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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GNOME Terry Pratchett (“Rincemangle, the Gnome of Even Moor”)
Decline by Committee (“A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices”)
There's a Cow in There (Where's My Cow?)
What Terry Wrote (Thud!)
The Troll's Gambit (Thud the board game)
Eyes Turnwise (60th episode special - listener questions)
Charlie and the Whale Factory (The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch)
Get Your Dad to Mars! (The Long Mars)
The Barbarian Switch (“Final Reward”)
Daniel Superbaboon (“The High Meggas”)
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Eeek Club 2022 (subscriber questions)
Mr Doodle, the Man on the Moon (The Last Hero)
The Land Before Vimes (Night Watch)
A (Very) Few Words by Hner Ner Hner (Discworld miscellany)
A Near-Watch Experience (BBC America's The Watch)
Boffoing the Winter Slayer (Wintersmith)
Oggswatch Feast 2021 (Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook recipes)
Salt Rat Arsenic Heat (Nanny Ogg's Cookbook)
Once More, With Future ("Once and Future")
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