His dark materials : [videorecording]. Season 2 HBO [presents] ; producer, Brian Donovan ; producer, Stephen Haren ; executive producers, Julie Gardner, Ryan Rasmussen ; executive producers, Tom Hooper, Deborah Forte ; executive producers, Toby Emmerich, Carolyn Blackwood ; executive producers, Joel Collins, Jamie Childs ; executive producer, Philip Pullman ; executive producer, Jack Thorne ; executive producer, Dan McCulloch ; executive producer, Jane Tranter ; series producer, Roopesh Parekh ; in association with BBC Studios Distribution, Anton, Katja Motion Picture Corp., and New Line Productions, Inc. ; Bad Wolf for BBC.
Lyra, the young protagonist of the story, lives in Jordan College, Oxford. Placed there at the request of her Uncle, Lord Asriel, she lives a sheltered life among the scholars and college staff while under the watchful protection of the Master and Librarian Scholar Charles. When the glamorous and mesmeric Mrs. Coulter enters Lyra’s life, she embarks upon a dangerous journey of discovery from Oxford to London. Here she meets Father MacPhail, Lord Boreal, and journalist Adele Starminster at a glittering society party where she first hears about the sinister General Oblation Board. Lyra is subsequently thrown into the nomadic world of the boat dwelling Gyptians, Ma Costa, Farder Coram, John Faa, Raymond Van Geritt, Jack Verhoeven, and Benjamin de Ruyter, who take her North in her quest. Once in the North she meets charismatic aeronaut and adventurer Lee Scoresby who joins them on their epic journey and who becomes one of Lyra’s closest allies.
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