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| 14: Adaptation Pitches (Filming Starts Tomorrow) | 24 May 2026 | 00:56:05 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction. This week, we celebrate the Glorious 25th May by pitching potential adaptations!
https://bsky.app/profile/makeyefretpod.bsky.social/post/3mmocaa4bqs2b https://www.instagram.com/p/DYwj3CZMgwM/?igsh=MTBoMTRqZmt3M29ydQ== Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about: What makes a Horse Girl story? The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Wikipedia The Martian Chronicles - Wikipedia The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) - Wikipedia
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| 13: Gormenghast Pt. 2 (A Bit Damocles-y) | 26 Apr 2026 | 02:18:12 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction. This week, Gormenghast Part 2! Stormclouds! Villany! Isthmuses! Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about: Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica - The Franklin Institute Primogeniture and ultimogeniture - Britannica Skewbald - Etymology, Origin & Meaning blaze - Wiktionary
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| 7: The Long War Pt 1 (The Twain Twade) | 07 Sep 2025 | 01:31:22 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction. This week, The Long War Part 1! Character conflict! Hexagonal plots! Condiment logistics! Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about: Greyhound Literary • The Phantom Atlas The ancient tools that shaped our woodlands Gam (nautical term) - Wikipedia Tomás de Torquemada | First Grand Inquisitor of Spain | Britannica Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 92: Thief of Time Pt. 1 (Malignancy with Sparklers) | 11 Sep 2022 | 01:17:50 | |
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 “Thief of Time”. Irrelevant Tooth Fairies! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Quote by Terry Pratchett: “The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light...” - GoodReads DonMarshall72 - TikTok Night Thoughts, by Edward Young - Project Gutenberg You're Dead To Me, The History of Timekeeping - BBC Radio 4 My Grandfathers Clock by Foster and Allen - YouTube Foundling Names - Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog Foundlings (Italy) - ConiglioFamily.com A Chronicle Of Timekeeping - Scientific American The Infinite Monkey Cage - Does Time Exist? - BBC Sounds
Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| Bonus: What We Did on Our Holidays | 28 Aug 2022 | 00:40:03 | |
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, bonus holiday stuff. Video! Audio! Scorchio! Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Mitford family - Wikipedia TV The Sandman | Official Trailer - YouTube The Sandman cast Desire actor Mason Alexander Park after gutsy exchange with Neil Gaiman - PinkNews House of the Dragon E1 (Here be Dragons/Spoilers) - r/TTSMYF She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Trailer - YouTube Convention Pen and Sword Books: The Magic of Terry Pratchett - Pen & Sword Books Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes - Penguin A Message from the Committee - Discworld Convention How to Play - Werewolf Audio Omnibus Episode 484: The Mother Sauces (Entry 810.PS7825) The Magnus Archives - Rusty Quill Internet Explorer - SoundCloud Bedrock USA Podcast - Bloomberg Series Black Box Down - Rooster Teeth | |||
| 91: The Truth Pt. 3 (Why, Oh Why) | 24 Jul 2022 | 01:27:07 | |
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 Truth”. Extra! Extra! Dog Bites Man! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: It's Always Sunny star mocks his 'unrealistic' body change - BBC News How Mary Toft Convinced the World She’d Birthed Rabbits - The Paris Review Word Avalanches: incredibly contrived setups for homophonic punchlines - Reddit Discussion about American copyeditors - alt.books.pratchett Bill Bryson Sr. - Wikipedia The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows - Goodreads Terry Pratchett and his first job - Bucks Free Press Terry Pratchett: 'Journalism makes you think fast' - Poynter Pratchett takes swipe at Rowling - BBC News You're Dead to Me: Julie d'Aubigny - BBC Radio 4 Book:The Truth/Annotations - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 90: The Truth Pt. 2 (Eau-De-Zero) | 17 Jul 2022 | 01:16:21 | |
