Podcasts about Tiffany Aching

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 56:16

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, we're releasing a very special episode – a conversation with Ian Stewart, recorded live at the Discworld Convention 2024! We talk about Tiffany Aching books, the Science of Discworld, and involve the audience in a Very Scientific Poll on the best Witches book. Magic! Science! LIVE!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Photos from DWCON 2024 - TTSMYF Professor Ian Stewart FRS - Royal Society Sir Terry Pratchett - The Science of Discworld - YouTubeScience of Discworld Series - PenguinJack Cohen obituary | Science | The Guardian Terry Pratchett Receives Honorary Degree from University of Warwick [and awards honorary UU degrees to Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen]Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Real Men Don't Drink...Decaf (Monstrous Regiment)

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 167:12

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

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 40:32 Transcription Available

Your hosts discuss The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. They compare it and its main character to The Amazing Maurice, the first YA Discworld novel. Tiffany Aching proves to be the podcast fav. They debate what qualities a book must have to be considered "Discworld" (and in doing so they might accidentally turn "Discworld" into a genre). Witches are evaluated, the Wee Free Men are enjoyed.Find us on discord: https://discord.gg/dpNHTWVu6b or support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fictionfanspodThanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Hogswitch (with Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 79:59

In this very special Hogswatch-adjacent episode of Pratchat, Liz and Ben don't discuss a Terry Pratchett book! Instead, they interview Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent, authors of Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch. Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch is a new lavishly illustrated guidebook to witchcraft, compiled by the famous young witch of the Chalk - with a little help from her friends, of course. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Miss Tick, Mrs Letice Earwig and more have all annotated the manuscript - as have Tiffany's fairy allies and protectors, the Nac Mac Feegle. We'll return to the book for a regular discussion in a future episode, but for now, please enjoy our chat with Rhianna and Gabrielle - though note that as Tiffany Aching's Guide is set after The Shepherd's Crown, you might catch a couple of brief spoilers for the final Discworld novel in this interview. The same is true for their previous appearances on our spiritual sibling podcasts, The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret and The Compleat Discography, which you will probably also enjoy. You can send us comments and questions about this episode using the hashtag #Pratchat74. And as usual you can find errata and other notes for this episode on our website. Guest Rhianna Pratchett is a writer best known for her work in videogames, most famously the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider, and most recently Lost Words: Beyond the Page with Sketchbook Games. Rhianna also works in film and television production, and since 2012 has co-run Narrativia, the company which manages Terry Pratchett's intellectual property. Rhianna recently made her first podcast series, Mythical Creatures, for BBC Radio 4; find it via your favourite podcast app, or on the BBC Sounds website. You can also follow Rhianna on social media at @rhipratchett on Twitter and Mastodon, and as @rhi.bsky.social on Bluesky. Guest Gabrielle Kent is now best known as a children's author, but worked in videogames as an artist and lecturer for many years. Her books include the Knights and Bikes series based on the videogame of the same name; the Alfie Bloom series about a boy who inherits a magical castle; and most recently Rani Reports, a series about a young aspiring journalist, co-written with her husband Satish Shewhorak. You can find out more about Gabrielle via her website, gabriellekent.com. Gabrielle is also on social media as @gabriellekent on Twitter and Bluesky. Next month we get our game one again as we play and discuss the second published Discworld board game, Guards! Guards!, designed by Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw of BackSpindle Games. Get your questions in via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat75, or send us an email at chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

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In the Reading Corner

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2023 26:49 Transcription Available

It's 20 years since the publication of Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, the first book in the Tiffany Aching arc within the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. To celebrate, Terry's daughter Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent have produced a handsome gift book, Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch, stunningly illustrated by Paul Kidby.Rhianna and Gabrielle joined Nikki Gamble In The Reading Corner to talk about the joint venture.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. And if you are interested in the books we have featured, purchasing from our online bookshop Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. It is produced by Alison Hughes.Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates, follow us on Twitter @imaginecentreFull details about the range of services we provide can be found on our website www.justimagine.co.uk

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This Christmas Goes to Eleven (Father Christmas' Fake Beard)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 102:51

In this very special Christmas episode, Liz and Ben fly without a guest as they turn the seasonal silliness up to maximum and discuss all eleven stories in Terry Pratchett's 2017 collection of short Christmas stories, Father Christmas's Fake Beard. It's not always easy being Father Christmas. You might be forced out of home by a rogue submarine or the harsh reality of a job where you only work one day a year; you might be sent fifty thousand identical letters by a computer or put on trial for three thousand counts of breaking and entering. But at least you don't live in Blackbury, where giant pies explode, the snow falls so thick you have to dig tunnels to see your granny, and where weird creatures show up every other day. And you won't believe the true stories behind some of your favourite Christmas songs... While he later claimed short stories “cost me blood”, Pratchett wrote scores of stories every year while working in his first newspaper jobs between 1965 and 1979, and continued to sell them to his old papers even after he went to work for the Central Electricity Governing Board. These included plenty of Christmas stories - and eleven of them (well...eight plus three wintery ring-ins) from between 1967 and 1992 are collected in this third volume of his early work for children. Have you read Father Christmas's Fake Beard? Is “Father Christmas” more British than Santa Claus? Do you prefer these (close to) original versions of the stories, or some of the later re-written versions unearthed for A Stroke of the Pen? Have you ever seen one of these stories in their original habitat, the Southwestern British Newspaper? And what should we name our Prod-Ye-A'Diddle Oh team? Join in the conversation on social media using the hashtag #Pratchat73! “Guest” Elizabeth Flux is a freelance writer and editor, and also currently Arts Editor for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. You can find out where Liz's short fiction has been published via her website, elizabethflux.com. “Guest” Ben McKenzie is a writer, game designer and educator who doesn't usually work in short fiction. But you can find a few short Twine games on his website, benmckenzie.com.au. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our website. Next episode we have two actual very special guests: Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent! They're joining us for a chat about their new book, Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch. This will be more an interview than an in-depth discussion about the book (which, we feel we should warn you, include spoilers for some key events and characters for The Shepherd's Crown, but we'll try to keep those spoilers to a minimum). As well as asking our own questions, we want to ask them yours! So send them in using the hashtag #Pratchat74 or via email to chat@pratchatpodcast.com, but be quick: we'll be recording on the 15th of December!

S2E1 - Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 71:02

Episode Notes We were so incredibly pleased to be joined by Gabrielle Kent and Rhianna Pratchett, the co-authors of this new book in the Discworld library. Tiffany's story is one of our favorites, and having both more Tiffany and more witch stuff is just the best. Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch would make a great holiday present! We're not sure yet of a US release date, so consider buying it directly from The Discworld Emporium or Discworld.com (and if other things just sort of happen to fall into your shopping basket... well, blame the Feegles). If you want to check out the Mythical Creatures series Rhianna mentioned, keep an eye on the BBC Radio Four site as well as BBC Sounds. It looks like it starts airing December 18! Gabrielle Kent is the author of the Alfie Bloom and Knights and Bikes series. She collaborated on the Rani Reports series with her husband as Gabrielle and Satish Shewhorak. Gabrielle lives in the North East of England. She grew up in the 1980's drawing castles and dragons, reading comics, and playing videogames. In the summers, she ran wild with her brothers and cousins on her Granny's farm in Galway. Her first job was as a video-game artist working on games for PC, Playstation and XBox. She spent sixteen years as a university lecturer teaching students how to make videogames, and ran and hosted various games and animation festivals along the way. She has always loved exploring castles and in 2006 she visited Castle Coch in Wales. As she looked at a carving of The Fates over one of the fireplaces, an idea for a story crept into her head. When she got home she started typing the story of Alfie Bloom, the boy who inherited a castle and has written many more books since. Rhianna Pratchett has been a professional writer for several years. Having written numerous features and columns on games, movies and books and originally cutting her journalistic teeth on PC Zone magazine and The Guardian newspaper, Rhianna moved into script writing and narrative design in 2002. In 2007 her work on Heavenly Sword was nominated for a BAFTA and a year later she won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain 'Best Videogame Script' award for Overlord. Alongside writing for videogames, she has also authored the Tomb Raider: The Beginning comics with Dark Horse and the 6-part Mirror's Edge miniseries with DC Comics and several of her own short stories. Rhianna has contributed to various books on games narrative including Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing (Edited by: Wendy Despain) and Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames (Edited by: Chris Bateman). She also works with the IGDA Writers' Special Interest Group, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and BAFTA Games to help improve games narrative and the lot of games writers everywhere. Rhianna currently lives in London, with a couple of neurotic tabbies. True to British form, she drinks a lot of tea. Check us out on twitter at @atuin_pod or Bluesky at @compleatdiscography.page Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon Follow individual hosts: Aaron is at @urizenxvii and @aaron@compleatdiscography.page, Ana is at @The_Miannai and @ana@babylonpod.page Justen is at @Justenwrites and @justen@babylonpod.page. We can also be found at www.okayso.page. Our art is by the indomitable Jess who can be found at @angryartist113. Music is by Incompetech and used under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance Fuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5044-fuzzball-parade License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch – an interview with Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2023 87:23

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, usually read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, we're incredibly excited to be joined by Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent to discuss their newly released book, Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch! Follow Rhianna @RhiPratchett and Gabrielle @GabrielleKent on TwitterFind us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Acquire your very own copy of Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch here:Discworld EmporiumDiscworld.ComWaterstonesBritish LibrarySee also:Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent in Conversation [with Rob Wilkins] - Waterstones Piccadilly (20 Nov) Gabrielle Kent Rhianna PratchettMusic: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

