Wyrd Sisters
Oi, Discworld fans! Should you not have already been aware, BBC 7 is broadcasting all four half-hour episodes of the 1995 radio adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters this week. Thanks to the magic of the internet, you can listen to - or even download - the episodes from the BBC 7 website; start here for the first episode. You need RealPlayer to listen to the programs. Yeah, they’ve been available on torrent sites for quite some time, but if you don’t want to get involved in all that, this is a good opportunity to hear them.
Wyrd Sisters holds a special place in my heart, as the first Discworld book I ever managed to track down. Way back in the dark, pre-internet days of 19-something, it was extraordinarily hard to find copies of any of the Discworld books here in the States, and after a good year of looking, I managed to find a copy of Wyrd Sisters for two bucks at a Saint Paul used-book store. It wasn’t until I got home that I discovered someone had scribbled all over the title page with a pen; “To Emma and Will” it read, “with thanks for a lovely time in Minneapolis”, above a pair of large scrawls, one beginning with a “T”, the second with a “P”…
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