-bbcsurprise- I Love A Good Challenge - Juniper... Guide

She scribbled the clue on a scrap of parchment. Where the old world meets the new… the needle points to truth.

She looked at Meridian. “We’re going to Scotland.”

At Greenwich Observatory, she stood astride the brass line of the Meridian, one foot in the east, one in the west. Tourists snapped photos. She closed her eyes. Needle points to truth. A compass needle. But also… a sewing needle? A record player needle? -BBCSurprise- I Love A Good Challenge - Juniper...

The parrot tilted its head. “About bloody time,” it said.

She found a café with Wi-Fi, plugged the card into her phone. A single video file played. She scribbled the clue on a scrap of parchment

Juniper’s hands froze over a cracked 1940s globe of a pre-war Europe. She loved a good challenge. More than that, she needed one. Her shop, Cartographic Curiosities , was three months behind on rent, and her only company was a sassy parrot named Meridian who liked to shout “You’re broke!” at customers.

She arrived at dusk. Tourists were thinning out. Lion number three, the one facing the National Gallery—its left eye socket was a shallow, empty pit. “We’re going to Scotland

The ship that never sailed turned out to be a pristine, never-launched 18th-century man-o’-war model, hidden in a dusty basement corridor. Taped to its hull was a cassette tape—an actual cassette . She borrowed a Walkman from a bemused guard.