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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: Brooms, Boats and Pumpkinmobiles (Witches Abroad)
Description: For our twelfth episode we’re joined by Jackie Tang discuss Terry Pratchett’s Witches Abroad! The twelfth Discworld novel, published in 1991, Witches Abroad is the second to star the Lancre witches, who return only two books later for Lords and Ladies.
Witch Desiderata Hollow has died and passed on her fairy godmother wand to Magrat Garlick, the youngest of the Lancre witches, along with a note telling her to go to the distant kingdom of Genua to stop a servant girl from marrying a prince – without Granny Weatherwax. Which of course means Granny – and Nanny Ogg – are definitely...