This week we join Lyra in the fish shed as the full weight of what the Gobblers are doing to the children hits her. She takes poor ‘half-child’ Tony Mackarios back to the Gyptian camp on Iorek’s back, towards help, hot food and sleep.

Join us as we both get very distracted by lots of rabbit holes, get over-excited about fencing with Iorek and find another link to Iain’s favourite talking point: Tsar bomba! Again!

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To find out more about the little-understood phenomenon of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (or ‘broken heart syndrome’), start here!

If you want to learn more about Svalbard in our world, start by travelling here and then we certainly recommend Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (available here or as a brilliantly performed audiobook) - it’s not for the faint-hearted!

We talk more about Novaya Zemlya and Tsar Bomba this episode - we don’t know why you expected anything less.

We highly recommend you check out the astounding town coat of arms for Zheleznogorsk, here…it has to be seen to be believed!

Do you also have an urge to use random objects as a size-reference? This site has a number of wierd and wonderful suggestions.

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Music by: Jaymen Persaud

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