Lyra spends a day avoiding the attentions of Mrs Coulter - newly arrived at Bolvangar - and gathering intel for her plan to start investigating deeper into the goings on at The Station. However, despite Lyra’s best laid plans, her liberation of the daemons from their cages during the fire drill has been discovered and the staff are all on edge.

Join us as this week, as we get into an accent duel, Iain makes some stonking analogies and Amy surprises no-one by randomly singing Aladdin songs.

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Learn more about the origin of ‘ordinateur’ here, or get in touch below if you can give us some French language insight!

If you want to learn more about the electric scalpel - it’s use today and the history of it’s development - this is a very interesting article on the topic.

On a similarly morbid point, there is some high level information about the ‘death sentence with reprieve’ as applied in China here.

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