So here’s another completely unnecessary detail the creators of The Terror got right – Dickens’ speaking desk, which he had specially built to use on his book performance tours.

Also, when Lady Franklin starts and finishes talking, you can hear a magpie in the background.  There’s an old augury to do with the number of magpies, which starts ‘one for sorrow…’  It might have been a rogue bird literally within earshot of filming, but it comes at just the right quiet moments to hear it, so I suspect the work of a sound designer …