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.