Obsessed With... His Dark Materials

Obsessed With...

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the arrival of BBC One’s His Dark Materials, Obsessed With...Killing Eve's Zing Tsjeng brings you a special interview with Philip Pullman and Anne-Marie Duff, who plays Ma Costa, a boat-dwelling Gyptian. Zing discovers the origin story of Lyra's daemon, how Anne-Marie brought the character of Ma Costa to life, and Phillip's process for creating the world we'll see on screen.

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0:00.0	It's 2003 in Birmingham.
0:04.4	Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here.
0:07.1	They were capable of murder.
0:08.4	Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies.
0:15.6	The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore.
0:17.8	We're going to be even more violent than you.
0:19.6	Before turning on each other.
0:22.0	I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys.
0:27.6	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:30.1	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:34.8	Oh, hi there, I'm Zing Singh, one of the BBC's obsessed with family.
0:45.0	I had the pleasure of dissecting Killing Eve episode by episode,
0:48.0	and I've pulled literally every single string in the book
0:52.0	to be back here for this one-off special
0:54.2	edition of obsessed with his dark materials. As you can probably tell I have many
1:00.4	obsessions and one of them is Philip Pullman's books, especially the His Dark Materials
1:05.2	trilogy and the New Book of Dust series. I remember reading the original trilogy as a kid. I must have been
1:11.5	about 10 years old or so and I was completely
1:15.2	entranced by this whole universe that Philip Pullman had created, this grand old
1:20.4	world where if you were a kid you could literally do anything you could bring down
1:23.6	governments you could have secret powers you could have a destiny that was
1:27.3	foretold by witches it was just magical I daydreamed about which demon I'd
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