129: Thud! Pt. 3 (Recursive Watchmen)

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2023 83:45

The Shepherd's Crown

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 78:04

We pare down to the core group for one last trip across the Disc, and Ana and Aaron finally read The Shepherd's Crown. Project wrap-up content starts at around 51:30, although it does continue to include Shepherd's Crown content. Thanks to our many guests, but especially to you, our listeners. We would have done it regardless, but we hope that we inspired you to read or re-read Sir Terry's works, and we hope that you thought about things from a new angle.We're not done quite yet, so don't delete this feed. More surprises coming soon. Mind how you go.GNU Terry Pratchett.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-chanceLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

115: A Hat Full of Sky Pt. 2 (You are a Horrible Geas)

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2023 83:39

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 2 of our recap of “A Hat Full of Sky”. The Hills! The Witches! The Ankle!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got Tickets'Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch' announced | Terry PratchettGood Omens returns July 28th - Twitter [@GoodOmensPrime] Strike Two - NetwarsUS covers for Tiffany books - Twitter [@JMVenz] Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation - Wikipedia Best of Hyacinth Bucket's Name Mispronunciation - YouTubeSelf Did It: Fairy Legends of Type 1137 Scottish Folklore: The Brollachan - Spooky StuffThe Most Unusual Pub Names in the UK - The UK Pub Co The History of British Pub Names with Mary-Ann Ochota - GetOutside (OS)Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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Ol' No Eyes Is Back (I Shall Wear Midnight)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2023 160:30

Returning guest, author Amie Kaufman heads back to the Chalk with Liz and Ben to face the rough music in a bumper-size discussion of the penultimate Tiffany Aching book, 2010's I Shall Wear Midnight. Tiffany Aching, nearly sixteen, is no longer an apprentice. Now two years under the witch's hat, she cares for those as can't care for themselves, and deals with the harsh realities of rural life. But all is not well in the Chalk: the unending need for its only witch is pushing Tiffany to the edge, and an act of violence - and its consequences - test her limits. Roland, the Baron's son, is engaged - but not to Tiffany. While he's away, the old Baron dies, and Tiffany must fetch him home to take his place. And on top of all that, something is stirring: something old and evil that stirs up old prejudices and fears about witches - and is aiming them directly at Tiffany Aching... Content note: this episode contains discussion of (fictional) intimate partner and family violence, miscarriage and suicide.If you or anyone you know needs help, use the Wikipedia list of crisis lines to find one local to you. Nearly three years after she danced the Dark Morris and kissed the Wintersmith, we rejoin Tiffany Aching, who is discovering that even fixing her mistakes can have consequences. But is this really a book for younger readers - or even young adults - when it includes some of the heaviest stuff of any Discworld novel? Does it all hang together, or are there a few ideas fighting each other in this plot? Who knew what and when about the Cunning Man, and is he Pratchett's creepiest villain yet? What spill words do you not say when you're listening to the show? Join in the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat66 on social media! Returning guest Amie Kaufman is the author of (so far) twenty novels for middle grade and young adult audiences, including the Illuminae Files and Aurora Cycle sci-fi trilogies with Jay Kristoff; the Elementals, Starbound and Unearthed series with Meagan Spooner, and the World Between Blinks books with Ryan Graudin. For Pratchett fans she recommends her upcoming YA fantasy novel Isles of the Gods, launching in May 2023. As mentioned in the episode, Amie also produces two podcasts about writing: Amie Kaufman on Writing, a 10-minute masterclass on writing techniques, and Pub Dates, in which she and co-writer Meagan Spooner take you behind the scenes on writing and publishing a novel, and what comes after. For more of Amie's exploits visit amiekaufman.com or sign up for her Substack newsletter Finding North. As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. Catch Liz in person when she's one of the speakers for the Sci-Fight science comedy debate “Should we fear AI?” on Thursday, 13 April 2023 at Howler in Melbourne! It's hosted by previous guest Alanta Colley and features a great line-up of comedians, writers and scientists. Get all the details and book tickets vis moshtix. Next month, now that we've met all the characters who'll appear in it, we'll be playing and discussing the 2013 board game The Witches: A Discworld Game, designed by Martin Wallace! Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat67, and if you're a subscriber, watch out for an unboxing video via our Ko-Fi page soon. And while our plans for #Pratchat68 in June aren't quite fixed yet, here's an earlier than usual heads up that in July we'll be discussing the fourth Long Earth novel, The Long Utopia, with returning guest Deanne Sheldon-Collins. Those books are long, so you might want to get started now! Send in your questions for that one using the hashtag #Pratchat69 - or drop us an email at chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

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I Shall Wear Midnight

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2023 101:19

Teenage witch Tiffany Aching confronts her greatest foe yet--the insidiousness of moral panic. We are delighted to be joined by Bitter Karella! Bitter Karella is the writer and horror aficionado behind the microfiction comedy account @Midnight_pals, which asks what if all your favorite horror writers gathered around the campfire to tell scary stories. When not writing twitter jokes, she also dabbles in cartooning and text game design. Her horror text games, available on itchio, include Night House, All Visitors Welcome, Toadstools, and Santa Carcossa Nights. Learn more at http://www.bitterkarella.com/----------------------------------------------------------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/

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110: The Wee Free Men Pt. 3 (Crivens in the Air)

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2023 70:55

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 3 of our recap of “The Wee Free Men”. Thunder! Lightning! Whales! Sneebs!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Dandelion goodies [@appalachian_forager] - TikTokBad Poetry with ChatGPT - TTSMYFClerihew - Wikipedia Author clerihews [@francibambi] - TwitterSeneca White Deer - Wiki [Note on whales: Sperm whales are the biggest toothed whales. And they're huge. But the *very* biggest are baleen whales, so I'm calling our speculation a qualified victory.]BBC NEWS | UK | Award for tsunami warning pupil The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke - The TateElimination of a Picture & its Subject - WikiReal Dreams are Weirder - TV Tropes [ORF: OK so it's not ever *really* too cold to snow, but it's going to be less likely.] Too Cold to Snow? | AccuWeather Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Let There Be Gaimans

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2023 128:27

Liz and Ben are joined by writer and publisher Peter M Ball for Pratchat's first foray into Pratchett's nonfiction! We discuss fandom, genre, Sharknado, figgins and even fit in six pieces from “A Scribbling Intruder”, the first section of Pratchett's 2014 nonfiction anthology A Slip of the Keyboard. Pratchett writes about the letters he receives from various kinds of fans as a popular genre author in “Kevins” (1993), before revisiting the same topic in the email age and explaining why he quit his own newsgroup in “Wyrd Ideas” (1999), both for The Author magazine. Then its time to discuss fantasy as a genre - both advice for writing it in “Notes From a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” for the 2007 edition of The Writers and Artists Notebook, and reasons why children should be reading it in “Let There Be Dragons”, a speech given at the Booksellers Association Annual Conference in 1993. Finally, best mates Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman tell us how they feel about each other, Terry in “Neil Gaiman: Amazing Master Conjuror” for the Boskone 39 convention booklet (2002), and Neil in his Foreword for A Slip of the Keyboard (2014). As we've discussed before, Pratchett was never one to let a good idea only be used once - and you may have heard him talk to some of the themes in these pieces when being interviewed. Short stories may have cost him blood, as he used to say, but he never lost his journalistic mojo for writing fact and opinion - or replying to reader mail! Have you ever written to a famous author (a nauthor, if you will)? Would you want them to read your fanfic? What was the first book you read by choice? Can you pin down exactly what makes Pratchett's writing almost a genre unto itself, when others could be said to follow his advice? And go on, you can tell us: which of Liz and Ben is the Terry, and which is the Neil? Join the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat65. Guest Peter M Ball is an author, publisher and avid roleplayer based in Meanjin (aka Brisbane) in Queensland. Peter teaches creative writing, worked for the Queensland Writers Centre on the Australian Writers Marketplace and GenreCon, and is currently completing a PhD in Writing at the University of Queensland. You can find all of Peter's social media links, and discover more about his own work - including a free sampler of some of his writing - at petermball.com.au. Peter also runs the small press publisher Brain Jar Press, who specialise in shorter works of genre fiction and genre nonfiction. They've published Peter's work, but also that of friends of this podcast Sean Williams (#Pratchat56) and Tansy Rayner Roberts (#PratchatNA7). Peter suggested Pratchett fans might enjoy Tansy's brand new short story collection about seven women from Greek mythology, Gorgons Deserve Nice Things, or the Writer Chaps series of sci-fi and fantasy writers writing about writing. You'll find notes and errata for this episode on our web site. Grab your broom and your pointy hat and watch out for giants and pictsies, because next month we get back to Pratchett's novels with the fourth Tiffany Aching novel, I Shall Wear Midnight! And we're delighted to welcome back as a guest author Amie Kaufman, last heard discussing some of Pratchett's other tiny people nearly five years ago in #Pratchat9, “Upscalator to Heaven”. Get your questions in before the last week of March via email (chat@pratchatpodcast.com) or social media using the hashtag #Pratchat66.

