution of wizardry at Unseen University. UU comes to embody Discworld wizardry, after the ascension of Mustrum Ridcully to the Archchancellorship. Ridcully is indeed the fulcrum on which the concept of wizardry transforms. No more Dead Men's Shoes; no more reference to or concern with Orders or Levels of wizardry.We also explore the role the younger wizards of UU, especially Ponder Stibbons, are playing in a further evolution of wizardry: a movement away from the octograms and dribbly candles of traditional magic practice, and toward a more scientific view of the vocation. Finally, we end with Rincewind, whose evolution through the books takes him from being a failed student, ejected from UU after his look at the Octavo, to being a professor at UU, holding at least 18 positions (most all of which are meaningless) and even being allowed to sit in on faculty meetings.And as always, you can reach me at randy@mindkindle.net, or go to the Portal's Discworld feedback page, at https://discord.gg/snVHpxMRemember you can also join the Portal's Discord chat channel, Friends of the Discworld Portal, at https://discord.gg/YBD2rzK. There are now 11 listeners who have joined this channel, so with any luck we will be able to start having some actual chats soon. I host a one-hour chat at 7 a.m. and at 3 p.m. (US Pacific Standard Time, or 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. GMT.)Finally, here is this week's lottery question, and your last chance to enter the lottery. Winners will be announced at next week's show, which will be the final episode of season three. To the question: If a “lost Discworld” novel were to be found, what would you like it to be about? And remember to keep committing those random acts of kindness. 

When Ashley was young and acting up, his mum used to tell him he'd be lucky to get to his next birthday. Well now he's 31 and he's not only defied those expectations, he's also one half of a podcasting duo that has three episodes! Congratulations him.Episode three is all about adventure games focussed through the lens of 1995's excellent Discworld, this game where you take on the role of Rincewind, a hapless wizard roving around the vastness of Ankh-Morpork trying to riddle out the mystery of a secret brotherhood intent on wreaking havoc with a dragon summoned from another dimension. The game has an unbelievable cast, with none other than Eric Idle as the voice of our hero.So sit back, relax (unless you're driving, then pay attention), and listen to Chris and Ashley take a ramble through the annals of 90s adventure gaming and beyond.If you like what you hear please like and subscribe, and follow us on:Twitter: @thisgamewhereYouTube: This Game WhereFacebook: www.facebook.com/thisgamewhereMusic for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp at: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/

Randy@mindkindle.netBelieve it or not, I do talk about the Discworld this week. Just not for a while. There are more show notes than usual this time, but then there is also more show than usual. There are a couple of things I would like all of you to give me some feedback on, and although these are described in some detail in the first part of the show, here's a quick recap:Would you prefer the prerecorded intro I've been using this season, or would you rather have the more free-form (and unique) intros from seasons 1 and 2? This week's show is 40 minutes long. I had a listener mention my doing a longer show, and I've been thinking about it since Day One. So, I tried it this week. I'm excited to hear what you think about it, and I want you to have a chance to make your voice heard on the issue.As I say in the show, I will start doing a 40-minute show every week as soon as I get 20 Patreon subscribers at $5 per month. The specific mechanics of that are to be determined, but that is my goal. If you'd like to make it a goal of yours, please consider getting yourself signed up as a Discworld Portal supporter at $5 per month.If you're considering plunking down some of your hard-earned money every month to help support the show, please let me know of any questions or potential conditions you might have.  The “experts” all say this is impossible—there is absolutely no way I can get 20 subscribers out of a fan base of maybe 200 people. Statistics say that can't be done. One of my hobbies is to prove statisticians wrong. Anyway….You can go directly to the Portal's page here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045And here is a great page, my favorite reference page for all things Discworld in fact, from the lspace wiki: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

A magic amulet has turned Finn the Human into a big scary dragon a la Eustace Scrubb in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but ain't nobody learnin a lesson about hubris THIS time! Let's ALL become dragons; Hell Yeah!; 90's pop unlocking hidden areas of our brains; Spencer is limitless now; Gangs with flair, get weird with it!; Everyone has their own alien; Cats is just Hamtaro for adults; I can see a lion whenever I want; Nobody's feelin the love tonight; Characters rolled: Rincewind, Susan Strong, Kermit The Frog; Music used: Theme from Teen Wolf Too - The Band Known As Sea Water Bliss, Get Down - b4-4

