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* Has gone by many names. See the season information table below for more information, but in summary: it was originally ''The Discworld Portal'' until September 2020. It was briefly ''The Mystery Portal'', then ''Ponder's Wizardly Portal'', before settling on ''The Witches and Wizards Portal'' for a few seasons. In October 2021, at the start of season 11, it changed name to ''Tales From the Drum''.<ref>[https://mindkindle.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/a-change-is-gonna-come/ This blog post] and | * Has gone by many names. See the season information table below for more information, but in summary: it was originally ''The Discworld Portal'' until September 2020. It was briefly ''The Mystery Portal'', then ''Ponder's Wizardly Portal'', before settling on ''The Witches and Wizards Portal'' for a few seasons. In October 2021, at the start of season 11, it changed name to ''Tales From the Drum''.<ref>Randy's commentary in the first episode of season 7 indicates he was asked to stop calling the podcast "The Discworld Portal", presumably by the Pratchett estate, though he refers only to a request from "the Gods in Dunmanifestin", contacting him via Ponder Stibbons. [https://mindkindle.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/a-change-is-gonna-come/ This blog post] and episode notes for seasons 10 and 11 suggest the other name changes may at least partly motivated by copyright concerns too, though changing from "The Wizards and Witches Portal" to "Tales from the Drum" was a move to find something Discworld fans would recognise.</ref> | ||
* Host Randy has two tortoiseshell cats, or "torties", named Holly and Ivy; the [https://mindkindle.net/ mindkindle.net] website has no fewer than three pages dedicated to them, including plenty of photos. (You're welcome.) | * Host Randy has two tortoiseshell cats, or "torties", named Holly and Ivy; the [https://mindkindle.net/ mindkindle.net] website has no fewer than three pages dedicated to them, including plenty of photos. (You're welcome.) | ||
* As of mid-2022, the podcast seems to have vanished; mindekindle.net is still there, but the show has disappeared from its podcast host Buzzsprout, and the Facebook, Patreon and Discord communities all seem to be deactivated or deleted. Only [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQ the YouTube channel] remains, but it only has four of the full episodes and half a dozen compilations of the short "Pratchips" ones. | * As of mid-2022, the podcast seems to have mostly vanished; mindekindle.net is still there, but the show has disappeared from its podcast host Buzzsprout, and the Facebook, Patreon and Discord communities all seem to be deactivated or deleted. Only [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2HGerNeQ9kkv3WvZnyzVQ the YouTube channel] remains, but it only has four of the full episodes and half a dozen compilations of the short "Pratchips" ones. At least some episodes appear to be cached on Spotify, for the time being, but since its otherwise unavailable we've currently listed the show under that status. | ||
== Hosts == | == Hosts == | ||
Revision as of 17:34, 17 July 2022
| Tales From the Drum | |
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | The Medieval Gnome |
| Production | |
| Audio format | mp3 |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
| No. of episodes | 206 |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 19 April 2019 – 20 November 2021 |
| Provider | Medieval Gnome Productions |
| Related shows | The GEM Show |
| Website | https://mindkindle.net |
Publisher Description
On the first, second, and third Friday of every month, it’s Tales From the Drum — the Mended Drum, that is. We also bring you three-minute long mini-episodes, cleverly entitled Pratchips (like potato chips, see?) every Monday-Thursday. All of these are (usually) about the places, spaces, races, and other words that end in aces of the Discworld, that pizza-shaped place (but no anchovies) that rides through space on the backs of the massive elephants Tubul, Berilia, Jerakeen and Great T’Phon, which themselves stand atop the 10,000 mile-long world Turtle, A’Tuin. (According to the dwarfs, there was once a Fifth Elephant, which slipped of A’Tuin’s carapace and crashed into the Disc. But the dwarfs can be funny that way.) Obviously, a place such as this could exist only every normal curve must have its outliers, where the fabric of reality is thin, and magic is an everyday—well, reality. Of course, it was actually the late Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, who created the Discworld. He chronicled those places, spaces, etc. in 41 Discworld novels. In 500 years, he will probably be the only 20th-century author who is still being read. Seriously. He was that good. He was also incredibly prolific. In a span of 32 years, he wrote 70 books. They’ve sold northward of 50 million copies, last I saw. He was knighted in 2008 by Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Terry passed away in 2015 from a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. GNU Terry Pratchett. If you don’t understand that, you can find out about it in Going Postal. Also, il miglior fabbro. That’s from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” But you knew that. Thanks for listening — and mind how you go! GNU Terry Pratchett
Further Information
Format
- Typical episodes are just under 20 minutes long.
