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- On the Road with Nanny and Granny-- special guest appearance by Mistress Weaherwax (S10E1)
We begin season 10 of the Portal with a little background info on Medieval Gnome Productions. Then, the one and only Granny Weatherwax has a conversation with Ponder Stibbons, which he passed along to us, which includes some sage advice about dog-walking and some commentary on those perennial Discworld Favorites, The Joye of Snackes (a.k.a. Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook) and Where’s My Cow.
Then we ponder the travels of Nanny and Granny, in both Witches Abroad and (since the show must go on) Maskerade. This exposition includes the truth about Nanny’s special chocolate sauce (at least from Granny’s perspective.)
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A thousand thank you’s to Susan Alexander for providing the voice of Granny Weatherwax. A true random act of kindness. You’re a peach, Susan.
The Turtle MovesMind How You Go
GNU Terry Pratchett
Copyright 2021 Medieval Gnome Productions
35 min - Watch it, Weatherwax!
Obviously no one would say the three words that make up this week's show title, certainly not more than once. But we have arrived both at the end of the alphabet and of season 9, and most of this episode concerns the Watch, and Granny, so I thought, Y not?
The Portal's return may be delayed beyond the first Friday in July. The reason Y is explained at the end of this episode.
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The Turtle Moves
Mind How You Go
GNU Terry Pratchett
30 min - New SUV, Stu?
This episode’s title is the result of the release of a powerful pulse of nerd. Whether it makes any sense to you or not,
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The Turtle Moves
Mind How You Go
34 min - Vimes, Vetinari, et al.
We’re getting down toward the bottom of the alphabet with this episode, which is the first of two covering STUV. Mostly it’s about two characters, Vimes and Vetinari, who dominate the V’s. We also give a nod to Stibbons, Ponder, and briefly consider one of the Disc’s odder religious traditions. No elephants, though.
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The Turtle Moves
Mind How You Go
GNU Terry Pratchett
31 min - No S PQR
You probably need to be a history nerd to appreciate this episode’s title. Or, maybe not. Anyway, it’s the letters P, Q and R which are our special guests this week.
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The Turtle Moves
Mind How You Go
GNU Terry Pratchett
19 min - Mmmm..... no
As in m-n-o, the letters we feature in this week’s look at the Disc, alphabetically.
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GNU Terry Pratchett
The Turtle Moves
20 min - Two Years On
Yes, the Portal—now officially the Modern Fantasy Portal—is two years old. This week, in addition to exploring more of the Discworld alphabet, we here about some of my upcoming plans for Medieval Gnome Productions.
The most important thing for Portal listeners to know is that I am going to a three-times-a-month format. The Portal will henceforth appear on the first, second, and third Fridays of each month, giving me a bit of a break at the end of each month.
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The Turtle Moves
Mind How You Go
GNU Terry Pratchett
21 min - Them Ol' Consonants
Some of the people, places, and things that start with them ol’ consonants Eff, Gee, and Aitch.
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The Turtle Moves
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20 min - Gee, Ed!
Granny returns to the Portal this week to answer some listeners’ questions. In doing so she also affords me a golden opportunity to get punny with the title of this episode. You have to know 1960’s American TV sitcoms, though. And no, it has NOTHING to do with the medical condition known by the initials ED.
Anyway, Granny has indicated she is willing to continue to answer listeners’ questions, so if you have one for her, email it to me at [email protected].
Also, just a reminder: if you’ve never emailed me before, when you do (for whatever reason) I’ll send you a copy of the legendary Clacks episode, which can be found absolutely nowhere else.
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The Turtle Moves
GNU Terry Pratchett
20 min - Bonus Bio-Historical Soul Music
Something a little bit different, hopefully edifying and amusing, or.... instructive and entertaining.
The Turtle Moves
GNU Terry Pratchett35 min
About Tales from the Drum
From the publisher's feed
On the first, second, and third Friday of every month, it’s Tales From the Drum—the Mended Drum, that is. We also bring you three-minute long mini-episodes, cleverly entitled Pratchips (like potato…
chips, see?) every Monday-Thursday. All of these are (usually) about the places, spaces, races, and other words that end in aces of the Discworld, that pizza-shaped place (but no anchovies) that rides through space on the backs of the massive elephants Tubul, Berilia, Jerakeen and Great T’Phon, which themselves stand atop the 10,000 mile-long world Turtle, A’Tuin. (According to the dwarfs, there was once a Fifth Elephant, which slipped of A’Tuin’s carapace and crashed into the Disc. But the dwarfs can be funny that way.) Obviously, a place such as this could exist only every normal curve must have its outliers, where the fabric of reality is thin, and magic is an everyday—well, reality. Of course, it was actually the late Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, who created the Discworld. He chronicled those places, spaces, etc. in 41 Discworld novels. In 500 years, he will probably be the only 20th-century author who is still being read. Seriously. He was that good. He was also incredibly prolific. In a span of 32 years, he wrote 70 books. They’ve sold northward of 50 million copies, last I saw. He was knighted in 2008 by Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Terry passed away in 2015 from a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. GNU Terry Pratchett. If you don’t understand that, you can find out about it in Going Postal. Also, il miglior fabbro. That’s from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” But you knew that. Thanks for listening—and mind how you go! GNU Terry Pratchett