Si eres jugador/a de MMORPG, o de videojuegos probablemente habrás fantaseado con aquellos libros que te gustaría que tuviesen su MMORPG. Verte con tu avatar dentro de sus mundos, aceptando misiones de Kvothe, acompañando a LA MUERTE de Terry Pratchett en su misión de ayudar a Rincewind, buscándole un corazón al hombre de hojalata o en una batalla masiva entre Slytherin vs Gryffindor. Pues eso es lo que hemos estado haciendo durante una hora en este podcast especial. Hemos debatido y traído entre los 4 un listado de libros que se merecen un mmorpg, libros que por su concepción o por la novedad que podría traer al mundo de los videojuegos online, deberían tener un mmorpg. Entre otros, durante el vídeo hablaremos de: - Mundodisco de Terry Prattchett - Juego de Tronos de George R.R. Martin - Bosque Mitago de Robert Holdstock - El nombre del viento de Patrick Rothfuss - La historia interminable de Michael Ende - Dune de Frank Herbert - El Mago de OZ - Harry Potter - Alicia en el País de las maravillas - Las cronicas de Malaz Y otros muchos libros, novelas o sagas que vamos comentando durante todo el vídeo y que creemos que podría tener sentido que se hiciese un MMORPG basado en esa IP.

Si eres jugador/a de MMORPG, o de videojuegos probablemente habrás fantaseado con aquellos libros que te gustaría que tuviesen su MMORPG. Verte con tu avatar dentro de sus mundos, aceptando misiones de Kvothe, acompañando a LA MUERTE de Terry Pratchett en su misión de ayudar a Rincewind, buscándole un corazón al hombre de hojalata o en una batalla masiva entre Slytherin vs Gryffindor. Pues eso es lo que hemos estado haciendo durante una hora en este podcast especial. Hemos debatido y traído entre los 4 un listado de libros que se merecen un mmorpg, libros que por su concepción o por la novedad que podría traer al mundo de los videojuegos online, deberían tener un mmorpg. Entre otros, durante el vídeo hablaremos de: - Mundodisco de Terry Prattchett - Juego de Tronos de George R.R. Martin - Bosque Mitago de Robert Holdstock - El nombre del viento de Patrick Rothfuss - La historia interminable de Michael Ende - Dune de Frank Herbert - El Mago de OZ - Harry Potter - Alicia en el País de las maravillas - Las cronicas de Malaz Y otros muchos libros, novelas o sagas que vamos comentando durante todo el vídeo y que creemos que podría tener sentido que se hiciese un MMORPG basado en esa IP.

Si eres jugador/a de MMORPG, o de videojuegos probablemente habrás fantaseado con aquellos libros que te gustaría que tuviesen su MMORPG. Verte con tu avatar dentro de sus mundos, aceptando misiones de Kvothe, acompañando a LA MUERTE de Terry Pratchett en su misión de ayudar a Rincewind, buscándole un corazón al hombre de hojalata o en una batalla masiva entre Slytherin vs Gryffindor. Pues eso es lo que hemos estado haciendo durante una hora en este podcast especial. Hemos debatido y traído entre los 4 un listado de libros que se merecen un mmorpg, libros que por su concepción o por la novedad que podría traer al mundo de los videojuegos online, deberían tener un mmorpg. Entre otros, durante el vídeo hablaremos de: - Mundodisco de Terry Prattchett - Juego de Tronos de George R.R. Martin - Bosque Mitago de Robert Holdstock - El nombre del viento de Patrick Rothfuss - La historia interminable de Michael Ende - Dune de Frank Herbert - El Mago de OZ - Harry Potter - Alicia en el País de las maravillas - Las cronicas de Malaz Y otros muchos libros, novelas o sagas que vamos comentando durante todo el vídeo y que creemos que podría tener sentido que se hiciese un MMORPG basado en esa IP.

On the Discworld, doorknobs can come to life, Death can be put out to pasture and belief precedes the object of that belief. This is all due to the interplay of the life force with the phenomena of belief and metaphor (and of course narrative causality.) Or maybe it's all, as Mustrum Ridcully might insist, because of quantum.This week's trivia question: What is Rincewind's first name? Send you answer to me at randy@mindkindle.net, for a bit of Discworld Portal fame, and more importantly, a chance to win that copy of The Compleat Ankh Morpork. 