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 Truth”. A Rumpus! A Fracas! An Attempted Murder?! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - The Truth Gus Honeybun would send coded messages to the LGBT+ community - Plymouth Live That’s Life - Youtube Fundraiser : Temporary housing for Lanta - GoFundMe Meet the Mudlarkers - Thames Festival Trust Edward Packard (businessman, born 1819) - Wikipedia The Paul Foot Award | Private Eye Online Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe - The Paris Review Eau-de-Nil - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki
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| 89: The Truth Pt.1 (Does Not Register As Human Noises) | 10 Jul 2022 | 01:26:12 | |
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 Truth”. Stop the press! Or don’t, that’s fine too. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: #TheWeekInTory (posted 5 July) and #TheWeekinTory (posted 7 July) - Russ Jones on Twitter The Children of Green Knowe - GoodReads Guild of Recappers & Podcasters Pratchett talking about journalism during Iraq war - alt.fan.pratchett Wynkyn de Worde | English printer | Britannica Libfix - Wikipedia Bojack Horseman - S6 - Enter Paige Sinclair and Maximillian Banks - YouTube Seattle Underground - Wikipedia Why Do We 'Bury the Lede?' - Merriam Webster Korean Movable Type - Resources and References The royal coat of arms that reigns o'er our front page | The Times In Our Time - Seventeenth Century Print Culture - Radio 4 Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 88: The Fifth Elephant Pt. 3 (The Cheese Course of Cosmic Horror) | 26 Jun 2022 | 01:39:33 | |
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 Fifth Elephant”. Trials! Tragedy! Trousers! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Depressed Teens and Russian Folktronica | r/HobbyDrama - reddit Moscow [LYRICS] - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - YouTube Exploring Scone Palace in Perthshire, Scotland - YouTube Joanna with false moustache - TTSMYF Catherine the Great w. Dana Schwartz - You’re Wrong About Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought - National Geographic Marquess of Queensberry Rules - Britannica Three Sisters - Wikipedia Uncle Vanya - Wikipedia Westminster Stone theory - Wikipedia Treacle mines - Oxford Reference The Treacle Mines of England - British Food: A History Remain Indoors (with David Mitchell & Jonathan Dryden-Taylor) | Rule Of Three on Acast Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 87: The Fifth Elephant Pt. 2 (Oh No! Consequences!) | 19 Jun 2022 | 01:26:37 | |
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 Fifth Elephant”. Werewolves! Vampire! Candelabra! Oh My! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: You're Wrong About: The Dyatlov Pass Incident w. Blair Braverman - Buzzsprout Ferrero Rocher ambassador's reception - YouTube Fatsup Recipe - Discworld Help Flame Safety Lamp | Mining Heritage History in gas detection: Coal Mine Canaries & Flame Safety Lamps Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 86: The Fifth Elephant Pt. 1 (Orange You Glad I’m Not an Assassin) | 12 Jun 2022 | 01:27:56 | |
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 Fifth Elephant”. Scones! Stones! Contraceptives! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Lessons from Las Vegas - 99% Invisible Eeek Club 2022 - Pratchat Millennium hand and shrimp annotation - Annotated Pratchett File (Lords and Ladies) Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms - Department of Psychiatry Pratchett leaving newsgroup - alt.fan.pratchett (now Google Groups) Blue John (Mineral) - Wikipedia List of Cornish Dialect words - Wikipedia How Condoms are Made - Youtube Enigma History - Crypto Museum The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage - Goodreads The Jam - The Eton Rifles - YouTube
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| Bonus! Glorious 25th: Video Game Chat | 24 May 2022 | 00:51:46 | |
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, bonus nonsense for the Glorious 25th of May as we talk pixels to platformers, in a video game special! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Virus, from “Smoke and Mirrors” by Neil Gaiman - Goodreads A tribute to Terry Pratchett | PC Gamer Terry Pratchett - Going by the Book - PC Gamer 1993 interview - PDF 'Help! I've been spotted!' Terry Pratchett on Thief, his favourite video game - Guardian Thief newsgroup (Pratchett’s contributions) Terry Pratchett - Online Radio Interview with the Author - The Author Hour The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on | Eurogamer.net Pratchett on video games - some bits we didn’t include Turning Terry Pratchett's Discworld into Audiobooks [bit about theme music being inspired by Oblivion] - YouTube The E-Mail Interview - Terry Pratchett - PC Zone (January 1995) - PDF --- Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 85: Johnny and the Bomb (Escher Spaghetti) | 22 May 2022 | 01:33:45 | |
