Pratchat

07/01/2025

Pratchat United have added some real talent to the conversation with Tansy RR Books!

Looks like the Listeners are pushing for extra time with a barrage of skilful questions.

Lots of excitement in this, Terry Pratchett’s 37th match, UNSEEN ACADEMICALS!

23/12/2024

Our next episode will be with Tansy RR Books, discussing the Discworld novel Unseen Academicals!

We’ll be recording in the Hogswatch period between Christmas and the New Year, so get your questions in now.

07/12/2024

The Grand Trunk Semaphore only takes the best! We had to race for the job against Nicholas J. Johnson and Lawrence Leung in BackSpindle Games’ CLACKS, based on Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal.

out now!

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/12/08/pratchat82-clack-go-the-gears/

07/11/2024

Our Clacks episode is delayed, so here’s a Pratchat we prepared earlier: Dr Laura Jean McKay joins us to talk about two of ’s animal-themed short stories: “Hollywood Chickens” and “From the Horse’s Mouth”!

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/11/08/pratchat81-only-fowls-and-horses/

08/10/2024

Pratchat has moved onto the Stephanie Convery standard as we discuss gold, obsession, wealth, money and small dogs with inappropriate toys. Yes, it’s Terry Pratchett’s Making Money!

07/09/2024

The scheduling gremlins have unfortunately gotten right into things, which means our Making Money episode will be released next month. Thank you for your patience and your questions – we're excited to share this one with you.

P.S. Here is the resident Pratcat right after reading *that* Mr Fusspot scene

01/09/2024

Unfortunately scheduling issues have delayed our recording of , so it will have to come out later in the month than usual.

Ben is working on a mini-episode to fill the gap, but in the meantime please enjoy this photo of pratcat Asimov reading along with Liz.

18/08/2024

In our next episode, , we’ll be discussing the return of Moist von Lipwig in ’s thirty-sixth novel, Making Money!

Get your questions in by commenting below, sending us an email, or using this episode’s hashtag on other social media.

07/08/2024

Live or dead* from Überwald** for the Australian Discworld Convention, it’s a special episode of Pratchat with guests Tansy RR Books and Karen J Carlisle discussing “Death and What Comes Next”!

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/08/08/pratchat79-unalive-from-uberwald/

Thanks to Danny Sag and the con team for the costumes and photograph.

* You’ll have to open the podcast to find out.

** aka Adelaide, or Tarntanyangga.

14/07/2024

It takes a village to make a fan convention, and we’ve been having such a blast at thanks to these folks - the con committee! Huge thanks also to every volunteer, special guest and attendee for such a huge and wonderful weekend. We hope to see you in Sydney to do it all again in 2026!

07/07/2024

JOIN US (including guests Joel Martin and Deanne Sheldon-Collins) for a last hurrah in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's Long Earth!

Catch up on the first four books in : https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/07/08/pratchatpreviously2-the-longer-footnote/

Then hear our discussion of THE LONG COSMOS in : https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/07/08/pratchat78-one-step-beyond/

16/06/2024

In our next episode, , Joel Martin and Deanne Sheldon-Collins join us for the end of the Long journey in The Long Cosmos!

Get your questions in this week - we record next Saturday.

07/06/2024

Did a teenager sell his soul to be published alongside Michael Moorcock, Mervyn Peake and Harry Harrison? Or was he always a genius?

Lucas Testro joins us to find out as we travel back to 1963 to discuss Terry Pratchett’s first ever published story, “The Hades Business”!

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/06/08/pratchat77-how-to-get-below-in-advertising/

28/05/2024

Our next episode, , goes back to the very beginning as we discuss Pratchett’s first ever published fiction, the short story “The Hades Business” - written when he was just 13!

We’ll be joined by the wonderful Lucas Testro, who will provide excellent perspective on both the youth writing and advertising fronts.

We record this weekend, so get your questions in ASAP!

24/05/2024

May the fourth 25th be with you! Or something like that.

Yes, it’s our fourth annual “Eeek Club” episode where we discuss topics and questions posed by our “Eeek” tier backers on the Glorious 25th of May.

out now in your podcatcher of choice.

https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/05/25/eeek-club-2024/

07/05/2024

Our emergency replacement May episode is here! Join Ben McKenzie as he shares some of your stories of “starting in the wrong place” in a celebration of this year’s theme.

The scheduling goblins got us this month, and we’ve had to delay our planned short story episode. But while we get that sorted out, Ben’s embracing the chaos – and the theme of Terry Pratchet…

26/04/2024

The scheduling gremlins have got us again - we’ve had to delay our previously announced short story episode. But we are embracing the chaos! Our May episode will now be all about this year’s theme: “Start in the Wrong Place”.

We’ll be discussing the weird and wonderful ways you might get into the Discworld, or Terry’s work, but we’d love to hear from you, if you have a story you’d be happy to share.

Where did you start that was “the wrong place”? And where did you go from there to get to being fan enough to listen to our humble podcast?