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January 2022

Bonus – The Vimes Boots Index

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is usually 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, a quick bonus episode about Jack Monroe, and the Vimes Boots Index.

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Resources

The Trussell Trust – Stop UK Hunger

What to do if you need emergency help with money and food – StepChange

Things we talked about

Jack Monroe’s original Twitter thread 

Call for evidence thread (for Vimes Boots Index)

Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index – The Guardian

Your best ally against injustice? Terry Pratchett [by Marc Burrows]- New Statesman

Iceland commits to price freeze on £1 value range as food costs rise – The Grocer

Cost-of-living crisis: Jack Monroe hails ONS update of inflation calculations – The Guardian

Rachael Hamilton says food bank users 'less well educated' on cooking – The National

Jack Monroe’s stuff

Blog/recipes: Cooking on a Bootstrap

Twitter: @BootstrapCook

Jack Monroe books – Hive.co.uk

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

73: Jingo Pt. 3 (Night-Time In The Dessert)

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine “Doesn’t Mind A Sardine Tangent” Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. 

This week, Part 3 of our recap of “Jingo”. 

Donkey! Minaret! Minaret! Donkey!

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Things we blathered on about:

Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell (PCM Stereo) – YouTube

taking the hobbits to isengard – YouTube

99% Invisible Mini Stories Volume 14 (one of which is about the fire fighters)

Omnibus Episode 427: Damascus Steel (Entry 314.PS4503)

Lego Ankh-Morpork – Twitter

Chocolate sponge and pink custard – the recipe – mintcustard

Chocolate crunch/brick recipe (from The Moreton Hall Book of Recipes, 1991)

2009 Swiss Minaret Referendum – Wiki

Sheldrick Wildlife tweet (photos from pilots, not drones!) – Twitter

SunTzuSaid.com

Foreign-Looking Font – TV Tropes

Translation Punctuation – TV Tropes

As Long as It Sounds Foreign – TV Tropes

Ozymandias – Poetry Foundation

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Sound effects: Desert Monolith, Proxima4 – Freesound

72: Jingo Pt. 2 (Does Neptune Need a Pedicure?)

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 “Jingo”. 

Bedsteads! Pheasants! The enraging futility of war! 

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Things we blathered on about:

The Annotate Pratchett File – Jingo

/r/thalassophobia – reddit

The Art of War by Sun Tzu – The Internet Classics Archive

@SheldrickTrust – Twitter

St Elmo’s Fire (captured by RAF @99Sqn) – Twitter

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

 

E71: Jingo Pt. 1 (Squid Skedaddle)

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

This week, Part 1 of our recap of “Jingo”. 

Clams! Squid! Nationalism! (Thumbs Down) 

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Things we blathered on about:

Jingo – Colin Smythe

Jingo – The Annotated Pratchett File

Houzee – Wordsense

The Cod Wars – The National Archives

John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories – Wiki

Weathervane – Wiki

Respect quote – flyingpurplepeopleeater

New volcanic islands: where science and politics meet – British Library

Omnibus Episode 251: Ferdinandea (Entry 461.RV1620)

Fanny Adams – Wiki [CW: it’s pretty graphic and upsetting – I covered the book-relevant info in the episode, so you’re not missing context if you don’t fancy reading about it – F]

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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