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Joshua Bulleid
Unseen Academicals
A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast
An intermittent examination of Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series from an academic perspective, hosted by Joshua Bulleid.
Contact: [email protected]
Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals
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3.6 stars from 14 ratings
“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....”Read full review »
FredTLW via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
12/06/23
Excellent, fun and accessible
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“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...”Read full review »
TDHay via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/10/21
Extremely interesting
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“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.
I also enjoy they less than PG...”Read full review »
Aussie batter via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
08/15/21
Recent Episodes
The second episode examining Terry Pratchett's 1992's Discworld novel, Small Gods, examining the role of books and memory in fantasy fiction, comparisons to Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun sequence, contemplations of genre and what it means to be a "comedy", and seriously considering whether I...
Published 09/17/24
The first episode on Terry Pratchett's thirteenth (and best) Discworld novel Small Gods (1992), looking at religious and folkloric depictions of tortoises, the idea that gods need belief to survive as a trope of fantasy literature through influential works like those of Fritz Leiber and the Epic...
Published 05/26/24
Published 05/26/24
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