Rincewind is back. Sigh. Again.

A wizard's staff got a knob on the end! We dive into the Discworld bookseries, and why not start with the man in robes and a pointy hat with stars that spells Wizzard? Join us as we explore whether or not Rincewind actually is a wizard. The Discworld Series were written by the master of humour and fantasy - Terry Pratchett!

Twenty-one today! In this episode, Elizabeth and Ben are joined by David Ryding of Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature as we rejoin Rincewind and some of his old friends in the 17th Discworld novel: 1994's Interesting Times. Rincewind, the worst student Unseen University ever had, has been quite literally to hell and back. But when a summons arrives in Ankh-Morpork requesting the presence of "the Great Wizzard", his old faculty bring him home, then send him to the far-flung Agatean Empire. All is not well on the Counterweight Continent: rebels are (gently) questioning centuries of enforced order, inspired by the revolutionary pamphlet "What I Did on My Holidays". The ruthless Lord Hong plots to change the Empire forever. The walls have failed to keep out a horde of barbarian invaders - seven of them, in fact. And it's about to be visited by a very special kind of butterfly... Pratchett revisits characters from his first Discworld novels, as Rincewind is reunited with Cohen the Barbarian in Twoflower's homeland. But in 2019, twenty-five years after it was first published, his depiction of a comic fantasy Asia leaves a bit to be desired. There's plenty going on, and some stirring speeches, but it's also hard to ignore that nearly all the main characters are white folks "saving" a nation inspired by real-world Asian countries from itself. Is there a clear message in the book? How does this sit on the evolution of Pratchett's work from parody to satire? And were you glad to see such old favourite characters return, or could you have done without them? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat21 on social media to join the conversation. We hope you enjoyed our first ever live show, recorded at Nullus Anxietas VII, where we discussed Cohen's previous adventure in the short story Troll Bridge! We hope to record more bonus episodes in future, and you can help us do it by supporting Pratchat. In August we leave the Discworld and indeed fiction to read one of Pratchett's oddest books: The Unadulterated Cat, his 1989 collaboration with cartoonist Gray Joliffe, in which he makes the case that the only "real cat" is one that destroys gardens, eats wildlife and makes a thorough nuisance of itself. If you have questions, send them to us via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat22. Show Notes and Errata: David Ryding has been Director of the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office since its establishment in 2014 (though Melbourne has been a City of Literature since 2008). Prior to that he was director of the Emerging Writers Festival, then executive director of the NSW Writers Centre (now know as Writing NSW). You can find out more about what he does at the City of Literature office at cityofliterature.com.au, and they're also on Twitter at @MelCityofLit. If you're looking for other great literary podcasts made in Melbourne, you can find some listed on their site here.Men at Arms is the fifteenth Discworld novel, published in 1993. We covered it in episode one, Boots Theory, with Cal Wilson."Inscrutable" is a word long associated with stereotypical depictions of Asian cultures, especially the Chinese. It stems from a lack of effort to understand the differing cultural conventions encountered by Europeans, and seems to have reached a height in Victorian literature.Bill Bryson is an American-British non-fiction author whose work covers language, travel, history and science. His best known works include Notes From a Small Island, The Mother Tongue and A Short History of Nearly Everything. The white saviour is a trope in which non-white characters are unable to save themselves, and are rescued from disaster by a heroic white character. The Wikipedia article lists a large number of examples."Eurogames" are a tradition of modern boardgames with their roots in post-war Germany. Such games often focus on strategic depth and a balance of luck and skill. The Settlers of Catan,