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Wintersmith

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2022 114:26

Wintersmith is the 35th book in the Discworld series, and the third in the Tiffany Aching arc. It is a story about growing up, taking responsibility for situations that are not (or not entirely) your fault, and witches. It is about what you do when no one is looking, and when everyone is looking. Most of all, it is a story about Tiffany Aching.We are joined once again by Dr. Kat Day!Kat Day is a PhD chemist who was once a teacher and is now a writer and editor. By day she mostly works as an editor and proofreader of scientific materials, with bits of article and book-writing thrown in. By night she… mostly does all the stuff she hasn't managed to do during the day. She is an assistant editor at PseudoPod and her fiction can be found at Daily Science Fiction, Cast of Wonders and PseudoPod, among others. You can follow her on Twitter at @chronicleflask, or check out her blogs, The Fiction Phial and The Chronicle Flask. She lives with her husband, two children and cat in Oxfordshire, England.Check out the recent flash fiction episode of Pseudopod featuring Kat's story, When I Was Young, I Did Not Need Magic!***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 @angryartist113Intro Music is "The Dark Morris Song" by Steeleye Span in collaboration with Sir Terry Pratchett, and is used in the hope that they don't sue us because their music rocks--and everyone should go listen to their full Wintersmith album a few times and maybe buy a copy or two. End Music is by Incompetech and used under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.Fuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5044-fuzzball-paradeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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OABF 28 - The Wee Free Men (2/2)

On Air Book Fair

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022 83:50

We accidentally botched the first recording! Continuing our first Pratchett Diskworld book and debut of child witch Tiffany Aching, The Wee Free Men. It's full of that great wordplay humor and a scathingly realistic view of teaching as a profession. Jay's projects (and our Discord channel) can be found at MimicsMarket.com Miles streams over at Twitch.tv/avatarkiora Dan's writing is featured in archiveoftheodd.wordpress.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onairbookfair/message

OABF 27 - The Wee Free Men (1/2)

On Air Book Fair

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2022 68:33

You'd think this podcast wouldn't be so difficult to schedule and produce regularly. CRIVENS?! This week we're starting our first Pratchett Diskworld book and debut of child witch Tiffany Aching, The Wee Free Men. It's full of that great wordplay humor and a scathingly realistic view of teaching as a profession. Jay's projects (and our Discord channel) can be found at MimicsMarket.com Miles streams over at Twitch.tv/avatarkiora Dan's writing is featured in archiveoftheodd.wordpress.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onairbookfair/message

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A Hat Full of Sky

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 117:04

Join Patrick Rothfuss and Worldbuilders Charity for their Geeks Doing Good Fundraiser running July 14th through the 21st! Get rad geek stuff, support cool charitable works, and watch new fun streaming content at www.twitch.tv/PatrickRothfuss. Head to www.worldbuilders.org for more info.The Tiffany Aching novels are so special to us. A Hat Full of Sky brings us tween drama, a TON of witch lore, Granny Weatherwax actually explaining some things, and a thoroughly terrifying antagonist.(note: Justen had severe technical issues that caused them to have to leave halfway through)***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/

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The Wee Free Men

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2022 81:15

Some recommended resources for organizations fighting abortion bans and advancing reproductive justice:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bffforaccesshttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfundshttps://www.abortionfinder.org/Tiffany Aching, a 9 year old living on a sheep farm in the rolling grassy lowlands of the Disc, is not your ordinary child. However, we saw a lot of ourselves in her. This meditation on loss, childhood, and what it means to be someone who actually THINKS and LOOKS in a world full of people too busy just getting by is a beautiful, scary, and hilarious story written by, as our guest puts it, "possibly one of the greatest authors of the last thousand years".Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher is the author and illustrator of far more projects than is probably healthy. She has written over fifteen books for children (many of which Aaron has read to his children multiple times with great enjoyment), at least a dozen novels for adults, an epic webcomic called “Digger” and various short stories and other odds and ends.She has won Hugos, Mythopoeic, Locus, Sequoia, Nebula, Lodestar, Dragon, and numerous other awards, often repeatedly. She can be found at Red Wombat Studio, on twitter at @ursulav and probably more than a few other places.***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/

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Wintersmith - WSP 35

Wyrd Sisters Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 41:21

Winter isn't just coming, it's a stalker. Let's see if Tiffany Aching can handle him. Discord - https://discord.gg/ZtA7xUe Twitter - https://twitter.com/WyrdSistersPod Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wyrdsisterspod/ Tumblr - https://wyrdsisterspodcast.tumblr.com/tagged/episode Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsisterspodcast

#Pratchat51 – Boffoing the Winter Slayer

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2022 130:14

Welcome to the Year of the Lachrymating Leveret! Bestselling sci-fi and fantasy author Garth Nix joins Liz and Ben up in the Ramtops, where Tiffany Aching dances a forbidden dance and gets into more trouble in the thirty-fifth Discworld novel, 2006's Wintersmith. Two years after her first Witch Trial, Tiffany Aching is nearly a teenager and two months into her stint with her latest mentor - terrifying Miss Treason, the 113-year-old deaf and blind justice witch. In the dead of night Miss Treason takes her to witness the "dark dance", but against the rules she is given, Tiffany does more than observe - after all, what good is a dance you can only watch? But Tiffany's been noticed: the spirit of Winter himself has his eye on her now. There's something different about Tiffany, too...but that might have to wait. The Nac Mac Feegle are back, there's a witch's cottage up for grabs, the boy she's been writing went to a party with someone else, and if she can't figure out how to fend off the Wintersmith, it might be an uncomfortably long Winter... Published in one of Pratchett's rare one-book years, Wintersmith advances Tiffany Aching into adolescence - and appropriately enough deals with themes of unwanted attention, uncontrollable urges, the perils of teenage and adult politics, and hordes of tiny blue men. Plus it's full of favourite characters, both old and new. Do you think Tiffany could have chosen not to enter the dance? Have the Feegles been to our world - and do they belong in this book, or has Tiffany outgrown them? What's the most ridiculous thing someone has done to try and impress you? Join the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat51 on social media. Guest Garth Nix is a bestselling and award-winning Australian author, best known for his young adult fantasy series "The Old Kingdom", which began with Sabriel in 1995. In November 2021 he published the prequel Terciel and Elinor, about the parents of the original novel's protagonist. He's also written dozens of other novels and short stories, including the Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series of novels, 2015's Newt's Emerald, 2017's Frogkisser, and 2020's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, which recently won the Ditmar Award for best novel. You can find Garth on Twitter as @garthnix, and info about his books on his website at garthnix.com As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our website. Next month we're not reading a book or a short story; instead we're getting in front of the television and checking out the somewhat divisive BBC America series The Watch, "based on characters created by Terry Pratchett". Is it a bold new punk direction for the Disc, or a travesty born from years in development hell and too much distance from the source material? We're going to find out! Send us your questions via the hashtag #Pratchat52, or via email to chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

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#Pratchat50 – Salt Rat Arsenic Heat

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2021 100:20

Happy fiftieth episode to us! We're celebrating with the return of our very first guest, comedian and author Cal Wilson! Cal joins Liz and Ben in the kitchen to brave the recipes within the 1999 Discworld side project Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, co-authored with Stephen Briggs and Tina Hannan, with illustrations by Paul Kidby. After his latest books are forcibly withdrawn from sale, publisher J H C Goatberger reluctantly decides to publish another manuscript sent to him by Nanny Ogg. He hires a few editors to "put in the spelling, grammar and punctuation" and has his wife vet it for anything objectionable enough to get the book banned. The result is Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, a collection of Nanny's own recipes, others she's collected from around the Disc, and some of her wit, wisdom and advice - in particular when it comes to etiquette. Published alongside The Fifth Elephant (see #Pratchat40), Nanny Ogg's Cookbook is one of several "in-universe artefact" books. It collects around fifty or so recipes - minus a dozen or so joke ones - devised by Hannan. Pratchett and Briggs round out the book with Nanny's advice on matters of life, death, flowers and everything in between. Paul Kidby provides some great illustrations of various characters, dishes and other glimpses of Discworld life. What do you think of books like this, that bring a bit of a fictional world into the real one? Which of Nanny's recipes would you try? How do her observations match up with your own experiences of life, love and...um..toilet seats? Do you want a sausage-inna-Bunnings T-shirt? And are you ready to see pictures of our efforts? (Probably not...) Join the conversation using the hashtag #Pratchat50 on social media. Guest Cal Wilson - one of Australia and New Zealand's most beloved comedians - previously guested in #Pratchat1 and #Pratchat3, talking about Men at Arms and Sourcery, respectively. Since we saw her last she's published two children's books - George and the Great Bum Stampede and George and the Great Brain Swappery. Cal is no stranger to podcasts; she's guested on dozens! Her upcoming children's storytelling podcast is The Story Tailor (we'll link to it when it's out!), and she's previously co-hosted Money Power Freedom (it does what it says on the tin) with journalist Santilla Chingaipe for the Victorian Women's Trust. You can find Cal online as @calbo on Twitter, and as mentioned in our chat, on TikTok as @calbowilson. (Or just search for the hashtag #baristacats.) As usual, you can find notes and errata for this episode on our web site - including some photos of our culinary efforts! (Viewer discretion is advised.) December is a busy time for us! To further celebrate reaching fifty episodes, we've invited a bunch of great folks, including past guests, fellow Pratchett podcasters and more to cook a few more recipes for a special Hogswatch Feast episode! Watch out for it on Hogswatch day (i.e. December 25, Australian time). We're also recording our next episode very soon - December 17 in fact - and we'll be discussing the next adventure for Tiffany Aching, 2006's Wintersmith, with Australian fantasy author Garth Nix! So if you have questions, get them in "toot sweet", as Nanny might say, using the hashtag #Pratchat51, or via email to chat@pratchatpodcast.com.

