

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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May 14, 2023 • 1h 24min
115: A Hat Full of Sky Pt. 2 (You are a Horrible Geas)
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 “A Hat Full of Sky”. The Hills! The Witches! The Ankle!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got Tickets'Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch' announced | Terry PratchettGood Omens returns July 28th - Twitter [@GoodOmensPrime] Strike Two - NetwarsUS covers for Tiffany books - Twitter [@JMVenz] Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation - Wikipedia Best of Hyacinth Bucket's Name Mispronunciation - YouTubeSelf Did It: Fairy Legends of Type 1137 Scottish Folklore: The Brollachan - Spooky StuffThe Most Unusual Pub Names in the UK - The UK Pub Co The History of British Pub Names with Mary-Ann Ochota - GetOutside (OS)Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

May 8, 2023 • 1h 14min
114: A Hat Full of Sky Pt. 1 (Exactly This Insufferable)
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 “A Hat Full of Sky”. Hubris! A Horse! Bees! Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsThe Band With Folk In - Zwergenmarsch - YoutubeA Marvellous Shrimp - Twitter Queer Trad Folk Ballads - Spotify 113: Monstrous Regiment Pt 3 (Gender is a Fake Drug) - r/TTSMYFWomen in the Navy (or: that time I heard Terry Pratchett say "tits") - r/TTSMYF Mythopoeic Awards A Hat Full of Sky - Colin Smythe Straight-tusked elephant - WikipediaWhite Horse Hill - National Trust The Ivy-Wife - LiederNet In a Wood - Oxford Lieder Beech: queen of the forest, here and abroad. - Free Online Library Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Apr 16, 2023 • 1h 48min
113: Monstrous Regiment Pt. 3 (Gender Is A Fake Drug)
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 “Monstrous Regiment”. Man? Woman? Soldier!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsSteamed Hams - YouTubeThe Origins of Pneumatic Railways - London ReconnectionsAt Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson - Goodreads Faerie Queen - song and lyrics by Heather Alexander - Spotify Discovery - YouTubeMonstrous Regiment Playlist (BatSuitClad) - Spotify11 things we learned from new Terry Pratchett doc ‘Escape to the Discworld’ - Penguin Steeleye Span - The Ups and Downs - YoutubeList of foods named after people - Wikipedia Clothing terminology - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 22min
112: Monstrous Regiment Pt. 2 (The Implication of Hippo)
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 “Monstrous Regiment”. War! Gender! Coffee! (This could be a tagline for the entire podcast tbh)Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsPneumatic Clocks - Nature Paris pneumatic post - Wikipedia Sonderv0gel’s Comment - R/TTSMYFPratchett audio interview from 2003 – one I'd not come across before - r/TTSMYF Bucephalus - WikipediaThalacephalos - Discworld WikiAppendix:Glossary of British military slang and expressions - Wiktionary James Gillray - Lambiek Comiclopedia Hablot Knight Browne - Wikipedia Fizz - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki "We Belong Dead" (Final Scene) | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - YouTube Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Apr 2, 2023 • 1h 44min
111: Monstrous Regiment Pt. 1 [REDACTED]
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 “Monstrous Regiment”. Soup! Boots! Women?!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:TTSMYF Presents Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - We Got TicketsNo Such Thing as a Fish Scheibenwelt Convention Trans Day of Visibility: A Global Perspective | Stonewall Tim Clare enthused writing thread - TwitterMonstrous Regiment - Colin Smythe Terry Pratchett interview - Monstrous Regiment - YouTube The World Turned Upside Down - Wikipedia Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down - Youtube Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) - YoutubeSweet Polly Oliver - Wikipedia The Warrior Women Project - Wayne StateList of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 11min
110: The Wee Free Men Pt. 3 (Crivens in the Air)
