Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns. Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com Please share widely!

17 years ago THIS VERY DAY, @ifdestroyed.bsky.social & I released the first episode of House to Astonish, a podcast of comic book news & reviews with a bit of mucking about at the end. To mark the occasion, I thought you might want to hear that first mildly wonky episode! archive.org/details/Hous...

In case you missed it yesterday: #Pratchat89 is out now! Join Liz, Ben and @pcgamer.com’s Jody Macgregor as we discuss the very reasonable and logical 1995 graphic adventure game #Discworld. Find us wherever you get your podcasts to hear all about this tale of donkeys, octopuses and custard…

Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns... This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free! Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com

A cult of has summoned a dragon in Ankh-Morpork to topple the Patrician! And of course the only one who can save the city is...Rincewind? PC Gamer editor Jody Macgregor joins Liz and Ben to talk about the 1995 point and click adventure game #Discworld, as shouted at by Terry Pratchett!

Before our Wintersmith ep goes live, here's a treat: we watched the TV adaptation GOING POSTAL together with our friend Kel McDonald and recorded some post-viewing thoughts about it! Get Moist with us all over again. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7k4sYXZqNwJz4QfMl4RucN?si=LcSpi34HRHCPog9fPErWRw

Our next episode, #Pratchat89, is recording this weekend - and we’re discussing the #Discworld point and click adventure game from 1995! Ben may have lost the box and the disc but he still has his original manual… If you have questions, get them in ASAP!

Cohen goes full Jesse Custer in a Discworld Avengers-level event. PJ and Andy read THE LAST HERO for their first time. Talk! YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JE... Podlink: pod.link/1645420990/e...

Join us (finally) for a new episode as @brendanbarnett.bsky.social chats with Ben* about how one man can draw so many wizards, witches, dragons, guards, goblins and other denizen of the Disc, as we read Paul Kidby’s Designing Terry Pratchett’s #Discworld! #Pratchat88 * Liz will be back next month!

A quick numbering note: the new episode about Designing Discworld is #Pratchat88, not #Pratchat89 as erroneously reported by us. #Pratchat89 will discuss the Discworld graphic adventure game, and #Pratchat90 will discuss Raising Steam. Ben promises to double-check his spreadsheet in future!

#Pratchat88 – They’re All Good Dragons, Bront 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…

Listeners, we have recorded #Pratchat89, discussing Paul Kidby’s book Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and it is coming out this month! But after several setbacks and problems, it will not come out today. We’re hoping it will be later this week. Thanks for bearing with us.

Today is Father's Day in Australia, so hey! even if (like me) you don't much care, have a listicle from @tansyrr.bsky.social about the dads of the Discworld... (I'm currently re-reading Soul Music, so I have Thoughts.) www.speculativeinsight.com/extras

Hey listeners - we apologise but there’s no episode this month. Ben will publish a brief explainer to keep folks in the loop, but in short, it’s been a challenging month for a small podcast team. We’re really hoping to get back to normal in October.

Comic nerd friends (so @patrickoduffy.bsky.social and @alkennedy.bsky.social), my other comic nerd friend Adam Ford is currently crowdfunding a book of poems inspired by Rom Space Knight. Adam’s a great poet, a massive Rom fan and a real good egg! Give it a look and maybe spread the word?

Wave 1 might be sold out but there’s another chance to buy memberships in Wave 2. Here are a few pointers to help you prepare. dwcon.org/useful-inf... #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News

Our planned August episode, #Pratchat88, was cursed (we should have used #Prachat7A7A). Here’s a bonus episode in which Ben browses his bookshelf to mention a few books that won’t get their own episodes!

Soul Music TV series In our second special episode we watch the animated Soul Music TV show, from Cosgrove Hall. With praise for Christopher Lee, how they have adapted a book about music into an audio visual format, and how aspects of the story have changed. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ya5g5-...

In case you missed it, @makeyefretpod.bsky.social’s discussion of #TheLongEarth is coming out now! Lovely that there’s still this journey for both our pods to go on. Our episode about it was #Pratchat31, “It’s Just a Step to the West” from 2020.

We're close to Halfway Through! We'd love to have an episode in October with some listener contributions to celebrate. So let us know what you think about Discworld generally, this podcast, any novels from Colour of Magic to Hogfather. Email diningtablediscworld [at] gmail [dot] com or DM here.

It's live! My new Special Edition Kickstarter is up today. Featuring beautiful books, fun book merch and original @tanaudel.bsky.social artwork! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

The Patrician is missing! Can Liz, Ben or guest Richard McKenzie sieze control of the city? Or will it all fall into chaos? Er…more chaos? Join us as we complete our collection of #Discworld #boardgames by discussing Martin Wallace’s 2011 game, Discworld: Ankh-Morpork. #Pratchat87

I've Never Read Discworld: The Truth The printing press flies into the city striking William de Worde with the inspiration for The Ankh-Morpork Times. PJ and Andy talk classic rogue archetypes, Sam Vimes, and Gutenberg to Watergate. Podlink: pod.link/1645420990 YouTube: youtu.be/jOhJa970TdI

We’re recording our next episode, #Pratchat87, in a couple of days! We’ll be discussing the 2011 board game Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, designed by Martin Wallace! Send your questions in now. (Ben’s been too busy to set up a photo, so here’s the BGG page!)

