Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series, AND the UK schedule of His Dark Materials season 2…so if you want to avoid that, cut back through to our episodes on the book series.

In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to episode 6 of Season 2 of His Dark Materials - Malice

Join us as we talk about the Magisterium’s Council of Shit, the ongoing wait for Antonio Banderas and whether there is quite enough blood.

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Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series, AND the UK schedule of His Dark Materials season 2…so if you want to avoid that, cut back through to our episodes on the book series.

In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to episode 5 of Season 2 of His Dark Materials - The Scholar

Join us as Iain forgets how design works, Amy shares her theories about separation and we both freak out about ALL the beautiful parallels and deeper currents of the additional scenes.

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Learn more about the great courses and work being done at the Phoenix Studio (near Thame, Oxfordshire) here.

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In this chapter, Lyra and Will plan the Heist to end all Heists, as they move through Cittigazze and try to get within stealing distance of Sir Charles Latrom’s mansion…but not everything goes to plan. Because nothing ever goes to plan…

Join us as we discuss the power of a voice, Will’s Training Montage and what lax background-checking they have in Will’s world.

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If you want to learn more about the English Council of State, here is a good place to start!

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Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series, AND the UK schedule of His Dark Materials season 2…so if you want to avoid that, cut back through to our episodes on the book series.

In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to episode 4 of Season 2 of His Dark Materials - Tower of the Angels

Join us as we write a new Lee-centric ‘Bacon episode’, review Boreal’s misogyny and Amy tries to recreate her favourite scene (complete with choir).

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You can find all of Lo the Lynx’s writing here, but we especially recommend their review episodes of the recent TV series, looking at the show specifically from a feminist perspective (Ep 2 and Ep 3)

More information on the process of voting in a Pope as it is used today, here.

On Father McPhail’s bedroom design: This is the tweet which we talk about from an Irish Priest of their set up for their evening prayer, and this is the Church of the Light in Japan by architect Tadao Ando

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Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series, AND the UK schedule of His Dark Materials season 2…so if you want to avoid that, cut back through to our episodes on the book series.

In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to episode 3 of Season 2 of His Dark Materials - Theft.

Join us as we rave over all the amazing extra scenes, lose our shit over portable Pan and speculate about Boreal’s ‘collection’.

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In this chapter, Lyra and Will leave Sir Charles in Oxford, heading back into Cittigazze to try to find the mysterious knife that Charles wants so badly. As they arrive at the Tower of the Angels in the city, they carefully scout out how to get inside and soon notice a strange young man inside, behaving strangely, talking to himself and dancing around alone, slicing the knife through the air.

Join us as we review The Art of War according to Will Parry, design a secret Sraffies handshake and discuss how we would behave in ‘Tower of Angels: the computer game’.

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Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series, AND the UK schedule of His Dark Materials season 2…so if you want to avoid that, cut back through to our episodes on the book series.

In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the second episode of Season 2 of His Dark Materials - The Cave.

Join us as we discuss Lyra’s all-powerful ‘innocent face’, boggle at voting systems and geek out over quantum computers.

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Here is an article on the quantum computer that inspired The Cave! Well worth a read…

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Be warned, this episode will contain all manner of spoilers from both His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust book series, AND the UK schedule of His Dark Materials season 2…so if you want to avoid that, cut back through to our episodes on the book series.

In this episode, Iain and Amy give their (excitable) thoughts and reactions to the first ever episode of Season 2 of His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies.

Join us as we discuss some mysterious title sequence additions, rave over ring snogs and disagree about angelic garden furniture.

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Join our discussion and share your thoughts with us!

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We also recommend the below excellent sneak previews of future episodes, as well as great behind the scenes looks, and interviews with cast and creators:

- When Worlds Collide - interview with cast and creators, and some exclusive footage from upcoming episodes

- JoPari and the witches - interview with ANDREW SCOTT (John Parry), JADE ANOUKA (Ruta Skadi), RUTA GEDMINTAS (Serafina Pekkala), writer FRANCESCA GARDINER and costume designer CAROLINE MCCALL.

- Creating Cittigazze - interview with executive producer and production designer JOEL COLLINS, casting director KAHLEEN CRAWFORD, VFX Art Director and Previs Supervisor DAN MAY, Framestore's Senior VFX Supervisor RUSSELL DODGSON and composer LORNE BALFE.

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In this chapter, Lyra gathers intel from some local Citigazze kids, before going through to Will’s Oxford to meet Mary Malone. But when she gets there, she finds that two police officers are waiting for her and want to question her about why she’s here.

Join us as we discuss our spitting skills, Amy gets disturbed by smells and Iain gets smug about science.

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Here is a disturbing history of our messed up persecution of cats.

WOAH, TURNING LEAD INTO GOLD IS KIND OF POSSIBLE, SORT OF?

Here is some more info about fancy smancy Porter’s lodges in Oxford colleges (also used in other universities with swanky collegiate systems!)

Continuing Lyra’s tour of Oxford:

- The road where she hides in Norham Gardens

- Summertown - where Sir Charles drives her from there, near the public library

- And here is a map with Norham Gardens, the point where Sir Charles drops Lyra off in Summertown and the rough location of the window to Citigazze, all marked on it.

Some more info about the use of masks in Greek theatre here

THIS is the hilarious facial expression we think Lyra pulls which is ‘like a Greek mask’!

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We are thrilled to be talking to Faye and Rachael (from the Her Dark Materials podcast) about the characters of Northern Lights. We really dig into it here, so join us as we discuss our favourites, our least favourites and all the layers of complexity in between!

This episode is spoiler heavy for Northern Lights the book and Series 1 of the TV adaptation, but otherwise spoiler free.

Many thanks to Faye and Rachael for their time and thoughts, AND for missing the Bake Off in our honour! You can find their creations at the below links:

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We can recommend checking out Rachael’s shop too, here!

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