Terry Pratchett

Hogfather TV deal an offer Pratchett couldn't refuse

His tales of a disc-shaped world resting on four elephants carried through space on the back of a giant turtle have hooked millions of readers worldwide. And Terry Pratchett, the best-selling author, now hopes to follow in the footsteps of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter films with a £6m screen adaptation of his fantasy novel Hogfather.

Ciar Byrne, The Independent, 9th February 2006

To the Discworld for Mort (11pm, Radio 4), a four-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel. An unemployable lad is taken on as the Grim Reaper's apprentice and soon finds that ushering souls into the next world is not all it's cracked up to be. Carl Prekopp plays our boy Mort, Geoffrey Whitehead is Death and Anton Lesser narrates.

Phil Daoust, The Guardian, 15th June 2004