The Wee Free Men
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Tony Robinson (Corgi) Stephen Briggs (Isis) Indira Varma (Penguin) |
| Cover artist | Paul Kidby |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Series | Discworld |
Release number | 30 |
| Sub-series | Tiffany Aching |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2003-05-01 |
| Preceded by | Night Watch |
| Followed by | Monstrous Regiment |
Blurb
Podcast episodes
Major appearances
These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-21 | The Turtle Moves | Episode 13 | N/A |
| 2017-06-10 | Dragon Babies | “The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett” | dragonbabiespodcast.com |
| 2019-12-04 | Radio Morpork | “Rowdy Roddy Mouse Piper” | radiomorpork.wordpress.com |
| 2020-04-12 | Desert Island Discworld | “James D’Amato and The Wee Free Men” | desertislanddiscworld.com |
| 2020-06-08 | Pratchat | “Meet the Feegles” | pratchatpodcast.com |
| 2021-02-15 | The Death of Podcasts | “The Wee Free Men” | aalgar.com |
| 2021-08-27 | Wyrd Sisters | “The Wee Free Men” | wyrdsisters.podbean.com |
| 2022-06-28 | The Compleat Discography | “The Wee Free Men” | compleatdiscography.page |
| 2023-03-06 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “I Crave the Incline” (1/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-03-13 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Slip & Crumble: Lawyers at Large” (2/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-03-20 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Crivens in the Air” (3/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-07-28 | Nanny Ogg's Book Club | “The Wee Free Men” | fireside.fm |
| 2023-10-13 | Who Watches the Watch | “Dilbert Pod” (1/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2023-12-08 | Who Watches the Watch | “Not My Daughter” (2/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2024-01-05 | Who Watches the Watch | “Time Crimes” (3/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2024-02-21 | Fiction Fans | “The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett” | fictionfanspodcast.com |
| 2024-08-27 | Hearth and Tome Book Club | “Bookclub August 2024 - The Wee Free Men by Sir Terry Pratchett” | spotify.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-12 | The Pratchett Podcast | “EPISODE53” | app.talkshoe.com |
| 2017-10-31[1] | Dr Janina Ramirez - Art Detective | “Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd”[2] | acast.com |
| 2023-09-12 | The Turtle Reads | “Wee Wee Men” | captivate.fm |
| 2024-02-20 | Emma’s ESL English[3] | “Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men - A Tiffany Aching Story” | spotify.com; YouTube |
| 2024-02-21 | Emma’s ESL English[3] | “Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men - Analysis” | spotify.com; YouTube |
Adaptations
- A film version was announced as in development with Sony Pictures in 2006[4], with Sam Raimi attached to direct, but Terry hated the screenplay (written by Pamela Pettler of The Corpse Bride fame) and called it off. (In Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, Rob Wilkins reports that his two word response to the studio was “It’s shit.”)
- The Illustrated Wee Free Men was published in 2008, with illustrations by Stephen Player. It contains some additional jokes and other material written by Pratchett and incorporated into the illustrations. Stephen Player says that the book doesn't faithfully reproduce the colours of his original paintings, and includes versions of them on his website.
- Rhianna Pratchett wrote a screenplay for a film version which she presented to Terry on his birthday, probably in 2014. This seems to have been the basis for the version announced by Narrativia in 2016, this time with the Jim Henson Company. It remains unproduced.
External links
- The Wee Free Men at the L-Space Wiki
- The Wee Free Men on Wikipedia
Footnotes
- ↑ Repeated in 2019.
- ↑ This is the painting used by Pratchett as inspiration in The Wee Free Men; Gaiman talks about Pratchett and the book during the episode.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 These episodes use The Wee Free Men as a text for examples of English. It’s a daily YouTube show also distributed as a podcast.
- ↑ See this BBC news article.