Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven full-cast dramatisations

Terry Pratchett

Nov 2018 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Alex Jennings, Anton Lesser, Full Cast, Mark Heap, Martin Jarvis, Philip Jackson, and Sheila Hancock

About this audiobook

A collection of the full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Terry Pratchett

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different...

Published for the very first time are seven full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of Terry Pratchett's novels, with star-studded casts including Martin Jarvis, Sheila Hancock, Anton Lesser, Philip Jackson, Alex Jennings and Mark Heap.

Mort
Hopeless young peasant Mort is hired as an apprentice to Death. He'll have free board, use of the company horse, and being dead isn't even compulsory. In fact, it's a dream job - until he discovers that it can be killer for his love life...

Wyrd Sisters
Three witches meet on a blasted heath. A king is cruelly murdered. A child heir and the kingdom's crown are both missing. But Granny Weatherwax finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe...

Guards! Guards!
In Ankh-Morpork, the Haves and the Have-Nots are about fall out. Again. The Night Watch's Captain Vimes is used to this but when the Have-Nots find the key to a lethal, dormant weapon that even they don't understand, he knows it's time so sober up.

Eric
When precocious young Eric Thursley summons a demon from the loathsome pit to fulfil his every wish, he wants what everyone wants - immortality, to rule the world, and have the most beautiful woman love him. Instead he gets Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard.

Small Gods
On the Discworld, Gods are as numerous as herring roe, all elbowing for space at the top. In such a competitive environment, you need an acolyte, and fast. For the Great God Om, Brutha is the Chosen One, or at least the only One available...

Night Watch
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy, especially when there is a serial killer on the loose who targets coppers. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is back in his own rough, tough past, and he has a job to do.

***Bonus Story*** In addition to these Discworld novels, this collection also includes a full-cast dramatisation of Only You Can Save Mankind, from the Johnny Maxwell series. As an alien fleet crosses his computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow the ScreeWee into a million pieces...

'The voice cast is fantastic' - Starburst


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Ratings and reviews

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE TP's books, and having read them all over the last 20 years I thought having an audio version would be good so I could remember the finer details. Unfortunately, it would appear that the people used to give voice to the characters have not. Entirely the wrong intonation is used on a lot of the lines and so the characters don't reflect the descriptions given by TP. The Librarian, for example, says OOK! not EEP. Carrot's 'Welsh' accent is overdone and Death's voice should sound like a thousand crypt doors slamming at once, which I agree would be difficult to replicate, but at least a deep, booming clear resonant voice would have worked, not Nigel from Accounting's thin, reedy sounds. I get that the 'sound' of the characters will depend on the beholder but much of this is just wrong. Disappointing.

This is FREE elsewhere, and I am not talking about piracy. Its one a few library and public broadcasting sites where you can listen to the full thing for free legally.

as other reviewers have noted, it's a bit annoying to find the books from the chapters, so I thought I'd list them out the best I can: Mort: Chapters 1-4 Wyrd Sisters: Chapters 5-8 Guards! Guards!: Chapters 9-14 Eric: Chapters 15-18 Small Gods: Chapters 19-22 Night Watch: 23-27 misc: 28-30

About the author

Sir Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.