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 11: Witches Abroad . After the death of Desiderata Hollow, a witch and fairy godmother, her wand is delivered to Magrat Garlick with two very specific instructions: 1) Magrat needs to travel to Genua to stop Emberella from marrying the prince...

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 10: Moving Pictures . In a World Gone Madde...Victor Tugelbend has studiously avoided being a real wizard and getting entangled with magic for years. But one night, he sees a moving picture, recently created by the Alchemist's Guild and finds...

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 9: Reaper Man . The auditors of reality have had enough of Death's obsession with humans and their personalities, so they fire him, forcing him to join the human world with Binky and what little time he is given. He finds work as a field hand,...

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 8: Sourcery . On the Discworld, it is common knowledge that the eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard. But the eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a sourcerer, a wizard squared, a being too powerful to be held by reality. But one...

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 7: Equal Rites . In Equal Rites , Drum Billet the wizard knows that he is dying and wishes to bequeath his power to someone. He arrives in the Lancre village of Bad Ass right before the birth of a new wizard, the eighth son of an eighth son. 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 6: Pyramids . In Pyramids , Teppic is the heir to the throne of Djelibeybi, an ancient tiny river kingdom wedge between Ephebe and Tsort. All his life, Teppic has known that time goes on in Djelibeybi, but nothing really changes and the dead m...

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 5: Guards! Guards! Guards! Guards! takes place mainly in the famed city of Ankh-Morpork. Everyone on the Disc thought that the legendary dragons were just that, legends. But when one begins to appear out of thin air to terrorize the city of An...

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 4: The Light Fantastic . The Light Fantastic picks up right where The Colour of Magic left off with Rincewind falling off the edge of the Disc. The Octavo saves him so as not to lose one of the eight great spells that has been stuck in Rincewi...

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 3: The Colour of Magic . Unlike subsequent Discworld novels, The Colour of Magic is divided into 4 main sections that almost act as interconnected short stories or novellas. Each of these sections remixes and satirizes classic Sword and Sorcer...

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 2: Wyrd Sisters . Wyrd Sisters follows a similar plot structure to Macbeth from the perspective of the three witches, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick in the small kingdom of Lancre. When King Verenice is murdered by his cousin...

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 1: Mort . Mort is an unwieldy and overly enthusiastic teenager who is unsuited to his family's farming business. His family attempts to get him an apprenticeship, but the only person who shows up to take him on the day of the apprenticeship fa...

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! In this, our introduction episode, Episode 0, we discuss Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and the method to our madness when it comes to reading or re-reading his books. Monkey listeners, subscribe to Nanny Ogg's Book Club at Episode 1: Mort comes out on Se...