Daily Space, the blog of Thunder Child SF & Fantasy Webzine, has the scoop on next week’s BBC7 programming. It’s a “Terry Pratchett Week”…
April 28 – May 1 will be Terry Pratchett week at BBC Radio 7
I am very pleased to report that BBC Radio 7 will be having a Terry Pratchett tribute, for his 60th birthday, coming up the week of April 28-May 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/drama/pratchett.shtml
The more so because I will finally be able to hear the dramatisation of my all-time favorite Pratchett book, Small Gods, and starring a favorite actor of mine – Patrick Barlow, as the Great God Om. (Indeed, see my blog for him, The Patrick Barlow Experience – still under construction.)
Three years ago the Great God Om decided to pay a visit to his believers and do a little smiting, but when he materialized on Earth he was not a gigantic, ravening bull as he expected, but a small, one-eyed tortoise. He comes to learn that in all the great land of Om, crushed under the heels – and racks and pincers – of the Inquisition, the only person who still truly believes in him – is a young man named Brutha.
This was first broadcast about 3 years ago, and I missed it, and I have yearned to hear it ever since.
[I have to admit I’m a bit apprehensive about it. Adaptions are really a hit and miss affair. I’m sure I’ll enjoy Barlow’s performance but I hope they do justice to this – my favorite Pratchett book.)
Also to be broadcast is an adaption of Mort (one of my least favorite Pratchett’s – I’ll skip this one) and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – an excellent adaption which I’d listen to if I hadn’t already recorded it.
Also, Philip Pickard will read Truckers, an excellent Young Adult book written by Pratchett, the first in a trilogy.
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 8:00
Posted by Jesse Willis
The latest “On The Ropes” (which is a show that interviews successful people who have weathered storms in their careers) features a conversation with Terry Pratchett! Prachett talks about his early career as well as his recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. It isn’t not specifically about his literary output, but it should be of interest to those who follow his best selling books.
On The Ropes
