{"id":264,"date":"2004-11-09T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2004-11-09T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T12:57:38","slug":"pratchett-book-to-be-a-musical-radio-play-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2004\/11\/pratchett-book-to-be-a-musical-radio-play-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett Book to be a Musical; radio play available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got turned on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrypratchettbooks.com\/\">Terry Pratchett<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrypratchettbooks.com\/discworld\/\">DiscWorld series<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/cyberlaw.stanford.edu\/blogs\/archives\/002704.shtml\">David Price<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hailpoetry.org\/\">Lauren Holmes<\/a> and their incessant quoting of him in their AIM away messages.  I started reading the series last spring, and have thoroughly enjoyed them .  Anyway, thought the following post from Boing Boing was therefore of interest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/11\/08\/pratchetts_only_you_.html\">Pratchett&#8217;s &#8220;Only You Can Save Mankind&#8221;: the musical &#8211; UPDATED<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Cory Doctorow<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTerry Pratchett&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060541857\/downandoutint-20\">Only You Can Save Mankind<\/a> is a charming and fine young adult novel about a kid who discovers that the Space Invaders he chases onscreen are a distant fleet who are being massacred by his hand. Like all Pratchett, it is funny as anything, and like all of Pratchett&#8217;s YA novels, it&#8217;s eminently suitable for grownups as well.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe book has been adapted for the stage and will run this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Pratchett says, &#8220;If I&#8217;d known it was going to be so good I&#8217;d have written a better book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/domain633798.sites.fasthosts.com\/text_version.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Thanks, Lynn!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\n<font color=\"red\">Update<\/font>: Philip sez, &#8220;It&#8217;s currently being broadcast as a 3-part radio play on BBC 7 and can be found beginning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbc7\/listenagain\/monday\/\">here<\/a> until next Monday (15th Nov).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got turned on to Terry Pratchett&#8216;s DiscWorld series by David Price and Lauren Holmes and their incessant quoting of him in their AIM away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-4g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}