Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club


Latest Episodes

Decline by Committee (A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices)
January 07, 2023

In this final fourth part of our Thud! trilogy, Liz and Ben are rejoined by designer and educator Matt Roden. As we wait for the biscuits to arrive, we turn our attention to this months agenda items:

There's a Cow in There (Where's My Cow?)
December 07, 2022

In this very special episode, Liz and Ben are joined by fellow Discworld podcasters Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel on an existential journey deep into our very souls! Yes, it's part three of our Thu

What Terry Wrote (Thud!)
December 04, 2022

Designer and educator Matt Roden delves deep under Ankh-Morpork with Liz and Ben as they unravel the mystery of the penultimate City Watch book, 2005's Thud!. As the anniversary of the Battle of Ko

The Troll's Gambit (Thud the board game)
November 07, 2022

Things are a bit hectic in Pratchat land this month, so to fill a gap in our schedule while Liz was unavailable, Ben has joined forces with guest academic and professional board game nerd Dr Melissa R

Eyes Turnwise (60th episode special)
October 07, 2022

For our sixtieth episode - our troll's teeth anniversary - Liz and Ben are once again devoting an entire show to answering your questions, about the Discworld, Pratchett's other work, and their own -

Charlie and the Whale Factory (The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch)
September 07, 2022

Scientist, writer and editor Dr Kat Day joins Liz and Ben on a timey-wimey to Roundworld, as the wizards once again try to save humanity in Pratchett's third collaboration with Ian Stewart and Jack C

Get Your Dad to Mars! (The Long Mars)
August 25, 2022

We prepare to find out why infinite Earths aren't enough as writer, editor and podcaster Joel Martinreturns to the podcast to fire up the fusion engine and have a close encounter of the crustacean ki

#Pratchat58 – The Barbarian Switch
August 07, 2022

We explore every author's worst nightmare as writer Penny Lovereturns to Pratchat and finds the barrier between reality and fiction getting all wibbly-wobbly in Terry Pratchett's 1988 short story, "F

#Pratchat57West5 – Daniel Superbaboon
July 07, 2022

We take a last-minute step (or five) to the West, as Liz and Ben delay their chat about The Long Mars to go back to where it all began: Pratchett's original 1986 short story"The High Meggas". Larr

#Pratchat56 – do { Podcast(); } while (unreadPratchetts > 0);
June 07, 2022

We travel down a leg of a very 1990s pair of the trousers of time this month, as author and musican Sean Williamsjoins Liz and Ben to get stuck into the artificial reality of Pratchett's 1990 short s