The Glorious 25th of May

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The Glorious 25th of May is the day commemorated in Ankh-Morpork by survivors of the People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May, as depicted in Night Watch. Rob Wilkins revealed via Twitter that he chose the date when Terry asked him to find something that wouldn’t offend anyone, and he chose Paul Weller’s birthday.[1]

On Roundworld, the 25th of May has become a day of celebration of Terry Pratchett and of supporting Alzheimer's research, marked by wearing lilac, as the characters in the book do. As a result many Discworld podcasts have produced special episodes on May 25th, which are listed here.

The date is coincidentally shared with Towel Day, which celebrates Douglas Adams (it’s two weeks after his death, which seems appropriate since Adams famously hated and missed deadlines), and celebrating both is not uncommon. The first Towel Day was in 2001, a year before the publication of Night Watch. (It’s also “Geek Pride Day”, which started in Spain in 2006, but that’s less commonly celebrated by Pratchett fans.)

Podcast episodes

Note these only include special episodes released to mark the 25th of May in some way, not regular episodes that happened to be released on that date.

Date Show Episode Notes External link
2020-05-25 The Compleat Discography “May 25th, The First” Short bonus episode of out-takes compleatdiscography.page
2020-05-25 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “Definitely Not a Cult” Discussing Wyrd Sisters the animated series thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2021-05-25 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “A Wild Tangent Appeared” Listener questions and two essays from A Slip of the Keyboard thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2021-05-25 Pratchat “Eeek Club 2021” Topics chosen by subscribers pratchatpodcast.com
2023-05-25 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “Video Game Chat” Listener questions and Discworld videogames thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2022-05-25 Pratchat “Eeek Club 2022” Topics chosen by subscribers pratchatpodcast.com
2023-05-25 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “Glorious 25th Extravaganza 2023!” Listener questions, recent Pratchett news, some Night Watch chat thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2023-05-25 Pratchat “Eeek Club 2023” Topics chosen by subscribers pratchatpodcast.com
2024-05-25 Pratchat “Eeek Club 2024” Topics chosen by subscribers pratchatpodcast.com

External links

Footnotes

  1. See this tweet from 25th of May, 2020.