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Radio Morpork
Radio Morpork
43 episodes
6 months ago
Colm & Steve are joined by their old friend & Radio Morpork alum, Rose, to discuss the final chapter in the long rambling trek through the Discworld. They talk about the unfinished nature of this book, how it deals with tradition and modernity, and voice their final thoughts on Discworld with 41 books behind them.
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Colm & Steve are joined by their old friend & Radio Morpork alum, Rose, to discuss the final chapter in the long rambling trek through the Discworld. They talk about the unfinished nature of this book, how it deals with tradition and modernity, and voice their final thoughts on Discworld with 41 books behind them.
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Radio Morpork
The Shepherd's Crown - Counting Sheep
Colm & Steve are joined by their old friend & Radio Morpork alum, Rose, to discuss the final chapter in the long rambling trek through the Discworld. They talk about the unfinished nature of this book, how it deals with tradition and modernity, and voice their final thoughts on Discworld with 41 books behind them.
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4 years ago
2 hours 17 minutes 32 seconds

Radio Morpork
Raising Steam - There Ain't No Gettin' Offa This Train We On!
Steve & Colm tackle the penultimate book in the Discworld canon, finding a lot to talk about and a lot more to disagree about. They discuss modernity, tradition, identity, fundamentalism, and, of course, trains. Colm sets off groans across the north east of England and Steve makes an enemy of the gnome community.
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4 years ago
2 hours 29 minutes 45 seconds

Radio Morpork
Snuff - The Mysterious Affair of Vimes
Steve & Colm discuss Vimes' final outing, as the Commander of the City Watch takes a jaunt to the country with his family. They discuss the risk of homogenisation during cultural integration, parse the plot to unpick its uneven attempts at narrative tension, and try to remember who was supposed to eat who in Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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4 years ago
2 hours 24 minutes 25 seconds

Radio Morpork
I Shall Wear Midnight - I Have a Cunning Man
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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4 years ago
2 hours 38 minutes 10 seconds

Radio Morpork
Unseen Academicals - Balon D'Orc
Colm and Steve take a look at Pratchett taking a look at the beautiful game. Colm pedantically grumbles about some of the football stuff Terry got wrong (a forward wearing the number 4 is a crime against nature) but there's some actual critical analysis as well! Fashion, class and dramatic stakes (or lack thereof) are all discussed herein.
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5 years ago
2 hours 28 minutes 53 seconds

Radio Morpork
Bonus Episode: Discussing the trailer for BBC America's The Watch
Steve and Colm briefly divert from reading through the Discworld series to discuss the trailer for BBC America's controversial adaptation of The Watch.
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5 years ago
42 minutes 14 seconds

Radio Morpork
Making Money - The Financial Times, They Are A-Changin'
Colm and Steve cast an eye over Moist von Lipwig's second outing. Their discussion takes in how the novel's strengths and weaknesses are interlinked (namely: loadsa ideas and a very well established world to draw from), whether Moist is worthy of the role of recurring protagonist and the worst joke in the entire Discworld canon.
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5 years ago
2 hours 36 minutes 29 seconds

Radio Morpork
Wintersmith - Time of the Season of the Witch
Steve and Colm tackle Tiffany's third adventure, taking in Twilight, Titanic and teenage angst. They discuss the significance of the character-driven nature of the Tiffany books, themes of responsibility and community, and the struggle for a witch to hold onto herself.
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5 years ago
2 hours 37 minutes 42 seconds

Radio Morpork
The Magic of Terry Pratchett (w/Marc Burrows)
Steve and Colm divert from their usual trek through the Discworld books to speak with Marc Burrows about his forthcoming book, The Magic of Terry Pratchett. Marc has written the first full biography of the great man and it's jammed with insights, anecdotes and truly fantastic footnotes. You can follow Marc on Twitter @20thcenturymarc & find the book at his website, askmeaboutterrypratchett.com. The Magic of Terry Pratchett will be released on July 30th.
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5 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 13 seconds

