Pratchat
| Pratchat | |
|---|---|
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Elizabeth Flux & Ben McKenzie |
| Production | |
| Opening theme | Pratchat opening theme |
| Ending theme | Pratchat closing theme |
| Composed by | David Ashton |
| Audio format | mp3 |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 75 (so far) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 8 October 2017 – present |
| Cited for | Ditmar Award |
| Cited as | Best Fan Publication in Any Medium 2023 |
| Provider | Splendid Chaps Productions |
| Related shows | Splendid Chaps; Ook Club |
| Website | pratchatpodcast.com |
| Support page | Ko-Fi |
| @PratchatPodcast | |
Publisher Description
Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie on their six[1] year mission to read every Terry Pratchett novel[2], one a month, and discuss them with special guests, puns, listener questions and footnotes! Episodes are released on the 7Ath of each month (Australian Eastern time); 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.
Further Information
Format
- Most episodes begin with an excerpt from later in the discussion, played immediately before the theme music.
- After a scripted intro, Liz and Ben discuss their guest's history with Terry Pratchett before reading the book's blurb to get into the discussion proper.
- The bulk of each episode is a recap of the book's plot, branching into discussions about the content and style along the way.
- After reaching the end of the book, space is given to read any favourite quotes or footnotes before continuing on to discuss listener questions.
- During an episode, audio footnotes may appear adding extra context or jokes to the discussion.
- Bonus episodes are occasionally released, usually on the 25th of the month. If a main episode is delayed, there’ll usually be a mini bonus episode released to help fill the gap.
Trivia
- Regular monthly episodes of Pratchat are released on the 8th of the month at 8:08 AM, Australian Eastern Time, making it very unlucky for wizards.
- Bonus episodes are usually released on the Glorious 25th of the month, putting them halfway between regular monthly episodes.
- Though it didn't launch until November 2017, Pratchat was planned as early as October 2015, when the domain name and Twitter account for the podcast were created.
- Currently the second-longest running Pratchett podcast, after The Pratchett Podcast, which ran for nearly a full seven years.
Hosts
- Elizabeth Flux (she/her) - a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Co-host of nearly all episodes and a master of the pune, or play on words.
- Ben McKenzie (he/him) - a performer, writer and game designer based in Melbourne, Australia. Co-host for all episodes, occasionally solo host for bonus episodes, and also the editor and producer for the podcast. Notable for groaning at Liz's puns.
Episodes
The table below indexes episodes of this podcast. They are listed by default in release order, and use the podcast's own numbering scheme.
| # | Episode Title | Date | Book/Subject | Guest(s) | External links | S#[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | “And the Winner Is...” | 2017-10-08 | Introduction | “Hex” | Episode | |
| 1 | “Boots Theory” | 2017-11-08 | Men at Arms | Cal Wilson | Episode; Notes | 15 |
| 2 | “Murdering a Curry” | 2017-12-08 | Mort | Stephanie Convery | Episode; Notes | 4 |
| 3 | “You're a Wizzard, Rincewind” | 2018-01-08 | Sourcery | Cal Wilson | Episode; Notes | 5 |
| 4 | “Enter Three Wytches” | 2018-02-08 | Wyrd Sisters | Elly Squire | Episode; Notes | 6 |
| 5 | “Ten Points to Viper House” | 2018-03-08 | Pyramids | Richard McKenzie | Episode; Notes | 7 |
| 6 | “A Load of Old Tosh” | 2018-04-08 | Dodger | David Astle | Episode; Notes | |
| 7 | “All the Fingle Ladies” | 2018-05-08 | Eric | Georgina Chadderton | Episode; Notes | 9 |
| 7A | “The Curious Incident of the Dragon and the Night Watch” | 2018-06-08 | Guards! Guards! | Aimee Nichols | Episode; Notes | 8 |