- The podcast is released in seasons of ten episodes, collected under a relatively loose theme, which not all episodes stick to.
- Most seasons have at least one bonus episode, usually featuring Randy talking about non-Discworld subjects or commenting on a previous episode. After season three these were meant to be for Patreon subscribers only.
- Two series of mini-episodes also pop up in the same podcast feed:
- The Portal's Pratchett Passages, or P^3 for short, are readings from Discworld books. Episodes vary from 14 to 36 minutes long.[1]
- Pratchips are mini-episodes, usually under 3 minutes long, describing very specific bits of Discworld lore, like a single creature, character or location.
Trivia
- Has gone by many names. See the season information table below for more information, but in summary: it was originally The Discworld Portal until September 2020. It was briefly The Mystery Portal, then Ponder's Wizardly Portal, before settling on The Witches and Wizards Portal for a few seasons. In October 2021, at the start of season 11, it changed name to Tales From the Drum.[2]
- Host Randy has two tortoiseshell cats, or "torties", named Holly and Ivy; the mindkindle.net website has no fewer than three pages dedicated to them, including plenty of photos. (You're welcome.)
- As of mid-2022, the podcast seems to have mostly vanished; mindekindle.net is still there, but the show has disappeared from its podcast host Buzzsprout, and the Facebook, Patreon and Discord communities all seem to be deactivated or deleted. Only the YouTube channel remains, but it only has four of the full episodes and half a dozen compilations of the short "Pratchips" ones. At least some episodes appear to be cached on Spotify, for the time being, but since its otherwise unavailable we've currently listed the show under that status.
Hosts
- The Medieval Gnome (Randy Paulin) - host, editor and producer of all episodes. According to his Podchaser bio, a retired teacher and an historian, avid gamer, cat lover, and Terry Pratchett fanatic from Moscow, Idaho.
Episodes
Seasons and Mini-series
This podcast is divided into more seasons than most, often with a theme. This table summarises information on each season.
| #[3] | Title | Start date | End date | Episodes | Bonus Episodes | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Discworld Portal | 2019-04-19 | 2019-06-21 | 10 | 1 | An introduction to the Discworld |
| 2 | The Discworld Portal | 2019-06-29 | 2019-08-30 | 10 | 1 | Belief and the metaphysics of the Discworld |
| 3 | The Discworld Portal | 2019-09-13 | 2019-11-16 | 10[4] | 2 | Witches and Wizards |
| 4 | The Discworld Portal | 2020-12-06 | 2020-02-07 | 10 | 1 | Societies, cultures and education systems of the Disc |
| 5 | The Discworld Portal | 2020-03-06 | 2020-05-08 | 10 | 1 | Villains of the Discworld |
| - | The Portal's Pratchett Passages | 2020-04-05 | 2020-08-06 | 10 | - | Readings from Discworld books |
| 6 | The Discworld Portal | 2020-06-05 | 2020-08-07 | 10 | - | Characters (often drawing from L-Space wiki content) |
| 7 | Ponder's Wizardly Portal[5] | 2020-09-11 | 2020-12-09 | 10 | 4 | No specific theme |
| 8 | The Witches and Wizards Portal | 2020-12-25 | 2021-02-26 | 10 | 1 | No specific theme |
| 9 | The Witches and Wizards Portal | 2021-03-19 | 2021-06-18 | 10 | 1 | Alphabet Soup (a Discworld A-Z) |
| 10 | The Witches and Wizards Portal | 2021-07-02 | 2021-10-01 | 10 | 1 | Granny and Nanny |
| - | Pratchips | 2021-07-06 | 2021-11-11[6] | 76 | - | ~3 minute snippets of Discworld lore |
| 11 | Tales From the Drum | 2021-10-15 | 2021-11-20[7] | 4 | - | No specific theme |
Episode List
The table below indexes episodes of the main podcast. They are listed by default in release order, and use the podcast's own season (S) and episode (E) numbering scheme where possible. We've added overall episode numbers, and retained an External links column for this show, just in case it returns to life.
