Dining Table Discworld

Dining Table Discworld

A married couple sit around their dining table and discuss the Discworld series of books by Terry Prachett. Each episode covers one of the books in publication order.

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April 23, 2025 61 mins

Death takes a holiday again, but this time it's compassionate leave.

Susan makes a smaller mistake than her father did, but unlike him she was given basically no training.

Meanwhile Music With Rocks In is driving people wild in Ankh-Morpork, and there are more puns than you can shake a drumstick at.

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The Watch is growing, and they'll let anyone in nowadays.

With Captain Vimes soon to retire and the more old school officers dubious about the new recruits the last thing the Night Watch needs is a high profile murder they absolutely are not supposed to investigate.

We discuss policing, diversity, class consciousness and what counts as undead.

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February 25, 2025 65 mins

The witches are back!

Nanny Ogg - nice but also underhanded. Magrat - almost queen, but somehow still being unfairly treated like a silly girl. Granny Weatherwax - realises the death that she feels coming may not be hers.

We also discuss witchcraft's recruitment problem, being suspicious of anyone who seems too glamorous, why elves might look like AI art, and Summer Lovin' Lancre edition.

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January 26, 2025 65 mins

Sometimes you didn't mean to write a religious text, you just wanted to keep your barrel furnished.

We discuss Pratchett's big work about religion, belief, philosophy and kindness against all odds.

With examples of How To Be and a variety of tangents along the way. No one expects the simultaneous inquisition.

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In our first special episode we watch the Colour of Magic TV show, which also includes The Light Fantastic.

We discuss how combining the 2 books works and our thoughts on casting and visual effects.

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November 24, 2024 65 mins

The Witches are Abroad, spreading chaos across half a continent, beset by stories & pumpkins.

Join us as we discuss how mirror magic is very relevant in the 21st Century, and the terrifying spectre of Granny Weatherwax not being The Good One.

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October 27, 2024 57 mins

Only 2 things are inevitable, and even Death can't avoid the Revenoo.

Like the religious community of Ankh-Morpork we find Mrs Cake somewhat problematic.

With wizards, undead, snow globes and an employment tribunal at the End of the Universe. "Maybe life is something you acquire."

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September 28, 2024 55 mins

Having read 1/4 of Discworld we discuss our faves, what surprised us, some early themes and continuity.

We decide Pyramids is the most standalone and Death's search for work-life balance is relatable.

Plus Dave introduces his Weatherwax head cannon.

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August 28, 2024 58 mins

A man, a talking dog, and a girl, in a Worlde gone Madde!

Anhk Morpork loves the clicks, but while folk are trying to break into moving Pictures there are Things trying to break out.

With wizards, dogs, boding fogs and an orangutan in distress. Plus A Thousand Elephants!

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July 29, 2024 49 mins

Somehow Rincewind has returned... and this book reveals how.

This romp through time and mythology showcases the illustrations of Josh Kirby. We go around on the theme of whether time is cyclical and tangent on Troy.

We also ask our listeners to let us know what they want to hear and mention some other fine Discworld podcasts.

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A book full of weird little guys and the too-relevant harnessing of small-minded resentfulness in the cause of a harmful power play.

We discuss why Lady Sybil is great, the difference between a reign of terror and keyhole surgery of terror, and how the best employee perks are simply more money and more time off.

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May 22, 2024 62 mins

An interesting story with good riffing on popular ancient history, but doesn't feel like Pratchett is railing against anything.

Featuring various tangents about ancient Egyptian history, and a flashback to watching 10,000 BC (a deeply incorrect film). Plus timey wimey stuff and mathsy words.

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April 28, 2024 69 mins

This time we are talking about Wryd Sisters.

Find out which witch Cathy finds most relatable, what wyrd actually means, and how a storm gets it's big break (by breaking something big).  

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March 27, 2024 51 mins

In this episode, we discuss Sourcery, where Rincewind pre-emptively runs from a sourceror bringing reality-bending amounts of power to the Unseen University.

Find out why the villain acts as a dark mirror of Rincewind and why we weren't so impressed with his travelling companions.

 

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February 19, 2024 57 mins

In this episode, we discuss the 4th Discworld novel, Mort.

 

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January 24, 2024 43 mins

In this episode, we discuss the 3rd Discworld novel, Equal Rites.

 

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In this episode, we discuss the 2nd Discworld novel, The Light Fantastic.

 

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Welcome to our first full episode.

We are starting right at the beginning with The Colour of Magic.

Join us around our dining table as we discuss the first Discworld novel.

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November 19, 2023 21 mins

Welcome to the introduction episode of our new podcast Dining Table Discworld.

Find out about the hosts and what the aim of the podcast is.

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