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Desert Island Discworld

Aug 30, 2020

Comedian, writer and broadcaster Alice Fraser visits the island to talk about comedy as a marathon, accepting destiny on your own terms, and the 15th Discworld novel, Men at Arms.

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Aug 23, 2020

Empire magazine Editor-at-Large Helen O'Hara visits the island to talk about the forgotten women of Hollywood, the future of cinema in a Netflix world, and the tenth Discworld novel, Moving Pictures.

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Aug 16, 2020

Writer and critic Claire Napier joins us on the island to talk about the intersections between art and criticism, the quality of "naffness" in fantasy fiction and the sixteenth Discworld novel, Soul Music.

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Aug 9, 2020

Multimedia writer and editor Andrew Wheeler visits the island to talk about the queering of superheroes, the art of narrative design in mobile gaming, what exactly constitutes a "peri-peri lion" and the eighteenth Discworld novel, Maskerade.

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Aug 2, 2020

Season three kicks off in style as comedian Tiernan Douieb joins us on the island to talk about finding humour in a scary world, why kids make such good comedy audiences, and the fourth Discworld novel, Mort.

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