Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE - better known as Terry Pratchett - is...well, you know. The external links section below connects to longer biographies on other sites.
Podcast episodes
As guest
Terry wasn’t a guest on many podcasts that we know about - he died just after the big post-Serial podcast boom. But some talks and interviews he did were recorded and released as podcast episodes or video recordings. See also below for some of his radio appearances, and other audio.
| Date | Show[1] | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-09-13 | 2007 National Book Festival[2] | “Terry Pratchett: Book Festival 07” | loc.gov |
| 2009-08-11 | Naked Scientists Special Edition Podcast | “Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir Terry Pratchett”[3] | acast.com[4] |
| 2013-04-13 | Ideas at the House | “Terry Pratchett - In Conversation with Garth Nix”[5] | acast.com |
| 2023-07-29 | The Author Archive | “Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents”[6] | podbean.com |
Radio appearances
Some radio programmes on which Terry appeared have been released online in digital form, in an actual podcast feed or otherwise (often via BBC Sounds). We’re prioritising programmes which are widely available.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-02-09 | Desert Island Discs[7] | “Terry Pratchett” | bbc.co.uk | |
| 2003-05-29 | World Book Club | “Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic” | bbc.co.uk | |
| 2004-07-04 | Bookclub | “Terry Pratchett”[8] | bbc.co.uk | |
| 2011-08-11 | Morning Edition | “Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding”[9] | npr.org | Brief interview primarily about assisted dying, which also contains discussion of suicide. |
| 2011-10-18 | Front Row | “Terry Pratchett; Mark Rylance; Contagion” | bbc.co.uk | The Pratchett section is first |
| 2011-10-21 | Front Row | “Thandie Newton; Terry Pratchett” | bbc.co.uk[10] | The Pratchett section begins at 19m04s |
| 2013-12-11 | Front Row | “Alan Bennett, Terry Pratchett, The Duck House, The Great Train Robbery” | bbc.co.uk | The Pratchett section begins at 14m05s |
| 2013-12-13 | Front Row | “Victoria Wood, Alan Bennett, Sir Terry Pratchett” | bbc.co.uk[10] | The Pratchett section begins at 9m06s |
| 2013-12-14 | Radio 2 Art Show | “Sir Terry Pratchett and Maddy Prior talk to Claudia Winkleman” | bbc.co.uk |
Other Audio
These are recordings of Pratchett which are available online, but not in podcast form.
| Date | Title | Format | Publisher | External link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-08-26 | “Sir Terry Pratchett in conversation with Dr Jacqueline Simpson in 2010” | mp3 download[11] | The British Folklore Society | folklore-society.com | In four parts, with transcripts available |
Videos
Many Pratchett interviews and speeches have been released online as videos. We’re collecting them here. Note that we are only including officially published videos, not bootlegs of interviews or television programs.
| Date | Channel | Title | Type | External link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11-04 | Trinity College Dublin | “The Importance of Being Amazed about Absolutely Everything” | Speech | youtube.com |
| 2011-07-10 | The Guardian | "Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter on The Long Earth” | Interview | youtube.com |
| 2013-01-25 | The Wheeler Centre | “Sir Terry Pratchett: ‘Imagination, not intelligence, made us human’” | Conversation | youtube.com |
Actor
Pratchett made a few cameo appearances in adaptations of his own work:
- In Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, as the toymaker at the end of part two.
- In Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, as one of the astrozoologists in part one.
- In Going Postal, as a postman in part two.
- In the Steeleye Span album Wintersmith, speaking on the track “A Good Witch”.
- In the BBC Radio adaptation of Good Omens, alongside Neil Gaiman, as a pair of police officers named Terry and Neil.
External links
- terrypratchettbooks.com - official website
- Terry Pratchett on Wikipedia
- Terry Pratchett on the L-Space wiki
Footnotes
- ↑ In some cases this is the name of the appropriate YouTube channel, which might just reflect the name of institution rather than a “show”.
- ↑ Re-released in a new podcast feed ten years later.
- ↑ Focusses on The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch.
- ↑ Audio may no longer be available? We’re chasing this one!
- ↑ A live talk at the Sydney Opera House from April 2011; referred to by Garth Nix in his guest appearance on Pratchat talking about Wintersmith.
- ↑ This is an interview between host David Freeman and Terry Pratchett about The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, from David’s personal archive. The date for the interview is not given, but as he’s asked about how he’d feel if he wins the Carnegie Medal for it, we can guess it’s from 2002, before the prize was announced in July.
- ↑ Not to be confused with Desert Island Discworld, which takes inspiration from the original radio show.
- ↑ This episode focuses on Mort.
- ↑ This is a segment of the full 11 August 2011 episode] of Morning Edition.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Direct link to mp3; BBC Sounds version is only available within the UK.
- ↑ The page calls it a podcast, but it has not been published as one as far as we know. This may also be the conversation that appears as a bonus feature on the audiobook version of The Folklore of Discworld.