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Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club

Splendid Chaps Productions

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

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1:47:53

Don't Quarry Be Happy (Diggers)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2018/11/07

In episode thirteen, Marlee Jane Ward joins us to talk Terry Pratchett’s Diggers! Published in 1990, it picks up where Truckers left off, splitting the story of the Nomes in two. (You can catch up on Truckers in #Pratchat9, and join us for the end of the story in #Pratchat20.) The Nomes, having fled the destruction of the Store in a stolen lorry, have spent six months - something like five years in Nome time - making a new life in an abandoned quarry. But as humans start to take an interest in

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2:06:25

Brooms, Boats and Pumpkinmobiles (Witches Abroad)

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2018/10/07

For our twelfth episode we're joined by Jackie Tang discuss Terry Pratchett’s Witches Abroad! The twelfth Discworld novel, published in 1991, Witches Abroad is the second to star the Lancre witches, who return only two books later for Lords and Ladies. Witch Desiderata Hollow has died and passed on her fairy godmother wand to Magrat Garlick, the youngest of the Lancre witches, along with a note telling her to go to the distant kingdom of Genua to stop a servant girl from marrying a prince -

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1:59:47

At Bill's Door (Reaper Man)

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2018/09/07

For our eleventh episode we welcome Pratchett fan Sarah Pearson to the mic to discuss a Discworld novel of two halves: Reaper Man! The eleventh Discworld novel, published in 1991, Reaper Man is the second book to focus on Death and the newly stable faculty of Unseen University. The faceless bureaucrats of the multiverse have decided Death is sentimental and inefficient, and he's been fired! While he heads off to live among humans for his remaining time - until his replacement comes to claim him -

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1:56:53

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Broomstick (Moving Pictures)

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2018/08/07

For our tenth episode it's back to the Discworld - and Ankh-Morpork - as academic, writer and broadcaster Dr Dan Golding joins us for Terry Pratchett’s Moving Pictures. The tenth Discworld novel, Moving Pictures was published in Pratchett's most prolific year: Good Omens, Eric and both sequels to Truckers also came out in 1990! Student wizard Victor Tugelbend has been happily failing exams at Unseen University for years...but when alchemists suddenly invent "moving pictures", Victor finds himself

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1:49:47

Upscalator to Heaven (Truckers)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2018/07/07

For our ninth episode we leave the Discworld again as author Amie Kaufman joins us to discuss Terry Pratchett’s Truckers. One of four novels Pratchett published in 1989, it introduces the Nomes - Pratchett's second group of tiny folk living at the edges of the human-sized world. Masklin is the young hunter in a group of Nomes: four-inch tall fast-living people struggling to survive on rats and the scraps they can scavenge from the human world. After two Nomes are killed by a fox, Masklin

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1:58:46

The Curious Incident of the Dragon and the Night...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2018/06/07

In this, the next episode after our seventh one, writer, performer and librarian Aimee Nichols talks with us about the ninth-but-one Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! Published in 1989, it kicks off the longest-running and arguably most popular Discworld sequence: the adventures of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The Night Watch has seen better days: the Thieves' Guild has made them all but obsolete, and with the recent death of Herbert Gaskin, their company has dwindled to just

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1:54:07

All the Fingle Ladies (Eric)

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2018/05/07

In episode seven, comic book creator and illustrator Georgina Chadderton, aka George Rex, joins us to discuss Terry Pratchett’s ninth Discworld novel: Faust Eric! Published in 1990 - alongside four other novels, making it one of Pterry's most prolific years - it’s a shorter novel, originally published in a large format with lavish illustrations by Discworld cover artist Josh Kirby. (Also, fair warning to the pun-averse: Elizabeth really goes to town in this one...) Eric Thurslow is surprised to

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1:51:14

A Load of Old Tosh (Dodger)

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2018/04/07

In episode six, word nerd and crypto-cruciverbalist David "DA" Astle joins us to discuss our first non-Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett’s Dodger! Published in 2012, it's set in Victorian London and is heavily inspired by Charles Dickens and Punch magazine co-founder Henry Mayhew, author of London Labour and the London Poor - and both men appear as characters! In the first quarter of Queen Victoria's reign, a young woman falls from a carriage during a London storm, followed by two threatening men

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2:00:00

Ten Points to Viper House (Pyramids)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2018/03/07

In episode five, comedian Richard McKenzie joins us to discuss that rare beast, a Discworld tale that stars no wizards, witches, watches or Death, and isn't part of any of the ongoing storylines: Pyramids! Terry Pratchett’s seventh Discworld novel, published in 1989, it's chock-full of jokes, footnotes, gods and great characters - but we'll see almost none of them ever again... Pteppicymon XXVIII - Teppic for short - is heir to the throne of the ancient river kingdom of Djelibeybi. But the

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1:40:47

Enter Three Wytches (Wyrd Sisters)

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2018/02/07

In episode four, vaudevillian Elly Squires - aka Clara Cupcakes - joins us to discuss one of her first Discworld books, and the start of the witches series proper: Wyrd Sisters! Terry Pratchett’s sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988, it's the second book to feature Granny Weatherwax - but the first to introduce her fellow witches, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. Seasoned witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are adjusting to life in a coven with recently graduated apprentice Magrat Garlick

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1:32:03

You're a Wizzard, Rincewind (Sourcery)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2018/01/07

In episode three, comedian Cal Wilson is back to discuss the book that started her passion for Terry Pratchett - Sourcery! It’s the fifth Discworld novel, published in 1989, and both revisits locations and characters from the first two books and takes us to new parts of the Disc. Happy to have left his adventuring days behind him, inept “wizzard” Rincewind now works as assistant librarian at Unseen University, the Disc's premiere college for wizards. But just as a new archchancellor is about to

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1:33:48

Murdering a Curry (Mort)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2017/12/07

In our second episode, writer and editor Stephanie Convery joins us as we discuss the runner-up in our poll for which book to read first - Terry Pratchett’s Mort! Published 30 years ago, it's the fourth Discworld novel, and the first to put Death in a starring role. Mort (short for Mortimer), a daydreaming farmer’s son, is offered an apprenticeship by Death himself. Travelling outside of space and time to Death's home, he finds things aren't what he expects: Death has an elderly manservant, an

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1:27:12

Boots Theory (Men at Arms)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2017/11/07

In our first full-length episode, Elizabeth and Ben are joined by comedian Cal Wilson to discuss the winner of our poll - Terry Pratchett’s 1993 novel Men at Arms! The fifteenth Discworld novel, Men at Arms is the second to focus on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, following Guards! Guards! Samuel Vimes, Captain of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, is only a week away from marriage and retirement. So of course “ethnic tensions” between dwarfs and trolls are at boiling point, something explodes in the

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And the Winner is... (introduction to the show)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2017/10/07

Welcome to Pratchat! In this special 10-minute introductory episode, Liz and Ben talk about their first Pratchett experiences, introduce the Discworld, and put forward their cases for which book they should read first, Mort, or Men at Arms, before announcing the winner of the closely contested public poll. If you want to go in not knowing which one it will be, then don't look below! Okay, I think all the spoiler-concerned have looked away now... It was Men at Arms! So get yourself a copy

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What is Pratchat?

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2017/09/07

Pratchat is a Discworld and Terry Pratchett book club podcast! Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie each month as they discuss one of Terry Pratchett's books* or short stories with a special guest. There are laughs, Pratchett origin stories, listener questions and more as we do a recap and deep dive on each book. This podcast even has footnotes! Oh, and the show's from Australia, so expect a little swearing. Find out more at pratchatpodcast.com, or just search for

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