Radio Morpork Podcast
1) Wyrd Sisters - The Lancrastian Play
Radio Morpork is a podcast which discusses and analyses Terry Pratchett's Discworld one book at a time. Colm chats to Rose about her visit to the 2015 Irish Discworld Con before they dive headlong in...Show More
2) Snuff - The Mysterious Affair of Vimes
Steve & Colm discuss Vimes' final outing, as the Commander of the City Watch takes a jaunt to the country with his family. They discuss the risk of homogenisation during cultural integration, parse th...Show More
3) I Shall Wear Midnight - I Have a Cunning Man
Colm and Steve discuss the penultimate book in the Tiffany Aching sub-series. They talk about the pros and cons of narrative messiness, modernity encroaching into the Chalk, and characters navigating ...Show More
4) Unseen Academicals - Balon D'Orc
Colm and Steve take a look at Pratchett taking a look at the beautiful game. Colm pedantically grumbles about some of the football stuff Terry got wrong (a forward wearing the number 4 is a crime agai...Show More
5) Bonus Episode: Discussing the trailer for BBC America's The Watch
Steve and Colm briefly divert from reading through the Discworld series to discuss the trailer for BBC America's controversial adaptation of The Watch.
6) Making Money - The Financial Times, They Are A-Changin'
Colm and Steve cast an eye over Moist von Lipwig's second outing. Their discussion takes in how the novel's strengths and weaknesses are interlinked (namely: loadsa ideas and a very well established w...Show More
7) Wintersmith - Time of the Season of the Witch
Steve and Colm tackle Tiffany's third adventure, taking in Twilight, Titanic and teenage angst. They discuss the significance of the character-driven nature of the Tiffany books, themes of responsibil...Show More
8) The Magic of Terry Pratchett (w/Marc Burrows)
Steve and Colm divert from their usual trek through the Discworld books to speak with Marc Burrows about his forthcoming book, The Magic of Terry Pratchett. Marc has written the first full biography o...Show More
9) Thud! - Ace of Clubs
Colm & Steve go back to the well on Pratchett going back to the well of Dwarf-Troll tensions. They discuss brilliant atmosphere building, less than brilliant plotting and whether Vimes still works as ...Show More
10) Going Postal - The Conman Always Rings Twice
Rose returns to join Colm and Steve in discussing the introduction of Pratchett's final recurring protagonist, Moist Von Lipwig. They talk about community, finance, conman-archetypes, and Colm rambles...Show More