The Amber Spyglass
Novel by Philip PullmanWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
Rhianna DhillonGUEST
But I think those got better and better, which is quite rare with trilogies.
Rhianna DhillonGUEST
I think sometimes the last is always the worst, but not in the case of the Amber Spyglass,
Nikki BediHOST
which was wonderful.
Nikki BediHOST
Thank you so much, both of you.
Ásdís ElgsdóttirHOST
Yeah.
Ásdís ElgsdóttirHOST
I think that there is such an interesting parallel between, like, Bonneville thinking that children have no purpose or point in asking questions about difficult concepts and what happens in The Amber Spyglass.
Ásdís ElgsdóttirHOST
There's a moment where Lyra is asking the Lady Salmakia, one of the, like, I don't know what the race of, of peoples is, but they're the, like, small people who ride, uh, birds and large bugs to get around.
Ásdís ElgsdóttirHOST
They're spies, and they use those things-
Amanda MortlockGUEST
And then got really into it.
Amanda MortlockGUEST
And I think possibly the Golden Compass, not sorry, the last one, the Amber Spyglass hadn't come out yet.
JonathanHOST
Okay.
Amanda MortlockGUEST
um and so i was waiting for it and it was my first experience of like oh my gosh like the series i love like isn't finished yet
Charlotte McDonnellHOST
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Libby WatsonHOST
didn't die because he's not real there's a perfect analog to this in my mind because In the His Dark Materials book, spoiler for a 30-year-old book, but at the end of The Amber Spyglass, Will and Lyra are separated by having to go into their separate universes, return to the universes from whence they came, and their burgeoning adolescent love gets cut off.
Libby WatsonHOST
But they agree to, every day on Midsummer's Day, at midday, go and sit on a particular bench in the Botanic Gardens in Oxford, which is in both of their worlds, and thus feel as if they are close to one another.
Libby WatsonHOST
It's unbelievably moving, especially if you're 11, and there is that real bench that has been identified in the Botanic Garden in Oxford, and I went to that at midday, on Midsummer's Day, when I was like 13, and it was really nice.
speaker_2HOST
We are talking about Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.
speaker_1HOST
Comprising The Golden Compass or Northern Lights in the UK, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.
speaker_2HOST
If there was ever a series that pushed the boundaries of philosophical ambition in literature ostensibly aimed at younger readers, it is this one.
speaker_2HOST
It's breathtaking.