Desert Island Discworld
| Desert Island Discworld | |
|---|---|
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Al Kennedy |
| Production | |
| Audio format | mp3 |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (so far) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 24 November 2019 – present |
| Related shows | House to Astonish |
| Website | desertislanddiscworld.com |
| Support page | Patreon |
| @DIDiscworld | |
Publisher Description
A weekly interview podcast about the works of Terry Pratchett and the people who read them, with host Al Kennedy. One guest, one book, four elephants, one turtle.
Further Information
Format
- Host Al asks the episode's guest which Terry Pratchett book they would like to take with them if they were stuck on a desert island, and discusses it with them in an informal chat which is also an interview about their life and work.
- The podcast is released in seasons of six episodes, though later seasons have seven or eight episodes; the additional ones are the result of goals reached by the podcast's Patreon campaign.
Trivia
- The title (and to a lesser extent the format) is inspired by the long-running BBC Radio program Desert Island Discs. Its opposite number is Room 101.
- The podcast's tagline is also inspired by Desert Island Discs, which describes the things guests (referred to as "castaways") can take with them: "Eight tracks,[1] a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives."
- The seventh season of the podcast was released in two "blocks" of four episodes, "just like Stranger Things, except in two blocks of four!", as the Twitter account announced.[2]
Hosts
- Al Kennedy - host of all episodes
Episodes
The table below indexes episodes of this podcast. They are listed by default in release order, and use the podcast's own numbering scheme as well as an overall episode number for easy reference.
Footnotes
- ↑ Clearly not a show set on the Discworld!
- ↑ A reference to the fourth season of Netflix show Stranger Things, which was released in two blocks of six and then two episodes. See this tweet.
- ↑ Sort by this column to get the episodes in Discworld publication order. (Non-Discworld books will have a blank entry in this column.)