Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series - so if you want to avoid this, cut back through to our spoiler-free read-through of the books now…

Welcome to our introductory episode to a new series on the Dark Material Podcast: our thoughts, feelings and reflections on the new BBC / HBO TV adaptation. Starting with Season 1: Northern Lights.

In this episode we run through some of the background to the series, the cast, what the trailers tell us and some of our hopes & fears for this adaptation.

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A summary of the teasers, trailers and other bits and pieces already available can be found here: https://www.spoilertv.com/2019/02/his-dark-materials-first-look-teaser.html

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Music by: Jaymen Persaud

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