| # | S | E | Episode Title | Date | Book/Subject | Guest(s) | Episode link[8] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | "Welcome to Ankh-Morpork" | 2019-04-19 | Introduction | None | N/A |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | "Characters" | 2019-04-30 | Mustrum Ridcully; the Bursar; the Librarian; Sam Vimes | None | N/A |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | "Mrs Whitlow" | 2019-05-08 | Mrs Whitlow | None | N/A |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | "Monsters! Monsters!" | 2019-05-11 | Monsters of the Discworld | None | N/A |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | "Big Pictures" | 2019-05-16 | The Discworld, The Colour of Magic | None | N/A |
| 6 | 1 | 6 | "The Thickness of a Dream" | 2019-05-24 | Reading order; Nanny Ogg; Granny Weatherwax; various Discworld sub-series | None | N/A |
| 7 | 1 | 7 | "This Mortal Coil" | 2019-06-02 | Death; The Colour of Magic | None | N/A |
| 8 | 1 | 8 | "All in the Family" | 2019-06-08 | Death; Susan; Mort | None | N/A |
| 9 | 1 | 9 | "Love and Death (with apologies to Woody Allen)" | 2019-06-15 | Death; Mort | None | N/A |
| 10 | 1 | 10 | ""You're just a piece of cheese."" | 2019-06-21 | Death of Rats; Susan | None | N/A |
| 11 | 1 | - | "Not the Discworld, exactly" | 2019-06-21 | Behind the scenes bonus episode | None | N/A |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | "Discworld, The" | 2019-06-29 | Geography and natural history of the Discworld | None | N/A |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | "It only encourages 'em" | 2019-07-06 | Belief on the Discworld, especially about elves | None | N/A |
| 14 | 2 | 3 | "Oh Brutha" | 2019-07-12 | The Great God Om and his prophets and priests | None | N/A |
| 15 | 2 | 4 | "The Turtle Moves" | 2019-07-20 | More on Om and Omnianism | None | N/A |
| 16 | 2 | 5 | "Really Unbelievable" | 2019-07-26 | Nuggan and other beliefs of the Discworld | None | N/A |
| 17 | 2 | 6 | "It's a Living/It's a Live!" | 2019-08-02 | "Life force" on the Disc | None | N/A |
| 18 | 2 | 7 | "Birdwalking" | 2019-08-09 | Variety of topics, inc. goblins and narrative causality | None | N/A |
| 19 | 2 | 8 | "Narratively Speaking" | 2019-08-16 | Narrative causality | None | N/A |
| 20 | 2 | 9 | "Genius, by Jingo!" | 2019-08-23 | Plot, character and theme in Jingo | None | N/A |
| 21 | 2 | - | "Not the Discworld, exactly II (also?)" | 2019-08-23 | The host and his cats | None | N/A |
| 22 | 2 | 10 | "So Long and Thanks for all the...Quantum?" | 2019-08-30 | Quantum and the trousers of time in Jingo | None | N/A |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | "Witches 11, Wizards 9" | 2019-09-13 | Witches and Wizards | None | N/A |
| 24 | 3 | -[4] | "This Just In, Sports Fans" | 2019-09-15 | An update on the scores (number of books) from the previous episode | None | N/A |
| 25 | 3 | 2[4] | "A Little Touch of Granny in the Night" | 2019-09-20 | Granny Weatherwax | None | N/A |
| 26 | 3 | 3 | "When shall we.... two meet again?" | 2019-09-27 | Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg | None | N/A |
