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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: How to Get Below in Advertising (“The Hades Business”)
Description: Writer, filmmaker and creative director Lucas Testro joins Liz and Ben on a trip down under to the Other Place as we discuss Terry Pratchett’s first ever published short story, 1963’s “The Hades Business”.
Shady advertising man Crucible arrives home to find none other than old Nicholas Lucifer waiting for him in his study. But he hasn’t come to take him to eternal damnation. Instead, the Devil has a business proposition for Crucible: he want to make the public conscious, Hell-wise…
At age thirteen (actually fourteen), the young Pratchett scored full marks for this story a...