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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the final episode of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - Betrayal.

Join us as we discuss the winners of our Cast and Creative awards, Amy’s pity votes, the Cold War aesthetic and the whereabouts of Chekhov’s gun.

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This is the first of our two episodes on Chapter 11 - Armour. Lyra sees a city in the northern lights before entering into a complex conversation between John Faa, Farder Coram and the daemon of the witch Serafina Pekkala - a snow-goose called Kaisa. This disembodied goose explains what they know of where the missing children are being taken, paints a complex picture of the local politics and drops some minor bombshells…

Join us as Iain and Amy discuss myths about the Northern Lights, give some honest thoughts on the chapter illustration and speculate on a Bolvanger re-brand.

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Find out more about the noisy Northern Lights here (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/06/auroras-sounds-noises-explained-earth-space-astronomy/), or listen to some recordings from the Aalto experiments here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BgVMCjoWuk)

You can learn more about Aurora Borealis myths here (https://www.theaurorazone.com/about-the-aurora/aurora-legends), or read up on Norse myths in particular here. (https://www.hurtigruten.co.uk/inspiration/experiences/northern-lights/norse-myths-and-legends/)

We skirt around the multiverse and many worlds theories in this episode, which you can read more about here (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028154-200-when-the-multiverse-and-many-worlds-collide/).

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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the Episode 7 of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - The Fight to the Death.

Join us as we discuss the winners of our Cast and Creative awards, cut back and forth like we’re slicing bread with the subtle knife and discuss the absence of armour and She-Bears.

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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the Episode 6 of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - The Daemon Cages.

Join us as we discuss the winners of our Cast and Creative awards, Amy throws out some very obscure references, further speculation on where exactly the cloud pine is and both of us have confused thoughts about super-powered Serafina.

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The Gyptians and Lyra embark for Trollesund - a town on the coast of Lapland where witch consuls, aeronauts and bears are all to be found. We learn more about what your daemon says about you and about a mysterious prophesy concerning Lyra and the fate of us all.

Amy says seamen a lot, Iain attempts a bear’s voice and neither of us can pronounce Hatuumaasaari. Pizzly bears abound.

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Here is a picture of a scarlet ibis - the most likely flame-red bittern-sized bird from our world.

https://www.pexels.com/photo/scarlet-ibis-perching-on-rock-1598524/ (credit: Magda Ehlers via Pexel)

Iain offends all Scottish people by disbelieving that ‘Scots’ exists. As proof of this language being alive and well (and definitely not just because Amy is writing the notes this week), here’s a wee link tae ‘Scots Wikipaedia’, which includes pages on Harry Potter, Haggis and a short section on Sir Philip himself.

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipaedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman

You can read this mysterious ‘History of the Alethiometer’ here, and decide for yourselves if this is canon or not...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150320072443/http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/materials/history.php

For more on Guilio Camillo and his concept of the Theatre of Memory, check out this interesting article. http://socks-studio.com/2019/03/03/spatializing-knowledge-giulio-camillos-theatre-of-memory-1519-1544/#targetText=The%20theatre%20itself%20refers%20to,of%20memory%20into%20ideal%20places.

You can read more about Giordano Bruno’s fascinating life here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

In this episode, we talk about the various items on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum from the Aleutian islands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleut.

You can see some pictures of the items on display here, such as the astounding waterproof coat made from seal intestine: http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID7022.html

Some more information on New Denmark can be found here: https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/New_Denmark

In terms of theories about why parts of the Americas are called ‘New Denmark’ in Lyra’s world, we discussed Vitus Bering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus_Bering) and Peter Freuchen (https://allthatsinteresting.com/peter-freuchen)

This week, Iain reveals some ridiculous names for polar bear/grizzly bear hybrids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hybrid

And - lest we forget - Farder Coram categorically doesn’t look at explosions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the Episode 5 of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - The Lost Boy.

Join us as we discuss the winners of our Cast and Creative awards, cloud-pine surfing, The Onesie of Doom and the many, many tears that Amy cried.

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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the Episode 4 of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - Armour.

Join us as we discuss the winners of our Cast and Creative awards, daemon duet dreams, Hype-Hester and maybe even a few thoughts about Iorek.

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Whilst planning schemes to stow away for the journey North, Lyra attaches herself to Farder Coram - offering help with interpreting the intelligence received from the Gyptian’s master of spies Benjamin de Ruyter. Farder Coram takes Lyra under his wing and through his guidance begins to learn how to use the alethiometer - with surprising outcomes.

Join us as we discuss librairies of legal record (rock on), the “soldier’s death” and why some answers from the alethiometer might take a very very long time.

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You can find out more about the Bodleian Library in our Oxford, here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/history

Check out our Instagram or Twitter pages for a photogram of a gorgeous tortoiseshell Maine coon cat, or search ‘Maine Coon Tortoiseshell’ here (courtesy of barnabashohl on Pixabay), along with some pictures of us with longbows and our weapons wall...

If you want to use your very own Amy-“Whaaaaat?” notification sound, you can find it here: https://twitter.com/DarkMaterialPod/status/1182049441538351105

We discuss where on earth Lapland is in Lyra’s world - more information here: https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/Lapland

Iain mentions yeomanry. Again. Here is a link to more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow#Social_importance

For photograms of us with longbows and a photogram of our weapons wall, take a look here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5CZ7j9lLB1/

Amy talks about the scene in Gladiator when a character requests a “soldier’s death” - here is that scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkVwMAinC6M

To find out more about the Crookes radiometer, you can watch a helpful introductory video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7NEI_C9Yh0), or read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer

If you fancy reading more about creepy automatons, some good ol’ Golem myths are a good place to start! https://www.britannica.com/topic/golem-Jewish-folklore

We talk about the mediaeval myth of chameleons living only on air this week (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2bKnSDQQKgvMPChch0C3T4g/nine-colourful-facts-about-chameleons), and Iain quotes Two Men of Verona, by William Shakespeare. https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/twogentlemen/page_46/

If you want to experience the smell of Colby in Lyra’s world, Amy recommends the Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby (http://www.fishingheritage.com/) and Iain reminisces about the Justin-Bieber infused Herring fishing museum in Bergen (https://fiskerimuseum.museumvest.no/english/)

As confused as us by fo’c’sles? Learn more about the etymology of ‘forecastle’ here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/forecastle?ref=etymonline_crossreference

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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the Episode 3 of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - The Spies.

Join us as we discuss the winners of our Cast and Creative awards, if Dafne Keen is drunk, indignant daemons and cute ermine yawns.

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In this episode, Iain and Amy give their thoughts and reactions to the Episode 2 of Season 1 of His Dark Materials - The Idea of North.

Join us as we discuss Oral B skulls, sexy water and death by genital.

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