| 27 | 3 | 4 | "I was Aching this morning, and I'll still be Aching tonight" | 2019-10-06 | Tiffany Aching | None | N/A |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | "Veni, Vimesy, Vetinari" | 2019-10-11 | The relationship between Sam Vimes and Vetinari (listener request) | None | N/A |
| 29 | 3 | 7 | "Rincewind and Ridcully: Alpha and Omega (sort of)" | 2019-10-19 | Rincewind and Mustrum Ridcully | None | N/A |
| 30 | 3 | 8 | "The Likeability Fallibility" | 2019-10-25 | The change in Terry's handling of the wizards | None | N/A |
| 31 | 3 | 9[4] | "Boo!" | 2019-10-28 | Dr. Terry Armstrong, Tolkien and Pratchett, bloopers | None | N/A |
| 32 | 3 | 10 | "Pondering Ridcully" | 2019-11-01 | Ponder Stibbons and Mustrum Ridcully | None | N/A |
| 33 | 3 | 11 | "That's an Order!" | 2019-11-08 | The evolution of wizardry | None | N/A |
| 34[4] | 3 | 12 | "The Ego of Wizards and the Pride of Witches" | 2019-11-16 | As per title, also future of the podcast | None | N/A |
| 35 | 4 | 1 | "Life in Ankh-Morpork" | 2019-12-06 | Ankh-Morpork's institutions | None | N/A |
| 36 | 4 | - | "Welcome back to Ankh-Morpork, Myra L’Auditrice" | 2019-12-10 | 10,000 plays bonus episode; walking tour of Ankh-Morpork[9] | None | N/A |
| 37 | 4 | 2 | "World and Mirror of Worlds" | 2019-12-13 | Discworld geography, compared to Roundworld | None | N/A |
| 38 | 4 | 3 | ""You Better Watch Out"" | 2019-12-20 | Hogswatch and the Hogfather | None | N/A |
| 38 | 4 | 4 | "Naughty or Nice" | 2019-12-27 | Susan and Death and the events of Hogfather | None | N/A |
| 39 | 4 | 5 | "(Not) The Muntab Question" | 2020-01-04 | The Agatean Empire and Borogravia as dysfunctional societies | None | N/A |
| 40 | 4 | 6 | "Making (More) Money" | 2020-01-10 | Economies and business of the Discworld | None | N/A |
| 41 | 4 | 7 | "Harry King and the Coming of the Age of Steam" | 2020-01-17 | Harry King; Raising Steam | None | N/A |
| 42 | 4 | 8 | "Peeled Nuts, Treacle Mines and Big Cabbage" | 2020-01-24 | Social Clubs, economies outside Ankh-Morpork | None | N/A |
| 43 | 4 | 9 | "Empathy, Ecdysiasts, Footnotes and Housekeeping" | 2020-01-31 | H.L. Menken, Terry's use of footnotes | None | N/A |
| 44 | 4 | 10 | "The Watch, Drugs, and Largesse" | 2020-02-07 | The laws and ordnances of Ankh-Morpork; future of the show | None | N/A |
| 45 | 5 | 1 | "Heroes, Villains and Mrs Whitlow" | 2020-03-06 | The new format of the show ("housekeeping") | Mrs. Whitlow | N/A |
| 46 | 5 | 2 | "Heroes and Villains Pt. 2" | 2020-03-13 | The nature of villainy, and Reacher Gilt | None | N/A |
| 47 | 5 | -[10] | "The Three R's" | 2020-03-17 | "Some readings and random recollections" | None | N/A |
| 48 | 5 | 3 | "From the Sublime to the Ridiculous" | 2020-03-20 | Lady Margalotta and Cosmo Lavish | None | N/A |
| 49 | 5 | 4 | "Deep Down and Graggy" | 2020-03-27 | Ardent and the grag dwarfs | None | N/A |
| 50 | 5 | 5 | "No Foolin'" | 2020-04-03 | The Fool's Guild; introducing the Portal's Pratchett Passages | None | N/A |
| 51 | 5 | 6 | "Dios and Vorbis" | 2020-04-10 | Dios and Vorbis | None | N/A |
