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Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club

Splendid Chaps Productions

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Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 122

Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie on their six(ish) year mission to read every Terry Pratchett novel – not just the Discworld ones! They’ll read one a month, and discuss them with special guests, puns and footnotes. Episodes released on the 8th of each month (Australian time); check pratchatpodcast.com and the end of each episode for notice of the next book, and send in questions to us via social media! The explicit tag represents a fairly average Australian level of coarse language.

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Cover Stamps (Discworld covers, Going Postal recap)

Season 1

samedi 7 septembre 2024 • Duration 15:16

Our Making Money episode is delayed, so here’s a brief discussion of Ben’s favourite Discworld book covers, and a recap of the previous Moist von Lipwig book, Going Postal.

Unalive from Überwald (“Death and What Comes Next")

Season 1 · Episode 79

mercredi 7 août 2024 • Duration 01:28:10

What’s got four legs, exists in a state of uncertainty, and probably contains quantum? The deathbed of a philosopher - though not for long, if a certain anthropomorphic personification has his way... Tansy Rayner Roberts and Karen J Carlisle join us live for this very special episode recorded live or dead (you’ll have to open the podcast to find out) at Nullus Anxietas IX in Adelaide, all about stories, Death and Terry Pratchett's final Death story, 2002’s “Death and What Comes Next”.

...And That Spells Trouble (Guards! Guards! board game)

Season 1 · Episode 75

mercredi 7 février 2024 • Duration 01:36:30

Dr Melissa Rogerson returns and joins Liz and Ben in a game of squabbling guilds, missing spells and the terrifying pitter patter of hundreds of tiny feet... It’s time to play the revised 2012 edition of Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw’s Guards! Guards! A Discworld Board Game, based on the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett.

Hogswitch (with Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent)

Season 1 · Episode 74

dimanche 7 janvier 2024 • Duration 01:19:59

Hogswatch isn’t just for Christmas - it’s also for new year’s eve! Which is also over. But we recorded this a while ago, and anyway this is a very special HogsWITCH, because Liz and Ben skip discussing a Terry Pratchett book to instead interview none other than the authors of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch: Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent!

This Christmas Goes to Eleven (Father Christmas’ Fake Beard)

Season 1 · Episode 73

jeudi 7 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:42:51

On the eighth of December Pratchat gave to me: Eleven season's stories, Four silly Santas, Two carol chronicles, No special guests, And a full Prod-Ye-A'Diddle Oh! Join Liz and Ben as they unwrap Terry Pratchett’s 2017 short story collection, Father Christmas' Fake Beard.

How Did Discworld Get to 40? (40th Anniversary Special)

Season 1

jeudi 23 novembre 2023 • Duration 42:52

How and why did a weird comic novel, originally published in an edition of 500 from a relatively unknown author, kick off one of the most beloved and long-running fantasy series of all time? Ben McKenzie investigates - well, speculates really - in this special episode looking at why Terry Pratchett's Discworld has endured so long, with contributions from Discworld luminaries, podcasters and fans.

The Masked Dancer (“Turntables of the Night")

Season 1 · Episode 72

mardi 7 novembre 2023 • Duration 01:45:11

John has had a rough night: he's narrowly escaped an explosion, his mobile disco business is up in flames, and his best mate Wayne has vanished. But that's nothing - wait until you hear who he met on the dancefloor... DJ and comedian Andrew McClelland joins us to discuss Terry Pratchett's 1989 short story, "Turntables of the Night"!

It Belongs in a University (The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day)

Season 1 · Episode 71

samedi 7 octobre 2023 • Duration 02:14:44

A priest, a wizard and a librarian walk into a courtroom… It sure sounds like a setup for a joke! But the Church of the Latter-Day Omnians aren’t laughing. They see Unseen University’s Roundworld as blasphemously infringing their intellectual property, i.e. the belief that the Disc is round. Complicating matters is the unexpected arrival of Marjorie Daw, Roundworld librarian, who has definite opinions about this sort of thing - as do the authors of the book itself… Liz and Ben are joined by the Reverend Dr Avril Hannah-Jones, and science educator Dr Charlotte Pezaro, for one last visit to the universe in a bottle that seems eerily familiar. It’s our discussion of Terry Pratchett’s final collaboration with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, 2013’s The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day.

Punching Up (“Theatre of Cruelty")

Season 1 · Episode 70

jeudi 7 septembre 2023 • Duration 01:50:23

It’s a funny old life, the theatre...though less funny when you find yourself dead in an alley in Ankh-Morpork in mysterious circumstances. Or rather, when the Watch finds you. But never fear - Carrot is on the case! Author Caimh McDonnell (aka C. K. McDonnell) joins us to talk about Terry Pratchett’s 1993 Discworld short story, “Theatre of Cruelty”.

Discus Ex Machina (Strata)

Season 1 · Episode 69

lundi 7 août 2023 • Duration 02:22:18

It’s the Disc, Kin, but not as we know it! There’s a giant turtle, but no giant elephants. There’s a Broken Drum, but it’s in a space station. And there’s something wrong with the sky - but that’s partly our fault, we crashed our spaceship into it... EJ Mann joins Liz and Ben to talk all about Terry Pratchett’s third novel, 1981’s Strata.