A Hat Full of Sky - WSP 32

Wyrd Sisters Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 51:14

Hiver? I hardly know 'er! Join Manning and Liz as they follow Tiffany Aching on her first adventure truly out of the Chalk in A Hat Full of Sky. Submit a question or comment for the mailbag episode: https://forms.gle/VNsGHmTxFaXoUWh27 Discord - https://discord.gg/ZtA7xUe Twitter - https://twitter.com/WyrdSistersPod Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wyrdsisterspod/ Tumblr - https://wyrdsisterspodcast.tumblr.com/tagged/episode Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsisterspodcast

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett - Book REVIEW

Writing Today with Matthew Dewey

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2021 5:55

The Wee Free Men is the start of a series of novels following the young witch, Tiffany Aching. In this first novel, Tiffany faces her first challenge, as nightmares become reality and invade her home, the country of Chalk. She is armed with her wits, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle, a band of tiny, blue-skinned pictsies. However, will it be enough to face the evils coming out of Fairyland? Here is my spoiler-free review of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett! https://www.thepennedsleuth.com/blog/the-wee-free-men-by-terry-pratchett-book-review

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#77: The Wee Free Men

Green Team of the Legendarium

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2021 57:08

Hurinfan hosts Ashaman and little red book to discuss Sir Terry Pratchett's delightful book about the burgeoning young witch Tiffany Aching. And some how the conversation derails into parenting and heroes.

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Special Sheep Liniment (PCv2n16)

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2021 2:55

Scumble, Bearhugger's Whiskey, Special Sheep Liniment… the Disc has no shortage of distilled alcoholic beverages. But Special Sheep Liniment is the favorite of Tiffany Aching's father, and was the favorite of Granny Aching when she was alive. And of course, the Nac Mac Feegle love it. What more need be said?Beginning on Saturday September 4th, the previous week's Pratchips, and the regular episode, will be available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQBeginning Sunday September 5th, all Pratchips episodes for the coming week will be available to all Patreon supporters (at whatever level) and all members of our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions.Our Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueYou can join our Discord community by searching for it on the Discord home page, or by clicking here: https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPPEmail us at www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!! Thanks for listening.

The Chalk (PCv2n15)

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 2:59

Tiffany Aching's first name means “Land Under Wave” in the old tongue, and the Chalk was indeed once under the sea. In fact, it's the uncounted billions of tiny sea creatures whose remains comprise the chalk that gives the region its name.Today's Pratchips takes a three-minute look at this unique area of the Disc.Beginning on Saturday September 4th, the previous week's Pratchips, and the regular episode, will be available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQBeginning Sunday September 5th, all Pratchips episodes for the coming week will be available to all Patreon supporters (at whatever level) and all members of our Discord community, Friends of Medieval Gnome Productions.Our Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=trueYou can join our Discord community by searching for it on the Discord home page, or by clicking here: https://discord.gg/kdr5SWnUPPEmail us at www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!! Thanks for listening. GNU Terry Pratchett

The Wee Free Men - WSP30

Wyrd Sisters Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2021 65:45

A new challenger approaches! Join Manning, Liz, and newcomer Spell as they journey to the Chalk to meet Tiffany Aching and her little blue helpers, the titular Wee Free Men. Discord - https://discord.gg/ZtA7xUe Twitter - https://twitter.com/WyrdSistersPod Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wyrdsisterspod/ Tumblr - https://wyrdsisterspodcast.tumblr.com/tagged/episode Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsisterspodcast

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Episode 42: Time Flies When You're Having a Wrinkle, Pt. 2

(Re)Read

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2021 62:52

The main villain of #MadeleineLEngle's #AWrinkleinTime is a giant, disembodied #brain. Show Notes: "The Power of Adolescent Anger: L'Engle's Meg Murry and Pratchett's Tiffany Aching" by Dorothy Bennett #AWrinkleinTime #MadeleineLEngle #Meg #CharlesWallace #MrsWhatsit #MrsWho #MrsWhich #Spoilers? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wearereread/support

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The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

The Big Book Club Podcast from Arlington Public Library

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2021 32:15

This week on the podcast we're talking about the “The Wee Free Men,” a 2003 fantasy novel that takes places in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe. "The Wee Free Men” is the first Discworld book that features Tiffany Aching, and the first truly YA book in the series. Reminder: this is a spoiler-filled podcast. So if you're not into that kind of thing, read the book first and come back later. Episode Links “The Wee Free Men,”by Terry Pratchet Soccer Scottish Hooligans Weekly from Saturday Night Live Reading Pete – “House/Hausu" Jennie - "Born Into This" by Adam Thompson Megan – "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden Tell us what YOU think about this book, or anything else you're reading, in our GoodReads or Facebook groups, or talk to us on twitter using the #BigBookPodcast hashtag. If you'd like to make a suggestion for future reading send us your recommendations on the Big Book Club Podcast page on the Arlington Public Library website. Upcoming Book: "Anatomy of Desire" by L.R. Dorn Claire Griffith has it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Having rebranded herself as Cleo Ray, she stands at the threshold of realizing her biggest dreams. One summer day, Cleo and a woman named Beck Alden set off in a canoe on a serene mountain lake. An hour later, Beck is found dead in the water and Cleo is missing. Authorities suspect foul play, and news of Cleo's involvement goes viral. Who was Beck? An infatuated follower? Were she and Cleo friends or lovers? Was Beck's death an accident . . . or murder? Told in the form of an immersive investigative docuseries, L. R. Dorn's brilliant reimagining of Theodore Dreiser's classic crime drama, "An American Tragedy," captures the urgency and poignance of the original and rekindles it as a very contemporary and utterly mesmerizing page-turner.

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Episode 41: Time Flies When You're Having a Wrinkle, Pt. 1

(Re)Read

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2021 73:35

On this episode, we go back to a classic from elementary school—#AWrinkleinTime by Madeleine L'Engle! Will we go mad for Madeleine's mad book this time around ... or will it just drive us mad? Show Notes: "The Power of Adolescent Anger: L'Engle's Meg Murry and Pratchett's Tiffany Aching" by Dorothy Bennett #AWrinkleinTime #MadeleineLEngle #Meg #CharlesWallace #MrsWhatsit #MrsWho #MrsWhich --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wearereread/support

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Wizards and Witches (S10E5)

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2021 35:24

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

Earworms and Frying Pans (PCv2n1)

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2021 2:58

Not a very appetizing combination, certainly. But misery loves company, so I will tell you about earworms, with the flimsy excuse that I get Disworld-line earworms. This one, currently, is bedeviling me: "Jimmy Tropes is in trouble, though. He's up a tree in Hyde Park."Also a few words about Tiffany Aching's frying pan, and a few more words about Hex. Hey, I've only got 180 seconds! randy@mindkindle.net

#Pratchat43 – Big Wee Hag: Far Fra’ Home

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2021 139:18

Poet and writer Sally Evans joins Liz and Ben as they rejoin Tiffany Aching for a trip up into the mountains to meet the next generation of witches in A Hat Full of Sky, the 32nd Discworld novel, first published in 2004. Note that while this episode discusses a book for younger readers, it does contain swearing and we discuss concepts only appearing metaphorically in the book, including puberty and (briefly) masturbation. Parents may wish to listen first before listening with their big wee ones. Tiffany Aching's life is all change: she's off into the mountains to apprentice with Miss Level, a research witch who even other witches find a bit weird. She's left behind her home, her family, and everything she's ever known. Even the Nac Mac Feegle - the drinking, fighting pictsies who've become her fierce protectors since she was briefly their Queen - aren't coming with her. Tiffany soon finds that fitting in among other new witches, and learning the craft, are far harder than anything she's done before. And that's before the one bit of magic she knows brings her to the attention of a hiver - a bodiless, mindless, invisible creature looking for someone with power to inhabit... While a certain other magical young person was attending a school of magic and magic (as the copyright lawyers insist we call it), Pratchett's own Tiffany Aching sets out on a very different journey of discovery. While only 11, she must grapple with her own burgeoning powers (barely under her control), new social dynamics, the affections of someone who is merely less annoying than he used to be, and all the perils of growing up, including the monster in your own head... Is this book too grown up for 11-year-olds? Does Pratchett have a high estimation of young people? Are we on the money about the metaphors? How great would it be to have an ondageist? And are the Feegles still fun, or has Tiffany already outgrown them? Er...so to speak. Use the hashtag #Pratchat43 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Dr Sally Evans is a poet and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. As part of her PhD, Sally created four chapbook-length sequences of poetry, including a modern reworking of The Odyssey by Homer, and giving Fifty Shades of Grey the blackout poetry treatment. You can hear Sally talk Mad Max: Fury Road on the apocalyptic fiction podcast Catastropod, hosted by previous Pratchat guest Marlee Jane Ward, and follow her on Twitter at @SalacticaActual. Next episode we fulfil our stupidest promise: yes, two and half years after we discussed The Colour of Magic, and around 35 years after its first publication, we finally resolve Pratchett's most literal cliffhanger. Join us as we read the second ever Discworld novel, 1986's The Light Fantastic! Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat44, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

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#Pratchat42 – Truth, the Printing Press and Every -ing

