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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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2:11:42

A Finite Number of Shakespeares (The Science of...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/09/07

Science comedian and public health nerd Alanta Colley joins Liz and Ben on their second trip through Discworld into Roundworld. It's Terry Pratchett's second collaboration with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen: 2002's The Science of Discworld II: The Globe. While on a team-building exercise in the woods near Unseen University, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully and his faculty are accidentally swept along when something makes its way through the Discworld into Roundworld. That something turns out to be

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2:29:23

The Helen Green Preservation Society (The Long War)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/08/07

Writer and editor Deanne Sheldon-Collins joins Liz and Ben as they return to the infinite worlds of the Long Earth to discuss Terry Pratchett's second collaboration with Stephen Baxter: 2013's The Long War. In the ten years since anti-stepping extremists nuked his home town of Madison on the original “Datum” Earth, natural stepper and explorer Joshua Valienté has settled down. He’s husband to pioneer Helen Green and mayor of Hell-Knows-Where, a thriving town established more than a million steps

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Twice as Alive (live special; Men at Arms)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/07/24

With the ei- the twice-fourth Australian Discworld Convention postponed until next year, Liz and Ben fired up their crystal balls to project themselves live for the one-day online event, Nullus Anxietas: The Lost Con! In this special one-hour mini-episode, we revisit the very first Terry Pratchett book discussed on the podcast: the fifteenth Discworld novel, 1993's Men at Arms! You can of course listen to #Pratchat1 again if you like, though we've included a few important excerpts in this revisit

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1:19:46

Hogswatch in Grune ("Twenty Pence, with Envelope and...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/07/07

Surprise! In the great Australian tradition of Christmas in July, Liz and Ben are joined by writer and literary horror fan Penelope Love to discuss Terry Pratchett's short story “Twenty Pence, With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting”, first published on the 16th of December, 1987. It's Christmas Eve, 1843, and the driver of a missing Mail Coach is discovered lying in the snow in Wiltshire. A local doctor determines he is scared out of his wits, but nonetheless records the coachman's horrifying tale

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A Short Announcement re: The Long War

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/06/19

For the second time - and coincidentally for another of the books in The Long Earth series - we've made a change in our schedule! Our next book will still be The Long War, as announced in #Pratchat44, but we're postponing that until August. Our forty-fifth episode, #Pratchat45, will instead discuss Pratchett's 1987 short story, "Twenty Pence, With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting". Listen or read on for more information; and we've included a short (silly) out-take from an old episode as a little thank

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2:18:37

Cosmic Turtle Soup (The Light Fantastic)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/06/07

We've waited two-and-a-half years for its 35th anniversary, but finally Joel Martin rejoins Liz and Ben to resolve the Disc's first (and most literal) cliffhanger in The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett's second Discworld novel, first published on the 2nd of June, 1986. When we last saw them, failed wizard Rincewind, Twoflower the tourist and Twoflower's magical Luggage - a living chest on legs - had fallen over the Rim of the Discworld. But instead of being lost in space, they mysteriously land

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1:39:27

Eeek Club 2021 (subscriber questions)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/05/24

Welcome to a new tradition: the Pratchat Eeek Club! Each year, on the Glorious 25th of May, we will release a bonus episode discussing Terry Pratchett-related topics selected by our Eeek tier subscribers. This year, the topics are: How would Ankh-Morpork deal with COVID-19? What would happen if Granny Weatherwax was head of Unseen University - or if Angua commanded the Watch? Are golems alive? (For that matter, is fire alive?) How has Pratchett and/or the Discworld informed our

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2:19:18

Big Wee Hag: Far Fra' Home (A Hat Full of Sky)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/05/07

Poet and writer Sally Evans joins Liz and Ben as they rejoin Tiffany Aching for a trip up into the mountains to meet the next generation of witches in A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett's 32nd Discworld novel, first published in 2004. Note that while this episode discusses a book for younger readers, it does contain swearing and we discuss concepts only appearing metaphorically in the book, including puberty and (briefly) masturbation. Parents may wish to listen first before listening with their

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2:29:47

Truth, the Printing Press and Every -ing (The Truth)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/04/07

Author, editor and journalist Stephanie Convery returns to Pratchat as newspapers and conspiracy hit Ankh-Morpork in the same week! It's The Truth, Terry Pratchett's 25th Discworld novel, first published in 2000. William de Worde has made a reasonable living writing a monthly newsletter for notables, keeping them informed of goings on in Ankh-Morpork. But when he's nearly run over by Gunilla Goodmountain's new movable type printing press, he begins producing a different kind of “paper of news” -

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2:29:46

The Adventures of Crab Boy and Trouser Girl (Nation)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/03/07

Educator Dr Charlotte Pezaro joins Liz and Ben on a trip to the South Pelagic, where they find tsunamis, gods and science in Nation, Terry Pratchett's standalone young adult novel from 2008. Mau is returning from his rite of passage when a huge wave washes over his island Nation, killing everyone he has ever known. He is all alone, stuck without a soul between the states of boy and man. Lost in his despair and anger at the gods he now isn't sure he believes in, he's ready to give in to the dark

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2:29:06

The King and the Hole of the King (The Fifth Elephant)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/02/07

