Carpe Jugulum

When the King of Lancre makes the mistake of inviting vampires to his daughter's naming ceremony, Granny Weatherwax and the Lancre witches find themselves in a war against a vampire clan who have updated their methods: these Magpyrs have trained themselves to resist all the traditional weaknesses, and they are very, very clever about it. Meanwhile, a young priest named Mightily Oats arrives for what he thought would be a simple ceremony and discovers that his faith is about to be tested in ways his religious training never anticipated.

The full-cast production features Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, and Steven Cree in a Discworld performance that embraces the novel's theatrical qualities with genuine joy. Each actor brings a distinct register to Pratchett's famously dense wordplay, and the ensemble format makes the comedy land with the timing of a stage production rather than a solo read. At over eleven hours, the recording is among the most fully realized adaptations in the Discworld audio catalog.