Radio Morpork
Thud! - Ace of Clubs
Colm & Steve go back to the well on Pratchett going back to the well of Dwarf-Troll tensions. They discuss brilliant atmosphere building, less than brilliant plotting and whether Vimes still works as a protagonist post-Night Watch.
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5 years ago
2 hours 5 minutes 39 seconds

Radio Morpork
Going Postal - The Conman Always Rings Twice
Rose returns to join Colm and Steve in discussing the introduction of Pratchett's final recurring protagonist, Moist Von Lipwig. They talk about community, finance, conman-archetypes, and Colm rambles about a Metal Gear Solid-style Discworld-set game replete with themed sub-bosses.
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5 years ago
2 hours 52 minutes 50 seconds

Radio Morpork
A Hat Full of Sky - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Witch
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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5 years ago
1 hour 45 minutes 8 seconds

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Monstrous Regiment - Ru Polly Oliver's Drag War
Steve and Colm discuss this grim little outlier in the Discworld canon. Expect lots of talk about gender roles, internalised misogyny, propaganda and comparisons to post-Independence Ireland. Abominations unto Nuggan abound!
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5 years ago
2 hours 40 minutes 47 seconds

Radio Morpork
The Wee Free Men - Rowdy Roddy Mouse-Piper
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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5 years ago
1 hour 48 minutes 27 seconds

Radio Morpork
Night Watch - Mid Life Time Crisis
Colm and Steve tackle Night Watch, Terry Pratchett’s sprawling yet intimate time travel political thriller/character study. It’s Les Miz meets A Tale of Two Cities! It’s Demolition Man meets The Death of Stalin! It’s Vimes meets Vimes!
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6 years ago
2 hours 32 minutes 15 seconds

Radio Morpork
The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents - Puss in Cahoots
Colm and Steve examine the first YA Discworld book. They ponder on the difference between young adult and, eh, old adult literature. And they also discuss Pratchett's love of cargo cults, his more cynical take on the role of stories and one of his scarier villains (no, not the rat catchers after a hefty dose of laxatives).
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6 years ago
1 hour 56 minutes 48 seconds

Radio Morpork
The Last Hero - Saga Megadrive
Steve and Colm turn their attentions to the illustrated homage to the last days of sword and sorcery and the first days of spacefaring that is The Last Hero. They discuss the nature of heroism, legacy, magic, science-v-religion, mortality and Diego Maradona.
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6 years ago
1 hour 51 minutes 59 seconds

Radio Morpork
Thief of Time - Chocolate-Proof Monk
Steve and Colm return to the Discworld just in time for the apocalypse... again. They discuss time, life, the apocalypse and chocolate while unpacking this truly singular book. In a desperate stab at relevance and/or a fumbling attempt to articulate their thoughts on the book, they reference Game of Thrones, the Avengers, Doctor Who and Final Fantasy VI along the way.
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6 years ago
2 hours 23 minutes 3 seconds

Radio Morpork
The Truth - All the Patrician's Men (and Dwarves and Trolls and Women)
Radio Morpork returns! Colm and Steve dive into the Discworld's 25th outing with enthusiasm, and, very occasionally, insight. They discuss journalistic ethics, the clever use of recurring characters and the theme of 'respectability' that runs throughout the book. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Facebook or email (radiomorpork@gmail.com).
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6 years ago
2 hours 5 minutes 16 seconds

Radio Morpork
The Fifth Elephant - A Morporkian Werewolf in Uberwald
Radio Morpork is a podcast that discusses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Colm and Steve watch Ridley Scott's The Fifth Elephant with Harrison Ford as Vimes, Rutgar Hauer as Wolfgang and, eh, Imelda Staunton as Lady Margolotta. Well, not quite, but have a listen and you'll see what we're getting at here. We went to Uberwald expecting fat and uncovered a gem instead.
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7 years ago
2 hours 20 minutes 58 seconds

Radio Morpork
Colm & Steve are joined by their old friend & Radio Morpork alum, Rose, to discuss the final chapter in the long rambling trek through the Discworld. They talk about the unfinished nature of this book, how it deals with tradition and modernity, and voice their final thoughts on Discworld with 41 books behind them.