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- First Transmissions, and a Trio of Undead
This week we are proud to bring you the first transmissions from the HEM building. We hear from Ponder Stibbons, Mustrum Ridcully, and (somewhat improbably) Nobby Nobbs.
We also take a look at three of Ankh-Morpork's major undead (or undead-related) characters.
If you want more chances to win, a second, different quiz question is posted in the Portal's Discord server, "Friends of the Discworld Portal."
The Facebook page is up and running. It is cleverly entitled "The Discworld Portal."
GNU Terry Pratchett20 min - Altogether Now
Wherein we get to know a few of the Ankh-Morporkians who live on the shady side of the street. With a new trivia contest for the new season.
Join the Friends of the Discworld Portal Discord server at https://discord.gg/K9s6BSW.
You can email the Gnome at [email protected], with your trivia contest answers, or whatever.
You can become a supporter of the Portal by visiting our Patreon page, at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045.
Watch this space for news of the Portal’s Facebook page.
The title of this episode is in no way meant to constitute political commentary. Naaah. Of course not. That would be silly.No sentient beings of any kind were harmed in the making of this episode.
GNU Terry Pratchett
The Turtle Moves
20 min - PPP v1n5
It's all academic, anyway.
If you've been enjoying the Portal's Pratchett Passages episodes, the staff and I would be very grateful if you would head over to PayPal and send us a dollar or two at [email protected]. And remember, the regular Portal returns this Friday, June 5th, with the first episode of season six.
Stay calm, be kind, have hope, love lots, be well.... and read some Pratchett!23 min - 33 min
- Pun Siam Sand
Anagrams, and Pun Siam Sand (Imp and Susan). No elephants this week, though. The Portal will be back for its next regular episode on Friday, June 6th.
Stay Calm
Be Kind
Have Hope
Love Lots
Be Well.....
and Read a Pratchett.23 min - Oh, those bad, bad, bad, bad.... bad guys?
Stay Calm
Be Kind
Have Hope
Love Lots
Be Well....
And Read a Pratchett.
GNU Terry Pratchett
The Turtle Moves20 min - GNU Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, (born April 28, 1948, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England—died March 12, 2015, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
De Chelonian Mobile1 min - She'll Be Right
In which a visit to Fourecks launches us on an examination of villains vs. antagonists in the Discworld novels. With a thousand elephants.
GNU Terry Pratchett20 min - The Portal’s Pratchett Passages v1.n3
Fifteen hundred fifty-five, and seventy-seven. Numbers to conjure with for a first anniversary show (which this isn’t), and for the reading of some passages from the lspace wiki (https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Main_Page) and from The Color of Magic (which this is.)
The numbers refer to the fact that, in the Portal’s first year, the show was downloaded in 1555 cities in 77 countries.
Please consider stopping by the Portal’s Patreon page and helping to keep these episodes coming. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21210045&fan_landing=true
Keep Calm
Be Kind
Love Lots
Stay Well
And Read a Pratchett.
GNU Terry Pratchett
De Chelonian Mobile
20 min - Thanks for (A Year's Worth of) Listening!
A year in the making, this first-anniversary episode of the Portal features a few statistics about the show, and the reading of some congratulatory messages from various personages on the Disc. There’s also a thank-you offer which will allow ten lucky listeners to obtain one of the bonus episodes in the back catalog—for free!
The back catalog may be found at https://mindkindle.net/back-catalog-of-bonus-episodes/, or on the show’s Discord server, Friends of the Discworld Portal, at https://discord.gg/SXp5K9r.
Let me hear from you at [email protected], and keep committing those random acts of kindness!
No cats, turtles or other higher life forms were harmed in the making of this episode.
GNU Terry Pratchett
De Chelonian Mobile-- Didactylos
20 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