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, Part 3 of the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy - “Johnny and the Bomb” When? Where? Whortleberries! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi
The Museum of Curiosity: Series 1-4 - Audible [reminder: Pratchett is ‘chapter 13’] The Amazing Maurice | Official Trailer - YouTube The Rasmus - In My Life (Official Video) - YouTube The Boss series (writing as Abigail Barnette) - Trout Nation Long comment from Pratchett - alt.books.pratchett Behind the Bastards: Part One: John Wayne: A Dude Who Sucked - Apple Podcasts Clytemnestra - Wikipedia This Is England (2006) - IMDb No Such Thing As A Magnetic Skateboard - No Such Thing as a Fish Dracula Daily | DraculaDaily - Substack The Exmoor Whortleberry - Edible Exmoor --- | |||
| 6: The Long Earth Part 2 (Potato Thoughts) | 13 Jul 2025 | 01:32:03 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction. This week, The Long Earth Part 2! Elephants! Elves! Evolution! Extinction? Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about: The Album - Only You Can Save Mankind Soundtrack Tracklements - Oxford Reference I Made a Massive 14,000 Page Book - YouTube Archaeoacoustics - Wikipedia history of the entire world, i guess - YouTube Is there a similar word to 'twain' but meaning 'three' instead of 'two'? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 84: Johnny and the Dead (This Gap of Nostalgia) | 15 May 2022 | 01:18:25 | |
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, Part 2 of the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy - “Johnny and the Dead” Googly Eyes! Eurovision! Restaurant Reviews! Moose?! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - Johnny and the Dead Omnibus Episode 2: Defenestration (Entry 326.2K0933) Misfits (TV Series 2009–2013) - IMDb The War on Rock & Roll - Bill Hicks - YouTube Star Trekkin (The Firm) - Youtube Sub ire as hacks slash word length: getting the skinny on thinnernyms | Andy Bodle | The Guardian Pratchett on ‘window books’ - alt.fan.pratchett Ovaltineys - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 83: Only You Can Save Mankind (It's A Bit Early To Radicalise You) | 08 May 2022 | 01:22:16 | |
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, Part 1 of the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy - “Only You Can Save Mankind” Beige Keyboards! Beige Monitors! Beige Tech all the way! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Roe vs Wade
Things we blathered on about: Vampire world record attempt - Whitby The Internet Speculative Fiction Database Terry Pratchett's "Only You Can Save Mankind": The Musical [full album] - YouTube Y2K bug - Britannica 4.4- Jerusalem's Rise and Fall - IBM via Web Archive Video Games - ephemeral podcast Journey To Alpha Centauri in Real Time - An Interactive Waste of Time - Spectrum Computing Copy protection - Wikipedia The Legend of Shambhala (Shangri La) - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia Pratchett answers OYCSM questions - alt.books.pratchett
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| 82: Carpe Jugulum Pt. 3 (The Abyss Is Tapping Its Watch) | 17 Apr 2022 | 01:32:39 | |
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 “Carpe Jugulum”. Alligators and allegories on allegories! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Kaja and Kelod - (Bali navigation) ResearchGate What larks! - Twitter Tales from the Disc (Discworld music) - Tumblr The Lincolnshire Shepherd - Mainly Norfolk Horror and terror - Wiki Giant Phoenix captured in stunning aurora borealis Iceland show - Caters News Agency Mythology of the Northern Lights - The Aurora Zone Dark Side of the Auroras – Meanings and Myths | Visit Finnish Lapland Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 81: Carpe Jugulum Pt. 2 (The Gothic Literature Position) | 10 Apr 2022 | 01:39:11 | |
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 “Carpe Jugulum”. Eyeballs in places they shouldn’t be! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: The Count Censored - YouTube Leo Breebaart's comment - alt.fan.pratchett Lara Croft Handstand - Youtube Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry Foundation You’re Dead To Me - Vampires in Gothic Literature - BBC Sounds In Our Time, Polidori's The Vampyre - BBC Radio 4 Trial By Content - The Greatest Vampire Sire - The Ringer Comment on the Stone Witch - alt.fan.pratchett Wookey Hole Caves - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 80: Carpe Jugulum Pt. 1 (Let's Get Liminal) | 03 Apr 2022 | 01:27:18 | |
