This time, Lyra went to Lord Asriel’s pretty lovely ‘prison’…Roger gets freaked out by Lord Asriel’s wolfish ‘welcome’ of the two of them and Lyra has an awkward reunion with her dad, including finally confronting him about why he’s lied about his relationship to her. Lord Asriel mostly ignores this (rude) and instead decides to sit down with Lyra in his swag library and tell her a few stories about Dust, the Magisterium and the Oblation board…

Join us this week, as we disagree about subtext, get very jealous of Asriel’s interior design skills and geek-out over zombie-lore.

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You can see a full version of Amy’s artwork for our episodes and our quotes for the week here.

As we’re nearing the end of the book, if you have questions for us about Northern Lights or about the Golden Compass film, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch here.

You can watch this short video about the different gaits of an Icelandic horse, including the ‘tölt’ gait that we describe this episode

If you’re a Brooklyn 99 fan, be sure to check out this post where we compare Brooklyn 99 and HDM characters - is Iorek the Captain Holt to Amy’s Jake Peralta? Be wary of spoilers in the comments…

Find out more about the delightful and genteel sounding Cassington here.

Here are the original translations from our world’s Bible which Amy quotes in this episode.

If you’re interested to find out more about the relation of intercision and circumcision in His Dark Materials, we recommend this excellent essay by Robert Darvey (NOTE: SPOILER HEAVY)

This is a summary of the dark and disturbing history of castration.

If you want to geek out over the history of zombies (including much more about how the idea spread in popular culture), here is a good place to start.

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