| 9 | “Upscalator to Heaven” | 2018-07-08 | Truckers | Amie Kaufman | Episode; Notes | B1 |
| 10 | “We're Gonna Need a Bigger Broomstick” | 2018-08-08 | Moving Pictures | Dan Golding | Episode; Notes | 10 |
| 11 | “At Bill's Door” | 2018-09-08 | Reaper Man | Sarah Pearson | Episode; Notes | 11 |
| 12 | “Brooms, Boats and Pumpkinmobiles” | 2018-10-08 | Witches Abroad | Jackie Tang | Episode; Notes | 12 |
| 13 | “Don’t Quarry Be Happy” | 2018-11-08 | Diggers | Marlee Jane Ward | Episode; Notes | B2 |
| 14 | “City-State Lampoon’s Disc-wide Vacation” | 2018-12-08 | The Colour of Magic | Joel Martin | Episode; Notes | 1 |
| 15 | “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And We Feel Nice and Accurate)” | 2019-01-08 | Good Omens | Jennifer Beckett, Amy Gray | Episode; Notes | |
| 16 | “He Ain't Heavy, He's My Vorbis” | 2019-02-08 | Small Gods | Avril Hannah-Jones | Episode; Notes | 13 |
| 17 | “Midsummer (Elf) Murders” | 2019-03-08 | Lords and Ladies | Nadia Bailey | Episode; Notes | 14 |
| 18 | “Sundog Gazillionaire” | 2019-04-08 | The Dark Side of the Sun | Will Kostakis | Episode; Notes | |
| 19 | “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got Rocks In” | 2019-05-08 | Soul Music | Fury | Episode; Notes | 16 |
| 20 | “The Thing Beneath My Wings” | 2019-06-08 | Wings | Lili Wilkinson | Episode; Notes | B3 |
| - | “A Troll New World” | 2019-06-23 | “Troll Bridge” | Tansy Rayner-Roberts | Episode; Notes | |
| 21 | “Memoirs of Agatea” | 2019-07-08 | Interesting Times | David Ryding | Episode; Notes | 17 |
| 22 | “The Cat in the Prat” | 2019-08-08 | The Unadulterated Cat | Asimov (the cat) | Episode; Notes | |
| 23 | “The Music of the Nitt” | 2019-09-08 | Maskerade | Myf Coghill | Episode; Notes | 18 |
| 24 | “Arsenic and Old Clays” | 2019-10-08 | Feet of Clay | Nate Byrne | Episode; Notes | 19 |
| 25 | “Eskist Attitudes” | 2019-11-08 | Equal Rites | Claire Coleman | Episode; Notes | 3 |
| - | “A Pratchatter's Guide to the Night Terrace" | 2019-11-18 | Night Terrace | Episode | ||
| 26 | “The Long Dark Mr Teatime of the Soul” | 2019-12-08 | Hogfather | Michael Williams | Episode; Notes | 20 |
| 27 | “Leshp Miserablés” | 2020-01-08 | Jingo | Craig Hildebrand-Burke | Episode; Notes | 21 |
| 28 | “All Our Base Are Belong to You” | 2020-02-08 | Only You Can Save Mankind | Steve Lamattina | Episode; Notes | J1 |
| 29 | “Great Rimward Land” | 2020-03-08 | The Last Continent | Fury | Episode; Notes | 22 |
| 30 | “Looking Widdershins” | 2020-04-08 | Reflection | Episode; Notes | ||
| 31 | “It’s Just a Step to the West” | 2020-05-08 | The Long Earth | Joel Martin | Episode; Notes | L1 |
| 32 | “Meet the Feegles” | 2020-06-08 | The Wee Free Men | Meaghan Dew | Episode; Notes | 30 |
| 33 | “Cat, Rats and Two Meddling Kids” | 2020-07-08 | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | Michelle Law | Episode; Notes | 28 |
| 34 | “Only You Can Save Deadkind” | 2020-08-08 | Johnny and the Dead | Oliver Phommavanh | Episode; Notes | J2 |
| 35 | “Great Balls of Physics” | 2020-09-08 | The Science of Discworld | Anna Ahveninen | Episode; Notes | S1 |
| 36 | “Home Alone, But Vampires” | 2020-10-08 | Carpe Jugulum | Gillian Cosgriff | Episode; Notes | 23 |
| 37 | “The Shopping Trolley Problem” | 2020-11-08 | Johnny and the Bomb | Will Kostakis | Episode; Notes | J3 |
| 38 | “Moisten to Steal” | 2020-12-08 | Going Postal | Nicholas J Johnston & Lawrence Leung | Episode; Notes | 33 |
| 39 | “All the Fun of the...Fish?” | 2021-01-08 | “The Sea and Little Fishes” | Marc Burrows | Episode; Notes | |
| 40 | “The King and the Hole of the King” | 2021-02-08 | The Fifth Elephant | Richard McKenzie | Episode; Notes | 24 |
| 41 | “The Adventures of Crab Boy and Trouser Girl” | 2021-03-08 | Nation | Charlotte Pezaro | Episode; Notes | |
| 42 | “Truth, the Printing Press and Every -ing” | 2021-04-08 | The Truth | Stephanie Convery | Episode; Notes | 25 |
