Pratchat

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Join writer Elizabeth Flux and comedian Ben McKenzie on their six* year mission to discuss every Terry Pratchett book! A Splendid Chaps Productions podcast. https://pratchatpodcast.com * ...ish.

A photo of a desk with a retro-style keyboard and joystick, and a modern LCD screen. On the screen is a brightly-coloured scene from the Discworld 2 game, featuring Rincewind talking to Casanunda in a bar in the Shades.
A photograph of a bookshelf. In front of the spine-out books are three face-on books: The Discworld Companion (updated edition), a smaller paperback with a “letterbox” cover illustration by Josh Kirby of various Discworld characters; Turtle Recall, a larger hardcover with a larger illustration by Marc Simonetti of various Discworld characters; and The Ultimate Discworld Companion, a trade paperback with an illustration by Paul Kidby of the Librarian with a lantern in the library.
A black and white photo of a desk with a monitor, retro keyboard, mouse and large mug, cluttered with other bits of computer equipment in the background. On the screen is a scene from the Discworld computer game showing Rincewind the wizard and his Luggage (a treasure chest with dozens of tiny legs) in a city square with Dibbler (a vendor with a tray around his neck). Propped between the keyboard and monitor is the manual for the game.
A photograph of the instruction manual for the Discworld computer game, sitting on a keyboard surrounded by various bits of computer gear. The cover of the manual shows the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms illustrated by Stephen Player, featuring two hippos and a morpork owl.
A photo of a hand holding a copy of the hardcover Collector’s Library edition of Snuff by Terry Pratchett. The cover shows a drawing of a country mansion on a blue background in the top half, and a cave in darkness in the bottom half. In the cave a man dressed as a country squire has his back to us, while silhouettes of goblins with glowing eyes look at him and the viewer.
A selfie-style photograph of Elizabeth Flux and Marc Burrows smiling at the camera under purplish light, in front of a purple wall displaying the yellow logo of the musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”.
A photo of the standalone Corgi paperback printing of “Shaking Hands with Death”, sitting on a bookshelf filled with other Pratchett books. It’s a small white book whose cover has hand-drawn black horizontal lines. In the centre of the cover is a white rectangle containing the author’s name and the title of the book, separated by an illustration of Pratchett’s iconic black fedora hat.
A photo of two shelves on a bookshelf of Terry Pratchett books. On the top shelf are the large, square blue book “The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume I” and the smaller “The Discworld Almanak”; on the lower shelf are a blue plush dragon and the large, square red book “The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume II”.
A photo of a hand holding a copy of the Collector’s Library edition of Unseen Academicals in front of a decorated Christmas tree. The cover depicts a group of wizards and assorted fantasy characters reaching up with hands (and one foot) for a spherical football.
A photo of a grey and white cat sitting by a window, leaning over a paperback copy of Terry Pratchett’s Making Money. The cat’s nose is just touching the the top of the book.
A photo of a grey and white cat looking over the top of a paperback copy of Making Money, held in the lap of the photographer. The current page includes the beginning of an interview between Moist von Lipwig and Sacharissa Cripslock.
A photo of the Collector’s Library edition of the book Making Money. A hand holds it in front of a bookshelf filled with other Terry Pratchett books. The cover of the book is green and features a stylised illustration of a smiling man in a golden suit and top hat, surrounded by bank notes falling from the sky.
A black and white photo of a hand holding a copy of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Cosmos in front of a bookshelf. The first four books in the series, and many others by Pratchett, can be seen on the shelf behind. Text at the bottom in purple reads: #Pratchat78 - out now!
A photo of the book The Long Cosmos on a bookshelf. It’s on the right, cover facing us, next to the first four in the Long Earth series, spines out. Other Terry Pratchett books are also visible, including Good Omens, A Stroke of the Pen and the original edition of The Carpet People.
A photo of part of the first page of the story “The Hades Business” in a copy of A Blink of the Screen. The title and publication details are visible, as well as the start of Pratchett’s notes, which begin: “Argh, argh, argh... if I put my fingers in my ears and go ‘lalalala’ loudly I won't hear you read this story.”
A photo of a bookshelf filled with Terry Pratchett novels in various editions, so full some books lie on their side on top of the others. A friendly green dragon statue with a long neck sits at the left end the middle shelf.
A black and white photo of a hand holding a paperback copy of Terry Pratchett’s novel “Monstrous Regiment” in front of a bookshelf full of other Pratchett books. The cover art is a riff on the famous WW2 photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”, but the soldiers are in Napoleonic war-era uniforms, one of them is a huge rocky troll, and the flag is a pair of bloomers representing a white flag of truce.
A screenshot of an old forum post by a user named “Terry Pratchett” with a Biggles-style airman avatar. The post is a response which gives the full “Rincewind would like to announce that he is gay” quote mentioned in our previous thread.
A photo of a hand holding a paperback copy of the novel Monstrous Regiment in front of a bookshelf. The book is titled so you can see the hundreds of small plastic flags sticking out from the pages. The bookshelf behind is full of Discworld books and a small statue of a friendly, sleepy looking dragon.
Photo of a hand holding a copy of the paperback book Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett in front of a bookcase. Dozens of brightly coloured plastic tags stick out of the pages of the book along its right side; and the top of a bookmark with a cartoon dragon pokes up out of the top.
A photo of the Guards! Guards! Board game laid out on a table. In the middle is a square board of hexagonal squares, an abstract map of Ankh-Morpork, with piles of cards in each corner. There are several decks of cards and in front three player boards with red wooden cubes on three tracks, each board accompanied by cardboard tokens. At the back is the box and rulebook, the covers of which show the same illustration of several Discworld characters running through the night carrying a mote of light.
A photo of the book Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, held open in front of a bookshelf filled with Discworld books. The title page is visible, signed by both authors in coloured inks.
A photo of the deluxe hardcover edition of Father Christmas’s Fake Beard by Terry Pratchett, held in front of a bookshelf full of other Terry Pratchett books.
A photograph of a hand holding a book in front of a bookshelf. The book is titled “The Flying Sorcerers” and the cover includes the text: “More Comic Tales of Fantasy Terry Pratchett • Roald Dahl and many others Edited by Peter Haining” The cover illustration shows a skeleton dressed in an Elvis Presley style high-collared jumpsuit, but in black, towering over two figures in a room with a disco ball.
A photo of a hand holding a copy of the book “The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day” in front of a bookshelf. The red cover of the book depicts a wizard and a priest glaring intently at each other while both holding the Earth in their hands. The bookshelf in the background is full of other Terry Pratchett books.