Pratchat

23/10/2025

Our next episode, , is recording this weekend - and we’re discussing the 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!

14/10/2025

Join us (finally) for a new episode as Brendan Barnett chats with Ben* about how one man can draw so many wizards, witches, dragons, guards, goblins and other denizen of the Disc, as we discuss Paul Kidby’s Designing Terry Pratchett’s !

* Liz will be back next month!

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2025/10/15/pratchat88-theyre-all-good-dragons-bront/

07/10/2025

Listeners, we have recorded , discussing Paul Kidby’s book Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and it is coming out this month! But after several setbacks and problems, it will not come out today. We’re hoping it will be later this week. Thanks for bearing with us.

07/09/2025

Hey listeners - we apologise but there’s no episode this month. Ben will publish a brief explainer to keep folks in the loop, but in short, it’s been a challenging month for a small podcast team. We’re really hoping to get back to normal in October.

08/08/2025

Our planned August episode, , was cursed (we should have used ). Here’s a bonus episode in which Ben browses his bookshelf to mention a few Discworld and other Pratchett books that won’t get their own episodes!

07/07/2025

The Patrician is missing! Can Liz, Ben or guest Richard McKenzie seize control of the city? Or will it all fall into chaos?*

Join us as we complete our collection of by discussing Martin Wallace’s 2011 game, Discworld: Ankh-Morpork.

* All right - uncontrolled chaos.

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2025/07/08/pratchat87-exclusive-possession-ankh-morpork-edition/

24/06/2025

We’re recording our next episode, , in a couple of days! We’ll be discussing the 2011 board game Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, designed by Martin Wallace!

Send your questions in now about this game, or - since this episode will complete the set - the Discworld boardgames in general!

(Ben’s been too busy to set up a photo, so here’s a link to the page for the game on BoardGameGeek.)

Control the comic fantasy city peopled by iconic characters menaced by wizard magic.

08/06/2025

Liz, Ben and guest Pratchett scholar Freyja Stokes head downriver to the Shires for an adventure featuring Vimeses, goblins, murderers, double meanings...and one Wonderful F***y.

Join us as we discuss ’s last Watch-focused novel, 2011’s S***f.

07/05/2025

Apologies listeners, but we’ve had to delay the release of our episode discussing S***f, . It’ll be out next month.

28/04/2025

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 to all his many, many fans.

26/04/2025

It’s almost time to record , our chat about the 39th novel, S***F! Get your questions in ASAP by commenting below.

20/04/2025

Our love and solidarity goes out 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.