Pratchat Podcast
@PratchatPodcast
Join writer @ElizabethFlux and comedian @McKenzie_Ben on their six* year mission to discuss every Terry Pratchett book! A @SplendidChaps podcast. * ...ish.
The Patrician is missing! Can Liz, Ben or guest @Richard_H_McK seize control of the city? Or will it fall into…er…more chaos? We complete our collection of #Discworld #boardgames with Martin Wallace’s 2011 game, Discworld: Ankh-Morpork. #Pratchat87 pratchatpodcast.com/2025/07/08/pra…
Liz, Ben and Pratchett scholar Freyja Stokes head downriver to the Shires for an adventure with Vimeses, goblins, murderers, double meanings and a Wonderful Fanny. Listen to #Pratchat86, about #TerryPratchett’s last #Discworld Watch novel, Snuff! pratchatpodcast.com/2025/06/08/pra…
These are going to be really beautiful books. Today’s reveal is the wonderful endpaper art by @LJTolton Twelve fabulous images, front and back endpapers for each of the six Old Kingdom books.
Over 18 months in the making! Preorders are open and @garthnix is hand signing every copy (thank you Garth!).
As previously announced, no regular episode this month - but also no Eeek Club. See our little announcement episode for details; we’ll be back in June. Check out @MakeYeFretPod’s 25th of May episode, “Gender on the Discworld”: thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/2025/05/24/3-g… pratchatpodcast.com/2025/05/25/a-n…
Apologies listeners, but we’ve had to delay the release of our episode discussing Snuff, #Pratchat86. It’ll be out next month.
THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics later) 32auctions.com/organizations/…
Happy birthday to the one and only Sir Terry Pratchett, from slightly in the future in that place he liked to visit. Gone, but never forgotten; have a banana daiquiri (or Willikins-style virgin equivalent) in his memory. And happy #TerryPratchettDay to all his many, many fans.
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.
I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @GabrielleKent in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here. 32auctions.com/organizations/…
By stimulating specific receptor cells in the eyes with lasers pulses, scientists at Berkeley claim to have experienced a “blue-green” colour never seen before by humans, which they called… “Olo”. Octarine was right there, you fools! theguardian.com/science/2025/a…
A couple of our listeners, Jess and Ellie, host their own podcast: Gifted Kid, Messy Adult. They need some help with medical costs, and they’re almost at their goal! Please help them get there. gofund.me/fc70619c
Love and solidarity to all our trans, non-binary and genderqueer listeners, especially in the UK and US right now. May you draw strength and inspiration from Esk, Nobby*, Cheery, Trunkie, Gladys, Polly, Jackrum, Madame Sharn, Geoffrey and so many other characters. * Carefully.
In #Pratchat84, Liz and Ben stroll through the Ankh-Morpork Archives, two volumes collecting gags and lore from the old #Discworld Diaries. Plus: the Discworld Almanak, renowned across the Sto Plains, Lancre and beyond for very…practical reasons! pratchatpodcast.com/2025/04/08/pra…
Our siblings from another podcast are back, and this time they’re reading all kinds of things - starting, yes, with Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan. Check out this fab lineup of 2025 reads for @makeyefretpod!
Over 18 months in the making! Preorders are open and @garthnix is hand signing every copy (thank you Garth!).
Ben will freely admit he fell for this, but then as usual April Fools bits from around the world only tend to be seen the day after in Australia… Still, we’d listen! And the actual truth will make ye very pleased… (See next tweet.)
Over 18 months in the making! Preorders are open and @garthnix is hand signing every copy (thank you Garth!).
GNU Terry Pratchett. No-one is dead while their name is still spoken.
To mark 10 years since the death of Sir Terry Pratchett, Liz, Ben and returning guest Myfanwy Coghill discuss his 2010 Richard Dimbleby Lecture, “Shaking Hands with Death”. (Content warnings for death, terminal illness, assisted dying and suicide.) pratchatpodcast.com/2025/03/08/pra…
Listeners, our new episode, #Pratchat85, is coming today - just later in the day than usual. Stay tuned!