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The Authority: Theft

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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 3 of Season 2, “Theft” in which Will loses Lyra, Lyra loses the alethiometer, and Mrs. Coulter has a meeting of the minds with Lee Scoresby. Plus: a deep dive into the character of Lee and the series’ attempt to give this cowboy aeronaut a tragic backstory. 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

Show The old is always is 18 and 5 years old

0:15.0

30 years old, lost to men and culture in happen and

0:19.0

be right for a hair house for the wrongs.

0:22.0

Fly bake. No,ir I, then we've got the next,

0:25.0

off Lufthans a group point careers.

0:28.0

Welcome to the Authority,

0:30.0

slates His Dark Materials Podcast.

0:32.0

It's season 2, episode 3, Slate His Dark Materials Podcast.

0:32.6

It's season 2, episode 3, theft.

0:36.0

We're Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.

0:39.7

My name is Laura Miller.

0:41.2

I'm a books and culture columnist for Slate, and my demon is a

0:44.1

books and culture columnist for slate and my demon is a sea otter named sake.

0:46.2

I'm Dan Coise. I'm a writer at slate and my demon is a prairie volle named

0:49.9

Gilda. All right we're here to talk about episode three in the second season of his dark materials.

0:57.1

And in this episode, everybody's looking for someone.

1:00.6

The witches and Mrs. Coulter are trying to find Lyra. The pale-faced man is The has something that might help Lira, and Will and Lira are looking for Will's father

1:15.8

at the direction of the Eletheometer.

1:18.3

And then there's Lord Boryall who's looking for not someone, but something, an object that will be very important in the story ahead of us.

1:25.3

The man that made that doorway has a knife.

1:30.1

I think he's hiding in the tower, the one with the carved angels surrounded.

1:37.0

Totally, actually.

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