| 52 | 5 | 7 | "Thanks for (A Year's Worth of) Listening!" | 2020-04-17 | First anniversary episode; stats and congratulatory messages | None | N/A |
| 53 | 5 | 8 | "She'll Be Right" | 2020-04-24 | Fourecks; villains vs antagonists | None | N/A |
| 54 | 5 | 428[11] | "GNU Terry Pratchett" | 2020-04-28 | A very literal GNU on Terry's birthday | None | N/A |
| 55 | 5 | 9 | "Oh, those bad, bad, bad, bad.... bad guys?" | 2020-05-01 | Unknown | None | N/A |
| 56 | 5 | 10 | "Pun Siam Sand" | 2020-05-08 | Anagrams, Imp and Susan | None | N/A |
| 57 | 6 | 1 | "Altogether Now" | 2020-06-05 | "Ankh-Morporkians who live on the shadier side of the street" | None | N/A |
| 58 | 6 | 2 | "First Transmissions, and a Trio of Undead" | 2020-06-12 | The High Energy Magic Building, and undead characters | None | N/A |
| 59 | 6 | 3 | "A Dwarf and his Wolf... and a Few Guilds" | 2020-06-19 | Lesser-known Guilds; Carrot and Angua | None | N/A |
| 60 | 6 | 4 | "Let's Do the Time Warp Again" | 2020-06-26 | Possibly Night Watch and/or time travel? | None | N/A |
| 61 | 6 | 5 | "Below Stairs" | 2020-07-03 | The hired help at UU, and Windle Poons | None | N/A |
| 62 | 6 | 6 | "Death, the Auditors and Bissonomy. Bissonomy???" | 2020-07-10 | Death and other supernatural entities | Sacharissa Cripslock (Kitty) | N/A |
| 63 | 6 | 7 | "Witches and Workers" | 2020-07-17 | Minor characters (and birds) from Lancre | None | N/A |
| 64 | 6 | 8 | "I was Aching this morning, and I'll still be Aching tonight"[12] | 2020-07-24 | Tiffany Aching | None | N/A |
| 65 | 6 | 9 | "Growing Up Crafty" | 2020-07-31 | Tiffany Aching | None | N/A |
| 66 | 6 | 10 | "With a Little Help from Her Friends" | 2020-08-07 | Tiffany's allies and friends | None | N/A |
| 67 | 7 | 1 | "At last, season 7!" | 2020-09-11 | The reason for changing the show's name | None | N/A |
| 68 | 7 | 2 | "What's in a Name?" | 2020-09-18 | Names in Discworld, and of the show | None | N/A |
| 69 | 7 | - | "As Above, So Below (or something like that)" | 2020-09-20 | The Circle Sea region | None | N/A |
| 70 | 7 | 3 | "Voices" | 2020-09-25 | Voices from the Disc | None | N/A |
| 71 | 7 | - | "The Amber Chronicles" | 2020-09-30 | Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber | None | N/A |
| 72 | 7 | 4 | "Relatively Creative" | 2020-10-02 | Creativity on the Disc | None | N/A |
| 73 | 7 | 5 | "Ye Gods and Little Fishes!" | 2020-10-09 | Fantasy fiction and gods | None | N/A |
| 74 | 7 | 6 | "Institutionalized" | 2020-10-16 | The Watch and Unseen University | None | N/A |
| 75 | 7 | 7 | "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!" | 2020-10-23 | Weather on the Disc | None | N/A |
| 76 | 7 | 8 | "Non Temetis Messor" | 2020-10-30 | "A special guest" | Death | N/A |
| 77 | 7 | 9 | "Dueling Dynamic Duos" | 2020-11-06 | Nanny and Granny and Fred and Nobby | None | N/A |
| 78 | 7 | 10 | "Special Forces" | 2020-11-13 | "Special" members of the Watch | None | N/A |
| 79 | - | - | "bloopers!" | 2020-11-26 | "89 episodes' worth" of out-takes[13] | None | N/A |
| 80 | - | - | "Tis the Season" | 2020-12-09 | Special holiday episode | None | N/A |
More to be added.
