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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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1:59:22

Decline by Committee (“A Collegiate Casting-Out of...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2023/01/07

In this final fourth part of our Thud! trilogy, Liz and Ben are rejoined by designer and educator Matt Roden. As we wait for the biscuits to arrive, we turn our attention to this month’s agenda items: the 2005 Discworld short story “A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices”, and squeezing in a bit more discussion of Thud! Every Thursday the senior faculty of Unseen University have a committee meeting, during which they do very little except wait for the biscuits and tea to arrive - much to

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1:38:43

There's a Cow in There (Where's My Cow?)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/12/07

In this very special episode, Liz and Ben are joined by fellow Discworld podcasters Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel on an existential journey deep into our very souls! Yes, it's part three of our Thud!-related trilogy, in which we discuss Where's My Cow? Every night at six o'clock, Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, reads the picture book Where's My Cow? to his one-year-old son, Young Sam. But tonight, in between doing the barnyard noises, Vimes starts to question whether this is really the

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2:26:22

What Terry Wrote (Thud!)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/12/05

Designer and educator Matt Roden delves deep under Ankh-Morpork with Liz and Ben as they unravel the mystery of the penultimate City Watch book, 2005's Thud!. As the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley approaches, the dwarfs and trolls of Ankh-Morpork find their ancient enmity stirred up - not least by Hamcrusher, a conservative leader of the "Deep Down" dwarfs, who has preached hatred against the trolls. But now Hamcrusher's dead - not that the other deep downers want the Watch to know

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1:07:32

The Troll's Gambit (Thud the board game)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/11/07

Things are a bit hectic in Pratchat land this month, so to fill a gap in our schedule while Liz was unavailable, Ben has joined forces with guest academic and professional board game nerd Dr Melissa Rogerson to play and discuss Thud, the game that inspired the novel of the same name! Have you played Thud? Have you ever won as the dwarfs? Is it true that the trolls have an advantage? Are you a Thudmaster with insight to share about standard openings and endgames? We'd love to hear your Thud

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2:34:47

Eyes Turnwise (60th episode special - listener...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/10/07

For our sixtieth episode - our troll's teeth anniversary - Liz and Ben are once again devoting an entire show to answering your questions, about the Discworld, Pratchett's other work, and their own - with an eye on what's still to come. (And yes, we allowed ourselves to break the 2.5 hour limit, just this once.) What would your ideal Pratchett adaptation look like? Who's the best Dicsworld villain? If one of your possessions could be made from sapient pearwood, what would it be? Which books have

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2:20:18

Charlie and the Whale Factory (The Science of...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/09/07

Scientist, writer and editor Dr Kat Day joins Liz and Ben on a timey-wimey to Roundworld, as the wizards once again try to save humanity in Terry Pratchett's third collaboration with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen: 2005's The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch. Roundworld - the impossibly non-magical universe in a bottle which runs on rules - has gone wrong again, and the wizards feel duty-bound to set it right. Humanity's survival depends on the publication of a specific book, but something

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2:29:58

Get Your Dad to Mars! (The Long Mars)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/08/25

We prepare to find out why infinite Earths aren't enough as writer, editor and podcaster Joel Martin returns to the podcast to fire up the fusion engine and have a close encounter of the crustacean kind in the third Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Long Earth novel, The Long Mars. It's 2045 - five years after the eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano on Datum Earth. The climate has catastrophically changed and there's been mass migration to stepwise Earths. Maggie Kauffman, captain of the

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1:34:45

The Barbarian Switch (“Final Reward”)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/08/07

We explore every author's worst nightmare as writer Penny Love returns to Pratchat and finds the barrier between reality and fiction getting all wibbly-wobbly in Terry Pratchett's 1988 short story, "Final Reward". After a particularly bad row with his girlfriend Nicky - and a pint of wine - author Kevin Dogger decides to kill off the protagonist of his best-selling fantasy series. The next morning, Erdan the Barbarian appears on Dogger's doorstep with the milk. He was, after all, promised a final

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57:25

Daniel Superbaboon (“The High Meggas”)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/07/07

We take a last-minute step (or five) to the West, as Liz and Ben delay their chat about The Long Mars to go back to where it all began: Pratchett's original 1986 short story "The High Meggas". Larry Linsay, who perfected the belt technology that allows humans to move between parallel Earths, has shunned civilisation. He's living near the coast of what would be France in a world in the "high meggas", the weirder Earths a million or so removed from the original. Like all the other Earths, it's

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1:54:33

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Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/06/07

We travel down a leg of a very 1990s pair of the trousers of time this month, as author and musican Sean Williams joins Liz and Ben to get stuck into the artificial reality of Pratchett's 1990 short story "#ifdefDEBUG + 'world'/'enough' + 'time'". Darren Thompson is a repairman who specialises in Seagems: artificial reality consoles that can edit aspects of your everyday life, or plug you into a whole artificial world. His latest job is to inspect a machine in which the user has died. That's not

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1:41:58

Eeek Club 2022 (subscriber questions)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/05/25