For our twentieth episode we finish our first Pratchett series! Elizabeth and Ben are joined by writer Dr Lili Wilkinson to discover the final fate of Masklin, Angalo, Gurder and the rest of the Nomes in the 1990 conclusion to the Bromeliad: Wings! (If you need to catch up, you can find Truckers in episode 9, and Diggers in episode 13.) When Masklin arrived in the Store, he learned that the Thing - an ancient artefact handed down for thousands of generations - wasn't just a useless box, but could speak. It warned him of the destruction of the Store, helped him escape with all the Store Nomes in a truck to the quarry, and revealed that Nomes came to Earth from a distant star. Masklin knows the Nomes can't run from humans forever. It's time to find a proper home of their own. So with the help of the Abbott Gurder and explorer Angalo, he's going to sneak onto a Concorde and go to Florida to hijack a satellite so the Thing can talk to their starship and fly them to another planet. Not that Masklin understands what most of those words are... The Book of the Nomes concludes with a rollicking, fast-paced adventure that doesn't shy away from some big questions about identity, religion, philosophy and taking risks to do what's right. Picking up from where we left him at the start of Diggers, Wings follows Masklin, Angalo and Gurder as they travel vast distances, meet their own gods and eventually have a close encounter of the Nome kind. Did you find the ending satisfying? How does the mix of fantasy and sci-fi tropes site with you? Do you wish there'd been more stories of the Nomes? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat20 on social media to join the conversation. Last month we had to delay the release of our live show from Nullus Anxietas VII, discussing the short story Troll Bridge with author Tansy Rayner-Roberts, but it will be released in between this episode and the next one. And speaking of the next one...in July we're visiting a distant part of the Disc and finally catching up with everyone's* favourite inept wizard, Rincewind, as we'll be joined by David Ryding of Melbourne City of Literature to return to the Discworld series with Interesting Times! Get your questions in via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat21. * Well...all right. Ben's favourite inept wizard. Though Catweazle, Ergo the Magnificent and Meredith are all up there as well. Show Notes and Errata: Dr Lili Wilkinson is an author based in Melbourne. She's written a dozen books for young adults and middle grade readers, including The Boundless Sublime (about a girl who gets sucked into a cult), After the Lights Go Out (in which a girl is prepped for the apocalypse by her Dad...and then it happens), and Green Valentine, a romance featuring shopping trolleys, a lobster costume and a whole lot of gardening. Lili also started insideadog.com.au, an online community for bookish teens, and the Inky Awards, Australia's only reader's choice award for YA fiction. Watch out for her new picture book Clancy the Quokka in October 2019. You can find Lili online at liliwilkinson.com.au and on Twitter at @twitofalili.The supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde was a joint project of the United Kingdom and France, and operated between 1976 and 2003 by Air France and British Airways. With a top speed of over twice the speed of sound, it could cross the Atlantic in half the time of other airlines, and boasted luxury service for its passengers. But it was loud, environmentally unsound, and very expensive, so it was never adopted by other airlines, and the planes were eventually decommissioned. The thing about the gap in the plane was mostly true: due to the heat generated by the extreme speeds, the fuselage would expand by as much as 30 centimetres at top speeds. The design accommodated this, manifesting in a gap in the inner wall between segments of the cockpit. One pilot left his hat in the gap deliberately during the final flight of one o...

Fantasy or science fiction? Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Discworld or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? The boys know this is a tough question for fans of comic literature, but that's what they're here for! Ryan fights on the side of Discworld, carrying his luggage with him. Mike argues for Hitchhiker's Guide, trying his damndest not to panic. Nick judges the whole thing! Talking points include: bookshelves, towels, The Big Read, Marvin the Paranoid Android, the Wheel of Time, wordsmiths, Conan the Barbarian, Alzheimers, Christopher Lee, Sean Astin, and making 13 year old girls cry. What got Ryan into sci-fi? What kinds of characters annoy Mike? How many books can Nick read in a year? Listen to this mostly harmless episode: Discworld vs Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

Wherein we learn of the breadth of Sir Terry's genius and of one way of approaching the reading of Discworld novels. We also hear a bit about Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, the novels featuring the Ankh Morkpork city watch, as well as those featuring Death, his adopted granddaughter, a consummate conman, and Rincewind, failed wizard and champion survivor. Although not all at once, of course. That is, not all those entities are featured in all the books-- and of course they're not all featured at once in this, the sixth episode of The Discworld Portal. Remember you can contact your host and guide at randy@mindkindle.net, and make a paypal donation to the same address if you would like to support the show, or at least pay the producer's salary. Oh, and we learn that it is never advisable to address Granny Weatherwax as Granny (she prefers Mistress Weatherwax) unless you know her very well, and probably not even then. We also find out about headology. Oh and Death's adopted granddaughter is not an accomplished conman. Moist von Lipwig is. A conman that is, and not death's adopted granddaughter. Don't worry, it will all come right in the end. 

