Mitt at last came out with the real cause of his disappointment with the North. "They told me it was free here," he said. "They told me it was good."

North and South, history-time and story-time, past kings and future kings, bicycle horses and evil-haunted trains and a really truly impressive array of bad dads all meet on Dalemark's green roads in the book it took Diana Wynne Jones fifteen years to write.

Transcript available here, and we'll be back in two weeks with Deep Secret!