It's a second instalment of the Pratchat Eeek Club! Each year, on the Glorious 25th of May, we release a bonus episode discussing Terry Pratchett-related topics selected by our “Eeek” tier subscribers. This year, the topics are: What was good, fun and enjoyable about The Watch? Is Vimes a Cynic, a Stoic, or an Epicurean? What was Granny Weatherwax and Ridcully's relationship like, and why didn't it continue? What pop culture would you have liked to have seen referenced in a Discworld

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2:20:15

Mr Doodle, the Man on the Moon (The Last Hero)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/05/08

It's an illustrated Discworld crossover special as Georgina Chadderton rejoins Liz and Ben to talk gods, dragons and outer space in the twenty-seventh Discworld novel, 2001's The Last Hero, illustrated by Paul Kidby. Genghiz Cohen, Emperor of the Agatean Empire, has deserted his throne, and along with his horde is heading for the mountain at the hub of the world. He is planning to pay a little visit on the gods, and "return what the first hero stole" - with explosive interest. According to the

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2:29:37

The Land Before Vimes (Night Watch)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/04/07

The Trousers of Time end up in a knot as writer Nadia Bailey rejoins Liz and Ben and we go back to the Glorious Past in the twenty-ninth Discworld novel, 2002's Night Watch. While pursuing dangerous killer Carcer across the rooftop of Unseen University, a magical bolt of lightning (or something) sends Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch and Duke of Ankh, thirty years into the past - along with his quarry. Carcer kills Vimes' old mentor, Sergeant John Keel, and Vimes steps into Keel's

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1:14:46

A (Very) Few Words by Hner Ner Hner (Discworld...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/03/07

Surprise! In an emergency substitution, Liz and Ben get a glimpse of everyday life in Ankh-Morpork as they dive into three very small bits of Discworld ephemera collected in A Blink of the Screen. The Ankh-Morpork National Anthem captures the experience of those forced to sing patriotic songs everywhere - but even the single complete verse tells us quite a lot about the character of the city. Meanwhile the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Barber-Surgeons have put together a few Medical Notes to keep the

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2:18:13

A Near-Watch Experience (BBC America's The Watch)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/02/07

This month, we've put down the books and picked up the remote control! Guests Patrick Lenton and Fury join us to discuss a show "based on characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett": 2021's The Watch. Sam Vimes was a street kid in Ankh-Morpork who joined the Watch to kill its Captain and free the imprisoned members of his gang. But he had a change of heart. Twenty years later, he's still there - a washed-up drunk of a Captain, whose force of misfits have almost nothing to police since the criminal

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2:10:14

Boffoing the Winter Slayer (Wintersmith)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2022/01/07

Welcome to the Year of the Lachrymating Leveret! Bestselling sci-fi and fantasy author Garth Nix joins Liz and Ben up in the Ramtops, where Tiffany Aching dances a forbidden dance and gets into more trouble in the thirty-fifth Discworld novel, 2006's Wintersmith. Two years after her first Witch Trial, Tiffany Aching is nearly a teenager and two months into her stint with her latest mentor - terrifying Miss Treason, the 113-year-old deaf and blind justice witch. In the dead of night Miss Treason

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2:08:40

Oggswatch Feast 2021 (Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook recipes)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/12/24

Ho ho ho, Merry Hogswatch! To celebrate the festive season, and our own fiftieth episode, we've brought together a bunch of guests of Hogswatch Past, Present and Future - including the hosts no fewer than three other Discworld podcasts - for a special feast of additional recipes from Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. Be warned: this podcast contains bananana! Got comments on our efforts - or want to share your own? Do you want us to do this again next year? Please, join the conversation using the hashtag

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1:40:20

Salt Rat Arsenic Heat (Nanny Ogg's Cookbook)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/12/07

Happy fiftieth episode to us! We're celebrating with the return of our very first guest, comedian and author Cal Wilson! Cal joins Liz and Ben in the kitchen to brave the recipes within the 1999 Discworld side project Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, co-authored by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs and Tina Hannan, with illustrations by Paul Kidby. After his latest books are forcibly withdrawn from sale, J H C Goatberger reluctantly decides to publish another manuscript sent to him by Nanny Ogg. He hires a

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1:45:22

Once More, With Future ("Once and Future")

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/11/07

Arts journalist, critic and broadcaster Richard Watts joins Liz and Ben on a trip sideways in time with reluctant wizard Mervin (with a V) in Terry Pratchett's 1995 short story “Once and Future”, originally published in the Arthurian collection Camelot. As he stands on the beach waiting for the right hopeful king to come along, professional time traveler Mervin recounts his story of how he became stranded in a sideways version of medieval Britain. Here the stories of Arthurian myth are more or

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2:27:34

Lu-Tze in the Sky with Lobsang (Thief of Time)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/10/07

Freelance writer and journalist Ben Riley joins Liz and Ben for a magical history tour as Susan Sto Helit teams up with a couple of monks to stop time...er...stopping in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel: 2001's Thief of Time. In Ankh-Morpork, a mystery woman tasks the odd but talented Jeremy Clockson to build a clock so accurate it can measure the tick of the Universe. In mountain monastery of Oi Dong, Lu-Tze, sweeper of the History Monks, gains a new apprentice: the unmotivated but

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