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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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1:59:12

Looking Widdershins (30th episode special; listener...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/04/07

For our thirtieth episode, Liz and Ben take a break from reading books and instead read your comments and questions, looking back on both Terry Pratchett's work and their own. Which one of Dibbler's schemes would you fall for? What's your least favourite Discworld novel? Are there any good Pratchett-inspired games? What line would you quote to sum up Pratchett's style of humour? We want to hear your answers to all the questions you asked us! Use the hashtag #Pratchat30 on social media to join the

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A Thirtieth Announcement

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/03/25

We've made a change in our schedule! Our next book will indeed be The Long Earth, as announced last episode, but we'll be postponing that to May. Our thirtieth episode, #Pratchat30, will instead feature Liz and Ben answering your broader Pratchett questions. Listen or read on for more information. If you're new to Pratchett, this is your chance to ask how or why to get into his work, and of course to invite the inevitable argu- er, discussion about where to start. If you're new to Pratchat,

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2:21:43

Great Rimward Land (The Last Continent)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/03/07

In episode 29, Liz, Ben and guest Fury join Rincewind on a journey to a strangely familiar land in Terry Pratchett's 1992 loving Discworld parody of Australia, The Last Continent. (A quick content note: this one has more swearing than usual, but we bleeped the c-bombs out.) The Librarian of Unseen University, long ago turned into an orang utan, is suffering from a magical illness. Archchancellor Ridcully and his faculty could help him - if only they knew his original human name. Unfortunately the

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2:02:01

All Our Base Are Belong to You (Only You Can Save...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/02/07

In episode 28, players Liz, Ben and guest Steve Lamattina press start and blast away at Terry Pratchett's 1992 novel of kids, war and videogames, Only You Can Save Mankind. Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell isn't the best at computer games, but he loves them all the same. While playing Only You Can Save Mankind, a space combat simulator, he's taken by surprise when the Captain of the enemy ScreeWee fleet offers to surrender. After he accepts, the game starts to invade his dreams, and the aliens

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2:05:29

Leshp Miserablés (Jingo)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2020/01/07

In episode 27, Liz and Ben are joined by guest writer and psychologist-in-training Craig Hildebrand-Burke to discuss Terry Pratchett's depressingly relevant yet uplifting 1997 Discworld novel of war and prejudice, Jingo. In the middle of the Circle Sea, halfway between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch, the ancient and slightly eldritch island of Leshp has risen from the waves. Of course both nations want to claim it as their own, what with the other nation being filthy foreign devils, and almost

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2:10:39

The Long Dark Mr Teatime of the Soul (Hogfather)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/12/07

In episode 26, Michael Williams of The Wheeler Centre joins Liz and Ben to get into the holiday spirit with Terry Pratchett’s very Christmassy 1996 Discworld novel Hogfather. It's Hogswatch, and the Assassins Guild of Ankh-Morpork has accepted a very unusual assignment, and Lord Downey has given it to the very unusual assassin Mr Teatime. But who would want to kill the Hogfather? And how would you even accomplish such a thing? As Death fills in for the Fat Man delivering presents, his

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Bonus Episode – The Pratchatters’ Guide to the Night...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/11/18

Have a surprise bonus mini-episode of Pratchat! We've mentioned Night Terrace a few times, but not gone into too much detail. So, outside of our usual schedule, Liz asks Ben all about this time travel radio comedy series from Splendid Chaps Productions. What's it about? Who are the main characters? How would they fit into the Discworld? You'll also get a bit of behind the scenes info and hear some excerpts from the first two seasons. If it sounds good to you, hop on over to the Night Terrace

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2:07:31

Eskist Attitudes (Equal Rites)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/11/07

In episode 25, Elizabeth, Ben and Noongar writer and poet Claire G. Coleman go back to the early days of the Discworld to Granny Weatherwax's debut in Terry Pratchett’s 1986 novel, Equal Rites. Drum Billet, wizard, travels to the village of Bad Ass high in the Ramtop mountains, where at the moment of his death he hands over his wizard's staff to the newborn eighth son of an eighth son. But Eskarina Smith isn't the eighth son of anyone, and it falls to the witch Granny Weatherwax to watch over

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2:14:58

Arsenic and Old Clays (Feet of Clay)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/10/07

In episode 24, meteorologist Nate Byrne joins Elizabeth and Ben for a Discworld tale of murder, golems and nobility in Terry Pratchett’s 1996 novel Feet of Clay. Two old men have been murdered in Ankh-Morpork, but they're not the worst of Commander Vimes’ woes. His best Sergeant is six weeks from retirement; his worst Corporal might be the Earl of Ankh; his newest recruit is an alchemist with some pretty strange ideas for a dwarf; and someone has poisoned the Patrician, though he's damned if he

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2:18:45

The Music of the Nitt (Maskerade)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/09/07

For episode 23, Elizabeth and Ben are joined by opera singer Myf Coghill on a trip to Ankh-Morpork's opera house in Terry Pratchett's 1994 Discworld novel of witches, phantoms and experimental cookery: Maskerade! Nanny Ogg's coven with Granny Weatherwax is short a witch. She decides young Agnes Nitt - last seen dabbling in the craft while wearing black lace and calling herself “Perdita” - is just the person to fill the position. But Agnes has run off to Ankh-Morpork and joined the opera, where a

