Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast
Joshua BulleidAn intermittent examination of Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series from an academic perspective, hosted by Joshua Bulleid. Contact: unseenacademicalspod@gmail.com Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 49 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksArts | |||
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The third and final episode tangentially related to Terry Pratchett's 1989 Discworld novel Pyramids, providing a crash course in Egyptian fantasy and science fiction—as in written by Egyptians, rather than simply about them. We go all the way back to... more
Tangential mini(ish) episode, inspired by Pyramids (1989), examining mummy fiction and Western representations of Egypt from their nineteenth-century literary origins through twentieth-century film renditions and ultimate assimilation by stupid sexy ... more
We push the pop-filter to the limit this week, ptalking about Pterry Pratchett's seventh, unaffiliated, Discworld novel, Pyramids (1989), discussing the novel's critical reception along with its portrayals of plumbing, progress, pupils, personal iden... more
Josh counts down the worst books he read for the first time in 2023.
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- Impenetrable twaddle bumping around a cave
A measure of how this podcast leaps around Sir Terry’s writings, this pot plunges in close to the end of the series: we are treated to a description of how Pratchett portrays dwarves, but then says there’s several of the books that people need to read to understand the progress of this portrayal. As yet none of the other books have been covered, despite numerous digressions. Indeed where Sir Terry elegantly used foot notes, this podcast plunges down caves of unconnected, dense expositions. more
Apple Podcasts1FredTLW
United Kingdom5 months ago - interminable and cursed (probably)
The episodes I listened to started well, but quickly degenerated into interminable, rambling digressions into everything else these over-attenuated English majors think about. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to start with their least favorite book, then talk about it for two hours? They found the first podcast so taxing to record that they took a several-months break in the middle of recording it. Please let that fact sink in before you start listening because if it was that bad for... more
Audible1Tern About
United States2 years ago - Excellent, fun and accessible
This is my new favourite podcast - partly because I did a literature degree and grew up reading Discworld novels, but more because Josh and Alice have a great dynamic, make pretty heavy intellectual topics (postmodernism, the history of witchcraft, etc) fun and accessible. I now know roughly what a Satanic hero is. The amount of research and thought they put into this free podcast is so incredible I joined the Patreon.
Apple Podcasts5TDHayUnited Kingdom3 years ago - Girl gud, boi bad
You could have spent more time on an original name for the podcast and less time bashing half your fan base.If you actually wanted to discuss intersectionality, how about examining why they made the bad guy (Casa) black on the TV show? Why they made Vetinari a woman, and the female dwarf into a trans giant? Discworld featured a little person in the Watch, and the TV show straight up removed her.Or how in basically every book, the male protagonist is a bumbling/bigoted idiot (Rincewind, The Unsee... more
Audible1CapUnited States3 years ago - Extremely interesting
As a fan of the discworld novels who is not a literary scholar and hasn’t had the opportunity to investigate the writings in this way, I have found it really insightful to hear all of the historical and modern references that Pratchett alludes to in his writings. more
Apple Podcasts5Aussie batter
Australia3 years ago
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