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? Lord Vetinari is concerned that Moist will fall back to his old ways, so he puts him in charge of the R...
Aug 01, 2024•2 hr 59 min
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 cold night, Miss Treason takes her to see a Dark Morris, the dance that summons winter. Tiffany gets c...
Jul 01, 2024•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 35
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 battle between trolls and dwarves, seems inevitable. Can Vimes and the Watch solve one of the biggest cr...
Jun 01, 2024•3 hr 2 min•Ep. 34
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 Office. He accepts the position reluctantly, but soon realizes that the job might require all his cunning ...
Dec 03, 2023•2 hr 33 min
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. 00:28:15 - A Hat Full of Sky Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.fi...
Oct 16, 2023•2 hr 9 min
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
Sep 01, 2023•2 hr 18 min
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
Jul 28, 2023•2 hr 4 min
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...thirty years ago. He is contacted by the Lu-Tze and the Monks of History for a difficult task: im...
Jun 30, 2023•2 hr 32 min
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 with a pipe, and you have a Rat Piper racket. But when they roll into the town of Bad Blintz, things...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 56 min
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 Silver Horde blowing up Cori Celesti and disrupting the Disc's magical field, Vetinari recruits a team o...
Feb 03, 2023•2 hr 18 min
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 History Monks watch and tweak the passage of history, still reeling from a time shattering event. Howe...
Nov 30, 2022•2 hr 18 min
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 printing press, they quickly join forces to start the Ankh-Morpork Times, the Disc's first newspaper. Their...
Nov 02, 2022•2 hr 9 min
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 the new Low King of the dwarves is being crowned, and Ankh-Morpork needs Uberwald's resources, specif...
Sep 28, 2022•2 hr 40 min
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 Uberwald. But everyone knows that you shouldn't invite vampires in. All four witches will have to r...
Aug 24, 2022•2 hr 3 min
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 Rincewind, the only person who remembers the Librarian before he was transformed into an ape. But Rincew...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 58 min
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 visiting Klatchian prince, it is up to the Watch to investigate and keep the peace. Can Vimes stop th...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 49 min
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 Hogfather's disappearance, new household gods are popping up and things are getting a little weird. ...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 47 min
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 involved. Plus, Nobby is the Earl of Ankh? Its up to Vimes and Carrot to once again solve the case. Theme: ...
Jun 16, 2022•2 hr 1 min
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 their trio, and Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are not above traveling to protect one of their own fr...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 36 min
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 into the center of the conflict, called upon by the Red Army to lead as the Great Wizzard of legend. C...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 54 min
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 her that she is Death's granddaughter and he has gone missing (again), everything changes. She must t...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 31 min
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, and Magrat Garlick return from their road trip and attempt to settle back into their roles: Granny a...
Apr 13, 2022•2 hr 15 min
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 Dimensions by Eric, a thirteen year old demonologist. Believing Rincewind to be a demon summoned to do his bi...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 29 min
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 in Ankh-Morpork. Days before his wedding (and retirement), there is a mysterious theft from the Assa...
Mar 23, 2022•2 hr 30 min
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 expects that the god would appear to him as a tortoise, taking him on an adventure that opens Bruth...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 56 min
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 and 2) under no circumstances are Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg to accompany her. However, to no o...
Feb 16, 2022•2 hr 6 min
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 himself bound for Holy Wood, the place where dreams come true. The alchemists insist that moving pic...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 55 min
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, but adjusting to human life is harder and more terrifying than he ever imagined. Meanwhile, Windle ...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 44 min
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 wizard deliberately has an eighth son out of vengeance, prophesying that he will destroy the world....
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 34 min
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. He gives up his power, not realizing that the infant, Eskarina Smith, is a girl, and he dies before h...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 22 min
