Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

  • Author: Terry Pratchett
  • Page count: 400
  • Started on: 2025/02/14
  • Finished on: 2025/03/04
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • ★★★☆☆

Illustrated cover for Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection featuring a large ensemble of characters from Pratchett's Discworld series. The characters, drawn in a whimsical and detailed style, stand together on a barren landscape, with a large open book at the foreground. The title is displayed in bold, ornate lettering at the top, with the BBC logo in the upper left corner

This is a collection of 7 are audio play/drama adaptations of Pratchett books, made by/for BBC Radio. I’ve happily been working my way through the Discworld audiobooks for a while now, so I expected to love these adaptions too.

It started out well, the audio quality and voice quality are great. But I found that the adaptations varied a lot in quality.

The first book (Mort) I had consumed on audiobook recently, and it was a good calibration: these adaptations are way too short to do the story justice. That was fine on Mort, but I had a terrible time trying to make sense of Wyrd Sisters. Outside of these, the adaptions were OK on Eric, Small Gods and Only You Can Save Mankind, and I enjoyed Guards! Guards! and Night Watch (I’m a sucker for Vimes’ stories).

Overall though I would only recommend this to folks who’ve already read the stories and are looking for a short recap. I will happily resume reading the unabridged individual Pratchett works, narrated by Stephen Briggs.

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