The Authority: The Tower of the Angels

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

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Welcome to The Authority, Slate’s deep dive into the world(s) of HBO’s His Dark Materials. Each week, Slate’s scholars of experimental theology Dan Kois and Laura Miller discuss the HBO series and Philip Pullman’s original trilogy. This week, they cover Episode 4 of Season 2, “The Tower of the Angels,” in which Will meets the subtle knife, Lee meets the Hot Priest, and Mary Malone meets Dust. Plus: a deep dive into the Guild of Philosophers and the mysteries of the subtle knife. Email: asktheauthority@slate.com Podcast production by Phil Surkis. Dan Kois on Twitter: @dankois Laura Miller on Twitter: @magiciansbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world's changing.
0:02.0	We've all sensed it.
0:05.0	The prophecy is clear.
0:08.0	Our duty is to protect the girl and boy wherever they are.
0:17.8	Something happened in this world.
0:20.3	People are going to be looking for us.
0:28.0	And I'm looking for a girl named Lyra.
0:35.0	Welcome to the Authority, slates His Dark Materials Podcast. It's season 2, episode 4, The Tower of the Angels.
0:40.0	We're Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.
0:44.3	My name is Laura Miller. I'm a books and culture columnist for Slate
0:47.8	and my demon is a sea otter named Saki.
0:50.3	And I'm Nan Koes. I'm a writer at Slate and my demon is a prairie vole named Gilda.
0:55.0	Well, Dan, this is a jam-packed episode.
0:58.0	Is it ever?
0:59.0	Yeah, we begin with some very Lord of the Rings style voiceover about the subtle knife and its origins.
1:05.8	We have Lee Scorsby finding Stanislaus Grumman, Mr. Kurtzing it up, way up on the
1:11.7	Yennese River, where he has become a shaman and drops more crucial info about the knife,
1:18.0	that even more than we got from the initial voiceover. We have Will and Lyra finding a secret entrance to the
1:24.7	tower and discovering who it is who is up there.
1:28.7	There's a big fight scene that leads to a major development for Will. We have witches attacking the magisterium so they can
1:35.3	travel through Asriel's anomaly. We have Lee and Grumman not too far behind heading up to the
1:41.8	Arctic to go through it themselves and find Azrael.
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