| 43 | “Wee Big Hag: Far Fra’ Home” | 2021-05-08 | A Hat Full of Sky | Sally Evans | Episode; Notes | 32 |
| - | “Eeek Club 2021” | 2021-05-25 | Glorious 25th special; topics chosen by subscribers | Episode; Notes | ||
| 44 | “Cosmic Turtle Soup” | 2021-06-08 | The Light Fantastic | Joel Martin | Episode; Notes | 2 |
| 45 | “Hogswatch in Grune” | 2021-07-08 | “Twenty Pence With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting” | Penelope Love | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “Twice as Alive” | 2021-07-25 | Men at Arms | Episode; Notes | 15 | |
| 46 | “The Helen Green Preservation Society” | 2021-08-08 | The Long War | Deanne Sheldon-Collins | Episode; Notes | L2 |
| 47 | “A Finite Number of Shakespeares” | 2021-09-08 | The Science of Discworld II: The Globe | Alanta Colley | Episode; Notes | S2 |
| 48 | “Lu-Tze in the Sky with Lobsang” | 2021-10-08 | Thief of Time | Ben Reilly | Episode; Notes | 26 |
| 49 | “Once More, With Future” | 2021-11-08 | “Once and Future” | Richard Watts | Episode; Notes | |
| 50 | “Salt Rat Arsenic Heat” | 2021-12-08 | Nanny Ogg's Cookbook | Cal Wilson | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “Oggswatch Feast 2021” | 2021-12-25 | Nanny Ogg's Cookbook | Elly Squire Liam Pieper Nadia Bailey Manning and Liz (Wyrd Sisters) Joanna and Francine (The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret) Aaron and Ana (The Compleat Discography) Anna Ahveninen |
Episode; Notes | |
| 51 | “Boffoing the Winter Slayer” | 2022-01-08 | Wintersmith | Garth Nix | Episode; Notes | 35 |
| 52 | “A Near-Watch Experience” | 2022-02-08 | The Watch | Patrick Lenton, Fury | Episode; Notes | |
| 53 | “A (Very) Few Words by Hner Ner Hner” | 2022-03-08 | "The Ankh-Morpork National Anthem" “Medical Notes” "A Few Words from Lord Havelock Vetinari" |
Episode; Notes | ||
| 54 | “The Land Before Vimes” | 2022-04-08 | Night Watch | Nadia Bailey | Episode; Notes | 29 |
| 55 | “Mr Doodle, the Man on the Moon” | 2022-05-08 | The Last Hero | Georgina Chadderton | Episode; Notes | 27 |
| - | “Eeek Club 2022” | 2022-05-25 | Glorious 25th special; topics chosen by subscribers | Episode; Notes | ||
| 56 | “do { Podcast(); } while (unreadPratchetts > 0);” | 2022-06-08 | “#ifdefDEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time'” | Sean Williams | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “Daniel Superbaboon” | 2022-07-08 | “The High Meggas” | Episode; Notes | L0[4] | |
| 58 | “The Barbarian Switch” | 2022-08-08 | “Final Reward” | Penelope Love | Episode; Notes | |
| 57 | “Get Your Dad to Mars!” | 2022-08-25 | The Long Mars | Joel Martin | Episode; Notes | L3 |
| 59 | “Charlie and the Whale Factory” | 2022-09-08 | The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch | Dr Kat Day | Episode; Notes | S3 |
| 60 | “Eyes Turnwise” | 2022-10-08 | Reflection | Episode; Notes | ||
| - | “The Troll's Gambit” | 2022-11-08 | Thud (the game) | Dr Melissa Rogerson | Episode; Notes | |
| 61 | “What Terry Wrote” | 2022-12-05[5] | Thud! | Matt Roden | Episode; Notes | 34 |
| 62 | “There's a Cow in There” | 2022-12-08 | Where's My Cow? | Joanna and Francine of The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | Episode; Notes | |
| 63 | “Decline by Committee” | 2023-01-08 | “A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices” and Thud! | Matt Roden | Episode; Notes | 34 |
| 64 | “GNOME Terry Pratchett“ | 2023-02-08 | “Rincemangle, the Gnome of Even Moor” | Andy Matthews | Episode; Notes | |
| 65 | “Let There Be Gaimans” | 2022-03-08 | From A Slip of the Keyboard: “Kevins” “Wyrd Ideas” “Notes From a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” “Let There Be Dragons” “Neil Gaiman: Amazing Master Conjuror” Neil Gaiman’s Foreword |
Peter M. Ball | Episode; Notes | |
| 66 | “Ol’ No Eyes Is Back” | 2023-04-08 | I Shall Wear Midnight | Amie Kaufman | Episode; Notes | 38 |
