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Episodes of other podcasts mentioned in the episodes or show notes of Pratchat, the monthly Terry Pratchett podcast.

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	Episode	Description	Date Aired	Categories	Hosts	Episode Guests	Length	Curator's Notes
Oggswatch Feast 2021
	The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret 60: Maskerade Pt. 1 (Chekhov's Chandelier)	"The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan an...	September 5, 2021	Arts Books Comedy	Joanna Hagan-Young Francine Carrel	--	1:31:03s	This is the first of three episodes in which Jo and Francine discuss Maskerade, which came up when they appeared in a guest spot for our Christmas special episode in 2021.

	The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret 9: Equal Rites Pt.3 (Crumbs All Up In There)	"The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan-Yo...	January 20, 2020	Arts Books Comedy	Joanna Hagan-Young Francine Carrel	--	1:04:57s	This is the episode mentioned by Jo and Francine in which they eat scones while discussing Equal Rites.

#Pratchat48 - Thief of Time
	Short Wave The Surprising History of Handwashing	"Washing your hands. It's one of the easiest and most effective things you can ...	January 26, 2021	Science Astronomy Nature News	Aaron Scott Gabriel Spitzer Maddie Sofia	--	10:50s	We wondered in this episode about deaths caused by unwashed hands in hospitals, something mentioned in the book. This episode of Short Wave tells the story of Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, who tried to convince other doctors to wash their

#Pratchat45 - "Twenty Pence with Envelope and Seasonal Greeting"
	LeVar Burton Reads "The Story We Used to Tell" by Shirley Jackson	"A recently widowed woman vanishes overnight. Content advisory: violence, death...	October 20, 2020	Arts Performing Arts	LeVar Burton	--	33:11s	LeVar Burton reads one of the Shirley Jackson stories mentioned by our guest Penny Love in #Pratchat45.

#Pratchat44 - The Light Fantastic
	The Allusionist 87. Name v. Law	"Iceland has quite exacting laws about what its citizens can be named, and only...	October 22, 2018	Arts Education History Poetry Language	Helen Zaltzman	--	30:17s	We talked about Icelandic names in this episode, and this episode of The Allusionist does a deep dive on the rules and traditions around them.

	The Allusionist 147. Survival: Today, Tomorrow part 2	""It's really good if we can get the changes through here - that can be an insp...	December 7, 2021	Arts Education History Poetry Language	Helen Zaltzman	--	28:38s	A follow up to the above episode, about adding queer terms - including alternate forms for names - to the Icelandic language. Second part of a two-part episode.

#Pratchat43 - A Hat Full of Sky
	99% Invisible Fountain Drinks	"On April 21st, 1859, an incredible thing happened in London and thousands of p...	November 10, 2015	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	30:25s	Granny's understanding of the importance of clean drinking water when it comes to disease led us to mention the historical Jon Snow, whose work not only influenced sanitation but the design of drinking fountains, as described in this episode.

#Pratchat38 - Going Postal
	Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. Johnson The Sting with Matthew Specktor	"The Sting is the king of con artist movies and the godfather of every twist ha...	November 30, 2015	Education Society Culture Science	--	--	37:33s	Pratchat special guest Nicholas J Johnson, aka "Australia's Honest Conman", has his own podcast about scams, swindles and magic. This episode describes classic con artist movie The Sting, which we mentioned in this episode about Moist von Lipwi

#Pratchat36 - Carpe Jugulum
	The Allusionist 78. Oot in the Open	"You are born and raised in a household speaking a language. Then you start goi...	May 21, 2018	Arts Education History Poetry Language	Helen Zaltzman	--	24:31s	The Mac Mac Feegles, Pratchett's "pictsies" who are a cross between Scottish highland warriors, Glaswegians and Smurfs, are introduced in this book. While discussing the way they speak, we mentioned two Allusionist episodes about the Scots lang

	The Allusionist 117. Many Ways At Once	"The Scots language didn’t have much of an LGBTQ+ lexicon. So writer and perfor...	June 15, 2020	Arts Education History Poetry Language	Helen Zaltzman	Dr. Harry Josephine Giles	18:15s	This is the other Scots language episode of The Allusionist we mentioned.

#Pratchat32 - The Wee Free Men
	Dr Janina Ramirez - Art Detective Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd	"Neil Gaiman is an author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels...	October 31, 2017	Society Culture History Arts Visual Arts	Dr. Janina Ramirez	--	48:10s	Recommended by listener Amy via Twitter, this episode discusses the real world painting on which the one in the novel is based!

	The Indicator from Planet Money Let Them Eat Marshmallows	"The marshmallow test is one of the most famous social experiments of all time,...	June 11, 2018	Business News Finance Economics	Stacey Vanek Smith Cardiff Garcia	--	9:56s	We briefly mention the "marshmallow test" in reference to Wentworth's love of sweets and inability to eat one when presented with too many, which is more or less the reverse of the test.

