

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret
Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. We’ll be splitting each book into three weekly episodes of analysis, discussion and tangents, with a week off in between books to refresh our brains.
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Nov 11, 2024 • 1h 9min
Bonus: Supplementary Books (A Podcast In Which We...)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, a bonus episode! We’re looking at World of Poo, Dodger’s Guide to London and Mrs Bradshaw’s Handbook. Lavatories! Naughty Girls! Shirtless Vimes!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Beauty, what it is and how to retain it - Internet Archive Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 30min
153: Raising Steam Pt. 3 (It's All Gradely, Baby)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 3 of our recap of “Raising Steam”. Train Fight! On the Roof! Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Visions of the Future | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Bradshaw's Guide - Wikipedia The Meaning of Liff - Wikipedia Cumulonimbus Incus Description: Anvil Cloud - WhatsThisCloud Campaign for Level BoardingDid John Wilkes Booth's Brother Save the Life of Abraham Lincoln's Son? - Snopes.comCranbury Park - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Oct 20, 2024 • 1h 24min
152: Raising Steam Pt 2 (It’s So Hygienic!)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 2 of our recap of “Raising Steam”. Peril! Punch-ups! Puns!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Raising Steam: the Marquis de Aix-en-Pains? - /r/Discworld Aeolipile | Steam Turbine, Invention & Usage - Britannica No Such Thing As A Teaspoon Of Coal - (No Such Thing as a Fish) BBC Sounds Cockney Rovers - Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner sing along - YouTubeSwindon: the heritage of a railway town - Google Arts & Culture Brief Encounter (1945) - IMDb Change of Gauge (Entry 206.LV2733) - Omnibus List of rail accidents (before 1880) - Wikipedia Caution! Railway safety since 1913 - Railway Museum175 years making Britain’s railways safer - Office of Rail and RoadThe railway traveller's handy book of hints, suggestions, and advice - WikiMedia Commons ---Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Oct 13, 2024 • 1h 20min
151: Raising Steam Pt. 1 (A Better Class of Smut)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 1 of our recap of “Raising Steam”. Choo! Choo!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:The Not-So-Great-Bake-Along '24 - Seven-Strand Plaited Note Death's Domain - Discworld Emporium Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes - Penguin Pippina - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki The Severn Valley RailwayUp And Down The Railway Lines! (1940) - YouTubeRichard Trevithick - Wikipedia Lancashire Witch - Wikipedia Lotus-eaters - Wikipedia ---Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 19min
Bonus: 150 Episodes Celebratory Mailbag! (There Will Be An Adventure)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, we’re celebrating 150 episodes! Questions! Answers! Uncomfortable levels of emotion!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:JOANNA'S BOOK! Friends and the Golden Age of the SitcomNote: My very quick attempt at adding the podcast episode durations together in Google Sheets gives me a total of 240 hours and 27 minutes. Is that right?! That can’t be right. - F7A.1 Discworld Podcasters and Eric - Desert Island DiscworldWatch Nothing Like A Dame - Prime Video Buffering the Vampire Slayer chimpanzee riding on a segway Frozen Charlotte (doll) - Wikipedia Joanna's tiara falls offMusic: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 22min
150: Dodger Pt. 3 (Are You Metaphoring This Metaphor?)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 3 of our recap of “Dodger”. Rats! Rings! Shiny Shoes! Find us on the internet:Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Things we blathered on about:Stottie cake - Wikipedia The Worst Cat - TumblrCrossbones Graveyard201 : Street entertainers in Victorian times – Jeffrey Green. Historian Story of cities #14: London's Great Stink heralds a wonder of the industrial world - The Guardian Tales of the underworld - The GuardianSome Punch cartoons on the subject: 1848, 1849, 1858, 1883 You're Dead to Me, Christmas with Charles Dickens - BBCAlexander Morison - Wikipedia Thomas Monro (art collector) - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 21min
149: Dodger Pt. 2 (Ah! A Snail Fork!)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 2 of our recap of “Dodger”. Growlers! Percies! Firky-Toodles! Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Terry Pratchett: 'What keeps me going is the fight' - The Independent Pratchett audio interview from 2003 – one I'd not come across before - r/TTSMYF Music, Language, and Earworms | What Literature Knows About Your Brain The Balls Whistled Over Our Heads: Continentals and Cannonballs - Journal of the American Revolution Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Sep 1, 2024 • 1h 11min
148: Dodger Pt. 1 (Universal Psychopomp Coin)
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 1 of our recap of “Dodger”. Farthings! Sovereigns! Bones!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Decoding TV Dodger: An interview with Professor Sir Terry Pratchett. Part 1 - YouTube Crown and Anchor - Wikipedia Punch and Judy - Wikipedia Charon's obol - Wikipedia In Which a Trope Is Described - TV Tropes London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 2 of 4), by Henry Mayhew—The Project Gutenberg eBookSewer Gator - TV Tropes Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Aug 18, 2024 • 56min
Bonus: LIVE from the Discworld Convention 2024
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, we’re releasing a very special episode – a conversation with Ian Stewart, recorded live at the Discworld Convention 2024! We talk about Tiffany Aching books, the Science of Discworld, and involve the audience in a Very Scientific Poll on the best Witches book. Magic! Science! LIVE!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Photos from DWCON 2024 - TTSMYF Professor Ian Stewart FRS - Royal Society Sir Terry Pratchett - The Science of Discworld - YouTubeScience of Discworld Series - PenguinJack Cohen obituary | Science | The Guardian Terry Pratchett Receives Honorary Degree from University of Warwick [and awards honorary UU degrees to Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen]Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Jul 30, 2024 • 51min
Bonus! Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, usually read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week is a special bonus episode in which Joanna speaks about the release of her debut book, Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom. I’ll! Be! There! For! You!(And we’ll be back soon with more bonus material, and your regularly scheduled nonsense in September – apologies again for the long summer hiatus!)Buy the book/read more from Joanna:Joanna Hagan's website Pen and Sword Books: Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom - Hardback Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom - Amazon.co.ukTwo-Hats Television - Joanna’s Substack Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretDiscord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com


