Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

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  • 10A – Soul Music, Part 1: Magical Music

    Heavy Blog is Heavy Editor in Chief, Eden Kupermitz joins Josh to talk about 1994's Soul Music, focusing on the book's engagement with the literary tradition of "magical music" and how it is foundational to the fantasy genre (and perhaps even the universe itself!) through its depiction in the myths of Orpheus, Genesis, H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, among others, as well as music's unmediated connection with spirituality and memory.* 

    *May also contain copious amounts of Whitesnake. 

    Follow Eden and Josh's music writing at heavyblogisheavy.com 

    Eden's other literature podcasts:

    Death // Sentence

    Anarchy SF  

    Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals

    1 hr 41 min
  • Heavy Blog Review Pod: May, 2022 – Review Are We

    May 2022 – Review Are We

    Headliners: Ibaraki, Kendrick Lamar, Cave In.

    Special Guests: Evergrey, SepticFlesh, Moon Tooth, Tómarúm, Malevolence.

    Supports: Def Leppard, Puppy, Katharos, Entgeist, Unprocessed, Hollow Front, Morgue Supplier.

    Uncool People: Mark Tremonti and Udo Dirkschneider sing Sinatra.

    Cool People: Blut Aus Nord, Ufomammut, Arcade Fire. Subscribe to Podcast: https://feeds.sounder.fm/20336/rss.xml 

    Further reading: heavyblogisheavy.com

    1 hr 49 min
  • 9B – Reaper Man - Part 2

    Part two on Reaper Man (1991), exploring prologues, disability studies, "vegetarian" vampires, bereavement, Alzheimer's, euthanasia/assisted dying and more!

    Listener Liz's essay that inspired this episode: https://somelizthoughtsondiscworld.blogspot.com/2022/06/reaper-man-death-or-death.html

    Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals

    1 hr 32 min
  • 9A – Reaper Man - Part 1

    The first of two episodes on 1991's Reaper Man, exploring further representations of Death, dances Macabre and Morris, existentialism, pastoral romanticism and animal ethics.

    Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals

    1 hr 39 min
  • 8 – Mort

    We kick off our examination of the Death series with 1987's Mort, exploring evolving representations of Death, fantastical and comedic bildungsromen, Dickensian parody and subverted heroes' journeys.

    Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals

    2 hr 11 min
  • PREVIEW: Mort
    Preview for episode 8 of Unseen Academicals, discussing 1987's Mort and exploring evolving representations of Death, fantastic and comedic bildungsromen, Dickensian parody and subverted heroes' journeys.
    50 min
  • Wotcher' Been Readin? April, 2022

    Another episode of our bonus pre-show Wotcher' Been Reading? wherein we discuss:

    The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

    The Mortal Instruments seriesby Cassandra Clare

    The Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

    And then an extended bonus section about all the crazy shit that happens in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

    Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals

    26 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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