Radio Play

[Terry Pratchett]

Read my typing. I've got the whole world at my fingertips, yes, but between
said world and said fingertips is a length of wet string. I'd known for some
time that Radio Five were going to do it 'at some time'. Last week I got a
tape of episode 1 and a letter telling me for the first time when it was
going out. That night I put messages on a.f.p. and the Pratchett conference
on CIX. But the flow between CIX and the net can be between a few hours and
48 hours, and as far as I can see my message took about that long to turn up
(in fact, you got the info via CIXen who have _direct_ net access ahead of my
message, I think).

Please understand this: I communicate with you via another service - mail
seems quite fast, but conference messages can lag. This is not a
satisfactory state of affairs, I agree, but it will continue until I've got
the time and more importantly can find a helpful fellow creature who can
guide me through the intricacies of setting up something more direct.

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

Terry

[Olav Kolbu]

Well, it was less than a wet string between BBC Radio 5 and snowy Oslo
today. But somehow, I managed to listen to the whole play, only occationally
cut off completely. Not much to say about the play really, everything
more or less straight out of the book, with some strange Hitchhikeresque
sound effects (or was that just bad reception...?) The only brilliant
part was the accent used by the cast members. LOVE Carrots Welsh(?)!

Any plans on releasing the whole series on tape/CD?

Olav (still haven't read L&L) Kolbu

[Rich Holmes]

In article <memo....@cix.compulink.co.uk> tprat...@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

Oh no you won't. Your fans won't allow it.

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- Rich Holmes
"In general, the dance music of P.D.Q. Bach -- although we have no
documentary evidence of this -- suggests that one of his legs was
shorter than the other." -- Prof. Peter Schickele

[Andrew Cannon]

In article <memo....@cix.compulink.co.uk> tprat...@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.
>
>Terry

Nah, our signed copies will be worth something then.

Heh, heh, I've always wanted to say that.

OB Something else

My favourite character has just changed to Greebo. (after reading Witches
Abroad) What a dude !

We now return you to your regular old crap.

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[Laura Johnson]

tprat...@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>
> One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.
>
> Terry

But when that day comes, we Americans will still have six "new" books
left to read, over the following three years, and then we will laugh.

(uhh, Terry, I'm not making fun of your death, really, I'm, I'm...oh bugger,
you started it.)

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[JBU...@estec.bitnet]

OUCH !!! - Only having a little dig. A.F.P can be a bit like the net
version of 'The Good Life' (remember that). Sorry if I appeared a little
sharp, I didn't intend to. It's all too easy to take a communications
network as large as ours for granted. A 2 second response time from the
states seems irritating until you actually think about what is actually
going on.

Wet string - interesting concept, no wonder it's slow. Does the string
being wet increase the baud rate?

I heard the show + atmospherics + an annoying German radio station & I
quite enjoyed what I heard. I cannot understand the BBC hosting the show
on Radio 5. Past experience with other shows should have at least given
it a Radio 4 slot. Never mind, maybe next time ...

Maybe you could set up your own FTP site under the stairs, or in the
garage with a small digital exchange. Trouble is, you'd spend more
time administrating the system than writing books, & that wouldn't be
a satisfactory situation at all.

When you die, I wonder if DEATH will throw in a little something extra
as a sign of appreciation for the recognition given in your novels.

Well done in getting Neil Kinnock to play Carrot - excellent piece of
casting. Wondered what he'd been doing since he quit the labour party.

Can't wait for next weeks episode

Spike
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[eaob...@vax1.tcd.ie]

In article <92330.125...@ESTEC.BITNET>, JBU...@ESTEC.BITNET writes:

>
> When you die, I wonder if DEATH will throw in a little something extra
> as a sign of appreciation for the recognition given in your novels.
>

Hmmm....

Scene : About 50 years from now. Terry hunched up over keyboard
revising 94th DW novel..

EXCUSE ME, MR. PRATCHETT..
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE GOOD PRESS.. (Pause)
I KNOW IT'S IRREGULAR, BUT IF I GAVE YOU ANOTHER FIFTY YEARS,
WOULD YOU DO ANOTHER ONE ABOUT ME, PLEASE ??

-- Emmet ( :-))

[Fox]

Terry Pratchett (tprat...@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
> Last week I got a tape of episode 1 and a letter telling me for the
> first time when it was going out.

Question: Was the tape you recieved in stereo? If it was then this is
a good indication (I think) that the series may be released
on a commercial format. Or on failing that, may get broadcast
eventually on one of the FM stations.

>
> One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.
>

Prove it.

Mike
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