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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.
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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…
A black and white photo of a desk with a monitor, retro keyboard, mouse and large mug, cluttered with other bits of computer equipment in the background. On the screen is a scene from the Discworld computer game showing Rincewind the wizard and his Luggage (a treasure chest with dozens of tiny legs) in a city square with Dibbler (a vendor with a tray around his neck). Propped between the keyboard and monitor is the manual for the game.
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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!
A photograph of the instruction manual for the Discworld computer game, sitting on a keyboard surrounded by various bits of computer gear. The cover of the manual shows the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms illustrated by Stephen Player, featuring two hippos and a morpork owl.
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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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.
A photo of a hand holding a copy of the hardcover Collector’s Library edition of Snuff by Terry Pratchett. The cover shows a drawing of a country mansion on a blue background in the top half, and a cave in darkness in the bottom half. In the cave a man dressed as a country squire has his back to us, while silhouettes of goblins with glowing eyes look at him and the viewer.
April 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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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!
A selfie-style photograph of Elizabeth Flux and Marc Burrows smiling at the camera under purplish light, in front of a purple wall displaying the yellow logo of the musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”.
March 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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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.
A photo of the standalone Corgi paperback printing of “Shaking Hands with Death”, sitting on a bookshelf filled with other Pratchett books. It’s a small white book whose cover has hand-drawn black horizontal lines. In the centre of the cover is a white rectangle containing the author’s name and the title of the book, separated by an illustration of Pratchett’s iconic black fedora hat.
February 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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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!
A photo of two shelves on a bookshelf of Terry Pratchett books. On the top shelf are the large, square blue book “The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume I” and the smaller “The Discworld Almanak”; on the lower shelf are a blue plush dragon and the large, square red book “The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume II”.
January 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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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
A photo of a hand holding a copy of the Collector’s Library edition of Unseen Academicals in front of a decorated Christmas tree. The cover depicts a group of wizards and assorted fantasy characters reaching up with hands (and one foot) for a spherical football.
December 23, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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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.)
A photo of a grey and white cat sitting by a window, leaning over a paperback copy of Terry Pratchett’s Making Money. The cat’s nose is just touching the the top of the book.
September 7, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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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.
A photo of a grey and white cat looking over the top of a paperback copy of Making Money, held in the lap of the photographer. The current page includes the beginning of an interview between Moist von Lipwig and Sacharissa Cripslock.
September 1, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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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
A photo of the Collector’s Library edition of the book Making Money. A hand holds it in front of a bookshelf filled with other Terry Pratchett books. The cover of the book is green and features a stylised illustration of a smiling man in a golden suit and top hat, surrounded by bank notes falling from the sky.
August 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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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...
A black and white photo of a hand holding a copy of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Cosmos in front of a bookshelf. The first four books in the series, and many others by Pratchett, can be seen on the shelf behind. Text at the bottom in purple reads: #Pratchat78 - out now!
July 7, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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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
A photo of the book The Long Cosmos on a bookshelf. It’s on the right, cover facing us, next to the first four in the Long Earth series, spines out. Other Terry Pratchett books are also visible, including Good Omens, A Stroke of the Pen and the original edition of The Carpet People.
June 16, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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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!
A photo of part of the first page of the story “The Hades Business” in a copy of A Blink of the Screen. The title and publication details are visible, as well as the start of Pratchett’s notes, which begin: “Argh, argh, argh... if I put my fingers in my ears and go ‘lalalala’ loudly I won't hear you read this story.”
May 28, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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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?
A photo of a bookshelf filled with Terry Pratchett novels in various editions, so full some books lie on their side on top of the others. A friendly green dragon statue with a long neck sits at the left end the middle shelf.
April 26, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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In case you missed it yesterday, our new episode discussing Monstrous Regiment with Freya Daly Sadgrove is out now!

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A black and white photo of a hand holding a paperback copy of Terry Pratchett’s novel “Monstrous Regiment” in front of a bookshelf full of other Pratchett books. The cover art is a riff on the famous WW2 photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”, but the soldiers are in Napoleonic war-era uniforms, one of them is a huge rocky troll, and the flag is a pair of bloomers representing a white flag of truce.
April 8, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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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...
A screenshot of an old forum post by a user named “Terry Pratchett” with a Biggles-style airman avatar. The post is a response which gives the full “Rincewind would like to announce that he is gay” quote mentioned in our previous thread.
March 15, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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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.
A photo of a hand holding a paperback copy of the novel Monstrous Regiment in front of a bookshelf. The book is titled so you can see the hundreds of small plastic flags sticking out from the pages. The bookshelf behind is full of Discworld books and a small statue of a friendly, sleepy looking dragon.
March 4, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Last reminder for questions about Monstrous Regiment for #Pratchat76! We record at the end of February.
Photo of a hand holding a copy of the paperback book Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett in front of a bookcase. Dozens of brightly coloured plastic tags stick out of the pages of the book along its right side; and the top of a bookmark with a cartoon dragon pokes up out of the top.
February 24, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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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.
A photo of the Guards! Guards! Board game laid out on a table. In the middle is a square board of hexagonal squares, an abstract map of Ankh-Morpork, with piles of cards in each corner. There are several decks of cards and in front three player boards with red wooden cubes on three tracks, each board accompanied by cardboard tokens. At the back is the box and rulebook, the covers of which show the same illustration of several Discworld characters running through the night carrying a mote of light.
January 21, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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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
A photo of the book Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, held open in front of a bookshelf filled with Discworld books. The title page is visible, signed by both authors in coloured inks.
December 12, 2023 at 2:59 AM
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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.
A photo of the deluxe hardcover edition of Father Christmas’s Fake Beard by Terry Pratchett, held in front of a bookshelf full of other Terry Pratchett books.
November 30, 2023 at 11:17 AM
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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!
A photograph of a hand holding a book in front of a bookshelf. The book is titled “The Flying Sorcerers” and the cover includes the text: “More Comic Tales of Fantasy Terry Pratchett • Roald Dahl and many others Edited by Peter Haining” The cover illustration shows a skeleton dressed in an Elvis Presley style high-collared jumpsuit, but in black, towering over two figures in a room with a disco ball.
October 25, 2023 at 1:28 AM
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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.
A photo of a hand holding a copy of the book “The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day” in front of a bookshelf. The red cover of the book depicts a wizard and a priest glaring intently at each other while both holding the Earth in their hands. The bookshelf in the background is full of other Terry Pratchett books.
September 5, 2023 at 7:00 AM