Pratchett Wednesday: Bonus Edition

[tealin]

BBC7 is hosting a Pratchett Mini-Season, including rebroadcasts of Small Gods, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents*, Truckers, Mort**, and Mr Pratchett's appearance on Bookclub.

SEE HERE, NOW.

*One of my favourite radio plays ever and my introduction to the 'radio movie.' Oddly enough, I don't think Dirk Maggs was involved with this one...
**HEAR Linguini in his previous role! MARVEL at the amazing similarity in character development! PONDER the possibility of a Pratchett fan at Pixar!

Comments

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

Huh. I am unfamiliar with Truckers.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oo, I highly recommend it. It's a really good non-Discworld series he did, one of his previous 'for kids' books but it doesn't talk down as much as Maurice or the Tiffany books. A corking good story and also an allegory for the enlightenment and man's place in the universe, basically. How many kids' books can do that? :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I should add Truckers is the first in a trilogy (the other two being Diggers and Wings) broadly known as The Bromeliad.

And Dreamworks has the rights to it.

Thankfully they seem to have forgotten that.

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

Oh! I've heard of the trilogy! Just not the individual titles! ^_^

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Bromeliad-Trilogy-by-Terry-Pratchett-2003_W0QQitemZ260224628305QQihZ016QQcategoryZ279QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

Time's a wastin' It's a ripping good yarn.

[tony-cliff.livejournal.com]

Yay for footnotes!

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

I am very sad. I cannot hear Terry Pratchett discuss things such as fanfiction, Mort, or punnes, that is, a play on words.

Is there another way to get the audio files that you know of?

[aspectabund.livejournal.com]

What? The Tenth Doctor's in Amazing Maurice? I spot an opportunity to con my two Doctor Who-loving friends into Discworld... or, well, Terry Pratchett anyway. It's a step. :)

Speaking of Discworld, have you seen or heard of this (http://www.impawards.com/2008/igor.html) movie yet? Apparently, all mad scientists have lab assistant Igors in the story...

[ceilonar.livejournal.com]

Argh, RealPlayer! With Night Watch I could listen to it in a pop-up window, but I'm having issues with the listen-again feature. This looks really good, too. *Pratchett withdrawl*

[ceilonar.livejournal.com]

Oh, nevermind. Fixed!