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Gnomic Explorations and Musings, or the GEM show, is concerned with language and memory and learning. It focuses on 19th and early 20th-century fiction written in English.It’s a place where you can hear those works read and discussed and explored. It’s also a place where you can hear thoughts about Life, the Universe and Everything; and quotes and refences of every description; and the reflections of a life-long reader, writer, and lover of language.The GEM show aims to entertain and inform. It aims to make the present more understandable by doing the same for the past. It aims to make ...

On the first, second, and third Friday of every month, it’s Tales From the Drum—the Mended Drum, that is. We also bring you three-minute long mini-episodes, cleverly entitled Pratchips (like potato chips, see?) every Monday-Thursday. All of these are (usually) about the places, spaces, races, and other words that end in aces of the Discworld, that pizza-shaped place (but no anchovies) that rides through space on the backs of the massive elephants Tubul, Berilia, Jerakeen and Great T’Phon, which themselves stand atop the 10,000 mile-long world Turtle, A’Tuin. (According to the dwarfs, ...