Hello lovely gentlefolk,

This has probably been mentioned in another thread but as I should be furiously researching for my dissertation and not searching through the multiple tangents in all the threads (as much as it is normally a happy pastime for me...) just thought I'd let you know in here- according to this week's BBC comedy email:*

"Terry Prachett's Night Watch
NEW! Wednesday 27 February 23:00 Radio 4
Time-travelling comedy-adventure following Commander Sam Vimes, the old-fashioned copper from the Discworld novels."


...enjoy!











*This post was NOT sponsored by the BBC, honest!**







**Although I would do anything for them purely for commissioning Life on Mars...

Nooooooo!!!!! You Brits have all the fun!

Would it be online for non Brits later?


Been busy, have discovered a passion for archery and have been rescuing huntsman spiders from teenage girls.

If you can use BBC Radio Player then you can get it live, I would presume, or on the Listen Again for up to a week later.

Hmmm.... How to get this past the proxy without killing all my bandwidth....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

So, what did we think of 'Night Watch'?

It was a good book. :P

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<Quirked eyebrow, strangulated chuckle, small accident with wooden spoon, ouch!>

Sam Vimes is one of the best Discworld characters. Definitely a good read. (Just finished Making Money)

You guys are either really messing with me for asking an on-topic question about the radio show, or just totally unused to comments following on from previous ones.

Non sequitir!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/2008 12:07PM by EgonSpengler.

Did anyone actually get to listen to it?

Well, I did not hear it, so I can hardly comment. Be fair.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Nope, been too busy rescuing huntsman spiders (one was possibly a wolf spider).

Bib,

Why for you rescuing huntsman spiders?

We had one die of heat stroke/dehydration during the last heat wave (not this weeks) and the carcase sat on the front window sill (outside) for about three weeks.

Frustrated the sh*t out of the native wasps. Must have been their equivalent of the pub with no beer.

I read Nightwatch and enjoyed it, but with all stories that involve characters going into the past when it is not the first of a series one misses the obvious references in the earlier written stories that should appear. Anything to do with the History Monks one would appear as a reference in later stories.

But this is nitpicking. The Discworld series is still more consistent and of higher moral value than the Christian bible

I think that the point is that they are good enough not to be spotted doing their changes.

And it is set before the rest of the books.

I think that it might be (chronologically) the earliest book to involve Ankh Morpork.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

The Discworld does have some inconsistencies (did Brutha cross the desert a hundred years ago, or several centuries?) but they can all be explained by the complete explosion of history during Thief of Time. Quite a handy explanation, that!

Yep, quantum!

Cause the girls were scaring them with their screaming.
Who's more scared: The Spider or the Human?

My answer to the non-question of discworld vs bible = yes

I agree with Bunyip on that topic.

And the beauty is you can laugh at the Discworld and not risk eternal damnation - in fact you would probably risk it if you didn't laugh! Consistent enough, we get different versions of slightly overlapping bits of the same story - pure genius. I'll stop now I think I've gushed enough!

Ankh-Morpork features in Guards! Guards! the first of the Night Watch series.

>The Discworld series is still more consistent and of higher moral value than the Christian bible.

I dunno. Christianity has it's good points. And Discworld is indirectly responsible for the massacre of untold thousands of irritating Harry Potter fans who don't understand what publication dates mean.

Or will be when I've worked out the kinks in the Doomsday Device.