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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: Only Fowls and Horses (âHollywood Chickensâ and âFrom the Horseâs Mouth")
Description: Author and poet* Dr Laura Jean McKay joins Liz and Ben for two of Terry Pratchettâs short stories about intelligent animals: âHollywood Chickensâ (1990) and âFrom the Horseâs Mouthâ (1972).
In 1973 Hollywood, a truck full of chickens overturned on a busy highway, depositing a population of chickens on the verge. A decade and a half later, scientists try to piece together the story of how they developed and evolved in pursuit of a very specific goalâŚ
In the town of Blackbury, rag and bone man Ron is amazed to discover that his carthorse, Johnno, can talk. Will the...