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2021 149:47

Author, editor and journalist Stephanie Convery returns to Pratchat as newspapers and conspiracy hit Ankh-Morpork in the same week! It's The Truth, the 25th Discworld novel, first published in 2000. William de Worde has made a reasonable living writing a monthly newsletter for notables, keeping them informed of goings on in Ankh-Morpork. But when he's nearly run over by Gunilla Goodmountain's new movable type printing press, he soon begins producing a different kind of "paper of news" - one that anyone can buy on the street, full of the important stories of the day. Before long "the Ankh-Morpork Times" - soon employing writer Sacharissa Cripslock and vampire iconographer Otto von Chriek - is a hit...and has ruffled a few feathers. But William has a powerful drive to spread the news, only intensified when Lord Vetinari is found unconscious next to a horse loaded with money after supposedly having stabbed his clerk. The Patrician being arrested for attempted murder and embezzlement is big news, of course - but is it the truth? Pratchett cut his teeth as a writer as a journalist, and had for many years used his work as inspiration - but nowhere as directly as in the 25th Discworld novel, which introduces the Disc's first newspaper journalists, William de Worde. Apart from William, the novel also brings us the Times' staff, most notably Sacharissa and Otto, who pop up in many future books, and the unforgettable "New Firm" of Mr Pin and Mr Tulip - plus the triumphant return of Gaspode! The books also draws on sources as broad as Shakespeare, the history of printing, Watergate and Pulp Fiction for inspiration, references and jokes, while still packing in themes as serious as public interest, prejudice, class privilege and...well...the truth. Is it weird seeing Vimes as a secondary character through the eyes of a journalist? Do you wish the staff of the Times had more books of their own? Where do you come down on the debate over public interest vs "of interest to the public"? Share your truth with us via the hashtag #Pratchat42 on social media, and join the conversation! Guest Stephanie Convery is a freelance writer and Deputy Culture Editor for Guardian Australia. Since she was last a guest on this podcast (discussing Mort way back in #Pratchat2, "Murdering a Curry"), Stephanie has published her first book: After the Count, a critically acclaimed "history and interrogation of boxing as art and a cultural examination of sport", framed around the death of boxer Davey Browne following a knockout in the ring. You can check out Stephanie's work at Guardian Australia, or follow her on Twitter at @gingerandhoney. We're planning to be part of the line-up for the Australian Discworld Convention's online event, The Lost Con, on Saturday 3rd July, 2021. More details on that soon! We'd also love to know if you want us to do an episode about The Watch television series, and whether you'd support Ben making a similar podcast about the works of Douglas Adams. Next time we're jumping ahead into the future as we continue to spread out Tiffany Aching's story: yes, it's time to grab A Hat Full of Sky! We'll be joined by writer and poet, Sally Evans. Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat43, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site. This month (April 2021) you can also help raise money for Meals on Wheels in the US as part of the #Reviews4Good initiative! We'll respond and double the donation, too. Just review the show (or an episode) on Podchaser.

Ep11 - Wee Free Men

Ladies Who Genre

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2021 70:31

Today the Ladies discuss Terry Pratchett's award-winning "Wee Free Men", the 30th novel in the Discworld series and the 1st Tiffany Aching story. If you've never read any of the Discworld novels, this is an excellent jumping-in point!

I Shall Wear Midnight - I Have a Cunning Man

Radio Morpork

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2021 158:10

Colm and Steve discuss the penultimate book in the Tiffany Aching sub-series. They talk about the pros and cons of narrative messiness, modernity encroaching into the Chalk, and characters navigating the tricky balance between public responsibilities and private desires.

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#Pratchat39 – All the Fun of the…Fish?

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2021 92:19

We're kicking off the Year of the Beleaguered Badger with something a little different: an international guest, and a short story! Unofficial Pratchett biographer Marc Burrows joins us from the UK to discuss the third Discworld short story: 1998's The Sea and Little Fishes! Without much else but the carefully applied annoyances of Nanny Ogg to occupy her time, Granny Weatherwax is ready to win the annual Witch Trial - just as she does every year. But Lettice Earwig, self-appointed leader of a sort of witch committee, has decided this is discouraging new witches, and asks Granny not to participate. She also tells Granny to try being "nice" - and the worst part is, Granny appears to be taking her advice... Very long for a short story, The Sea and Little Fishes delves into the relationship between two of Pratchett's most beloved characters, and introduces people and concepts he'd later expand upon in the Tiffany Aching novels. In a sense it's a story in which almost nothing happens, but then that's largely the point - someone like Granny Weatherwax hardly has to do anything at all to move mountains. Where did you read it? What do you think of the title? And how long can a story be while still being considered "short"??? Let us know! Use the hashtag #Pratchat39 on social media to join the conversation. Guest Marc Burrows is a writer, musician and comic. His articles and reviews about music and culture have appeared in The Guardian and a variety of other publications, but he's currently best known as the author of the first, unofficial Terry Pratchett biography, The Magic of Terry Pratchett, which you can learn all about at askmeaboutterrypratchett.com. He is also a member of the band The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, and has two upcoming non-fiction books about music. The best place to find Marc online is as @20thcenturymarc on Twitter and Instagram, and you can sign up to his newsletter "The Glom of Nit" via tinyletter.com. You can find the full show notes and errata for this episode on our web site. We plan to cover short stories once or twice a year to help us all keep up with the schedule, in part because our original plan - to cover them as live shows - hasn't worked out this last year. But next month it's back to the Discworld novels, and the Watch, with The Fifth Elephant - and we're welcoming back one of our earliest guests, Richard McKenzie! Send us your questions via email, or social media using the hashtag #Pratchat40. Want to make sure we get through every Pratchett book - and maybe make a few more live episodes like this? You can support Pratchat for as little as $2 a month and get subscriber bonuses, like the exclusive bonus podcast Ook Club!

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Case File 4: Bloodlines | Wintersmith (Part 1)

The St James Files

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2020 66:07

Heading into London on the promise of answers, Felicity finds herself taking Winter a little harder than others. For those interested, Wintersmith is the 3rd book in the Tiffany Aching series within the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. Available where all good books are. CAST Keeper of Monsters and Mysteries - Steve Archer Felicity Carver - Emma Bamford Theme Music by Steve Archer Music was created by the glorious Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), and the BomBARDed Podcast, available at bombarded.bandcamp.com

Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching Novels

2ser Book Club

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 4:15

When you're young a series can really capture your imagination. The books draw you in and give you a hero who's just like you to identify and grow with.For my mind if you want some fantasy in your life you needn’t go further than Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. Within the forty plus books Pratchett penned in the Discworld is a series for younger readers centring on a young girl from a rural area of the Disc called the Chalk.Tiffany is nine-years old when we first meet her lying by a river. She promptly dispatches a river monster with a frying pan and befriends a group of small blue men. Only the first of many signs that Tiffany is not your ordinary girl.It soon becomes apparent that Tiffany is a witch and while witches aren’t supposed to grow on Chalk that doesn’t mean she won’t have to figure out her power to stop all manner of beasties coming for her.Fortunately Tiffany will have help. The tiny blue men are Nac Mac Feegle, pictsies who can fight their way out of anything (except a pub). The Nac Mac Feegle used to work for the fairy queen, but were booted out of fairy land for fighting (so they say). They believe they are in heaven (because of the things on earth to drink or fight) and when they die they return to the real world.Terry Pratchett penned five Tiffany Aching novels between 2003 and 2015. Despite not being a younger reader I read Tiffany’s adventures contemporaneously to their release and was absolutely devastated when I finished The Shepard’s Crown. It was Pratchett’s last novel, published after his death, and while a fitting farewell it made me immensely sad to say goodbye.The magic of the Tiffany Aching books is that despite their central theme of witchcraft and fairy folk they are distinctly grounded. As Tiffany learns how to be a witch she is guided by the best in the land. Granny Weatherwax is a highlight of the Discworld and perhaps the character most closely associated with Pratchett himself. Strong and practical, she guides Tiffany to use her head and worry more about people than magic.Tiffany is an avid learner. She looks at everyone fairy, human or small blue brawler alike and tries to understand the person. So it is that Tiffany develops his second sight (and then her third sight) distinctive ways of looking at a problem from a range of perspectives. The magic of Tiffany’s world is most closely associated with what Granny Weatherwax calls headology; a way of taking each person on their merits and their circumstances and treating them with respect if not also a little caution.I’m re-reading these books at the moment (the first two books are The Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky) and I’m marvelling at how Pratchett writes for everyone with such panache. It’s not that he’s crafted a book for children that adults will also get the special ‘adult’ jokes. Pratchett gets that we are all living in the same world and just because you are a smaller size of human doesn’t mean you should be condescended to.Tiffany Aching is an incredible character for all readers but if I had a small person that I wanted to inspire I’d definitely introduce them to this young witch from the Chalk.

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With a Little Help from Her Friends

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 20:42

This time we consider the individuals and groups that mentor, safeguard, and assist Tiffany Aching. From the Nac Mac Feegle to Granny Weatherwax. Tiffany finds a lot of help along the way—although of course she always ends up having to do the hardest part all by herself. She is a witch, and that's what a witch does. This does it for season six. We'll be back on the first Friday in September with a new season. Thank you all for listening to this one!I will be doing the bonus episodes for our Patron subscribers as usual.The Portal's Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=true.There will be new stuff on on our Discord server, “Friends of the Discworld Portal,” where you could also find a fellow Pratchett fan for some conversation. The server should be accessible via https://discord.gg/36c7Sk2.We're on Facebook at The Discworld Portal, https://www.facebook.com/TheMedievalGnome/.Shoot me an email at randy@mindkindle.net if you have any trouble getting in.If all that won't satisfy a Portal fix, I guess there's always listening to old episodes again.Congratulations to Luke on winning the second contest (his third win as a listener!) and a shout out to Susan, Jo and Kylie for also giving the contest a go, and a second shout out to Susan and Jo for the wonderful, erudite emails you send me. Thus endeth season six. No turtles or other lifeforms in the production of this season's episodes. Thanks again for listening,Holly (executive producer)Ivy (co-producer and engineer)The Gnome (co-producer and host)n.b. if you have been attentive you will recognize that the above is a change in staff roles. Holly decided mere producing was beneath her, so I made her executive producer, where all she has to do is look fabulous, which she so effortlessly does. Ivy was already carrying the engineering duties anyway. I don't know whether Holly bribed or threatened her into it. I suspect both. GNU Terry Pratchett The Turtle Moves!

