“They feel very much like the voice of the great man himself commenting on the action. Nighy said he was honoured to “bring to life one of the funniest, quirkiest and best-loved aspects of Terry Pratchett’s world … They are his personal commentary on the action, little snippets of information or funny asides,” he said. The Patrician was the Man he had the Vote,” footnoting a line from Mort about the “accession of the Patrician”, is a classic of its kind, as is “Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling ‘banana’, but didn’t know how you stopped”, footnoting “I have drawern a picture of a banananana dakry” in Witches Abroad. “Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. Nighy, meanwhile, will appear in all titles where there are footnotes Pratchett was a sucker for a good annotation. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/AFP/Getty Images
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