Neverwhere
Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi Humphreys. Gaiman later adapted the series into novel form. The series and book were partially inspired by Gene Wolfe's novel Free Live Free.
Plot
Richard Mayhew, a Scot living in London, encounters an injured girl named Door on the street one night. Despite his fiancée's protests he decides to help her; upon doing so he ceases to exist on Earth and becomes real only to the denizens of 'London Below', whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of 'London Above'. He loses his house, his job and nearly his mind as he travels London Below in an attempt to make sense out of it all, find a way back, and help Door survive as she is hunted down by hired assassins.
In London Below the various familiar names of London all take on a new significance: for example Knightsbridge becomes "Night's Bridge", a stone bridge whose darkness takes its toll in human life; The Angel, Islington is an actual angel. London Below is a parallel world in and beneath the sewers. Its inhabitants are the homeless, but also people from other times, such as Roman legionaries and medieval monks, as well as fictional and fantastical characters.
Neverwhere (disambiguation)
Neverwhere may refer to:
- Neverwhere (novel), written by Neil Gaiman in 1996
- Neverwhere, a 2005 comic book adaptation
- One of a number of stage adaptations also titled Neverwhere
- Neverwhere, a 2009 film script by Neil Gaiman, currently unproduced
- Neverwhere (radio play), broadcast in 2013
- Neverwhere, a 1968 short animation that inspired the series
- Neverwhere, the first Den paperback collection, published in 1978
Neverwhere (radio play)
Neverwhere is a radio drama based on the novel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. It was dramatised by Dirk Maggs.
Broadcast
On Saturday 16 March 2013,BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast the first, hour-long, episode of Neverwhere. The subsequent five half hour episodes were broadcast throughout the following week on Radio 4 Extra (in Mono on DAB), and made available worldwide after broadcast on BBC iPlayer. It was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 starting on Dec 25th 2013 and continuing for 6 days.
Cast
Episodes
Footnotes
Podcasts:
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by At The Gates
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by Heaven & Hell
Neverwhere
by: At The GatesDark horizon, darkest sky
No light is present
Freezing winds of lands unamiable
Haunts the wastes of nerewhere
Life doesn't belong here
Limitless, unmeasurable - time is not
As the end so is the beginning
Always was, always will be
This is where the journey ends
This is what no one returned to tell
Neverwhere
Life doesn't belong here
Dark thoughs, darkest mind
No light is prestent
I now put aside my crown of thorns
Time has come to join externity
And rest my eyes on a darker shade of colour
Eager to be erased
Innumerable stare behind frozen eyes
Wanderers strayed from eternity's path
Longed for to come, to rest at last
Limitless, unmeasurable - time is not
As the end so is the beginning
Always was, always will be
This is where the journey ends
This is what no one returned to tell
Dimensions warped in times of motionless storm
Now frozen worlds collide
As the womb of cold opens wide
Childhood has passed
Now birth will come of ages dreamed of by none
Now awaited, the circle to close
We wait for the call, lazaraus come out
Now awaited, the circle to close
We wait for the call - lazaraus come out