Growing Up Crafty

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 19:55

Over the course of the Tiffany Aching books, we see her grow up as a person and a woman, as well as a witch. It's never easy, but then she is “a witch down to her boots.” Thus spake Granny Weatherwax, and that's high praise! The Portal's Patreon page may be found at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=true.The 10/10 challenge is still on for one more week. I hope to get 10 new Patreon supporters, and 10 one-time PayPal donations, in honor of the 10 shows I did in June: four regular episodes, three episodes of the Passages, and three bonus episodes for Patreon subscribers. You can make a one-time PayPal donation to the show (at randy@mindkindle.net). To sweeten the pot a little, I will send out bonus episode(s) to one-time PayPal donors at the same rate as Patreon subscribers, that is, one for every $5 donated.We're on the Discord server as Friends of the Discworld Portal (just search for that name in the “find or start a conversation” box on the Discord home page.)We're on Facebook at The Discworld Portal, https://www.facebook.com/TheMedievalGnome/.Remember, next week is the final episode of season six. The Portal will then be on hiatus until the first Friday in September, although I will produce the regular bonus episodes for Patreon patrons.Finally, this is not Discworld-related, but it is well worth 10 minutes of your time. And ladies, we'd like our rib back! https://youtu.be/l_UegL1R3X8The Turtle MovesGNU Terry Pratchett

34: Astrology Forecast for August 2020: Leo Love

Human Design and Astrology for a New Paradigm

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2020 37:38

Hello my friends! Today we have the astrology forecast for August 2020. Including; -Imbolc/Lammas -Leo season -Aquarius full moon, and analysis of the Leo/Aquarius axis - Mercury in Leo - Venus into Cancer -Leo New Moon - The shift from Leo into Virgo season Things recommended: The Tiffany Aching book series by Terry Pratchett Spirits podcast Taylor Swift's new album Folklore For my blend of Human Design & Astrology readings: https://www.heathermannhumandesign.com/heartpurposereadings come play on instagram - @_heathermann

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Ep85: We Be Witches

Lit Chicks

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 56:15

We start off this podcast with a little chat about satan’s waterfall cause who doesn’t want to go with the flow?! Then we discuss two witchy books/series! A Witch in Time and The Tiffany Aching books (mostly The Wee Free Men) from the Disc-world series! Happy Reading! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/litchicks/message

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#Pratchat33 – Cat, Rats and Two Meddling Kids

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2020 114:56

Liz, Ben and writer Michelle Law go on a surprisingly dark ride in Pratchett's skewed take on the "Pied Piper", 2001's Discworld for Younger Readers book, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. Everyone knows that the best way to get rid of a plague of rats is to pay the Piper. Even Maurice, and he's a talking cat. So when he met a Clan of similarly smart talking rats, all he needed was a stupid-looking kid who could play, and he had the makings of the perfect con. But the rats (and the kid) are smart enough to decide that what they're doing is unethical. Maurice convinces them to pull one last scam in a tiny Überwald town. But all is not well in Bad Blintz: the mayor's daughter immediately sees there's something odd about Maurice and the kid, and the town is convinced they already have a plague of rats - but the Clan can't find a single one... After two trilogies of children's books set in our own world, and before he invented Tiffany Aching, Pratchett tried getting kids into the Discworld with a story of talking animals, plucky kids...and unspeakable evil. The Amazing Maurice explores some weighty ethics, punctures the safety of Enid Blyton, questions the lessons taught by the Brothers Grim, and goes to some very dark places, metaphorically and literally. All born out of a jokey footnote he wrote for Reaper Man a decade before! Is this really a children's book? Would you let your kids read it? Is it a terrible mistake, or is it maybe the greatest book Pratchett ever wrote? And most importantly: what's your rat name? Use the hashtag #Pratchat33 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Michelle Law is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor based in Sydney. Her work includes the 2017 smash hit play Single Asian Female, the SBS TV series Homecoming Queens and contributed to numerous magazines and books. Michelle's next play will be Miss Peony for Sydney's Belvoir Theatre, and she has a story in the anthology After Australia from Affirm Press. You can find out more about Michelle at her web site, michelle-law.com, and follow her on Twitter at @ms_michellelaw. Next month we complete our hat-trick of Pratchetts for younger readers by returning to the English town of Blackbury to catch up with Johnny Maxwell in 1993's Johnny and the Dead! We'll be joined by children's author Oliver Phommovanh! Get your questions in via the hashtag #Pratchat34 by July 21st 2020. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

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#Pratchat32 – Meet the Feegles

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2020 139:47

Liz, Ben and librarian Meaghan Dew come down from the mountains to a land of sheep, chalk and tiny blue warriors, and meet the youngest witch ever, in Pratchett's 2003 Discworld for Younger Readers book, The Wee Free Men. Nine-year-old farm girl Tiffany Aching lives on The Chalk, a lowland area famous for its sheep and...er...sheep products. It's not famous for attacks from mythical river monsters, so when one turns up she lures it with her brother as bait and hits it over the head with a frying pan. Searching for answers, she meets the very real witch Miss Tick, and realises that's what she wants to be. In her first truly witchy move, she disobeys Miss Tick's advice and tries to take on the Queen of the Fairies, who has kidnapped her baby brother. Luckily she's already met and impressed the Nac Mac Feegle - a clan of tiny blue "pictsies" with a love for fightin', stealin' and drinkin'... After the end of the Witches series in Carpe Jugulum*, Pratchett launched a new protagonist destined to become one of his most beloved characters. Tiffany Aching is practical, serious, thoughtful and wilful, with a steely gaze and a mind so sharp she might cut someone else (she certainly knows which bit to hold onto). Pratchett weaves the story of a young girl stepping into some big - and tiny - shoes with themes of grief, family, community, belief and the stories we tell...oh, and a tiny blue and red whirlwind of swearing, violence and other Scottish stereotypes known as the Nac Mac Feegle. Do these two things mesh well for you? Is this Tiffany's finest hour, or just a taste of what's to come for her? And was Granny Aching a witch, a shepherd, or something else entirely by the end? Use the hashtag #Pratchat32 on social media to join the conversation! * Carpe Jugulum is coming soon(ish) to a Pratchat episode near you! Guest Meaghan Dew is a librarian and podcaster. For around seven years, Meaghan hosted and produced the podcast for Australian arts and culture magazine Kill Your Darlings. Meaghan currently works as a librarian in Melbourne, and produces her library's podcast program. Ben was reading the The Illustrated Wee Free Men, the 2008 hardcover edition of the book with full-colour illustrations by artist Stephen Player - and a few extras from Terry. Player advises that the colours are off in the book, but you can see many of the original illustrations on his web site. Next month we travel to an entirely different rural area of the Disc for more younger readers adventure, in 2000's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. We'll be joined by writer and screenwriter Michelle Law! Get your questions in via the hashtag #Pratchat33 by June 20th 2020. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

Episode 437: Ten Minutes with Karen Lord

The Coode Street Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 12:31

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. All the way from Barbados, multiple award-winning author Karen Lord chats with Gary about how the lockdown is affecting life there, how the whole worldwide experience is liking moving into a new country where you don't quite know all the rules, what reading to return to in such times, and her own new story "The Plague Doctors” (and discussion of the story) from the free anthology, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories. Books mentioned include: Unravelling by Karen Lord The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton The City Watch, Witches, and Tiffany Aching novels by Terry Pratchett Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

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#Pratchat31 – It’s Just a Step to the West

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Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 137:33

In episode 31, Liz, Ben and returning guest Joel Martin step sideways into the infinite earths of Pratchett's 2012 collaboration with Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth. In 2015, plans for a strange but simple box-shaped device called a "Stepper", powered by a potato, are posted online. Kids all over the world build them and discover that the boxes let them step "East" or "West" into other Earths. There are thousands of such worlds - perhaps millions - all subtly different. But they do have one thing in common: there are no humans on any of them. Fifteen years after "Step Day", human society is irrevocably altered, and experienced far-stepper Joshua Valienté is offered a new job: to step further from Earth than even he has ever been, and explore the mysteries of the Long Earth in the company of a Tibetan motorcycle repairman reincarnated as a supercomputer... Based on ideas from Pratchett's 1986 short story "The High Meggas", written before the popularity of The Colour of Magic led him down a particular leg of the trousers of time, The Long Earth is the first in a series of five novels set in a near future world forever changed by the existence of limitless worlds next door. An epic journey across millions of worlds, Pratchett chose to work with his friend Stephen Baxter, a prolific science fiction author whose work encompasses hard future sci-fi, speculative evolution, alternate history and sequels to classic novels by the likes of H. G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke. That all seems quite a distance from comic fantasy - but the pairing just works. So - it’s five years since Step Day. Would you visit another Earth? Could you pick which bits were Pratchett, and which Baxter? And what kind of potato is in your stepper box? Use the hashtag #Pratchat31 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Joel Martin is a writer, editor and podcaster who previously appeared on Pratchat in episode 14, discussing the book that derailed the Long Earth back in 1986, The Colour of Magic. Joel is also the director of the Speculate speculative fiction festival (specfic.com.au). His latest work is the short story Hunting Time in Strange Stories Vol. 1, scheduled to be published this month by 42books. Joel's writing podcast, The Morning Bell, is currently on hiatus, but you can find the full back catalogue at themorningbell.com.au. Find out more about him at thepenofjoel.com. Next month we're stepping back onto the Disc to meet adventurous nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, in 2003's The Wee Free Men! Get your questions in via the hashtag #Pratchat32 by around May 23rd. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

