Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

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  • Arthur C. Clarke and Vegetarian Space Exploration

    Josh reads a section about Arthur C. Clarke from his book Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics, which is finally out as part of Palgrave Macmillan's Animals and Literature Series.


    Topics covered include: alternative/synthetic meats, space exploration, environmentalism, Buddhism, the Space Odyssey Series, evolutionary theories and the Hunting Hypothesis.

    1 hr 4 min
  • 13A – Good Omens, Part 1: Antichrist Phenomenon

    The first episode on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's 1990 novel Good Omens, looking at its creation and reception, along with its portrayal of previously examined Pratchett staples, including Death, time and naming, as well the William Brown stories that inspired it and where it fits in among literary and cultural depictions of the antichrist.

    2 hr 24 min
  • VV3 – Vegetarian Vampires After Discworld

    "Vegetarian Vampire" expert Sophie Dungan joins Josh to talk about the development of human-blood-abstinent vampires in literature and other media from the year 2000 to the present day.


    Sophie's book: ⁠Reading the Vegetarian Vampire (2022)⁠

    1 hr 55 min
  • VV2 – Vegetarian Vampires in Discworld

    "Vegetarian Vampire" expert Sophie Dungan joins Josh to talk about the development of human-blood-abstinent vampires in the Discworld series.


    Sophie's book: ⁠Reading the Vegetarian Vampire (2022)⁠

    2 hr 3 min
  • VV1 – Vegetarian Vampires Before Discworld

    "Vegetarian Vampire" expert Sophie Dungan joins Josh to talk about the development of human-blood-abstinent vampires in literature and other media from the early-1900s to the early-1990s.


    Sophie's book: Reading the Vegetarian Vampire (2022)

    2 hr 16 min
  • I Still Ate'nt Dead!

    TL;DL: I'm officially shutting down the Patron page at

    the end of the month. All bonus content and future episodes will be
    moved over/put out on the public feed, beginning with the bonus
    vegetarian vampires episodes and then moving onto Good Omens in about a month or so, or whenever it's ready.

    14 min
  • 12C – Thief of Time, Part 3: About Time

    The long-awaited final episode on Thief of Time (2001),

    discussing Aristotle's conception(s) of humanity, religious and
    scientific conceptions of time, identity theory, the history of
    time-keeping, notions of historical and technological progress, their
    implications for science fiction and utopian literature, human
    sense-making, the "End of History", 9/11, The Book of Revelation,
    Susan’s character development and existential despair.

    1 hr 31 min
  • ⁠12A – Thief of Time, Part 1: What's in a Name?⁠

    The first of two episodes on Thief of Time (2001), exploring Susan's character development and statistical showings, as well as the role of naming in determining the characters of Lady LeJean, Lu-Tze, Ronnie Soak and Jeremy Clockson and Lobsang Ludd, and far too much about Pratchett's awards history.*

    *No bonus points for pointing out which sections were recorded in a COVID haze or the one I recorded without my microphone actually being plugged in. I am well aware!

    1 hr 56 min

About Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

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An intermittent examination of Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series from an academic perspective, hosted by Joshua Bulleid.

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