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 “Carpe Jugulum”. One Magpie! HaHaHa! Two Magpyr! HaHaHa! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Tom Parker obituary | Pop and rock | The Guardian The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - Carpe Jugulum Pratchett on the title - alt.fan.pratchett Mating Pandemonium - Elephant Voices Why are we so superstitious about magpies? - Country Life The Folklore of Discworld - Sir Terry Pratchett Magpie (TV series) Intro - YouTube What is the Mysterious Rule of Three? The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth “Blue Beard” | Fairy Tales and Other Traditional Stories | Charles Perrault | Lit2Go ETC The Bloody Chamber - Wikipedia Lancrastian Army Knife - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 79: The Last Continent Pt. 3 (What's Syllabub With You?) | 21 Mar 2022 | 01:49:31 | |
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 Last Continent”. Cockroaches! Creative Patisserie! Concepts! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Terra Australis - Wikipedia What is a Quokka? - BestLife Map Of Tasmania (Amanda Palmer) - Youtube The Beautiful Land of Australia - Australian Culture Chard stem gratin and garlicky greens - Guardian Petrichor - The Met Office Crimson Eleven Delight Petrichor (Doctor Who) - Youtube Ned Kelly | Biography & Facts - Encyclopedia Britannica Bold Jack Donahue (Roud 611) - Mainly Norfolk The Old Bush Songs, by A. B. Paterson - Project Gutenburg What is the “Dreaming”? - Creative Spirits Aussie slang: why we shorten words - Australian Geographic Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 78: The Last Continent Pt. 2 (Elephants Are Pollinated by Bees, Right?) | 14 Mar 2022 | 01:12:13 | |
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 Last Continent”. Driftbeans! Driftwood! Drifting towards destiny! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Castlemaine XXXX Advert - YouTube #Pratchat29 – Great Rimward Land Desert Island Discs - Terry Pratchett - Radio 4 Knifey Spoony Original Clip - YouTube The Man from Snowy River by AB Banjo Paterson - All Poetry Terry Pratchett Desert Island Discs transcript - L-Space Appendix:Australian English colloquial similes - Wiktionary Museum offers a toast to Vegemite as centenary looms for Australia's favourite spread - Good Food Amanda Palmer - The Vegemite - YouTube Time Travel - TV Tropes Time Travel Tropes - TV Tropes Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Goodreads Watchmaker Analogy – Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 77: The Last Continent Pt. 1 (A Ridcully Stan Podcast) | 08 Mar 2022 | 01:10:49 | |
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 Last Continent”. Island discovery! Suspected skulduggery! Helpful shrubbery! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: The Last Continent - Colin Smythe Did scientists really quantum entangle tardigrades? - Cosmos Magazine Black Crow - Culture Victoria Creation Stories - Taungurung Land & Waters Council Discworld Podcasts - Read-through index - L-Space Wiki Speed - Radiolab Francine reviewing Medieval depictions of elephants Burke and Wills - National Museum of Australia Burke and Wills' fatal error - Bush Telegraph Jam Fakers - bizarrevictoria (LiveJournal) --- Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 76: Bromeliad Pt. 3 - Wings (e.g. Burning Down An Orphanage) | 21 Feb 2022 | 01:04:25 | |
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, our Terrific Trilogies season continues with Part 3 of our recap of “The Bromeliad”, as we talk “Wings”.
Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight - Guardian Concorde - Wiki Death of a Dream: The crash of Air France flight 4590 - Admiral Cloudberg (Medium) The Green Planet - BBC One Commensalism, Mutualism and Parasitism - Biology Dictionary The Footsteps of Large Animals Fill Landscapes with Life - Good Nature Travel Scientists observe mysterious cosmic web directly for first time - Guardian Dan Quayle's quotes - Bauer College Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 75: Bromeliad Pt. 2 - Diggers (I Need My Therapy Cube) | 14 Feb 2022 | 01:15:05 | |