Liz, Ben and guest Pratchett scholar Freyja Stokes head downriver to the Shires for an adventure featuring Vimeses, goblins, murderers, double meanings...and one Wonderful Fanny. Join us as we discuss #TerryPratchett’s last Watch-focused #Discworld novel, 2011’s Snuff. #Pratchat86

We released our Interesting Times episode last week. It was challenging at times (CN: fatphobia, orientalism, discussion of rape jokes), but we had plenty to talk about. Rincewind remains Rincewind though, perhaps even more so than before. diningtablediscworld.podbean.com/e/dining-tab...

It’s the Glorious 25th of May and we’re exploring gender on the Disc! You can even watch us in all our glory here: youtu.be/OXJYfghjUDA?... Most importantly, if you want to join us in donating to the Good Law Project’s trans rights fundraiser, you can do so here: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

As previously announced, no regular episode this month - but also no Eeek Club. We’ll be back in June. Do check out The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret’s special episode, “Gender on Discworld”, out today!

NEW @tansyrr.bsky.social essay in the Pratchett's Men series: this time, the men in *Lords and Ladies* - kings, morris dancers, and the Horn(ed/y) One... and some Oggs. Read now by subscribing (AUD30/year! ~GBP15/ EUR19/ USD19!) www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

Apologies listeners, but we’ve had to delay the release of our episode discussing Snuff, #Pratchat86. It’ll be out next month.

New Episode: Carpe Jugulum - A Discworld Horror. Bloody funny! YouTube: youtu.be/8TUI3YFyu1E Podlink: pod.link/1645420990

Happy Terry Pratchett Day! We're so grateful to @rhi.bsky.social and @terryandrob.bsky.social for digging up a signed first edition of Monstrous Regiment for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights charity auction. It's up to £6005! Which means we've raised over £13k! www.32auctions.com/organization...

New Episode Time! There’s smoke in the library, an owl hooting in the hall of spiders and an Earl unattended on a raft in Titus Groan part 2! Listen here, or wherever good podcasts are found: thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/category/epi...

Happy Terry Pratchett Day! We’ve spent 100s of hours on 100s of episodes talking about this great man’s work, and it could never be enough.

Do you want to hear me talk to 55 great people (comedians, writers, artists, journalists, poets, musicians, game designers, podcasters, scientists, historians, wrestlers, escape room creators, opera singers etc.) about their life, work and fave Terry Pratchett novels? Here: desertislanddiscworld.com

Signed, sealed and delivered-- there's a new episode of DISC COVERERS waiting for you, all about GOING POSTAL! All incendiary or violent opinions in this episode w/r/t CEOs should be regarded as silly jokes and not real. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dis...

Happy birthday to the one and only Sir Terry Pratchett, from slightly in the future in that place he liked to visit. Gone, but never forgotten; have a banana daiquiri (or Willikins-style virgin equivalent) in his memory. And happy #TerryPratchettDay to all his many, many fans.

Holds released for my big Terry Pratchett birthday show at The Duchess in London tomorrow. JUST ONE LEFT! ticketing.nimaxtheatres.com/tickets/seri...

It’s almost time to record #Pratchat86, our chat about the 39th #Discworld novel, SNUFF! Get your questions in ASAP; the best way is usually to reply here or on other social media.

I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @gabriellekent.bsky.social) in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here. www.32auctions.com/organization...

By stimulating specific receptor cells in the eyes with lasers pulses, scientists at Berkeley claim to have experienced a “blue-green” colour never seen before by humans, which they called… “Olo”. Octarine was right there, you fools! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A couple of our listeners, Jess and Ellie, host their own podcast: Gifted Kid, Messy Adult. They need some help with medical costs, and they’re almost at their goal! Please help them get there. gofund.me/fc70619c

Our love and solidarity goes out to all our trans, non-binary and genderqueer listeners, especially in the UK and US right now. May you draw strength and inspiration from Esk, Nobby*, Cheery, Trunkie, Gladys, Polly, Jackrum, Madame Sharn, Geoffrey and so many other characters. * Carefully.

The first episode of @makeyefretpod.bsky.social’s new season is out, in which they very kindly discuss a favourite book I’ve already read: Titus Groan, the first book of Gormenghast! Yes, Jo and Francine are having a fit of Peake and it’s great fun. thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/2025/04/13/1...

Episode 10 of DiscWorld Order is out early as Patrick W Reed (patrickwreed.bsky.social) returns to discuss Reaper Man. We talk about one of the most sentimental adiscworld books, with possibly the silliest B plot in the canon. Spotify bit.ly/4hZrCAr Amazon bit.ly/3QYJMXX

As we’ve previously explored in a few episodes, Pratchett was clearly *very* interested in this story. He named at least three characters Lobsang — including an AI who claims to be a reincarnated motorcycle repairman. It’s also the name taken by CMOT Dibbler when peddling “ancient wisdom”…

In #Pratchat84, Liz and Ben take a stroll through the Ankh-Morpork Archives, two volumes collecting gags and lore from the old Discworld Diaries. Plus: the wisdom of the Celebrated Discworld Almanak, renowned across the Sto Plains, Lancre and beyond for various very practical reasons!

Our siblings from another podcast are back, and this time they’re reading all kinds of things - starting, yes, with Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan. Check out this fab lineup of reads for @makeyefretpod.bsky.social!

Ben will freely admit he fell for this, but then as usual April Fools bits from around the world only tend to be seen the day after in Australia… Still, we’d listen! (And the actual truth will make ye very pleased…)

And in terms of merch, well I made this t-shirt for the Discworld convention. #PratchatMerch @pratchatpodcast.com