24 November 2023 marks forty years since Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic was first published. That’s right – it’s Discworld’s fortieth birthday! To celebrate, join Pratchat producer and co-host Ben McKenzie as he – and a bunch of special guests – try to figure out why that book, and moreso the Discworld series it started, have endured for so long.
This episode is something of an experiment for Pratchat, and as Ben says during the episode, this can’t possibly cover all the reasons why the series is so beloved. We want to hear about your favourite Discworld books, and what the Discworld means to you. And we’d love to know what you thought of this episode, and whether you’d like to hear more like it in the future! Tell us via the hashtag #PratchatRuby on social media, or get in touch via email or our subscriber Discord.
Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this episode:
Our original discussion of The Colour of Magic can be found in #Pratchat14, “City-State Lampoon’s Disc-Wide Vacation”, from December 2018.
Our December episode will be #Pratchat73, discussing the stories of Father Christmas’s Fake Beard. But we are hoping to bring you one more little extra before the year is out.
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Real Men Don’t Drink...Decaf (Monstrous Regiment)
The First News Blast (Discworld book and RPG news)
A Monstrous Delay (IWD bonus mini-episode)
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Hogswitch (with Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent)
This Christmas Goes to Eleven (Father Christmas’ Fake Beard)
The Masked Dancer (“Turntables of the Night")
It Belongs in a University (The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day)
Punching Up (“Theatre of Cruelty")
Discus Ex Machina (Strata)
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The Long Footnote (recap of The Long Earth, The Long War and The Long Mars)
We’re on a Road to Elsewhere (Pratchett news and Discworld Convention interview)
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Ol’ No Eyes Is Back (I Shall Wear Midnight)
Let There Be Gaimans (A Slip of the Keyboard)
GNOME Terry Pratchett (“Rincemangle, the Gnome of Even Moor”)
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