Episode 42: A Frying Pan is an Excellent Weapon

Lasers and Lockets Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020 18:42

In this special book club edition of Lasers and Lockets, Lee explores The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. She dives into the funny and complex character of Tiffany Aching and her adventures with The Feegles in this book. She also shares the first of the discussion questions to kick start the book club discussion on our Goodreads group. Get your nerd on!Let’s Get SocialTwitter: @LasersLocketsFacebook: @LasersLocketsDiscord: https://discord.gg/hd53W8NInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/laserslockets/Goodreads Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1081606-lasers-lockets-book-club

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15. Witch of the Day: Tiffany Aching

PracticalMagic microcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2020 1:31

15. Witch of the Day: Tiffany AchingRelated links for 15. Witch of the Day: Tiffany Aching: Reply to this episode on ykyz: https://ykyz.com/p/48835e23d2ab4cc592597b2e1f2cbdb063910598 PracticalMagic microcast: https://ykyz.com/c/microcast?&username=practicalmagic

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A Hat Full of Sky - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Witch

Radio Morpork

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 105:08

Colm & Steve tackle Tiffany Aching's second outing. Their discussion takes in everything from identity to homesickness to narrative structure, and, for some reason, a fair amount of superhero references.

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The Wee Free Men - Rowdy Roddy Mouse-Piper

Radio Morpork

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2019 108:27

Colm and Steve look at the Discworld debut of Tiffany Aching. They discuss grief, responsibility, childhood and the godawful poetry of William McGonagle.

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I was Aching this morning, and I'll still be Aching tonight

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2019 19:59

The Portal's opening was delayed two days this week due to the classic "family emergency." My wife ended up in the hospital, but she's home and doing fine. And here is this week's episode, albeit two days late.This week we conclude our discussion of the witches of the Discworld with a look at the newest and youngest of their number, Tiffany Aching. To enter the season three lottery (for a copy of The Discworld Atlas) just send an email stating your favorite Discworld character to randy@mindkindle.net. There were only two entrants last week so make sure and get your entry in this week! The topic for next week's show will be chosen by one of our Patreon subscribers. You can visit the Portal's Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045.

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Get Booked

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2019 42:32

Amanda and Jenn discuss action heroines, bonkers plotlines, police procedurals, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller giveaway, Slay by Brittney Morris, and the audiobook of Frankly in Love by David Yoon. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. FEEDBACK Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (rec’d by Stephanie) Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan (rec’d by Elizabeth) Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi (rec’d by Khadija) The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (rec’d by Aleks) QUESTIONS 1. Greetings, and thanks in advance for expanding my already out of control TBR list! A friend and I just booked a two-week trip to South Korea for early November (leaving 11/3), and I want to do as much research as possible before I go, because I am SUCH a Hermione. I’m looking for books, fiction or non-fiction, that will provide me with context about the culture, history, food, traditions, and/or landscape of South Korea. I already have Wicked Fox and Pachinko on my list. What else can you recommend that will help me learn as much as I can? I’ve never been anywhere in Asia, and I’m so excited to go. My wheelhouse is pretty broad–I’m a fan of contemporary fiction, sweeping generational sagas, YA, and sci-fi/fantasy (though I’m not so much into high fantasy). For non-fiction I especially love reading memoirs, especially by women and comedians (Bossypants and “Are you Hanging out without Me?” being two of my favorites) and collections of essays. Thanks so much–I love the podcast and I can’t wait to hear your recommendations. -Julia 2. Hi Amanda and Jenn! Over the summer I’ve gotten into a reading kick of books with a certain madcap flair – like everything is bonkers but we’re going with it plotlines. I think Amanda’s recommendation of The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall is what set me off so I wanted to ask for more please! Other books I’ve read in this vein would be: The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger, Good Omens by Gaiman/Pratchett, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, The Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams – and I’m noticing a British theme here, which is fine to continue or buck! Thanks in advance. -Kelly 3. Every year for Hanukkah, I send my friend 8 e-books from Thanksgiving until the last day of the holiday. When Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins came out, we both absolutely loved it and read the rest of the books in the series. At the time, we also liked some of the books by Rainbow Rowell. I’ve had trouble finding another whimsical, fun, romantic, but well written series that has the same energy as the Perkins’ books. Any suggestions? Thank you! -Malory 4. I am looking for a book for my mom. She really likes fiction about all kinds of sports in which characters overcome hardships and stereotypes. Which is why she loved the Dairy Queen Trilogy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. She has now read all three books several times and can’t seem to find anything else quite like it. Can you think of anything along these lines? Thank you! All the best! -Leah 5. I’m a long time listener to the podcast and have got many many recommendations from you both over the years, but I’ve only now come up with my very own personalised request… I’ve recently realised that I read police (and private detective) procedurals as a kind of comfort read/palate cleanser/go to for when I can’t think of anything else to read, or just can’t get into any other books. I’ve read loads of Sarah Paretsky, am obsessed with Tana French and recently really enjoyed the first 2 books in Susie Steiner’s DI Manon Bradshaw series, but I’d really love some recs for this kind of thing that isn’t written by a white woman. I already have IQ by Joe Ides on my radar, have read and loved everything by Attica Locke, and have put the Widows of Malabar Hill on my TBR – do you have any other suggestions for me? Bonus points if it’s a long ass series I can really sink my teeth into and keep going back to when all is lost. I read (and write!) a lot of psychological thrillers so really don’t need any recommendations in that department..it’s police and private eyes I’m after here, I think. -Annie 6. I’m a relatively new Insider, and have been loving your podcast through the past 5 months. Thank you SO much for making my TBR list super-long, and introducing me to so many books I might never have thought to pick up. As a side effect of the Read Harder Challenge, I realized that I love books of essays (who knew?!) in addition to my known-favorites of historical fiction, fantasy, murder mystery, and literary fiction. I just finished reading “Selfish, Shallow and Self-absorbed: 16 Writers on the Decision NOT to have kids”. I had high hopes for this book as a 37 year old veterinarian who has made this decision myself, which tends not to be a popular one with family or peer-group. I was hoping to find my brethren in these essays, but sadly only felt some mild kindred spirits calling from two or three essays. I was wondering if you might be able to help me find a character who speaks to me through a novel? I will say that the “single and driven” female lead intrigues me, but isn’t me. I’m happily married to a man who also doesn’t want children. Also, I do love kids (and truly enjoy my time with my nephews and god-daughter), so kid-haters are also a strong no. Some of my favorite characters thus far have been Kinsey Millhone from Sue Grafton’s alphabet series; Lindsay Boxer from the early part of the Women’s Murder Club series by James Patterson, Claire from the Outlander series, and Jo from Little Women. Thank you in advance! -Jennie 7. I always wondered why I felt no connection to action heroines. Then I read Sabriel and realized that I prefer down-to-earth, sensible protagonists who have a strong sense of duty. Tiffany Aching is the platonic ideal of this. I also recently loved The Bear and the Nightingale. My preferred genres are science fiction and fantasy. I’ve been especially loving “domestic fantasy” lately that takes place around the home, though a good adventure across dangerous lands is always fun too. Thank you! -Julia BOOKS DISCUSSED The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield (rec’d by Kathleen) Check, Please!: Book 1: Hockey, by Ngozi Ukazu Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak (The Unquiet Dead #1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

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Episode 120: Faith Lessons from Pop Culture, Part 1--Hat Full of Sky

Crazy Faith Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 34:00

In a new series, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve are taking a look at intersection points between our lived faith and pop culture. As we take a look at favorite books, movies, and more, we'll explore what we have learned about our life of faith from authors, moviemakers, and other creators who might not have intended their word as spiritual commentaries, but still have much to teach us. In this first episode of the new Pop Culture and Faith series, Pastor Sarah shares a character arc and learns from Terry Pratchett's A Hat Full of Sky, which is a novel in the Tiffany Aching series within the DiscWorld story universe. What she has to share about faith, ministry, and loving other people is beautifully relevant to our daily lives, even though it comes from a story about people who live on a flat world held up by giant cosmic turtles! See more of what we can learn in this new episode and new series on Crazy Faith Talk!

