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 “Raising Steam”. 

Peril! Punch-ups! Puns!

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Things we blathered on about:

Raising Steam: the Marquis de Aix-en-Pains? - /r/Discworld 

Aeolipile | Steam Turbine, Invention & Usage - Britannica 

No Such Thing As A Teaspoon Of Coal - (No Such Thing as a Fish) BBC Sounds 

Cockney Rovers - Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner sing along - YouTube

Swindon: the heritage of a railway town - Google Arts & Culture 

Brief Encounter (1945) - IMDb 

Change of Gauge (Entry 206.LV2733) - Omnibus 

List of rail accidents (before 1880) - Wikipedia 

Caution! Railway safety since 1913 - Railway Museum

175 years making Britain’s railways safer - Office of Rail and Road

The railway traveller's handy book of hints, suggestions, and advice - WikiMedia Commons   

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Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 “Raising Steam”. 

Choo! Choo!

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Email: [email protected]

Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

The Not-So-Great-Bake-Along '24 - Seven-Strand Plaited Note 

Death's Domain - Discworld Emporium 

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes - Penguin  

Pippina - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki  

The Severn Valley Railway

Up And Down The Railway Lines! (1940) - YouTube

Richard Trevithick - Wikipedia   

Lancashire Witch - Wikipedia 

Lotus-eaters - Wikipedia  

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Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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, we’re celebrating 150 episodes!  

Questions! Answers! Uncomfortable levels of emotion!

Find us on the internet:

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Email: [email protected]

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Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

JOANNA'S BOOK! Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom

Note: My very quick attempt at adding the podcast episode durations together in Google Sheets gives me a total of 240 hours and 27 minutes. Is that right?! That can’t be right.  - F

7A.1 Discworld Podcasters and Eric - Desert Island Discworld

Watch Nothing Like A Dame - Prime Video  

Buffering the Vampire Slayer 

chimpanzee riding on a segway 

Frozen Charlotte (doll) - Wikipedia 

Joanna's tiara falls off

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 “Dodger”. 

Rats! Rings! Shiny Shoes! 

Find us on the internet:

Email: [email protected]

Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Things we blathered on about:

Stottie cake - Wikipedia 

The Worst Cat - Tumblr

Crossbones Graveyard

201 : Street entertainers in Victorian times – Jeffrey Green. Historian 

Story of cities #14: London's Great Stink heralds a wonder of the industrial world - The Guardian 

Tales of the underworld - The Guardian

Some Punch cartoons on the subject: 1848, 1849, 1858, 1883 

You're Dead to Me, Christmas with Charles Dickens - BBC

Alexander Morison - Wikipedia 

Thomas Monro (art collector) - Wikipedia 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 “Dodger”. 

Growlers! Percies! Firky-Toodles! 

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

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Email: [email protected]

Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

Terry Pratchett: 'What keeps me going is the fight' - The Independent 

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

Music, Language, and Earworms | What Literature Knows About Your Brain 

The Balls Whistled Over Our Heads: Continentals and Cannonballs - Journal of the American Revolution 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 “Dodger”. 

Farthings! Sovereigns! Bones!

Find us on the internet:

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Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

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Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

Decoding TV 

Dodger: An interview with Professor Sir Terry Pratchett. Part 1 - YouTube  

Crown and Anchor - Wikipedia 

Punch and Judy - Wikipedia  

Charon's obol - Wikipedia 

In Which a Trope Is Described - TV Tropes 

London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 2 of 4), by Henry Mayhew—The Project Gutenberg eBook

Sewer Gator - TV Tropes 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com 

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, we’re releasing a very special episode – a conversation with Ian Stewart, recorded live at the Discworld Convention 2024! We talk about Tiffany Aching books, the Science of Discworld, and involve the audience in a Very Scientific Poll on the best Witches book. 

Magic! Science! LIVE!

Find us on the internet:

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Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

Photos from DWCON 2024 - TTSMYF 

Professor Ian Stewart FRS - Royal Society 

Sir Terry Pratchett - The Science of Discworld - YouTube

Science of Discworld Series - Penguin

Jack Cohen obituary | Science | The Guardian 

Terry Pratchett Receives Honorary Degree from University of Warwick [and awards honorary UU degrees to Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen]

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 is a special bonus episode in which Joanna speaks about the release of her debut book, Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom. 

I’ll! Be! There! For! You!

(And we’ll be back soon with more bonus material, and your regularly scheduled nonsense in September – apologies again for the long summer hiatus!)

Buy the book/read more from Joanna:

Joanna Hagan's website  

Pen and Sword Books: Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom - Hardback 

Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom - Amazon.co.uk

Two-Hats Television - Joanna’s Substack 

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Email: [email protected]

Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 “Snuff”. 

Storms! Sand! Sailing!

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

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Email: [email protected]

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Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

The panic of eating slightly later than usual. - Parents Of Tiktok 

Victoria Wood -  Swim the Channel - YouTube

The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on - Eurogamer.net

James Gordon Bennett Jr. - Wikipedia

Snuff *Warning Spoilers* | The Forums of Sir Terry Pratchett OBE 

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

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 “Snuff”. 

Caves! Rural! Pockets!

Find us on the internet:

Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod

Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret

Email: [email protected]

Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret

Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP 

Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi 

Things we blathered on about:

JoannaHagan.co.uk  

Santino Fontana 'singing' a song in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - TikTok

How to pronounce unggue? - r/discworld 

Elephant Dung 101  - Global Santuary for Elephants 

Joanna in her authorial dressing gown

Mythical Creatures - Redcaps - BBC Sounds [Rhianna Pratchett’s podcast] 

Full article: Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction Taylor & Francis [paywalled]  

The Princess and the Goblin - Wikipedia 

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti - Poetry Foundation 

Goblin Feet - Tolkien Gateway  

Funny Little Things - Tolkien Gateway [poem from The Hobbit]

print; satirical print [Bewilderforce] - British Museum 

The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan - Noble Blood 

Of the Dustmen of London - UC Santa Cruz   

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com