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Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie on their six* year mission to discuss every Terry Pratchett book! A Splendid Chaps Productions podcast.
https://pratchatpodcast.com

* ...ish.
In case you missed it yesterday: #Pratchat89 is out now!

Join Liz, Ben and @pcgamer.com’s Jody Macgregor as we discuss the very reasonable and logical 1995 graphic adventure game #Discworld.

Find us wherever you get your podcasts to hear all about this tale of donkeys, octopuses and custard…
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Our next episode, #Pratchat89, is recording this weekend - and we’re discussing the #Discworld point and click adventure game from 1995! Ben may have lost the box and the disc but he still has his original manual… If you have questions, get them in ASAP!
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It’s almost time to record #Pratchat86, our chat about the 39th #Discworld novel, SNUFF!

Get your questions in ASAP; the best way is usually to reply here or on other social media.
April 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Liz is in Adelaide for some arts journalism, and who should she run into in the audience at Hedwig and the Angry Inch but @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk?

Marc’s doing his show “The Magic of #TerryPratchett” at the #AdelaideFringe until 4 March 2025, so get a ticket quick if you want to see him!
March 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We’ve had to delay #Pratchat84, our episode about The Ankh-Morpork Archives and The Discworld Almanak again, to April.

But #Pratchat85, about “Shaking Hands with Death”, will be our March episode as planned.

Send us your questions about the speech or Pratchett’s thoughts on death.
February 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
In our next episode, #Pratchat84, we’re discussing some collected #Discworld ephemera: the Ankh-Morpork Archives, which reprint material from the old Discworld Diaries, and the Discworld Almanack.

Got questions about what’s inside? Send ‘em along ASAP - we record in a few days!
January 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Our next episode is about a #Discworld book!

We’ll be recording a discussion with @tansyrr.bsky.social in the Hogswatch period between Christmas and the New Year about #TerryPratchett’s Unseen Academicals.

Get your questions in now! #Pratchat83
December 23, 2024 at 10:18 PM
The scheduling gremlins have unfortunately gotten right into things, which means our Making Money episode will be released next month. Thanks for your patience and questions – we're excited to share this one. #Pratchat80

(Here’s one of the Pratcats right after reading *that* Mr Fusspot scene.)
September 7, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Unfortunately scheduling issues have delayed our recording of #Pratchat80, so it will have to come out later in the month than usual.

Ben is working on a mini-episode to fill the gap, but in the meantime please enjoy this photo of pratcat Asimov reading along with Liz.
September 1, 2024 at 12:32 AM
In our next episode, #Pratchat80, we’ll be discussing the return of Moist von Lipwig in #TerryPratchett’s thirty-sixth #Discworld novel, Making Money!

Get your questions in by replying to this post, using this episode’s hashtag, or sending us an email.

#bookstodon #podcast #books #bookclub
August 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
JOIN US…for a last hurrah in the #LongEarth with Joel Martin and Deanne Sheldon-Collins.

Catch up with a recap of the first four books in #PratchatPreviously2: pratchatpodcast.com/2024/07/08/p...

Then listen to our discussion of THE LONG COSMOS in #Pratchat78: pratchatpodcast.com/2024/07/08/p...
July 7, 2024 at 10:38 PM
In our next episode, #Pratchat78, Joel
Martin and Deanne Sheldon-Collins join us for the end of the journey in The Long Cosmos!

Get your questions in this week - we record next Saturday!

#TerryPratchett #StephenBaxter #TheLongEarth #books
June 16, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Our next episode is #Pratchat77 and we’re going back to the beginning!

We’ll be discussing #TerryPratchett’s very first published fiction, the short story “The Hades Business”, with guest Lucas Testro.

Get your questions in now - we record this weekend!
May 28, 2024 at 10:49 PM
The scheduling gremlins have got us again -  we’ve had to delay our previously announced short story episode.

But we are embracing the chaos: our May episode will now be all about this year’s #TerryPratchettDay theme: “Start in the Wrong Place!”

So tell us: where did you start?
April 26, 2024 at 1:48 AM
In case you missed it yesterday, our new episode discussing Monstrous Regiment with Freya Daly Sadgrove is out now!

pratchatpodcast.com/2024/04/08/p...
April 8, 2024 at 10:13 PM
While we stand by our thread, it turns out this quoteone might be legit after all; there is a post from “Terry Pratchett” on the old Discworld Emporium forums from 2007 saying this, in a thread titled “Harry Potter Revelation”. Thanks to BrickMorpork!

forum.discworldemporium.com/viewtopic.ph...
March 15, 2024 at 11:37 PM
There’s so much going on in Monstrous Regiment that we’re afraid our episode about it just won’t be ready by the 8th of March!

Ben is preparing a little something extra to tide you over, but look for #Pratchat76 with guest Freya Daly Sadgrove later in the month.
March 4, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Last reminder for questions about Monstrous Regiment for #Pratchat76! We record at the end of February.
February 24, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Our next episode, #Pratchat75, is all about the 2012* Discworld board game Guards! Guards! from Backspindle Games. We’re recording on the 27th of January so get your questions in by then!

* We’ll be playing the revised 2012 edition of the game.
January 21, 2024 at 7:35 AM
In case you missed the news, we have two very special guests for our January episode - @rhi.bsky.social and @gabriellekent.bsky.social, authors of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch!

We’d love to ask your questions in this special interview, but hurry: we need them by December 15. #Pratchat74
December 12, 2023 at 2:59 AM
We’ve been a bit lax in reminding folks, but our December episode, #Pratchat73, will be discussing the early Terry Pratchett stories in Father Christmas’s Fake Beard! Get your questions in ASAP, as we’ll be recording on the weekend.
November 30, 2023 at 11:17 AM
For #Pratchat72 we’ll discuss Terry Pratchett’s 1989 short story “Turntables of the Night” with DJ and comedian Andy McClelland!

It’s in A Blink of the Screen - or vintage anthology The Flying Sorcerers, whose cover features the Josh Kirby art for the story.

Get your questions in this week!
October 25, 2023 at 1:28 AM
This is your slightly earlier than usual heads up that our October episode, #Pratchat71, will be about The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day!

We’ll be recording with two special guests around the 25th of September, so get your questions in soon.
September 5, 2023 at 7:00 AM