Joda's practically Rincewind and Sean's a total Twoflower. Together they're going to explore the pages of the book that kicked off one of the greatest fantasy series of all time: Terry Pratchett's "The Color of Magic"! At the end of their journey, these intrepid readers will answer the question: "Why Did I Read This?"You can find Why Did I Read this on Facebook at facebook.com/whydidireadthisshow and follow them on Twitter @whydidireadthis. Email your suggested readings to whydidireadthis@gmail.com!

Rincewind is back! Again! This may be our least favorite book in the entire series, so enjoy that!

Picking up where The Colo(u)r of Magic left off, it's the further adventures of Rincewind and Twoflower.

In episode fourteen we celebrate 35 years of the Discworld by going all the way back to the beginning! Writer and podcaster Joel Martin joins us for a bumper A’Tuin-sized discussion of the very first Discworld story, adventure, chronicle, tale...The Colour of Magic, published in 1983! Rincewind, a wizard unable to cast spells, makes a living of sorts in the mighty city of Ankh-Morpork through his gift for languages. But his gift gets him more than he bargains for when he becomes the guide to the Discworld's first tourist. Fresh off the boat from the distant and obscenely wealthy Counterweight Continent, naïve Twoflower has come armed with a phrasebook, a demon-powered picture box and his magical Luggage full of enormous gold coins, determined to see the barbarians, brawls and beasts he's read about in stories back home. But seeing them is the easy part - surviving to talk about them is another matter entirely... Though we've often talked about the differences between the earliest books and those that came later, The Colour of Magic introduces Ankh-Morpork, Rincewind, Death and of course Great A'Tuin and the Disc itself with varying degrees of familiarity. Split into four sections - The Colour of Magic, The Sending of Eight, The Lure of the Wyrm and Close to the Edge - it manages to be both homage and parody of multiple beloved fantasy genres, while at the same time trying to establish its world - and author - as something new. Do you think it succeeds? Did you start at the start? Use the hashtag #Pratchat14 on social media to join the conversation and tell us! We'd also love to see some fan art of the Luggage based directly on the text, rather than Kirby's ubiquitous, fleshy baby-legged version. This is our final episode for the Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster (aka 2018), but we'll be back in January, when we'll fire up Queen's Greatest Hits and kick off proceedings with one of Pratchett's most celebrated novels: Good Omens! Yes, we're getting in to cover Pratchett's collaboration with Neil Gaiman before said co-author and Amazon Prime bring their version to subscribers' screens in 2019. (Don't worry, it'll be on the BBC at some point too.) With twice the authors, we're expecting twice the questions (though we'll try and stick to our usual running time of under two hours), so send them in via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat15. Show Notes and Errata: Joel Martin is a fantasy author whose several novellas and novels include his own take on classic sword-and-sorcery, The Broken World (whose protagonist is not Kane, but Karn). For more about him and his work, visit his web site, thepenofjoel.com, or follow him on Twitter at @thepenofjoel.Joel's writing discussion podcast is The Morning Bell, co-hosted by Luke Manly and Ian Laking. It's recorded live at the Brunswick Street Bookstore. Liz has been a guest a few times, most recently on episode 46 (February 2017), while Ben has been on just the once, for episode 63 (November 2017).  Listen to the entire back catalogue and find out more at themorningbell.com.au. Joel is director of Melbourne's new speculative fiction writing festival Speculate, returning in 2019 for its second year; Liz and Ben were guests the first time around and will be again in 2019. You can see both of them in the short film made for the 2018 festival here, or visit specfic.com.au to find out more about what's in store for 2019.A note on this episode's title: we've opted to parody a parody in order to name a discussion of a parody. (Does that make it a parodyox?) The film in question is National Lampoon's Vacation, which was released in 1983 - the same year The Colour of Magic was published! (Though you might argue our title is closer to the sequel, National Lampoon's European Vacation, from 1985.)Liz's comment about eye anatomy refers to the fact that as well as the structures found in regular human eyes which are sensitive to light - rods for dim light,