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1:16:40

The Cat in the Prat (The Unadulterated Cat)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/08/07

Episode 22 - released, by pure coincidence, on International Cat Day - features Elizabeth, Ben and resident Pratcat Asimov for a look at one of Terry Pratchett’s oddest books: 1989's humorous examination of all things feline, The Unadulterated Cat. Cats these days just aren't a patch on the ones you used to get: aloof, untameable outdoor beasts who are more likely to trap you in a neighbours’ house with a broken leg (long story) than to sit nicely on your lap and purr. The Campaign for Real Cats

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2:01:18

Memoirs of Agatea (Interesting Times)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/07/07

Twenty-one today! In this episode, Elizabeth and Ben are joined by David Ryding of Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature as we rejoin Rincewind and some of his old friends in Terry Pratchett’s 17th Discworld novel: 1994's Interesting Times. Rincewind, the worst student Unseen University ever had, has quite literally been to hell and back. But when a summons arrives in Ankh-Morpork requesting the presence of “the Great Wizzard”, his old faculty bring him home, then send him to the far-flung Agatean

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1:29:49

A Troll New World ("Troll Bridge")

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/06/22

Back in April, Liz and Ben attended the seventh bi-annual Australian Discworld Convention, Nullus Anxietas VII! They enlisted fellow convention guest (and friend of the podcast), author Tansy Rayner Roberts, to discuss Terry Pratchett's first Discworld short story: 1991's “Troll Bridge”! Cohen the Barbarian has led a long life, but his greatest glories and biggest adventures seem far behind him. It's time to tick a few items off his bucket list - starting with facing a troll in one-on-one combat

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1:58:09

The Thing Beneath My Wings (Wings)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/06/07

For our twentieth episode we finish our first Pratchett series! Elizabeth and Ben are joined by writer Dr Lili Wilkinson to discover the final fate of Masklin, Angalo, Gurder and the rest of the Nomes in Terry Pratchett’s 1990 conclusion to the Bromeliad: Wings! (If you need to catch up, you can find Truckers in #Pratchat9, and Diggers in #Pratchat13.) When Masklin arrived in the Store, he learned that the Thing - an ancient artefact handed down for thousands of generations - wasn't just a

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2:14:40

It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got Rocks In (Soul...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/05/07

In our nineteenth episode it's back to the Discworld as we join Death, and meet his granddaughter Susan, as writer and illustrator Fury joins us to talk about Terry Pratchett’s 1994 Discworld novel, Soul Music! Susan Sto Helit doesn’t have time for anything silly – not for grief, not for tiny skeletal rats who are here to inform her of SQUEAK, and most definitely not for this new craze sweeping the Disc. But “music with rocks in” has other ideas, and doesn’t care who gets swept up in the swell

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1:38:37

Sundog Gazillionaire (The Dark Side of the Sun)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/04/07

For episode eighteen we go back to Terry Pratchett's science fiction beginnings as - in the evening between the two days of the 2019 Speculate festival - author Will Kostakis joins us to talk about Pratchett’s standalone 1976 novel, The Dark Side of the Sun! Dom Sabalos is about to become Chairman of the planet Widdershins when he is messily assassinated. Well...mostly. When he survives against all odds, he discovers his death had been predicted using probability math. The same science also

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2:04:15

Midsummer (Elf) Murders (Lords and Ladies)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/03/07

In our seventeenth episode we join everyone's favourite dysfunctional coven - and guest, writer Nadia Bailey - as we return to Lancre for Terry Pratchett’s 1992 Discworld novel, Lords and Ladies! The Lancre coven have returned from their trip abroad, but despite the impending royal wedding of Magrat and King Verence, all is not well in the Ramtops: it's circle time, when the walls between worlds are thin, and in the witches' absence someone has been toying with powers beyond their understanding

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2:10:07

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Vorbis (Small Gods)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/02/07

Episode twice-the-number-which-must-not-be-spoken (i.e. sixteen) takes us inside the Church of Om for a story of faith, religion and truth as we're joined by the Reverend Doctor Avril Hannah-Jones to discuss Terry Pratchett’s 1992 Discworld novel, Small Gods! Brutha is a lowly novice in the Omnian Citadel, dismissed by his superiors as a simpleton whose only notable talent is an extraordinary memory. He's the last person expecting to hear the Voice of the Great God Om, though Brutha has his

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2:10:08

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And We Feel...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2019/01/07

We kick off the Year of the Incontrovertible Skunk with our fifteenth episode, heading not to the Discworld at all, but to Earth, 1990! Two guests - academic Jen Beckett and writer Amy Gray - join us as to tackle a book written by two authors: Good Omens, written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman! The time has come for Armageddon: the End of Days, the Final Battle between Good and Evil. Which comes as rather a shock to the demon Crowley and angel Aziraphale, who've been more or less friends for

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2:23:41

City-State Lampoon's Disc-wide Vacation (The Colour...

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club ·

2018/12/07

In episode fourteen we celebrate 35 years of the Discworld by going all the way back to the beginning! Writer and podcaster Joel Martin joins us for a bumper A’Tuin-sized discussion of the very first Discworld story, adventure, chronicle, tale...Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic, published in 1983! Rincewind, a wizard unable to cast spells, makes a living of sorts in the mighty city of Ankh-Morpork through his gift for languages. But his gift gets him more than he bargains for when he becomes

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