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, our Terrific Trilogies season continues with Part 2 of our recap of “The Bromeliad”, as we talk “Diggers”. Syllables! Synonyms! Existential Dread! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: The Picture - Reddit The Centre for Computing History Inside “The Rings of Power” - Vanity Fair Tolkien fandom - Tolkien Gateway Space Storm Knocks Out Latest Batch of Starlink Satellites - Sky & Telescope JCB Song - Nizlopi - Youtube The Four Yorkshirewomen - The Secret Policeman’s Tour - Youtube “Let em starve,” said Churchill - On This Day in Guernsey Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book - Goodreads Every Car Is a Pinto - TV Tropes Ambiguity (semantic and syntactic) - Wiki Word sense disambiguation - Scholarpedia Bread-and-cheese | Plant-Lore Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 5: The Long Earth Part 1 (Elephants and Airships) | 06 Jul 2025 | 01:29:22 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction. This week, The Long Earth, Part 1. (Chapters 1-25) Potatoes! Ferrous Postcards! Reinvented Loincloths! Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about: Evolution (Baxter novel) - Wikipedia The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – review - The Guardian Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter on The Long Earth - The Guardian video interview Lobsang Rampa - Wikipedia Gomphothere - Wikipedia [not golophonts or whatever I said] Skunk Works - Wikipedia
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| 74: Bromeliad Pt. 1 - Truckers (A Whoomph and a Whiff) | 07 Feb 2022 | 01:17:11 | |
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, our Terrific Trilogies season begins with Part 1 of our recap of “The Bromeliad”, as we talk “Truckers”. Nomes! Nerds! Needlessly excessive use of the word “de-familiarisation”! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Dead People Can’t Riot (Jack Monroe’s fundraising merch) - Teemill SN 1054 - Wikipedia Rincemangle, The Gnome of Even Moor - L-Space Truckers book covers - L-Space Truckers - Annotated Pratchett File Amphiboly - Britannica Death metal Irish Baron rewilds his estate - Guardian Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| Bonus - The Vimes Boots Index | 31 Jan 2022 | 00:22:08 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is usually 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 quick bonus episode about Jack Monroe, and the Vimes Boots Index. Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi Resources The Trussell Trust - Stop UK Hunger What to do if you need emergency help with money and food - StepChange Things we talked about Jack Monroe’s original Twitter thread Call for evidence thread (for Vimes Boots Index) Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index - The Guardian Your best ally against injustice? Terry Pratchett [by Marc Burrows]- New Statesman Iceland commits to price freeze on £1 value range as food costs rise - The Grocer Cost-of-living crisis: Jack Monroe hails ONS update of inflation calculations - The Guardian Rachael Hamilton says food bank users 'less well educated' on cooking – The National Jack Monroe’s stuff Blog/recipes: Cooking on a Bootstrap Jack Monroe books - Hive.co.uk
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| 73: Jingo Pt. 3 (Night-Time In The Dessert) | 24 Jan 2022 | 01:26:41 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine “Doesn’t Mind A Sardine Tangent” Carrel, read and recap every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week, Part 3 of our recap of “Jingo”. Donkey! Minaret! Minaret! Donkey! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (PCM Stereo) - YouTube taking the hobbits to isengard - YouTube 99% Invisible Mini Stories Volume 14 (one of which is about the fire fighters) Omnibus Episode 427: Damascus Steel (Entry 314.PS4503) Lego Ankh-Morpork - Twitter Chocolate sponge and pink custard – the recipe - mintcustard Chocolate crunch/brick recipe (from The Moreton Hall Book of Recipes, 1991) 2009 Swiss Minaret Referendum - Wiki Sheldrick Wildlife tweet (photos from pilots, not drones!) - Twitter Foreign-Looking Font - TV Tropes Translation Punctuation - TV Tropes As Long as It Sounds Foreign - TV Tropes Ozymandias - Poetry Foundation Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com Sound effects: Desert Monolith, Proxima4 - Freesound | |||
| 72: Jingo Pt. 2 (Does Neptune Need a Pedicure?) | 17 Jan 2022 | 01:16:42 | |
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 “Jingo”. Bedsteads! Pheasants! The enraging futility of war! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret The Annotate Pratchett File - Jingo /r/thalassophobia - reddit The Art of War by Sun Tzu - The Internet Classics Archive @SheldrickTrust - Twitter St Elmo’s Fire (captured by RAF @99Sqn) - Twitter Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 71: Jingo Pt. 1 (Squid Skedaddle) | 10 Jan 2022 | 01:31:46 | |
