98 episodes
Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club Splendid Chaps Productions
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5.0 • 52 Ratings
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Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie on their six* year mission to read every Terry Pratchett novel**, one a month, and discuss them with special guests, puns, listener questions and footnotes! Plus we also cover short stories, nonfiction, games and adaptations. Episodes are released on the 7Ath of each month; the next book is listed at pratchatpodcast.com and announced at the end of each episode. Send in questions via Twitter or Facebook!
The explicit tag represents a fairly average Australian level of coarse language.
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** Not just the Discworld ones!
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One Step Beyond (The Long Cosmos)
We invite you to JOIN US for a great leap forward to 2070, and one final story of weird alternate evolution, sideways human cultures, another Big Dumb Object and yes, still, Joshua Valienté. Joel Martin and Deanne Sheldon-Collins take one step beyond with us into Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s final Long Earth novel, 2016’s The Long Cosmos.
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The Longer Footnote (recap of The Long Earth, The Long War, The Long Mars and The Long Utopia)
Ben provides a quick recap of the previous four Long Earth books just before we cover the finale with Joel and Deanne.
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How to Get Below in Advertising (“The Hades Business”)
Did a thirteen year old sell his soul to be published alongside Michael Moorock, Mervyn Peake and Harry Harrison? Or was just a genius? Lucas Testro joins us to find out as we travel back to 1963 for Terry Pratchett's first ever published story, "The Hades Business"!
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Eeek Club 2024 (subscriber questions)
May the fourth 25th be with you! Or something like that. Yes, it's our fourth annual discussion of topics chosen by our Eeek tier subscribers, in celebration of the Glorious 25th of May.
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Wrong in the Start Place (Terry Pratchett Day 2024)
In an emergency replacement episode, Ben flies solo...sort of! In honour of the Terry Pratchett Day theme for 2024, "Start in the Wrong Place", he's sharing listener's stories of how they started reading Pratchett in the "wrong" place.
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Real Men Don’t Drink...Decaf (Monstrous Regiment)
'Pon our souls, we are not a boastin' podcast, but we reckon this episode with Freya Daly Sadgrove discussing Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment is a First Blast of Discworld goodness! You are our little listeners, and we will look after you.
Customer Reviews
A pleasure to hang out
I love Pratchett books and love listening to chat about the books. I’ve tried a few similar podcasts and Pratchat is the one I keep coming back to. A pleasure to listen, a reminder to go back to books I’ve loved and an encouragement to try new ones. Thanks Ben and Liz.
Pull the other one, it has got puns on.
Pratchett changed my life when I was reading his books for the first time, and Pratchat is kind enough to bring all those good feelings back to me. Just fantastic discussions, a good, normally calm flow and guests with a great range of both life experiences and takes on Pratchett. Thank you Ben and Liz.
I was nervous….
But I’m happily proven wrong!!
I love Discworld, it’s a happy place for me, but I was hesitant of finding a podcast on it, as I didn’t want my love of the thing tarnished in any way.
Thankfully, Liz and Ben are a delight, and the guests they pull in bring joy.
It’s nice to have friends bouncing around merrily in this world we all love, even when we have differing opinions.
And, having just finished the Dodger ep, it’s encouraging me to read more outside of Discworld, and Good Omens.
A great way to pass an hour or so.