Monstrous Regiment
 2014 paperback edition; cover art by Paul Kidby | |
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Tony Robinson (Corgi); Stephen Briggs (Isis) Katherine Parkinson (Penguin) |
| Cover artist | Paul Kidby |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Series | Discworld |
Release number | 31 |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2003-09-30 |
| Preceded by | The Wee Free Men |
| Followed by | A Hat Full of Sky |
Blurbs
2014 edition
‘Trousers. That's the secret...Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: idiots! Get yourself some trousers!’
Women belong in the kitchen - everyone knows that. Not in jobs, pubs or indeed trousers, and certainly not on the front line.
Nonetheless, Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape takes more time.
There’s a war on. There's always a war on, and Polly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of it.
All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee.
It's time to make a stand.
Podcast episodes
Major appearances
These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-22 | Radio Morpork | “Ru Polly Oliver's Drag War” | radiomorpork.wordpress.com |
| 2020-11-06 | Desert Island Discworld | “Kate Nyx and Monstrous Regiment” | desertislanddiscworld.com |
| 2021-03-15 | The Death of Podcasts | “Monstrous Regiment” | aalgar.com |
| 2021-09-28 | Wyrd Sisters | “Monstrous Regiment” | wyrdsisters.podbean.com |
| 2022-08-16 | The Compleat Discography | “Monstrous Regiment” | compleatdiscography.page |
| 2022-12-04 | Trash or Treasure? | “Terry Pratchett’s ‘Monstrous Regiment’” | buzzsprout.com |
| 2023-04-02 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “[REDACTED]” (1/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-04-10 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “The Implication of Hippo” (2/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-04-16 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Gender is a Fake Drug” (3/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-09-01 | Nanny Ogg's Book Club | “Monstrous Regiment” | fireside.fm |
| 2023-10-25 | Shelf Esteem | “We Take a Journey to Discworld” | soundcloud.com |
| 2024-04-08 | Pratchat | “Real Men Don’t Drink...Decaf” | pratchatpodcast.com |
| 2024-05-03 | Who Watches the Watch | “Common German L” (1/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2024-03-28 | Fiction Fans | “Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett” | fictionfanspodcast.com |
| 2024-10-10 | If We Survive This | “Monstrous Regiment” | buzzsprout.com |
Other appearances
Episodes where there's significant discussion of the book, but it's not the focus of the episode.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-05 | The Pratchett Podcast | “EPISODE55” | app.talkshoe.com |
| 2024-07-26 | The JPAG Podcast 2.0 | “The June Issue: Educational Curriculum, Transabdominal Ultrasounds, and Claire and Paula talk about speculums”[1] | spotify.com |
Adaptations
- There are three audiobook versions: the abridged Corgi edition read by Tony Robinson; the Audie Award-winning unabridged Isis edition read by Stephen Briggs (released separately in the US and the UK); and the recent Penguin edition, read by Katherine Parkinson (of The IT Crowd fame), with footnotes read by Bill Nighy and Death played by Peter Serafinowicz.
External links
- Monstrous Regiment at the L-Space Wiki
- Monstrous Regiment on Wikipedia
Footnotes
- ↑ This is the official podcast of the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, which for some reason has a book club; the book for this episode was Monstrous Regiment, which they briefly discuss at the start, though one of the hosts did not finish it. The rest of the episode is much more about medical matters.