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 “Jingo”. Clams! Squid! Nationalism! (Thumbs Down) Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Things we blathered on about: Jingo - Colin Smythe Jingo - The Annotated Pratchett File Houzee - Wordsense The Cod Wars - The National Archives John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories - Wiki Weathervane - Wiki Respect quote - flyingpurplepeopleeater New volcanic islands: where science and politics meet - British Library Omnibus Episode 251: Ferdinandea (Entry 461.RV1620) Fanny Adams - Wiki [CW: it’s pretty graphic and upsetting – I covered the book-relevant info in the episode, so you’re not missing context if you don’t fancy reading about it - F]
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| Hogswatch 2021: Hogfather, Your Cleavage! | 24 Dec 2021 | 01:38:35 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, recap and discuss every book from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in chronological order. This week - a fabulous bonus Hogswatch extravaganza as we discuss the Hogfather TV adaptation! Piles of Teeth! Some Other Things! (Ridcullys Nipples!) More Piles of Teeth! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Hogfather - IMDB Hunt The Wren - Youtube House of Cards - Wiki Love and Monsters - Fandom My Family - Wiki A few painting recommendations from Francine: Our Book Recommendations:
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| E70: Hogfather Pt. 3 (I'm Glad We Got There) | 20 Dec 2021 | 01:24:22 | |
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 “Hogfather”. Snow! Blood! Existential Crises! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever - Everywhereist And Geraldine’s follow-up article: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food. Behind the Bastards: The Nazi Pedophile Cult Leader who Murdered Santa - Apple Podcasts Nice Try! Episode 4: Oneida, the 'free love' utopia - Curbed The History of Father Christmas - English Heritage A Civil War Cartoonist Created the Modern Image of Santa Claus as Union Propaganda The 19th-Century Book of Horrors That Scared German Kids - Atlas Obscura Project Gutenberg's Cautionary Tales for Children, by Hilaire Belloc [Pronounced “Hillary”, my bad - F] Terry Pratchett in conversation with Brian Sibley on the publication of 'The Hogfather' - SoundCloud (originally BBC Meridian, 1996) Maltese folklore (Folktales) - Wikipedia Krampus | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 69: Hogfather Pt 2 (Wassailutions) | 13 Dec 2021 | 01:22:17 | |
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 “Hogfather”. What Fun! Chins Up & Smiling Faces! Shall We Play A Lovely Game?! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: My Chemical Romance - All I Want for Christmas Is You - YouTube Locally-curved geometry generates bending cracks in the African elephant skin - Nature Communications Wren Day - Smithsonian Mag King of the Bean - The Free Dictionary Mistletoe Traditions - mistletoe.org Ritual and revelry, the story of wassailing - National Trust George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl Antonymic Misinterpretation / X Implies the Existence of Y - Know Your Meme Asafoetida - BBC Good Food Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 68: Hogfather Pt 1 (Entrailing Off) | 06 Dec 2021 | 01:34:35 | |
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 “Hogfather”. Fun! Festive! Frighteningly Manic and Overly Curious Villainy! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Joanna and Francine on a carousel in 2015 #50YearsOfTerry - Twitter Annotated Pratchett File - Hogfather Hogfather - Colin Smythe The Big Read Top 100 - BBC (2003 list) LockPickingLawyer - YouTube Omnibus Episode 303: Eliza Hydrothermal vents: survival at the ocean's hot springs - Natural History Museum Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com (intro music altered for Festive Reasons) | |||
| 67: The Carpet People Pt 2 (Apocalypse Brackets Roundworld) | 15 Nov 2021 | 01:08:54 | |
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, our Proto-Pratchett season concludes with part 2 of our recap of “The Carpet People”. Empire? I Hardly Know Her! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors - Brian Bilston Miriam Margolyes Out To Lunch with Jay Rayner - Apple Podcasts Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry Foundation Till Eulenspiegel - Wikipedia The Crystal Palace - Wikipedia At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson - Goodreads Nice Try! - Vox Media: Podcast Network The Unthinkable - Amanda Ripley Stories by /u/Admiral_Cloudberg - Reddit Place of Protection - TV Tropes The Cavalry - TV Tropes Sunanda Kumariratana - Wikipedia
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| 4: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab | 09 Jun 2025 | 01:25:32 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.
