2024-07-23
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Guest today is an English writer for video games, tv, film, comics and books.
Born into a literary household, her father was the celebrated fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett.
She studied journalism at the University of Arts in London.
After graduating, she joined the staff of PC Zone where she worked her way up from editorial assistant to the role of section editor.
In 2002 she left journalism to write video games, soon earning a BAFTA nomination for her work on heavenly sword.
In 2013, she wrote the award winning reboot of Tomb Raider, then its sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider, for which she won the Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing award for from the Writers Guild of America.
My guest has also written comics for DC, Dark Horse and Marvel and her film and TV projects include collaborations with Film4 and the Henson Company as well as being the first woman to write a fighting fantasy novel.
She has co authored campaigns and the Complete Role Playing Guide for Pets.
Last year she hosted the BBC Radio 4 series Mythical Creatures, a compendium of Britain's mythic beasts and what they tell us about our history.
Welcome Rhianna Pratchett.
Hello.
Hi Rhi, how are you?
Yeah, I'm not too bad, thank you.
So we are going to talk about your long and varied career, but first I wondered if I might ask you a little bit about your family.
I've had guests on before from illustrious families, but you're my first guest who's responsible for the estate of a parent, the literary estate you oversee, among other things, the multimedia adaptations of your father Terry's beloved Discworld novels.
I imagine that's quite a heavy burden.
What's the most challenging aspect of maintaining and protecting that legacy?