Nanny Ogg's Book Club

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 36: Making Money (and "A Few Words from Lord Vetinari"). Moist Von Lipwig is bored. The Post Office is doing better than ever and the clacks companies are running smoothly and above board. What's an ex-con man to do in these circumstances? Lor...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 35: Wintersmith . Tiffany is now 13–almost 14–and settling into her witch training in Lancre. She has it almost down to an art, helping her witch, the 113 year-old judge Miss Treason, and visiting Granny Weatherwax whenever she can. But one co...

tWelcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 34: Thud! (and Where's My Cow?) Rumors spread through Ankh-Morpork that a grag, a religious leader among the dwarves, has been murdered by a troll. Ancient animosities and prejudices are rising, and a repeat of Koom Valley, the legendary batt...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 33:  Going Postal . Moist Von Lipwig is a con-man, but his crimes have finally caught up to him in Ankh-Morpork. He is hanged but is saved from the gallows by Lord Vetinari, who offers him a choice: die or revive the city's derelict Post Offic...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! I'm Tessa. And I'm Nigel. This is Episode 32: A Hat Full of Sky (and "The Sea and Little Fishes"). 00:02:15 - "The Sea and Little Fishes" A new witch on the Lancre scene tries to organize Granny Weatherwax out of the Witch Trials, and Granny tries being nice....

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 31: Monstrous Regiment . Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 30: The Wee Free Men . Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 29: Night Watch . Sam Vimes' life is changing. The Watch is bigger than it has ever been, the city is growing, and he is about to become a father. But all that is put in jeopardy when a freak accident during a chase transports him back in time...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 28: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents . Maurice the cat has the perfect scam. Ever since they ate magical trash behind the Unseen University, he and a band of rats, known as the Clan, have been sentient. Add in a stupid looking kid...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 27: The Last Hero . Lord Vetinari receives troubling news from the Agatean Empire: their emperor, Cohen the Barbarian, has abandoned his throne in a mission to "bring fire back to the gods." Faced with the world ending consequences of The Silv...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 26: Thief of Time (and "Death and What Comes Next"). 00:42 - "Death and What Comes Next" Death discusses the multiverse and quantum mechanics with a philosopher on his deathbed. 18:20 - Thief of Time High up in the mountains of the Rim, the Hi...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 25: The Truth . William De Worde is the black sheep of the De Worde family, refusing his father's money and eeking out an existence writing a newsletter for rich patrons. When he meets some enterprising dwarves who own the Disc's first printin...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 24: The Fifth Elephant . Vimes is dismayed to find himself sent on a diplomatic mission to Uberwald in his new role as the Duke of Ankh. He is outside his jurisdiction in a country where the lore rules and the strongest prey on the weak. But t...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 23: Carpe Jugulum . It's an important day for Lancre: King Verence and Queen Magrat have had a daughter. Dignitaries and commonfolk from all over have been invited for the official naming and celebration, including vampire nobility from nearby...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 22: The Last Continent . The Librarian is gravely ill, and the wizards of Unseen University are desperately searching for a cure, one that involves finding out the Librarian's name. All records have been destroyed, so they set out to find Rinc...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 21: Jingo . When a mysterious island appears in the sea between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch, both countries quickly try to claim it for themselves. Old tensions are rising, the kind that lead to violence. When an attempt is made on the life of a v...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 20: Hogfather . When the auditors conspire to assassinate the Hogfather, on Hogswatch eve no less, it is up to Death to step into his boots and deliver presents to all the children on the Disc. But with all the spare belief left over from the...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 19: Feet of Clay . The Watch is growing, and with that comes new crimes in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Patrician is being poisoned and no one can figure out how, someone is killing old religious men, and the city's golems are somehow involve...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 18: Maskerade . Agnes Nitt is done with witches. She wants to reinvent herself by becoming an opera diva named Perdita X Dream in Ankh-Morpork, the furthest place she can think of from Lancre and the witches. But the witches need a third to th...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 17: Interesting Times . The Agatean Empire is on the brink of a power struggle, one which will determine the future of Discworld politics. Fate and The Lady play games with the destiny of humanity. Once again, Rincewind is reluctantly drawn in...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 16: Soul Music . Susan Sto Helit has always been a logical if mysteriously gifted child. The universe has a certain order, and most people are just too obtuse to see it. But when a skeletal rat and a talking raven show up in her room to tell h...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 15: Lords and Ladies (and "Troll Bridge"). 5:04 - "Troll Bridge" Cohen the Barbarian challenges a troll to a fight and ends up reminiscing about the way the Discworld has changed instead. 29:34 - Lords and Ladies Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg,...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 14: Eric . Following the events of Sourcery , Rincewind has been trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions, desperately fleeing the Things that live there, believing every minute to be his last. To his surprise, he is pulled from the Dungeon Dimension...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 13: Men at Arms (and "Theatre of Cruelty"). 5:06: "Theatre of Cruelty" Vimes, Carrot, Colon, and Nobby investigate the murder of a street entertainer. 27:27: Men at Arms Captain Vimes is getting married to Lady Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman...

Welcome to Nanny Ogg's Book Club: A Discworld Podcast! Join us as we read through all 41 of the fantastical and outrageous Discworld novels! This is Episode 12: Small Gods . In Omnia, everyone knows that there is only one god, the great god Om. The time of his eighth prophet is near. But no one is expecting that eighth prophet to be the novice Brutha, certainly not Brutha himself. And Brutha never...