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 “The Wee Free Men”. Thunder! Lightning! Whales! Sneebs!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Dandelion goodies [@appalachian_forager] - TikTokBad Poetry with ChatGPT - TTSMYFClerihew - Wikipedia Author clerihews [@francibambi] - TwitterSeneca White Deer - Wiki [Note on whales: Sperm whales are the biggest toothed whales. And they’re huge. But the *very* biggest are baleen whales, so I’m calling our speculation a qualified victory.]BBC NEWS | UK | Award for tsunami warning pupil The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke - The TateElimination of a Picture & its Subject - WikiReal Dreams are Weirder - TV Tropes [ORF: OK so it’s not ever *really* too cold to snow, but it’s going to be less likely.] Too Cold to Snow? | AccuWeather Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 25min
109: The Wee Free Men Pt. 2 (Slip & Crumble: Lawyers at Large)
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 “The Wee Free Men”. Buttresses! Sundials! Dreams in Dreams in Dreams!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Old Gods of Appalachia Gingerbread cottage on chicken feet [@picturedragon] - TwitterThe Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall - Scottish Poetry Library [See also: No Such Thing as a Fish episode 238, No Such Thing as a Low Sofa] 💖 The Tale of Tiffany 💖 - CGP Grey - YouTube Someone Dead Ruined My Life… Again. - CGP Grey - YouTube Zero shadow day - Wikipedia Thunderbolt Iron - TV Tropes "Rosebud in June" - Steeleye Span - YouTubeA Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. Hudson - Project GutenbergSheep Folklore: The Life and Lore of the Shepherd – #FolkloreThursday Shepherding tools and customs: Ingram, Arthur - Internet Archive Folk-Lore/Volume 20/Superstitions and Survivals amongst Shepherds - WikisourceEightsomes and then some - Nellifant Dances Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Mar 6, 2023 • 1h 34min
108: The Wee Free Men Pt. 1 (I Crave The Incline)
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 “The Wee Free Men”. Nae Queen! Nae Laird! Nae Focus!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:The delightful surprise of “new” Terry Pratchett stories - New StatesmanThe Wee Free Men - Colin Smythe Paul Kidby Paintings WFM Promotional Interview - L SpaceWee Free - Wikipedia A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in WiltshireJenny Greenteeth - Oxford Reference Folkdays: Silbury Hill – Nellie Cole Dragon Hill — British Folklore Rock of ages: how chalk made England | Geology - The Guardian A history of hedges - The RSPB Why We Think Outhouses All Had Crescent Moons in Their Doors - Atlas Obscura Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - YouTube Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 14min
107: The Science of Discworld Pt. 2 (Pettier, and Full of Academics)
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 “The Science of Discworld”. Rocks! Bones! The End of Life as We Know It!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Alex from Mars' comment - /r/TTSMYF Wild yams & elephants tweet (@MythicAfricans) - Twitter Fire and Ice by Robert Frost - Poetry Foundation The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Stephen Brusatte - Goodreads TEN NEGLECTED EXAMPLES OF “ANCIENT” SCIENCE FICTION - Balladeer's Blog The fiction that predicted space travel - BBC Culture The Bone Wars: how a bitter rivalry drove progress in palaeontology - BBC Science Focus Magazine Brontosaurus Stomps Back to Claim Its Status as Real Dinosaur - National GeographicFigments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart - Goodreads Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed - BBC News Why People Once Thought Mice Grew Out of Wheat and Sweaty Shirts - WIRED Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com

Feb 20, 2023 • 1h 18min
106: The Science of Discworld Pt. 1 (Dynamically Dominant)
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 “The Science of Discworld”. Moons! Stars! Galaxies! BURSARR!Find us on the internet:Twitter: @MakeYeFretPodInstagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretFacebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFretEmail: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefretWant to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about:Lie-to-children - Wikipedia Terry Pratchett and the real science of Discworld- [Jack Cohen interview] GuardianThe magic numbers - [Ian Stewart interview] The Guardian Jack Cohen obituary - The Guardian An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD with Terry Pratchett at Science Gallery Dublin - YouTube The Simple Secret of Runway Digits - CGP Grey, YouTube www.langtonant.comLangton’s Ant - WikiAnty Particles by Ian Stewart - Wayback Machine50ft tides in Burntcoat Head Park, Nova Scotia - YouTube Omnibus Episode 182: Biosphere 2 (Entry 124.IS6517) Science Fiction Sent Man to the Moon - The New York Times Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com