In episode seven, comic book creator and illustrator Georgina Chadderton, aka George Rex, joins us to discuss the ninth Discworld novel: Faust Eric! Published in 1990 - alongside four other novels, making it one of Pterry's most prolific years - it's a shorter novel, originally published in a large format with lavish illustrations by Discworld cover artist Josh Kirby. (Also, fair warning to the pun-averse: Elizabeth really goes to town in this one...) Eric Thurslow is surprised to find that he has summoned a demon who looks suspiciously like a wizard - but not as surprised as Rincewind the inept wizard is to have been summoned. Freed from the Dungeon Dimensions, he now finds himself compelled to grant wishes to an adolescent demonologist - and to his even greater surprise, it seems he's able to do so! Meanwhile, following along behind across space, time and dimensions, Rincewind's faithful Luggage is catching up to its master - and just as well, because the Prince of Hell isn't too pleased that his plans for Eric have gone awry...   Eric is the fourth book to feature Rincewind - last seen in Sourcery - and like his previous appearances it's a romp across the Discworld to places (and in this case times) previously unseen. Sometimes regarded as a bit of an addendum to the main Discworld series because of its short length, Eric wears its parody - and its classical allusions - proudly on its sleeve. Did you like Eric? Did you read an edition with the illustrations? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat7 on social media to join the conversation. We skipped ahead to make sure we could chat with Georgina while she was in Melbourne, so we're going back a step for our June episode, where librarian Aimee Nichols will join us to talk about the very first City Watch book: Guards! Guards! We'll be recording it soon, so if you'd like us to respond to you on the podcast, get in quick! Ask your questions via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat7A. (What, you expected us to actually use the forbidden number?) Show Notes and Errata: You can find Georgina and her delightful autobiographical comics online at georgerexcomics.com, and also on Instagtram as @GirlRexDoor. She was in town on a residency with 100 Story Building, where Ben works facilitating creative writing workshops for young people. George's Etsy shop is full of cool comics, postcards, badges and prints.In case you've somehow been hiding under a pop culture rock, 2 Faust 2 Furious is a reference to the sequel to car/heist/action film The Fast and the Furious, which was titled 2 Fast 2 Furious. There are now eight films in this franchise which features Vin Diesel (in every film except 2 Fast 2 Furious), Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell and Jason Statham. The only other one with a punny name is the eighth, titled The Fate of the Furious.George's 24-hour comics are produced as part of 24-Hour Comics Day, an annual event in which comic creators are challenged to create a 24-page comic in a single day. 24-Hour Comics Day has run in some form every year since 2004, when it was originally organised by publisher Nat Gertler, and one of its most famous proponents (and long-time participants) is Scott McCloud, the creator of Understanding Comics."Time is a flat circle", now the subject of many memes, is derived from a scene in the first season of True Detective. It refers to the theory of "eternal return", which states that existence repeats itself over and over in very similar ways. Ben's favourite iteration of this from fiction is the Time Prophet, a character from the weird Canadian-German sci-fi series Lexx, who could see into past cycles of time ("not very clearly mind you") to predict the future of the current cycle.You can see George's image of Angua and Gaspode (inspired by our Men At Arms episode) on her Instagram, and her version of Tiffany Aching is on the Fan Art page of her web site.

Radio Morpork is a podcast that discusses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Steve and Colm take a trip down under (not exactly possible on the Disc unless you want to end up on an elephant's back, but bear with us) and discuss the last hurrah of the Discworld's first protagonist. They wonder why Rincewind is so dense here, whether the Faculty could be the book's protagonists, and how they can bend their minds around the distorted geography and history of XXXX.

Terry Pratchett is one of the most influential and fondly remembered fantasy authors in the English language, with good reason. That's why we set out to read his worst book, to prove that sometimes really good authors flower from really terrible novels. Or, there is a very good reason why the first piece of advice Discworld fans give is "don't start with the first book." Strap in for a parody that only works if you have an encyclopedic knowledge of fantasy novels from the 80s, and even then it's touch and go. With special guest appearances by the astonishing amount of bullshit in Anne McCaffrey novels. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault 1:00 Inroads to Pratchett, and Gaiman 6:30 Seriously the Later Books Thouggh 9:00 The Real World Drunk Book Club 17:00 Uncanny Valley Ankh-Morpork 23:00 Rincewind and Twoflower 31:00 Conan of Argon 38:00 Tent Peg Dragons 46:00 Something with Space 52:00 Editing Issues Say hi to Dorothy and Vrai on Twitter @writervrai and @dorothynotgale Join us every two weeks on Soundcloud, iTunes or Stitcher – and if you’d leave a rating and review, so that more people can find their way to us, we’d appreciate it!

