About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 38 episodes
- Dining Table Discworld - Night Watch · 2 h 2 min · Episode 38Commander Vimes is thrown back in time, to the bad old days of curfews, revolution and the horrors of the Cable Street Particulars. He is forced to become his own mentor, and try…
- Dining Table Discworld - Discworld RPG Review · 1 h 2 min · Episode 37We take another brief interlude to take a look at the new Adventures in Ankh-Morpork Discworld Roleplaying game from Modiphius. (Who's name I'm sure I mispronounce every time I…
- Dining Table DIscworld - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents · 1 h 2 min · Episode 36The Amazing Maurice (a smart cat) and his Educated Rodents (a clan of smart rats) are planning one last rat-piper con job, but the town of Bad Blintz was a bad place to pick. The…
- Dining Table Discworld - The Last Hero · 1 h 6 min · Episode 35Cohen the Barbarian and the Silver Horde are on a great, last quest, which endangers the Discworld, prompting Ankh-Morpork's first space mission. We discuss this illustrated…
- Dining Table Discworld - Thief of Time · 1 h 25 min · Episode 34The universe is going to end, as soon as the glass clock strikes and it's a race against, well... Time, to either create or destroy it. We discuss how Susan is Death's unwitting…
- Dining Table Discworld - The Truth · 1 h 40 min · Episode 33Join us as we discuss The Truth (the Discworld novel, not the concept). A new cast of characters, a fresh viewpoint on the Watch and the explosion of movable type and the Press…
- Dining Table Discworld - Wyrd Sisters TV Special · 43 min · Episode 32We discuss the animated Wyrd Sisters TV show, from Cosgrove Hall. Including how faithful the adaption is, the famous voice actors, and our favourite bits of animation. You can…
- Dining Table Discworld - Fifth Elephant, Part 2 · 1 h 8 min · Episode 31In the second part of our discussion about The Fifth Elephant we discuss dwarf gender and femininity, plus how the Scone was stolen. Also some of the mysteries of Uberwald, like…
- Dining Table Discworld - Fifth Elephant, Part 1 · 1 h 27 min · Episode 30Vampires, werewolves and dwarves, oh my! Vimes is reluctant ambassador to Uberwald, Cheery brings dwarven femininity back home, Angua runs off to deal with her terribly family…
- Dining Table Discworld - Carpe Jugulum · 1 h 29 min · Episode 29It's witches vs vampires in Lancre, and where is Granny Weatherwax? Carpe Jugulum looks at the roles of witches and the difficult, hidden choices that communities need someone to…
- Dining Table Discworld - The Last Continent · 1 h 37 min · Episode 28In a book described by its creator as "a bit Australian" Rincewind travels erratically through a dry, red continent. He meets a lot of people mostly trying to avoid being a…
- Dining Table Discworld - Hogfather TV · 44 min · Episode 27We discuss the live action, TV adaptation of Hogfather. Including what's changed from the book, how menacing Mark Warren is, and the quality of the visuals. Also is the Ankh the…
- Dining Table Discworld - Jingo · 1 h 3 min · Episode 26Suddenly Ankh-Morpork is keen to go to war, which is bad news for those trying to keep the peace. Vimes chases a suspect out of his element and learns something about big crimes…
- Dining Table Discworld - Quadrant 2 · 59 min · Episode 25We look back on the last 10 Discworld novels, plus the first half of the series. Including discussion of how sometimes books need to hit you at the right time in your life, how…
- Dining Table Discworld - Hogfather · 1 h 18 min · Episode 24Death is covering for a festive anthropomorphic personification, coming down the chimney with presents, a cushion up his robe and attempted jollity. Despite wanting to be normal…
- Dining Table Discworld - Feet of Clay · 1 h 7 min · Episode 23There's yet another royal conspiracy in Ankh-Morpork and Vimes is desperately trying to figure out where the arsenic is coming from. Meanwhile a competent, new Watch officer is…
- Dining Table Discworld - Soul Music TV Series · 40 min · Episode 22In our second special episode we watch the animated Soul Music TV show, from Cosgrove Hall. With praise for Christopher Lee, how to adapt a book about music into an audio visual…
- Dining Table Discworld - Maskerade · 1 h 4 min · Episode 21A book about dualities, double acts and the masks people wear. Agnes is trying to reinvent herself in the big city. Nanny is trying to keep Granny occupied, and find a new third…
- Dining Table Discworld - Interesting Times · 1 h 1 min · Episode 20Rincewind has returned, again. Sent to another part of the Disc, he meets old friends and runs away from new troubles. Can someone steal an empire? Are Geography teachers good at…
- Dining Table Discworld - Soul Music · 1 h 1 min · Episode 19Death 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…