Toxic! Lesbian! Vampires! Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi Things we blathered on about: Bones | Explore Immortal Destinies — Author V. E. Schwab Author V. E. Schwab on toxic lesbian vampires and being a messy gay @OddPride on TikTok "I couldn't help it I was only hungry" | |||
| 66: The Carpet People Pt 1 (F5 To Pay Respects) | 08 Nov 2021 | 01:09:58 | |
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, we continue our Proto-Pratchett season with part 1 of The Carpet People. Snargs! Suspense! Oh-so-small! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Good Omens season 2 shares promising update with first look pics - Digital Spy Dogma: Metatron (Alan Rickman) - YouTube Mark Beech - NB Illustration The Magic of Terry Pratchett - Pen and Sword Books The Carpet People Book Covers - L-Space The Carpet People - Colin Smythe The Carpet People - Art (& photos) - L-Space The Carpet People - TV Tropes Wainscot Society - TV Tropes Always Chaotic Evil - TV Tropes Brian Greene: An Unexpected Guest - The Friendship Onion - YouTube Pismire - Wiktionary
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| 65: Feet of Clay Pt. 3 (The Inherent Comedy of Towels) | 17 Oct 2021 | 01:34:19 | |
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 “Feet of Clay”. Robots! Artificial Intelligence! A Whole New Existential Crisis! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Grace Petrie - Black Tie - Youtube Joanna and Francine at a gig(!) s0nderv0gel’s tangent follow-up - reddit Pune - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki Natural Language Processing (NLP) - IBM Tay (bot) - Wikipedia "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.(PDF) /r/HobbyDrama [Search: Neopets] - reddit Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Goodreads Joanna’s Inktober (Day 15) - Twitter The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret (Podcast) - Tumblr
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| 64: Feet of Clay Pt 2 (Affable Tyrant) | 10 Oct 2021 | 01:19:40 | |
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 “Feet Of Clay”. Cobblestones! Clues! Pigeons! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Feet of Clay - The Annotated Pratchett File Feet of Clay - Discworld Wiki Joanna’s Inktober thread - Twitter Andrew O'Neill - Occult Comedian Sexy Death and Cowgirls | The Wilsons - Bandcamp Are Sherlock Holmes and Spock Related? - FIlm School Rejects Kumbali and Kago, Cheetah Cub & Puppy Friendship - YouTube Grammelot (not Gabblegot!) - Wiki Who Is the Bad Art Friend? - NYT Games Played By Girls In Plymouth - 1960 Golem - Britannica Golem - Wiki Remember That We Suffered - YouTube Origin and meaning of undead - Online Etymology Dictionary
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| 63: Feet of Clay Pt. 1 (I Think It's The Bones) | 03 Oct 2021 | 01:21:43 | |
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 “Feet of Clay”. Couchant! Not Rampant! Couchant! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Feet of Clay - Annotated Pratchett File The Fast Show - Ted & Ralph - Episode1 - New Shoes - YouTube Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse? - Tumblr Noble Blood | A history podcast by Dana Schwartz Neil Gaiman - Jump - YouTube Royal College of Arms - Wiki Joanna Hagan Inktober thread - Twitter Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 62: Maskerade Pt. 3 (Climbing Into Box 8) | 19 Sep 2021 | 01:23:05 | |
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 “Maskerade”. Foreshadowing! Pays! Off! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: “While Terry was programing his ZX81 to Inform him of the high and low greenhouse temperatures overnight . . .” - Twitter (@terryandrob) Tree Swing - Business Balls [erm] The Masochism Tango (Tom Lehrer) - harpmolly’s rendition - YouTube Fish Fall Archives - The Fortean Bouncing Tosca - Opera Anecdotes Grey Reads "The Masque of the Red Death" for Pandemicween - YouTube
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| 61: Maskerade Pt. 2 (As The Actress Said To The Bishop) | 12 Sep 2021 | 01:29:04 | |
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 “Maskerade”. Plinges! Popping Corks! Mrs Palm! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Maskerade - The Annotated Pratchett File Lindsay Ellis on Phantom of the Opera: Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera: A Video Essay The Most Whitewashed Character In Literary History Loose Canon: Phantom of the Opera (Part 1) - Before Broadway Loose Canon: Phantom of the Opera (Part 2): After Lord Andy The Curse of The Yellow Clarinet - Jenny Clarinet I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General - YouTube Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967 - YouTube The Holy Anorankh - The AFP Timelines Insights Into Couture Sewing Part 1 - Time To Sew On the Origin of Really Shiny Species - National Geographic
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| 60: Maskerade Pt. 1 (Chekhov's Chandelier) | 05 Sep 2021 | 01:31:03 | |
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 “Maskerade”. Interrobang! Ampersand! Exclamation Points!!!!! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Maskerade - Colin Smythe Maskerade - The Annotated Pratchett File @divamarisa on TikTok (Wagner content) For the Time Being by Annie Dillard - Goodreads Breakfast Island - The British Library The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, by Edward Brooke-Hitching - Goodreads Does the Dog Die? (“Crowdsourced emotional spoilers for movies, tv, books and more.”) The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011) - IMDb What's Opera, Doc? (1957) - IMDb Who is Frank Spencer? - Radio Times Nanny Ogg's Cookbook | Sir Terry Pratchett Last plays of Molière - Britannica Catastrophe theory - Britannica
