For the Great God Om, Brutha is the Chosen One, or at least the only One available…. In such a competitive environment, you need an acolyte and fast. On the Discworld, Gods are as numerous as herring roe, all elbowing for space at the top. Instead he gets Rincewind, the Disc’s most incompetent wizard. 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. 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. In Ankh-Morpork, the Haves and the Have-Nots are about fall out. But Granny Weatherwax finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe…. A child heir and the kingdom’s crown are both missing. In fact, it’s a dream job – until he discovers that it can be killer for his love life….
He’ll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn’t even compulsory. Hopeless young peasant Mort is hired as an apprentice to Death. 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. 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…. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series.A collection of the full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Terry Pratchett. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don't have. Witches don't have these kind of dynastic problems themselves – in fact, they don’t have leaders. An infant heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. A king has been cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. Three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - have gathered on a lonely heath.
'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. he is a satirist of enormous talent' The Times 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own.
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