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

Episodes

    Oggswatch Feast 2021
    #Pratchat48 - Thief of Time
    #Pratchat45 - "Twenty Pence with Envelope and Seasonal Greeting"
    #Pratchat44 - The Light Fantastic
    #Pratchat43 - A Hat Full of Sky
    #Pratchat38 - Going Postal
    #Pratchat36 - Carpe Jugulum
    #Pratchat32 - The Wee Free Men
    #Pratchat31 - The Long Earth
    #Pratchat26 - Hogfather
    #Pratchat24 - Feet of Clay
    #Pratchat11 - Reaper Man
    #Pratchat10 - Moving Pictures
    #Pratchat6 - Dodger

    September 5, 2021

    ArtsBooksComedy
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    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.

    January 20, 2020

    ArtsBooksComedy
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    1:04:57s

    This is the episode mentioned by Jo and Francine in which they eat scones while discussing Equal Rites.

    January 26, 2021

    ScienceNatureAstronomy
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    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

    October 20, 2020

    ArtsPerforming Arts
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    33:11s

    LeVar Burton reads one of the Shirley Jackson stories mentioned by our guest Penny Love in #Pratchat45.

    October 22, 2018

    ArtsEducationHistory
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    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.

    December 7, 2021

    ArtsEducationHistory
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    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.

    November 10, 2015

    ArtsDesign
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    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.

    November 30, 2015

    EducationSocietyCulture
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    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

    May 21, 2018

    ArtsEducationHistory
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    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

    June 15, 2020

    ArtsEducationHistory

    18:15s

    This is the other Scots language episode of The Allusionist we mentioned.

    October 31, 2017

    SocietyCultureHistory
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    48:10s

    Recommended by listener Amy via Twitter, this episode discusses the real world painting on which the one in the novel is based!

    June 11, 2018

    BusinessNewsFinance
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    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.

    December 7, 2018

    ArtsFashionBeauty
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    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.

    May 13, 2014

    ArtsDesign
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    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.

    September 15, 2019

    ArtsEducationHistory
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    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.

    August 28, 2019

    ArtsDesign
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    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

    March 11, 2019

    ArtsEducationHistory
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    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.

    June 12, 2019

    ArtsSocietyCulture
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    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.

    January 10, 2018

    ArtsDesign
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    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.

    September 13, 2016

    ArtsDesign
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    18:47s

    More on making new streets and creating new land, as per the above episode.

    May 6, 2015

    ArtsDesign
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    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.

    May 13, 2015

    ArtsDesign

    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

    May 24, 2017

    MusicTvFilm
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    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

    July 10, 2018

    ArtsDesign
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    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.