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Episode 13 - Audio Aubsession

Three Books

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2018 52:06

Erica Christianson, Assistant Director at Ela Area Public Library, and makes the case for listening to and enjoying audiobooks. You’re already listening to a podcast - give it a try! 01:03 Meet our guest Erica Christensen02:07 The twist in this episode03:33 Cool story about books05:43 Opinions about Jim Dale07:28 Audiobook 1- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl09:32 Christen mentions Strange Stars13:35 Audiobook 2- Spoonbenders17:04 Erica’s other favorite books of 201820:44 Audiobook 3- Marsh King’s Daughter23:45 Erica’s favorite narrators27:24 Christen’s top 3 audiobook performances32:51 Christen’s audiobook narrator crush34:34 Becca’s 3 Audiobooks38:56 Becca’s Narrator crush39:40 Speeding up audiobooks- pro or con?47:46 Erica’s QuoteErica’s Three Books: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (read by the author)Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (read by Ari Fliakos)Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne (read by Emily Rankin) Other Titles/Information Discussed: Rootabaga Stories by Carl SandburgThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderLord of the Rings by J. R. R. TolkienHarry Potter (read by Jim Dale)The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (read by Jim Dale) Mr. Men & Little Miss Books by Roger Hargreaves (read by Jim Dale) Discworld Series (and Tiffany Aching) by Terry Pratchett (read by Stephen Briggs)Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason HellerShrill by Lindy West (read by the author) GuRu by RuPaul Charles (read by the author) Bossypants by Tina Fey (read by the author)Yes, Please by Amy Poehler (read by the author) You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson (read by the author) Everything Is Trash (But It’s Okay) by Phoebe Robinson (read by the author) All Systems Red by Martha WellsThe Animators by Kayla Rae WhitakerThe Immoralists by Chloe BenjaminSavvy by Ingrid LawNOS4A2 by Joe Hill (read by Kate Mulgrew) The Fireman by Joe Hill (read by Kate Mulgrew) Christine by Stephen King Check out Hoopla for audiobooks! Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.comTwitter - @threebookspod

The Unbroken Circle Episode 001 - Discworld Witches, feat. Annie Craton

The Math of You

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2018 67:17

Cohost of Jemjammer and I Will Fight You Annie Craton returns to discuss the Witches of Discworld, focusing on Granny Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching. Along the course of this conversation, we discuss being there for the beginning and ends of things, the importance of old mens' toenails, and how good does not have to be nice.Signature Cocktail: La Vielle HacheOn with the motley. Terry'll appreciate it. And I hear it's good for stomach ailments too.1oz rye whiskey1oz Calvados3/4oz sweet vermouth1 dash Angostura bitters1 dash Peychaud's bittersGreen Chartreuse rinsecherry for garnishCombine rye, calvados, vermouth and bitters in a mixing glass with ice and stir to combine. Pour enough Chartreuse into a rocks glass to coat the inside, then pour out (into your mouth). Stain from the mixing glass into the prepared rocks glass, and garnish was a cherry.Follow Annie on Twitter at @anniezard, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to themathofyou@gmail.com.If you like the music on the show, go to bit.ly/TheMathOfYou See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Babbel: singalong-bio, musikalfilmer och flickboksromantik

Det nya svarta

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2018 28:52

Avsnitt 4: Idag babblar Lina och Karin om bland annat singalong-bio, musikalfilmer och romantik i flickböcker. Vi kommer fram till att vår pod har många likheter med Anne på Grönkullas penna, och att Frost och Strindbergs Fadren har gemensamma drag. (Saknar du Anna? Oroa dig inte, hon är tillbaka nästa avsnitt!) Spoilers för bokserierna om Anne på Grönkulla, Unga kvinnor, Tiffany Aching, Lyra Silvertongue (His Dark Materials) samt filmerna Askungen/Cinderella och Frost/Frozen. Vill du veta mer eller kommentera det vi har pratat om? Länkar för varje avsnitt finns här. Vi finns också på facebook och på instagram. Eller så kan du mejla till nyasvarta@gmail.com Länkar: Bio Roywww.bioroy.se"Dirty Dancing" dansfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/?ref_=nv_sr_1"Moulin Rouge" musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203009/?ref_=nv_sr_1"The Nightmare Before Christmas" animerad musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/?ref_=nv_sr_1"Borta med vinden" filmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/"Mamma Mia" musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795421/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"Once More With Feeling" musikalavsnitt från tv-serien "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533466/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" musikalseriehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227926/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_40"Sound of Music" musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/?ref_=nv_sr_1"Hair" musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079261/?ref_=nv_sr_1"Jesus Christ Superstar" musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070239/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"Cabaret" musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/?ref_=nv_sr_1'Han från How I Met Your Mother', Neil Patrick Harris (Barney)https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000439/?ref_=tt_cl_t4"How I Met Your Mother", tv-serie, finns på Netflixhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/"King Lear" med Ian McKellan på Bio Royhttp://www.bioroy.se/#/movie/463"King Lear" pjäs av William Shakespearehttp://shakespeare.mit.edu/lear/full.html"Ett dockhem" tv-teaterhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164540/?ref_=nv_sr_4"Romeo och Julia" av Bolshoiteatern https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/344/"So You Think You Can Dance" dansdokusåpatävlinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472023/?ref_=nv_sr_1"Anne på Grönkulla/Anne of Green Gables" (med flera) roman av Lucy Maud Montgomeryhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3579.The_Complete_Anne_of_Green_Gables_Boxed_Set?from_search=true"Emily/Emily of New Moon" (med flera) roman av Lucy Maud Montgomeryhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65751.Emily_Boxed_3_Vols?from_search=true"Unga kvinnor/Little Women" (med flera) roman av Louisa May Alcotthttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1934.Little_Women"The Wee Free Men" (med flera) roman av Terry Pratchett, huvudperson Tiffany Achinghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26203937-tiffany-aching-complete-collection?from_search=trueTerry Pratchett, författare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett"Louisa May Alcott" podcastavsnitt av The History Chickshttp://thehistorychicks.com/episode-104-louisa-may-alcott/"Askungen" animerad musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042332/?ref_=nv_sr_1"Frost" animerad musikalfilmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/"His Dark Materials"-serien, romaner av Philip Pullman, huvudperson Lyra Silvertonguehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials?from_search=true'Den nya av Philip Pullman', "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34128219-la-belle-sauvage"Frost 2", animerad musikalfilm, kommer 2019https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4520988/"Fadren" pjäs av August Strindberghttp://runeberg.org/fadren/"Snödrottningen" saga av Hans Christian Andersen http://runeberg.org/hcasob/1/

Episode 10: Extravaganza

Be The Serpent

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2018 73:10

On this special episode, we're not talking about a theme -- we're answering a cornucopia of amazing questions from our darling listeners! It's the one you've all been waiting for! It's the extravaganza!And, as announced in the episode, our lovely scribes have launched a Discord chat for fans of the show! Check it out here! What We’re Reading: Heroine Complex by Sarah KuhnAn Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret RogersonSpace Opera by Cat ValenteLast Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger Other Stuff We Mentioned: DaemonsSorting Hat ChatsJake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)Jack Harkness (Doctor Who/Torchwood)Mei Changsu (Nirvana in Fire)Ocean’s ThirteenJulius Caesar’s sexualityAlexander HamiltonFreya’s Hamilton fic “Interlude (Rise Up)”Julie d’AubignyJosephine BakerAustralian bush firesThe Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy DunnettCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatNinefox Gambit and Raven Strategem by Yoon Ha LeeUrsula Vernon / T. KingfisherThe Discworld books by Terry Pratchett (esp. the City Watch, Tiffany Aching and Moist Von Lipwig books)The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster BujoldThe Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy SayersThe Temeraire series by Naomi NovikBuffy the Vampire SlayerXena: Warrior PrincessFanfic tropes such as: Identity porn, MPreg/Pregnancy fic, Kidfic, Sick!fic, Slow-burn Romance, Competence porn, political complicated ficEmbers a fanfic in the Avatar: The Last AirbenderThe Wheel of Time by Robert JordanKate ElliottLeverageFarscapeEA RPGs specifically Dragon Age and Mass EffectAlex’s obsession with the Dorian/Iron Bull listing on AO3The Pern series by Anne McCaffreyThe Lost Years of Merlin series by T.A. BarronThe Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh EddingsThe Acorna series by Anne McCaffreyGavia Baker-Whitelaw and her podcast OverinvestedAlienStar TrekNaruto"Dreaming of Sunshine" by Silver QueenFreya’s Naruto fanfic"Solfege" by Fahye (Freya)Elliot Schafer from In Other Lands by Sarah Rees BrennanUnder a Painted Sky by Stacey LeeBe the Serpent Discord Chat"Freeport" by Maldoror_Chant (one of the tentpoles for episode 11!) Transcript: Click here to view the transcript of the show. Thank you to our scribes: Sara, Neharika, and Magali for their work!

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#Pratchat7 – All the Fingle Ladies

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2018 114:07

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.

WDP 007: Teaching my children self-defense

Wim Demeere Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2017 37:51

In episode 007 I talk mainly about how I taught self-defense to my children. This started at an early age and continued all the way into their teenage years. It's not as much about fighting techniques as it is about building character. http://www.wimsblog.com/2017/11/podcast-episode-007-teaching-my-children-self-defense Show Notes: 1. Updates 2. Teaching my children self-defense The Tiffany Aching book series: The Wee Free Men: http://amzn.to/2B3m9oW A Hat Full of Sky: http://amzn.to/2itVn1g Wintersmith: http://amzn.to/2jFtBCd I Shall Wear Midnight: http://amzn.to/2hLDuxQ The Shepherd's Crown: http://amzn.to/2yWlaFF 3. Q&A: Big Heavy Bag: http://amzn.to/2zQ6gE5 Videos of me training on my heavy bag: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1354F62C131CF13 Thanks for listening! Please like, share and leave a review! If you want to support the podcast while also getting access to loads of unique content, go to my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/wimdemeere Subscribe to the podcast and automatically get the latest episode: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wim-demeere-podcast/id1291566457?mt=2 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wim-demeere-podcast Get in touch: New book/video email notification list: http://www.wimdemeere.com/notification/ My blog: http://www.wimsblog.com/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/WimDemeerePage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wimdemeere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wimdemeere Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ptccm

#Pratchat1 – Boots Theory