	Articles of Interest Plaid	"Lumberjacks wore plaid. Punks wore plaid mini skirts. The Beach Boys used to b...	December 7, 2018	Arts Fashion Beauty	Avery Trufelman	--	18:55s	Ben comments on the tartans worn by the Nac Mac Feegle as depicted in the illustrated edition of the novel; this exploration of the popularity of "plaid" in the US also features the origins and evolution of tartan.

#Pratchat31 - The Long Earth
	99% Invisible Ten Thousand Years	"In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astr...	May 13, 2014	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	29:22s	The problem of leaving a warning understandable to people far in the future is touched on in the novel, and for similar reasons as in real life: nuclear waste can be very dangerous for a very long time.

#Pratchat26 - Hogfather
	The Allusionist 106. Typo Demom	"Ever misspelled a word or committed a typo? It wasn’t your fault; you were dem...	September 15, 2019	Arts Education History Poetry Language	Helen Zaltzman	--	21:46s	While considering various possible creatures that could be brought to life by an overflow of unfocused belief, the discussion turned to the creature discussed in this podcast: Titivillus, demon of literary mistakes.

#Pratchat24 - Feet of Clay
	99% Invisible All Rings Considered	"Before we turned our phones to silent or vibrate, there was a time when everyo...	August 28, 2019	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	36:54s	Talk of Vimes' "disorganiser" had Ben recalling an old recording he found of Pratchett saying "bingley bingley beep", which features in a footnote in Pratchat. Comments about it getting annoying - as intended! - led both Ben and guest Nate to t

	The Allusionist 95. Verisimilitude	"When you’re watching a fantasy or science fiction show, and the characters are...	March 11, 2019	Arts Education History Poetry Language	Helen Zaltzman	--	29:26s	A discussion of Pratchett's use of "dwarfs" vs "dwarves" led to this episode of The Allusionist, all about constructed languages (or "conlangs") and how their creators make them feel real - including some talk about plurals in English.

	The Abandoned Carousel Rosie the Shark (Australia)	" Rosie the Shark Once a sidebar oddity in an earthworm museum, Rosie the Shar...	June 12, 2019	Arts Society Culture Travel History	--	--	26:08s	The Heraldry Zoo in an early sequence of the book reminded Ben of the old "Giant Worm" museum in Gippsland, that he'd visited once. This led to Liz and Ben remembering this story.

#Pratchat11 - Reaper Man
	99% Invisible Mini-Stories: Volume 4	"This part two of the 2017/2018 mini-stories episodes, where Roman interviews t...	January 10, 2018	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	39:48s	This episode and the following one tell stories about the making of new streets and creating new land, which is as close as we could find to info on Romans potentially making new streets out of garbage. We'll mention this again in #Pratchat42.

	99% Invisible Making Up Ground	"Large portions of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Hong Kong and...	September 13, 2016	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	18:47s	More on making new streets and creating new land, as per the above episode.

	99% Invisible The Gruen Effect	"Retail spaces are designed for impulse shopping. When you go to a store lookin...	May 6, 2015	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	15:28s	The novel presents a pretty extreme case of shopping malls being evil, which of course led to thoughts of the Gruen Effect. Australians may recognise the term in the name of the ABC panel show about advertising, The Gruen Transfer.

#Pratchat10 - Moving Pictures
	99% Invisible The Post-Billiards Age	"We live in a post-billiards age. There was an age of billiards, and it has bee...	May 13, 2015	Arts Design	Roman Mars	Dan Weissmann	13:14s	The alchemists in Ankh-Morpork are often exploding things by accident, and in Moving Pictures it's mentioned that includes billiard balls - a reference to attempts to replace ivory balls with cellulose ones, as covered in this episode of 99% In

	Art of the Score Episode 7: Star Wars - Part 1	"Forty years ago today, in 1977, the film universe was turned upside down by a ...	May 24, 2017	Music Tv Film Education	Andrew Pogson Nicholas Buc Dan Golding	--	1:19:31s	If you want to hear this episode's guest, Dan Golding, talking about his twin passions - Star Wars and music in film - this is a good place to start. There are three episodes about the original film, but at the time of writing they’ve also disc

#Pratchat6 - Dodger
	99% Invisible Interrobang	"In the spring of 1962, an ad man named Martin Speckter was thinking about adve...	July 10, 2018	Arts Design	Roman Mars	--	32:05s	Liz, Ben and David discussed several lesser-used printers’ and punctuation marks, including square brackets and the pilcrow, but only the interrobang has its own podcast episode.

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