Pratchat

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.

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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.

07/04/2025

Our new episode is out today! Liz and Ben take a stroll through the Ankh-Morpork Archives, which republish the content from the beloved (but well out of print) Discworld Diaries. Plus we sample the wisdom of the Celebrated Discworld Almanak, renowned across the Sto Plains, Lancre and beyond for various very practical reasons!

11/03/2025

GNU Terry Pratchett.

No-one is dead while their name is still spoken.

08/03/2025

To mark ten years since the death of Sir , Liz, Ben and returning guest Myfanwy Coghill discuss his 2010 Richard Dimbleby Lecture, “Shaking Hands with Death”.

Note that this episode contains discussion of death, terminal illness, assisted dying and su***de.

01/03/2025

Liz is in Adelaide for some arts journalism, and who should she run into in the audience at Hedwig and the Angry Inch but Marc Burrows?

Marc’s in town doing his one-man show “The Magic of Terry Pratchett” at the Adelaide Fringe until 4 March 2025, so get a ticket quick if you want to see him!

22/02/2025

We’ve good news and bad news: the bad news is we’ve had to delay our episode about The Ankh-Morpork Archives and The Discworld Almanak again, so we’ll be bringing it to you in April. (It’s still gonna be though!) The good news is that it’s time to send us your questions about “Shaking Hands with Death”, which will be our March episode as planned. So please do that ASAP using the hashtag (or just by replying in the comments below).