| 67 | “The Three-Elf Problem” | 2023-05-08 | The Witches board game | Steve Lamattina | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “Eeek Club 2023” | 2023-05-25 | Glorious 25th special; topics chosen by subscribers | Episode; Notes | ||
| - | “We’re on a Road to Elsewhere” | 2023-06-08 | News and Australian Convention interview | Danny Sag | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “The Long Footnote” | 2023-07-08 | Recap of The Long Earth, The Long War and The Long Mars | Episode | L1, L2, L3 | |
| 69 | “Long Fall Sally” | 2023-07-23 | The Long Utopia | Deanne Sheldon-Collins | Episode; Notes | L4 |
| 68 | “Discus Ex Machina”[6] | 2023-08-08 | Strata | E J Mann | Episode; Notes | |
| 70 | “Punching Up” | 2023-09-08 | “Theatre of Cruelty” | Caimh McDonnell | Episode; Notes | 14.5 |
| 71 | “It Belongs in a University” | 2023-10-08 | The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day | Avril Hannah-Jones, Charlotte Pezaro | Episode; Notes | S4 |
| 72 | “The Masked Dancer” | 2023-11-08 | “Turntables of the Night” | Andrew McClelland | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “How Did Discworld Get to 40?” | 2023-11-24 | The Colour of Magic and Discworld's 40th anniversary | Various[7] | Episode | 1 |
| 73 | “This Christmas Goes to Eleven” | 2023-12-08 | Father Christmas's Fake Beard | Episode; Notes | ||
| 74 | “Hogswitch” | 2024-01-08 | Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch | Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent | Episode; Notes | |
| 75 | “...And That Spells Trouble” | 2024-02-08 | Guards! Guards! (board game) | Dr Melissa Rogerson | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “A Monstrous Delay” | 2024-03-08 | Other Pratchett podcasts | Episode | ||
| - | “The First News Blast” | 2024-03-25 | Recent Pratchett news | Episode | ||
| 76 | “Real Men Don’t Drink...Decaf” | 2024-04-08 | Monstrous Regiment | Freya Daly Sadgrove | Episode; Notes | 31 |
| - | “Wrong in the Start Place” | 2024-05-08 | Terry Pratchett Day 2024 | Episode | ||
| - | “Eeek Club 2024” | 2024-05-25 | Glorious 25th special; topics chosen by subscribers | Episode; Notes | ||
| 77 | “How to Get Below in Advertising” | 2024-06-08 | “The Hades Business” | Lucas Testro | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “The Longer Footnote” | 2024-07-08 | Recap of The Long Earth, The Long War, The Long Mars, The Long Utopia | Episode | L1, L2, L3, L4 | |
| 78 | “One Step Beyond” | 2024-07-08 | The Long Cosmos | Joel Martin and Deanne Sheldon-Collins | Episode; Notes | L5 |
| 79 | “Unalive from Überwald”[8] | 2024-08-08 | “Death and What Comes Next” | Tansy Rayner Roberts and Karen K Carlisle | Episode; Notes | |
| - | “Cover Stamps” | 2024-09-08 | Going Postal recap; book covers | Episode | ||
| 80 | “Always Believe in Your Golems” | 2024-10-08 | Making Money | Stephanie Convery | Episode; Notes |
Footnotes
- ↑ ...ish.
- ↑ Not just the Discworld ones!
- ↑ Sort by this column to get episodes in series publication order. Discworld books have just a number. Other series have a letter prefix: "B" for the Bromeliad, "J" for Johnny Maxwell, "S" for the Science of Discworld and "L" for the Long Earth.
- ↑ While this isn't technically part of the Long Earth series, as the precursor story that was first published in the early edition of the first book, it seems right to include it.
- ↑ Delayed from 8 November, and then the revised date of 25 November.
- ↑ Originally scheduled for June, then delayed to late June, then delayed until August, hence being released out of order.
- ↑ Features mostly pre-recorded contributions, including some from Jason and Rachel from the "Better Than a Poke in the Eye" newsletter (formerly Discworld Monthly); Marc Burrows; Aaron Olson of The Compleat Discography; co-host Elizabeth Flux (who does not otherwise appear); Joana Hagan and Francine Carrel of The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret; and a couple of Pratchat listeners.
- ↑ Recorded live at Nullus Anxietas IX, the 2024 Australian Discworld Convention.