Son of a...really, magic? Really? All we were trying to do was cast a simple spell to create a podcast episode where two bumbling, no-talent magicians square off in a contest of raw incompetence. But damn, we must have gotten something wrong, because this episode is way too competitive and full of sex jokes, not at all the light-hearted romp we were going for. Oh well. Maybe no one will notice... Anyway, after years of enjoying a total dearth of animated brooms dancing around and flooding his workspace, celebrated Disney sorcerer Yen Sid is finally ready to take on another apprentice. The only problem is, he has two apprentices. The Orko kid seems to have all kinds of raw magic ability, but also a disturbing lack of skill, focus, or a voice that doesn't grate down Yen Sid's spine. And Rincewind...well, he claims to be a "wizzard" already, and he's quick on his feet, but he's also the unluckiest, most thoroughly non-magical individual Yen Sid has ever encountered. The sorcerer is a patient man, but a busy one, as well; he only has time to take on one of these two projects. Will it be the Trollan jester from Castle Eternia, or the Discworld's most notorious nobody? And more importantly, what insights about gay iconography and 1980s progressivism did MeganBob glean from her first viewing of the He-Man animated series?

In episode three, comedian Cal Wilson is back to discuss the book that started her passion for Terry Pratchett - Sourcery! The fifth Discworld novel, published in 1989, it features the return of the inept wizard Rincewind. Rincewind is very happy to have left his adventuring days behind him, working as assistant librarian at Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork, the Disc's premiere college for wizards. But just as a new archchancellor is about to be named, the young boy Coin arrives. He is the eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son - a Sourcerer, a source of raw magic, something not seen on the Disc since the ancient time of the Mage Wars. As he takes over the university and wizards across the world awaken power they've never known, the end of the world draws nigh...and Rincewind just can't seem to avoid getting involved. Rincewind was Pratchett's first protagonist, and this novel exemplifies all the things that make us love him: genre-awareness, unrepentant cowardice, reluctant heroism, lack of any skill at wizardry and fierce self-identification as a wizard. It also sees the return of the Luggage, a living chest which follows Rincewind wherever he goes. It was a delight for us all to see these characters again, and we have grand plans to go back to their beginnings in the very first Discworld novels... In the meantime, when you've finished listening to this episode, get ready for the next one by reading Wyrd Sisters! We'll be recording on January 14th, so get your questions in ASAP if you'd like us to answer them on the podcast. Show Notes and Errata: Cal is still on Twitter at @calbo. Her new live stand-up show, Hindsight, will be playing in multiple cities at festivals throughout 2018: this page at comedy.com.au lists a bunch of them. (You can also see the poster she mentions; it really is good!)Freddie Mercury was a first son of a son of undetermined order, so his magical powers clearly came from somewhere else.Ben talks a lot about Dungeons & Dragons this episode; if you've no idea what it's all about, his article "What Even Is Dungeons & Dragons?" will get you up to speed.The Age interview with Terry featuring his thoughts on J K Rowling is still online here: "Mystery lord of the Discworld", Peter Fray, November 6, 2004.A person who doesn't realise they're no good at what they do might have a form of cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, named for a 1999 psychological study.Hook turns might not be widely used by cars outside of Melbourne, but they're a common way for bicycles to turn across traffic at cross intersections in many parts of the world.The Annotated Pratchett File (APF for short) is a brilliant source of information on the various references in the novels. We also recommend the Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki, also hosted by the L-Space Web.

Radio Morpork is a podcast that discusses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Colm & Steve travel to the Aurient to tackle Rincewind's return in Interesting Times. They ramble on about legacy, colonialism, revolution and an absolutely epic finale. They've reached the stage in the series where there's a lot of comparing Discworld books with Discworld books (and also the point where they fawn over the UU Faculty and Twoflower a lot).

Mads Kristensen and Chris O'Regan take a retrospective look at the Discworld games from the mid 1990's and discuss point & click adventures in general. Show links: Hipolito Pichardo Twitch Channel: https://m.twitch.tv/hipolitopichardo?desktop-redirect=true Huge thanks and a name check as ever to our Patreon supporters: Richard Pipes Nick Lees Edward Fitzpatrick Chris Worthington Alistair Downs Nick Lees Retromash Duncan Bell Garry Heather Help support the Retro Asylum by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/retroasylum Retro Asylum on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retroasylum/ Retro Asylum YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag

Radio Morpork is a podcast that discusses and analyses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Radio Morpork returns! Rose has sadly had to bow out, but Colm is joined by Steve (of our Mort episode fame) to discuss this Discworld oddity. They talk about the limitations of Rincewind as a protagonist, the machinations of Satanic bureaucracy and the continuing taming of Unseen University.