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| Bonus: Down The Rabbit Hole (Compilation) | 24 Aug 2021 | 00:18:37 | |
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, a special bonus episode! Enjoy this compilation of clips from our patreon-only podcast: “Down The Rabbit Hole”. Check out our patron here, and remember that if you sign up you get access to all past bonus content, as well as monthly rabbit holes, extended video episodes of the main podcast and whatever nonsense we decide to throw at you!* Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi | |||
| Bonus: The Watch feat. Marc Burrows (Machina Ex Deus) | 13 Aug 2021 | 01:26:24 | |
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, special guest Marc Burrows joins us to react to BBC America’s The Watch! Stories! More Stories! Too Much Story? Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on twitter @joannahagan and follow Francine @francibambi. Find Marc Burrows here: @20thCenturyMarc Things we blathered on about: The Watch - iPlayer THE MAGIC OF TERRY PRATCHETT: A Biography Calling time on The Watch? What went wrong (and right) with the latest Terry Pratchett adaptation - Marc Burrows’ review for Hey U Guys Locus Awards Ceremony 2021 - YouTube (timestamp link – goes to Marc’s bit!) Terry Pratchett’s The Watch (2011 footage of Pratchett) - YouTube Fridging - TV Tropes
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| 59: Interesting Times Pt. 3 (The Ennui of the Barbarian Heroes) | 25 Jul 2021 | 01:41:53 | |
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 “Interesting Times”. Sandwiches! Sumos! Some Nuance! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: The Other Half of the Secret - Neil Gaiman’s Journal The sandwich war - /r/curatedtumblr A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain - Goodreads /r/Admiral_Cloudberg - reddit Willow Pattern Plate - Wikipedia Terra Cotta Soldiers on the March - Smithsonian Magazine Edible bird's nest - Wikipedia Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com | |||
| 3: Gender on the Discworld (Affirmations on a Postcard from Scritz) | 24 May 2025 | 01:36:09 | |
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel are flitting to and from the Discworld like confused Chelonauts. This month, we’re back on the Disc to explore gender and celebrate the Glorious 25th of May! VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/OXJYfghjUDA SHEPHERD'S CROWN MENTIONED SPORADICALLY from 00:07:40 UNTIL 00:33:05. No story-breaking spoilers but purists should skip this section. Gender? I Hardly Know ‘er! Find us on the internet: BlueSky: @makeyefretpod.bsky.social Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/thetruthshallmakeyefret Discord: https://discord.gg/29wMyuDHGP Want to follow your hosts and their internet doings? Follow Joanna on BlueSky @2hatsjo and follow Francine @francibambi
Things we talked about: 7: Equal Rites Pt.1 (My Knee Doesn't Have Lungs) - The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Wikipedia Support our Glorious allies! Desert Island Discworld
Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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| 58: Interesting Times Pt. 2 (I Was Going To But Then I Didn't) | 20 Jul 2021 | 01:24:40 | |
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 “Interesting Times”. Peacocks! Politics! The People! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Some additional information on "orient". - Reddit BON MOT | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary Sama, san, kun, chan: the many Japanese honorifics Banknote - Wikipedia Ninjas in popular culture - Wikipedia 10. The Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames - YouTube (Also available as audio podcast) Samizdat Is Russia' Underground Press - The New York Times Nightingale floor - Wikipedia
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| 57: Interesting Times Pt. 1 (Blanket Problematic Sticker) | 11 Jul 2021 | 01:21:04 | |
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 “Interesting Times”. Butterflies! Board Games! Bureaucracy! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Good Omens season 2 release date: Cast, trailer, plot - Radio Times The Watch - BBC iPlayer Here are the winners of the 2021 Locus Awards. - Literary Hub Yuan Shikai - Wikipedia Adeline Yen Mah - Goodreads The Long Fuse (MSG origin myth) - This American Life transcript The Uncertainty Principle - Britannica.com Chinese Imperial Examinations - Wikipedia Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia
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| Bonus: Soul Music Animated Adaptation (FAAATTTHHHAAA!) | 27 Jun 2021 | 00:57:19 | |
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, we talk about the 1998 animated adaptation of Soul Music. Singing off-key! Christopher Lee! FAAATTTHHHAAA! Find us on the internet: Twitter: @MakeYeFretPod Instagram: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Facebook: @TheTruthShallMakeYeFret Email: thetruthshallmakeyefretpod@gmail.com Patreon: 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: Terry Pratchett's Discworld - Soul Music - Interview - YouTube Discworld: Soul Music Soundtrack - YouTube Bernard Wrigley - A bunch of sea shanties - YouTube The Greatest Story Never Told - TV Tropes Kill the Wabbit Metallica Version - YouTube Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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