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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: A Load of Old Tosh (Dodger)
Description: In episode six, word nerd and crypto-cruciverbalist David âDAâ Astle joins us to discuss our first non-Discworld novel, Terry Pratchettâs Dodger! Published in 2012, itâs set in Victorian London and is heavily inspired by Charles Dickens and Punch magazine co-founder Henry Mayhew, author of London Labour and the London Poor â and both men appear as characters!
In the first quarter of Queen Victoriaâs reign, a young woman falls from a carriage during a London storm, followed by two threatening men. Out of a nearby sewer grate springs Dodger, street orphan and accomplished âtosherâ (sewer scavenger), who fights them off...