Radio Morpork is a podcast which discusses and analyses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Colm and Rose tackle the fifth book in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Their rambling discussion takes in their reluctance about Rincewind’s reluctant hero act, a mixed bag of side characters and the top five Discworld apocalypses. Is Sourcery a step back for the Discworld, or a side track down the scenic route?

Grant and Peter handle the first of two topic voted on by Patreon backers: Anti-Heroes. After tackling another great Patreon backer question, the hosts dive in, and as it turns out, this is a more complicated and controversial topic than you might think. The episode covers everything from Biblical figures to Sherlock Holmes to Rincewind to The Punisher with some advice (and cautionary notes) for gaming along the way. Scripture: Judges 3:15-21, Luke 22:55-61 Links: Anti-Hero page on tvtropes.org Save Against Fear 2016 Two Types of Paladin Episode 25

Bienvenidos al episodio número 37 de Mi Gato Dinamita, el podcast que transcurre en un universo de fantasía: el nuestro. Duración total: 1:26:31.0:00:01-0:06:06 - Susanette y Guille le dan la bienvenida a Violeta, nuestra primera invitada, que nos anticipa sus planes educativos y se queja del nombre de Quequén, la película de Guille que está a punto de empezar a rodarse.0:06:07-0:08:44 - Música: "Quelqu'un m'a dit", por Carla Bruni.0:08:45-0:14:52 - Viole hace un repaso de una de las series de TV que está viendo en estos momentos: Gossip Girl.0:14:53-0:19:20 - Música: "Young Folks", por Peter Bjorn and John.0:19:21-0:25:37 - Nuestro segundo invitado del episodio, WertyGol, pasa para hablar de lo que sabe y arranca recomendándonos un videojuego (Pixelman) y contándonos acerca de la historia de Steam, la plataforma digital de distribución de juegos.0:25:38-0:27:44 - Música: "Ramones", por Motörhead.0:27:45-0:44:02 - Junto a Viole, Susanette y Guille, WertyGol repasa brevemente los inicios de Apple y Microsoft antes de pasar al tema principal de su participación: la obra de Terry Pratchett y el universo literario de Mundodisco, centrándose particularmente en el gato Greebo. Se habla también un poco de otras luminarias del género fantástico, como Tolkien, Rowling y Ursula K. LeGuin.0:44:03-0:47:02 - Música: "Shine Through The Dark", por Ryan Adams.0:47:03-1:03:14 - Después de un pequeño desvío dedicado a los doblajes, WertyGol sigue desmenuzando el universo de Mundodisco y sus personajes (la Muerte, Rincewind, Nobby Nobbs y tantos otros), junto a su particular organización política y religiosa. Sobre el final, hablamos sobre "Los Gigantes", la novela de nuestro amigo Sr. Cucú.1:03:15-1:07:47 - Entintado dedica su pastilla al enorme Leonard Cohen.1:07:48-1:14:27 - Música: "Boogie Street", por Leonard Cohen.1:14:28-1:15:48 - Susanette, Guille y WertyGol recuerdan al recientemente fallecido David Bowie.1:15:49-1:19:48 - Música: "Lazarus", por David Bowie.1:19:49-1:20:36 - Nos despedimos de WertyGol y los oyentes con una selección musical de nuestro invitado.1:20:37-1:26:31 - Música: "A Fifth Of Beethoven", por Walter Murphy.Ilustramos este episodio, como siempre, con algunas imágenes alusivas: nuestra invitada Violeta; Gabe Newell; la Commodore 64 de Guille; el poster de This Is 40; Terry Pratchett; Sr. Cucú con su novela; y Leonard Cohen. Como siempre, podés disfrutar de este episodio online con el reproductor de acá arriba, bajártelo en formato .mp3 haciendo clic en donde dice "Download" o escucharlo en SoundCloud. Si querés suscribirte a este podcast con tu aplicación favorita, buscanos en iTunes o usá nuestro feed RSS.