December 2019

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan-Young and Francine Carrel, recap and discuss every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. 

This week – a special bonus Hogswatch special! We discuss the 2008 TV adaptations of “The Colour of Magic” & “The Light Fantastic”.

A Surprise Festive Guest! Mulled things aplenty! A sword! The pGloybe! An attempt at positivity! Incredible CGI! Some rants! 

F: It’s Christmas, and I can’t be bothered to edit this down to its usual length. So, please enjoy this BUMPER BONUS FESTIVE FEATURE LENGTH EXTRAVAGANZA.  

Things we blathered on about: 

The Watch Adaptation details (Radio Times)

The Globe

The Dysk

Ao3 (archiveofourown.org)

Effulgent – “Shining brightly; radiant.” (Lexico)

The Colour of Magic (IMDb)

Noma Dumezweni 

Rosie & Jim

The Jim Henson Company 

Figwit (Fanlore.org)

F: I got my plays muddled. The Mousetrap is the longest-running West End show. People are asked not to spoil the ending, but it’s the same. Shear Madness, a Broadway show, is another long-running production that does have different endings. 

What About Dick? (IMDb)

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan-Young and Francine Carrel, recap and discuss every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. 

This week, Part 3 of our recap of “The Light Fantastic”. 

Smells! Neopaganism! Loincloths! Apes! Cults! Gherkins! Plural Apocalypse!

Heads up – we spoil some of the “magic” of seances in this episode. If you’d like to avoid that, skip 23:40 – 24:35. 

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Things we blathered on about:

The Galaxy Song (YouTube)

You’re Dead to Me – Stonehenge

Dwarfs/Dwarves

Nice Try! podcast – (season one about failed utopias)

Nazi Book Burnings (Wikipedia)

The Order of the Solar Temple (Wikipedia)

Do wind vent holes in banners make a difference? 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan-Young and Francine Carrel, recap and discuss every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. 

This week, Part 2 of our recap of “The Light Fantastic”. 

Necromancy! Albatross! Harridans! Ovens! Tolkien! Sibilance! Lashings of Butter! 

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (goodreads)

The Annotated Pratchett File, v9.0 (‘the chappy whose name I’ve forgotten’ is Leo Breebaart) 

Have you turned it off and on again?

Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreyer (Goodreads)

On Writing Well, William Zinsser (Goodreads)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Wikipedia)

The Personal Relationships of King James (Wikipedia)

Understanding Aperture in Photography

Introduction to Shutter Speed in Photography

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan-Young and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. 

This week, Part 1 of our recap of “The Light Fantastic”. 

Magic! Golden Syrup! Spreadsheets! The Truth Fairy! Collective Nouns! Chaos! Kangaroos! Pyramid Theory!

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

The Colour of Magic – TV Series (IMDB)  

Dyslexie font 

Freytag’s Pyramid

Clarke’s three laws (3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.)

Terry Pratchett – Facing Extinction (BBC)

King James Demonology (British Library)

We Knew Ravens Are Smart. But Not This Smart (National Geographic)

Brewers Book of Myth and Legend (Goodreads)

Kangaroo Definition 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com