Episode | Description | Date Aired | Reach | Contacts | Categories | Hosts | Episode Guests | Length | Curator's Notes | ||||
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September 5, 2021 | -- | 1:31:03s | This is the first of three episodes in which Jo and Francine discuss Maskerade, which came up when they appeared in a guest spot for our Christmas special episode in 2021. | ||||||||||
January 20, 2020 | -- | 1:04:57s | This is the episode mentioned by Jo and Francine in which they eat scones while discussing Equal Rites. | ||||||||||
January 26, 2021 | -- | 10:50s | We wondered in this episode about deaths caused by unwashed hands in hospitals, something mentioned in the book. This episode of Short Wave tells the story of Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, who tried to convince other doctors to wash their | ||||||||||
October 20, 2020 | -- | 33:11s | LeVar Burton reads one of the Shirley Jackson stories mentioned by our guest Penny Love in #Pratchat45. | ||||||||||
October 22, 2018 | -- | 30:17s | We talked about Icelandic names in this episode, and this episode of The Allusionist does a deep dive on the rules and traditions around them. | ||||||||||
December 7, 2021 | -- | 28:38s | A follow up to the above episode, about adding queer terms - including alternate forms for names - to the Icelandic language. Second part of a two-part episode. | ||||||||||
November 10, 2015 | -- | 30:25s | Granny's understanding of the importance of clean drinking water when it comes to disease led us to mention the historical Jon Snow, whose work not only influenced sanitation but the design of drinking fountains, as described in this episode. | ||||||||||
November 30, 2015 | -- | -- | 37:33s | Pratchat special guest Nicholas J Johnson, aka "Australia's Honest Conman", has his own podcast about scams, swindles and magic. This episode describes classic con artist movie The Sting, which we mentioned in this episode about Moist von Lipwi | |||||||||
May 21, 2018 | -- | 24:31s | The Mac Mac Feegles, Pratchett's "pictsies" who are a cross between Scottish highland warriors, Glaswegians and Smurfs, are introduced in this book. While discussing the way they speak, we mentioned two Allusionist episodes about the Scots lang | ||||||||||
June 15, 2020 | 18:15s | This is the other Scots language episode of The Allusionist we mentioned. | |||||||||||
October 31, 2017 | -- | 48:10s | Recommended by listener Amy via Twitter, this episode discusses the real world painting on which the one in the novel is based! | ||||||||||
June 11, 2018 | -- | 9:56s | We briefly mention the "marshmallow test" in reference to Wentworth's love of sweets and inability to eat one when presented with too many, which is more or less the reverse of the test. | ||||||||||
December 7, 2018 | -- | 18:55s | Ben comments on the tartans worn by the Nac Mac Feegle as depicted in the illustrated edition of the novel; this exploration of the popularity of "plaid" in the US also features the origins and evolution of tartan. | ||||||||||
May 13, 2014 | -- | 29:22s | The problem of leaving a warning understandable to people far in the future is touched on in the novel, and for similar reasons as in real life: nuclear waste can be very dangerous for a very long time. | ||||||||||
September 15, 2019 | -- | 21:46s | While considering various possible creatures that could be brought to life by an overflow of unfocused belief, the discussion turned to the creature discussed in this podcast: Titivillus, demon of literary mistakes. | ||||||||||
August 28, 2019 | -- | 36:54s | Talk of Vimes' "disorganiser" had Ben recalling an old recording he found of Pratchett saying "bingley bingley beep", which features in a footnote in Pratchat. Comments about it getting annoying - as intended! - led both Ben and guest Nate to t | ||||||||||
March 11, 2019 | -- | 29:26s | A discussion of Pratchett's use of "dwarfs" vs "dwarves" led to this episode of The Allusionist, all about constructed languages (or "conlangs") and how their creators make them feel real - including some talk about plurals in English. | ||||||||||
June 12, 2019 | -- | -- | 26:08s | The Heraldry Zoo in an early sequence of the book reminded Ben of the old "Giant Worm" museum in Gippsland, that he'd visited once. This led to Liz and Ben remembering this story. | |||||||||
January 10, 2018 | -- | 39:48s | This episode and the following one tell stories about the making of new streets and creating new land, which is as close as we could find to info on Romans potentially making new streets out of garbage. We'll mention this again in #Pratchat42. | ||||||||||
September 13, 2016 | -- | 18:47s | More on making new streets and creating new land, as per the above episode. | ||||||||||
May 6, 2015 | -- | 15:28s | The novel presents a pretty extreme case of shopping malls being evil, which of course led to thoughts of the Gruen Effect. Australians may recognise the term in the name of the ABC panel show about advertising, The Gruen Transfer. | ||||||||||
May 13, 2015 | 13:14s | The alchemists in Ankh-Morpork are often exploding things by accident, and in Moving Pictures it's mentioned that includes billiard balls - a reference to attempts to replace ivory balls with cellulose ones, as covered in this episode of 99% In | |||||||||||
May 24, 2017 | -- | 1:19:31s | If you want to hear this episode's guest, Dan Golding, talking about his twin passions - Star Wars and music in film - this is a good place to start. There are three episodes about the original film, but at the time of writing they’ve also disc | ||||||||||
July 10, 2018 | -- | 32:05s | Liz, Ben and David discussed several lesser-used printers’ and punctuation marks, including square brackets and the pilcrow, but only the interrobang has its own podcast episode. | ||||||||||
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