Mini-Series
The Portal's Pratchett Passages
This table indexes episodes of this side project, released as part of the main feed. Season and episode numbers are given as provided in the podcast feed.
| # | S | E | Episode Title | Date | Source Book(s) | Episode link[14] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 101 | "The Portal's Pratchett Passages" | 2020-04-05 | Unknown | N/A |
| 2 | 5 | 102 | "P Cubed v1.n2" | 2020-04-08 | Small Gods, Pyramids | N/A |
| 3 | - | - | "The Portal’s Pratchett Passages v1.n3" | 2020-04-21 | The L-Space Wiki, The Colour of Magic | N/A |
| 4 | - | - | "PPP V1n4" | 2020-05-22 | Possibly Interesting Times | N/A |
| 5 | - | - | "PPP V1n5" | 2020-06-02 | Possibly Unseen Academicals | N/A |
| 6 | 101 | 6 | "PPP V1n6 (You Otto Chreik: It's the Truth)" | 2020-06-23 | The Truth | N/A |
| 7 | 101 | 7 | "PPP v1n7 Postcards from the Ogg" | 2020-06-29 | Probably Nanny's postcards from Witches Abroad | N/A |
| 8 | - | 101 | "PPP v1.n8 Bony Knees" | 2020-07-11 | Soul Music | N/A |
| 9 | 6 | 109 | "The Portal's Pratchett Passages v1n9: Perennial Favorites" | 2020-07-20 | Early descriptions of Detritus (probably Moving Pictures and Men at Arms) | N/A |
| 10 | 6 | 102 | "PPP v1 n10 Soul Brothers" | 2020-04-05 | Soul Music (featuring Fred and Nobby) | N/A |
Pratchips
To be added
Footnotes
- ↑ The P^3 episodes potentially constituted a breach of copyright, as they present parts of the work without commentary or review. We're not experts, though.
- ↑ Randy's commentary in the first episode of season 7 indicates he was asked to stop calling the podcast "The Discworld Portal", presumably by the Pratchett estate, though he refers only to a request from "the Gods in Dunmanifestin", contacting him via Ponder Stibbons. This blog post and episode notes for seasons 10 and 11 suggest the other name changes may at least partly motivated by copyright concerns too, though changing from "The Wizards and Witches Portal" to "Tales from the Drum" was a move to find something Discworld fans would recognise.
- ↑ The season number, if part of the main podcast.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The episode numbering goes a bit haywire during season three: "This Just In, Sports Fans" is marked as a bonus episode, but also as episode 2, despite being a four minute addendum; "A Little Touch of Granny in the Night" is marked as a full episode, but has no number. We've interpreted this as a mistake, and marked the latter as episode 2. Similarly "Boo!" is marked as a bonus episode, but also given episode number nine. There's no episode five. The description of episode ten refers to there being twelve episodes, thanks to the two bonus ones, and the final episode of the season, numbered twelve, says in the description that the total number of episodes up to that point was 34, which agrees with the number available. So we've just guessed that the episode numbers are off, and presented them mostly as they were.
- ↑ Was known for one episode by the placeholder name "The Mystery Portal".
- ↑ Date of last published Pratchips episode
- ↑ Date of last published podcast episode
- ↑ Episodes are no longer available, except for a small number that were re-published to YouTube.
- ↑ The episode description says the walking tour is the one described in The Compleat Ankh-Morpork.
- ↑ This episode is marked as number 31.
- ↑ This episode was 13 seconds long, and seems to have been literally just Randy saying Terry's name and the details of his birth and death. The episode number refers to Terry's birthday - the 28th of April.
- ↑ Not a typo; this episode revisits the title and theme from season 3 episode 4.
- ↑ This bloopers reel is marked as episode 1 of season 78, presumably to show it comes in between seasons 7 and 8. The count of 89 episodes matches our count if the Portal's Pratchett Passages episodes are included. (This and the following episode are counted under season 7 for the purposes of our season summary table.)
- ↑ Episodes are no longer available.