Comedian Richard McKenzie returns to get a bit gothic as he, Liz and Ben head to Überwald to discuss The Fifth Elephant in the room...by which we mean the twenty-fourth Discworld novel, published in 1999. As Ankh-Morpork and its neighbours embrace modern semaphore technology, trouble is brewing among the dwarfs. A new Low King is soon to be crowned in Überwald - and not everyone is happy with the choice. The Patrician selects just the right “diplomat” for the job: the Duke of Ankh, Sir Samuel

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1:32:19

All the Fun of the...Fish? ("The Sea and Little Fishes")

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2021/01/07

We're kicking off the Year of the Beleaguered Badger with something a little different: an international guest, and a short story! Unofficial Terry Pratchett biographer Marc Burrows joins us from the UK to discuss the third Discworld short story: 1998's The Sea and Little Fishes! Without much else but the carefully applied annoyances of Nanny Ogg to occupy her time, Granny Weatherwax is ready to win the annual Witch Trial - just as she does every year. But Lettice Earwig, self-appointed leader of

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2:24:42

Moisten to Steal (Going Postal)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/12/07

Writers, comedians, magicians and con-men experts Nicholas J Johnson and Lawrence Leung join us as we meet the distressingly named Moist von Lipwig in his 2004 debut, Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal! Con-man Moist von Lipwig (aka Albert Spangler) thinks he's come to the end of the line when he's hanged by order of Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. But while the world believes him hanged, the city's tyrant has actually saved him for something bigger: he wants Moist to

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2:07:35

The Shopping Trolley Problem (Johnny and the Bomb)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/11/07

Author Will Kostakis returns to face time travel, unexploded bombs and a tangle of timelines in Terry Pratchett's final Johnny Maxwell book from 1996, Johnny and the Bomb! When Johnny and his misfit friends look after homeless eccentric Mrs Tachyon's shopping trolley, they soon discover she has a complicated relationship with time. Johnny, Yo-less, Wobbler, Bigmac and Kirsty travel back to World War II, on the eve of the "Blackbury Blitz". Johnny knows bombs are meant to destroy Paradise Street -

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2:24:50

Home Alone, But Vampires (Carpe Jugulum)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/10/07

Star of the stage Gillian Cosgriff joins Liz and Ben to cower in fear before that most horrifying of beasts: the magpie! Yes, it's time for Terry Pratchett's twenty-third Discworld novel, 1998's Carpe Jugulum. The new princess of Lancre has been officially named! But all has not gone well: new priest Mightily Oats took Queen Magrat's notes on the naming a little too literally. King Verence has been a little too liberal with which nobility he invited. And most worryingly of all, Granny Weatherwax

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2:02:00

Great Balls of Physics (The Science of Discworld)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/09/07

Liz, Ben and science communicator Anna Ahveninen have the weird sensation of being a specimen in a jar as they discuss Terry Pratchett’s 1999 collaboration with biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart, The Science of Discworld. Research wizard Ponder Stibbons splits the magical equivalent of the atom, but the experiment fills Unseen University with dangerous raw magic. To use it up, sentient thinking machine Hex initiates “the Roundworld Project” - the creation of a reality devoid of

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2:06:27

Only You Can Save Deadkind (Johnny and the Dead)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/08/07

Liz and Ben (who had microphone issues this episode) introduce children's author Oliver Phommavanh to the world of Terry Pratchett with Johnny Maxwell's return, in 1993's Johnny and the Dead. Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell is enduring Phase Three of the Trying Times between his parents, which involves living with his Mum at his Grandad's place. His shortcut home from school takes him through an old rundown cemetery, where he knocks on a tomb door - and discovers he can see dead people. As Johnny

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1:54:56

Cat, Rats and Two Meddling Kids (The Amazing Maurice...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/07/07

Liz, Ben and writer Michelle Law go on a surprisingly dark ride in Terry Pratchett's skewed take on the Pied Piper, 2001's Discworld for Younger Readers book, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. Everyone knows that the best way to get rid of rats is to pay the Piper - even Maurice, and he's a talking cat. So when he met a Clan of similarly smart talking rats, all he needed was a stupid-looking kid who could play and he had the makings of the perfect con... At least, until the rats (and

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2:19:47

Meet the Feegles (The Wee Free Men)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/06/07

Liz, Ben and librarian Meaghan Dew come down from the mountains to a land of sheep, chalk and tiny blue warriors, and meet the youngest witch ever, in Terry Pratchett's 2003 Discworld for Younger Readers book, The Wee Free Men. Nine-year-old farm girl Tiffany Aching lives on The Chalk, a lowland area famous for its sheep and...er...sheep products. It's not famous for attacks from mythical river monsters, so when one turns up she lures it with her brother as bait and hits it over the head with a

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2:17:33

It's Just a Step to the West (The Long Earth)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/05/07

In episode 31, Liz, Ben and returning guest Joel Martin step sideways into the infinite earths of Terry Pratchett's 2012 collaboration with Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth. In 2015, plans for a strange but simple box-shaped device called a “Stepper”, powered by a potato, are posted online. Kids all over the world build them and discover that the boxes let them step “East” or “West” into other Earths. There are thousands of such worlds - perhaps millions - all subtly different. But they do have one

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