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117: The Science of Discworld II Pt. 1 (Moulesmancy)

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 “The Science of Discworld II – The Globe” 

Elements! Elephants! Manifested Magicks!

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Things we blathered on about:

Good Omens season 2 titles sequence revealed – with lots of Easter eggs – Radio Times 

Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being A Witch – terrypratchett.com

If Books Could Kill: Apple PodcastsSpotifyStitcher 

Elephants learn from others – Elephant Voices 

Elvavrålet – Wikipedia 

NASA’s Curiosity Views First ‘Sun Rays’ on Mars – NASA

Peter & Iona Opie – OpieArchive

Read Finnegans Wake – Finwake

The Concise Lexicon of the Occult – Google Books 

How To Make The World Add Up – Tim Harford 

Indefinite and fictitious numbers – Wikipedia  

List of humorous units of measurement – Wikipedia 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Bonus: Glorious 25th Extravaganza 2023!

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, it’s the Glorious 25th!

Night Watch! Listener Questions! Good Omens! 

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Things we blathered on about:

Waylands Smithy – Isle of Albion

Discworld Halloween 2015 – Bad Pictures of a Good Night – thetruthshallmakeyefret.com 

With Great Pleasure at Christmas: Neil Gaiman – BBC Radio 4  

Neil Gaiman on Tumblr 

Good Omens – An Ineffable Game – Renegade Games

Quaker names! – r/CuratedTumblr 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

116: A Hat Full of Sky Pt. 3 (Deglaze the Plan)

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 “A Hat Full of Sky”. 

Black Sands! Blue Sky! Green Hills!

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Things we blathered on about:

 Quaker names [@IsabellaRosner] – Twitter

Discworld Convention 2024 

Pubs I Haven't Known – r/TTSMYF 

Steeleye Span – A Parcel Of Rogues – YouTube

Noodle Incident – TV Tropes 

A Hat Full of Sky – Discworld Wiki 

Not mentioned in the episode but a lovely illustration: A Hat Full of Sky by rubendevela on DeviantArt 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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

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!

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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 Pratchett

Good Omens returns July 28th – Twitter [@GoodOmensPrime] 

Strike Two – Netwars

US covers for Tiffany books – Twitter  [@JMVenz] 

Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation – Wikipedia 

Best of Hyacinth Bucket's Name Mispronunciation – YouTube

Self Did It: Fairy Legends of Type 1137 

Scottish Folklore: The Brollachan – Spooky Stuff

The 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

 

114: A Hat Full of Sky Pt. 1 (Exactly This Insufferable)

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 “A Hat Full of Sky”. 

Hubris! A Horse! Bees! 

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Things we blathered on about:

TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett – We Got Tickets

The Band With Folk In – Zwergenmarsch – Youtube

A Marvellous Shrimp – Twitter 

Queer Trad Folk Ballads – Spotify 

113: Monstrous Regiment Pt 3 (Gender is a Fake Drug) –  r/TTSMYF

Women in the Navy (or: that time I heard Terry Pratchett say “tits”) – r/TTSMYF 

Mythopoeic Awards  

A Hat Full of Sky – Colin Smythe  

Straight-tusked elephant – Wikipedia

White Horse Hill – National Trust     

The Ivy-Wife – LiederNet 

In a Wood – Oxford Lieder   

Beech: queen of the forest, here and abroad. – Free Online Library    

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

113: Monstrous Regiment Pt. 3 (Gender Is A Fake Drug)

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

This week, Part 3 of our recap of “Monstrous Regiment”. 

Man? Woman? Soldier!

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Things we blathered on about:

TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett – We Got Tickets

Steamed Hams – YouTube

The Origins of Pneumatic Railways – London Reconnections

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson – Goodreads  

Faerie Queen – song and lyrics by Heather Alexander – Spotify 

Discovery – YouTube

Monstrous Regiment Playlist (BatSuitClad) – Spotify

11 things we learned from new Terry Pratchett doc ‘Escape to the Discworld’ – Penguin 

Steeleye Span – The Ups and Downs – Youtube

List of foods named after people – Wikipedia   

Clothing terminology – Wikipedia 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

 

112: Monstrous Regiment Pt. 2 (The Implication of Hippo)

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

This week, Part 2 of our recap of “Monstrous Regiment”. 

War! Gender! Coffee! (This could be a tagline for the entire podcast tbh)

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Things we blathered on about:

TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett – We Got Tickets

Pneumatic Clocks – Nature 

Paris pneumatic post – Wikipedia 

Sonderv0gel’s Comment – R/TTSMYF

Pratchett audio interview from 2003 – one I'd not come across before – r/TTSMYF 

Bucephalus – Wikipedia

Thalacephalos – Discworld Wiki

Appendix:Glossary of British military slang and expressions – Wiktionary 

James Gillray – Lambiek Comiclopedia  

Hablot Knight Browne – Wikipedia  

Fizz – Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki    

“We Belong Dead” (Final Scene) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – YouTube 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

111: Monstrous Regiment Pt. 1 [REDACTED]

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

This week, Part 1 of our recap of “Monstrous Regiment”. 

Soup! Boots! Women?!

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Things we blathered on about:

TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett – We Got Tickets

No Such Thing as a Fish 

Scheibenwelt Convention 

Trans Day of Visibility: A Global Perspective | Stonewall  

Tim Clare enthused writing thread – Twitter

Monstrous Regiment – Colin Smythe  

Terry Pratchett interview – Monstrous Regiment – YouTube   

The World Turned Upside Down – Wikipedia 

Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down – Youtube 

Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) – Youtube

Sweet Polly Oliver – Wikipedia 

The Warrior Women Project – Wayne State

List of nicknames of British Army regiments – Wikipedia 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

 

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

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!

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Things we blathered on about:

Dandelion goodies [@appalachian_forager] – TikTok

Bad Poetry with ChatGPT – TTSMYF

Clerihew – Wikipedia  

Author clerihews [@francibambi] – Twitter

Seneca 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 Tate

Elimination of a Picture & its Subject – Wiki

Real 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

109: The Wee Free Men Pt. 2 (Slip & Crumble: Lawyers at Large)

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 “The Wee Free Men”. 

Buttresses! Sundials! Dreams in Dreams in Dreams!

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Things we blathered on about:

Old Gods of Appalachia 

Gingerbread cottage on chicken feet [@picturedragon] – Twitter

The Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall – Scottish Poetry Library 

[See also: No Such Thing as a Fish episode 238, No Such Thing as a Low Sofa] 

💖 The Tale of Tiffany 💖 – CGP Grey – YouTube 

Someone Dead Ruined My Life… Again. – CGP Grey – YouTube 

Zero shadow day – Wikipedia 

Thunderbolt Iron – TV Tropes 

“Rosebud in June” – Steeleye Span – YouTube

A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. Hudson – Project Gutenberg

Sheep Folklore: The Life and Lore of the Shepherd – #FolkloreThursday 

Shepherding tools and customs: Ingram, Arthur – Internet Archive 

Folk-Lore/Volume 20/Superstitions and Survivals amongst Shepherds – Wikisource

Eightsomes and then some –  Nellifant Dances 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

 

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