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! I'm Tessa. And I'm Nigel. 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 to survive the competition. 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! 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.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 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...thirty years ago. He is contacted by the Lu-Tze and the Monks of History for a difficult task: impersonate his old mentor and teach young Sam everything he knows so that the future will happen. But Vimes remembers what is going to happen: this is the old Ankh-Morpork and the old Night Watch after all. 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 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 go wrong very quickly. 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 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 of Discworld's finest--including Rincewind, Captain Carrot, Leonard of Quirm, and the Librarian--to stop the Discworld's last hero. 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 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. However, the Auditors took notice of the event and try to replicate it, convincing a strange clockmaker to create a device that will trap time, ending life on the Disc. Susan must team up with Lobsang, a mysterious novice, to avert the Apocalypse. 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 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 first big scoop? The apparent crimes of Lord Vetinari, accused of embezzlement and murder. William suspects something is not quite right, but the more he investigates this story, the stranger—and more dangerous—it becomes. 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 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, specifically fat. Things start going awry when a dwarven artifact is stolen, Angua disappears to deal with family matters, and Carrot resigns from the Watch. Vimes can find crimes anywhere, and it looks like this time, it's politics. 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 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 reunite to drive the invaders out. Can Granny beat her greatest foe yet? 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 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 Rincewind is still trapped on the distant XXXX, the last continent, where it never rains and where time and space are not stable. No worries! 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 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 the ultimate big crime of all, war? 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 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. Its going to require the talents of Death's granddaughter Susan, a team of wizards, an oh god, a rat, and a raven to figure out what happened to the Hogfather and save Hogswatch! 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 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: 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 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 from the infamous Opera Ghost. 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 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. Can he, along with some old friends, survive these interesting times? 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 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 take on Death's scythe, so to speak, just as the scene in Ankh-Morpork is due for a Music with Rocks In shake-up. 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 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 and Nanny as head witches and Magrat as the new Queen-to-be of Lancre. But as the wedding preparations continue and the guests begin to gather, strange omens begin to appear, heralding an invasion of a parasite universe. The Lords and Ladies are returning, and only Granny can stop them. 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 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 bidding, Eric asks for three classic wishes: to be ruler of the word, to meet the most beautiful woman in history, and to live forever. Wishes have a tendency to be literal, however, and hell is no laughing matter. Theme: Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license