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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: Only You Can Save Deadkind (Johnny and the Dead)
Description: Liz and Ben (who had microphone issues this episode) introduce children’s author Oliver Phommavanh to the world of Terry Pratchett with Johnny Maxwell’s return, in 1993’s Johnny and the Dead.
Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell is enduring Phase Three of the Trying Times between his parents, which involves living with his Mum at his Grandad’s place. His shortcut home from school takes him through an old rundown cemetery, where he knocks on a tomb door – and discovers he can see dead people. As Johnny gets to know them, the dead discover the Council has sold their cemetery f...