A Monstrous Delay (IWD bonus mini-episode)

Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club

Our Monstrous Regiment episode won’t be ready until later in the month, but we didn’t want to let International Women’s Day pass without some kind of comment. So here’s a mini episode in your feed recommending some other Pratchett and Discworld podcasts hosted by women and non-binary folks.

Here’s a list of the Discworld podcasts Ben mentioned:

• The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret, hosted by Francine Carrel and Joanna Hagan. They covered Monstrous Regiment over three episodes in April 2023: “[REDACTED]”, “The Implication of Hippo” and “Gender is a Fake Drug”. You can support them on Patreon.
• Disc Coverers, hosted by Iris Jay, Grace Lovelace, Balina Mahigan, and Juniper Theory.
• Nanny Ogg’s Book Club, hosted by Tessa Swelha and Nigel. Their Monstrous Regiment episode was in September 2023.
• Teaching My Cat to Read, hosted by Eli, M, Ro and Lotti. You can support them on Ko-Fi.
• Fiction Fans, hosted by Sara and Lily. You can support them on Patreon.

Other links from this episode:

• Our wiki indexing Discworld podcasts is the Guild of Recappers and Podcasters. There’s a page for Monstrous Regiment listing all the episodes discussing it.
• The Melbourne-based charity is independent feminist organisation the Victorian Women’s Trust. They’ve produced their own podcasts, including Money Power Freedom, which was co-hosted by Cal Wilson.
• We won’t link to it, but don’t go to internationalwomensday.com; instead you want the official UN Women site, unwomen.org.

Our April episode, #Pratchat77, will be with guest Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country. We’ll be discussing the short stories “Hollywood Chickens” from A Blink of the Screen, and “From the Horse’s Mouth” from A Stroke of the Pen. An earlier version of “From the Horse’s Mouth” is “Johnno, the Talking Horse”, which was collected in The Time-Travelling Caveman and Other Stories, and in deluxe editions of The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories.