It’s another little episode about a delay - but this time, only until later this month! To tide you over, here’s a little bit cut from the full Discworld Noir chat, in which guest Leena van Deventer helps us recommend some other games. Some brief episode notes: The fan-made German Discworld adventure game is Ein Scheibenwelt-Adventure by Raphael Kirschke, published in 2003.

The 41 books set in the weird and sometimes wacky fantasy world are some of his best loved. Here's where new readers should start

Storyteller and librarian Roslyn Quin joins Liz and Ben to discover there's nowt as queer as folklore, as we discuss Terry Pratchett's 2008 (and 2009 and 2014) collaboration with folklorist Jacqueline Simpson, The Folklore of Discworld. Wherever there are folk, you're find folklore: the stories, traditions, superstitions and more that tell people who they are, and make up their world.

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Another brief announcement from Ben that our Folklore of Discworld episode has been delayed for a third month! We’re very sorry about this. Hopefully we’ll be back on track soon; watch this space. Ben mentioned the following active Discworld podcasts you could try out: DiscWorld Order, who most recently discsused The Fifth Elephant Dining Table Discworld, whose most recent book was also…

Liz and Ben were once again fortunate to be guests of the Australian Discworld Convention - this time in Sydney! In this live recording from day two of Nullus Anxietas X: A Celebration of Witches, we discuss Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent’s 2023 book, Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch. (We previously interviewed Rhianna and Gabrielle about it in Pratchat74, “

A brief announcement from Ben that our Folklore of Discworld episode has been delayed another month - but we’ll get you our live episode from the Australian Discworld Convention ASAP, later this month! Our interview with Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent about Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch can be found in #Pratchat74, “Hogswitch”, from January 2024.

Podcast Episode · Discworld Order · April 1 · 3h 2m

In the second part of our discussion about The Fifth Elephant we discuss dwarf gender and femininity, plus how the Scone was stolen. Also some of the mysteries of Uberwald, like Igors and vampires who...

Our March episode has been delayed. To mark International Women's Day 2026, here’s a bonus episode in which Ben passes on recommendations of women to read if you like Terry Pratchett - mostly from listeners like you! You can find all the authors and podcasts mentioned in this episode below. The official home of International Women’s Day is unwomen.org…

Podcast Episode · Discworld Order · 02/01/2026 · 1h 31m

Writer and game designer Kat Clay joins Liz and Ben to point and click on Rincewind once more, as we discuss the 1996 graphic adventure game Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed...!? from Perfect Entertainment. When the wizard Windle Poons dies, no-one comes to collect his soul - and this isn’t the first time Death has been derelict in his duty. Something must be done, and the Archchancellor knows just the man for the job: so-called wizard and veteran videogame protagonist, Rincewind!

Liz and Ben do a little light Summer reading as they tackle one of the biggest Discworld books of all - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs’ The Discworld Companion, in all its various editions (but mostly 2021’s The Ultimate Discworld Companion). From the Abbott of the History Monks, to dimensionally-displaced traveller Jack Zweiblumen, the Discworld Companion is an alphabetical encyclopaedia of everything Discworld!

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Psychologist Craig Hildebrand-Burke rejoins Liz and Ben as we don our flat caps and anoraks, as we make sense of Terry Pratchett's penultimate Discworld novel, 2013's Raising Steam. Dick Simnel has created Iron Girder, the Disc's first steam engine - and he's brought it to Ankh-Morpork seeking an investor. He finds one in Sir Harry King, who is keen to be known as the King of something other than what brought him his wealth.

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Games journalist and PC Gamer editor Jody Macgregor joins Liz and Ben to take control of an oddly Pythonesque Rincewind and discuss the 1995 graphic adventure game Discworld from Teeny Weeny Games and Perfect 10 Productions. A nefarious secret society has summoned a dragon in Ankh-Morpork! It’s a suspiciously familiar plot, and of course the only one who can save the city is...Rincewind?

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Illustrator, game designer and educator Brendan Barnett joins Ben to discuss art, ideas, inspiration, creative process, dragons, wizards and goblins (oh my!) as we leaf through Paul Kidby’s 2…

Illustrator, game designer and educator Brendan Barnett joins Ben to discuss art, ideas, inspiration, creative process, dragons, wizards and goblins (oh my!) as we leaf through Paul Kidby's 2024 gorgeous coffee table book, Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Paul Kidby started bringing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to life when, on the third attempt, he showed off his skill to the author by drawing his own versions of Discworld characters who had so captured his imagination.

25 B-movie poems about the inner lives of a space cyborg and the people who love/oppose him.