Given the amount of love out there right now for all things NEVERWHERE, I thought I should point out that Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab have a Neverwhere line of scents. Smell like the Marquis de Carabas (A splash of bay rum, leather, dusty black wool, massoia bark, and opium residue), or like Door, or like a Floating Market (A cacophony of curious scents: copaiba balsam, petitgrain, citrus rind, sinicuichi accord, betel nut, wasabi root, coconut palm, and wattleseed layered atop innumerable strange herbs, spices, and woods.) or Night’s Bridge or one of twelve different magical wonderful scents.
Check it out at http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/londonbelow.html
And the best bit of it is the scents benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. This is a good thing.
Finished listening to the last episode of Neverwhere. The fact that there’s so much more potential story left open is made all the more maddening since Gaiman doesn’t write sequels. It was some act of god or a merciful turn of the universe that Anansi Boys and American Gods is set within the same universe, to say nothing of the fact that he did a novella with Shadow versus Grendel apparently just for the hell of it. Neverwhere’s what got me into Gaiman’s stuff to begin with, I’ve read it at least seven times, and now the radio play’s done and I feel bereft of the story all over again.
guys you don’t understand how much I need a Neverwhere sequel or spinoff it’s actually painful
I’m nearly finished with “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back”, for a Gardner Dozois anthology called ROGUES. It has de Carabas in it, along with the Shepherds of Shepherds Bush, the Mushroom People, and the Elephant…
It’s not that I don’t write sequels. It’s that I get distracted by things I’ve never done and don’t know how to do before I ever get to them.
Possibly the best Croup and Vandemar I’ve ever seen. Probably because it’s the first one I’ve seen that scared me.
Listening to Neverwhere and doodling. So here’s my take on Door (making tea in Richard’s flat)… she doesn’t look anything like the voice actress. oops.
She doesn’t have to…
The subterranean environs of London Below are brought to life in a new clip from the Radio 4/4 Extra adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Benedict Cumberbatch – as the enigmatic angel, Islington – half sings, half whispers some haunting verses as he stalks the echoing confines of his underground domain.
For an extra-eerie effect, open this page in two (or more) windows and start the clip playing for a second time, say 15/20 seconds after the first one has started (the more windows you open, the weirder it gets…)
The Radio Times website, ladies and gentlemen….
UPDATE: Neverwhere - BBC Radio 4 (Episode 1) & BBC Radio 4 Extra (Episode 2-6) [Worldwide, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio 4 Extra]
I have updated the date for Neverwhere (BBC Radio 4) series onto the Cumberbatch google calendar. The revised start time for all 6 episodes are:
Episode 1: 16 March, 2:30 PM London time (find your local time here).
Episode 2: 18 March, 6:30 PM London time (find your local time here).
Episode 3: 19 March, 6:30 PM London time (find your local time here).
Episode 4: 20 March, 6:30 PM London time (find your local time here).
Episode 5: 21 March, 6:30 PM London time (find your local time here).
Episode 6: 22 March, 6:30 PM London time (find your local time here).
All episodes will be available to catch up on demand until 29 March 2013.
More detail about this entire series are behind the cut.
I hope this is useful…
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it available in the US!!!!
Wherever you are in the world, you should be able to access BBC’s iPlayer, which should have each episode of Neverwhere up for a week after it’s broadcast. (It won’t stream to mobile devices, or not in the same way, although you should be able to get it on your phone when it’s broadcast live, or by using TuneIn or any of the radio apps.)
So when it is available in the UK, it will be available EVERYWHERE.
Neverwhere… From the Radio Times website:
As anticipation mounts among fantasy fans ahead of the Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, RadioTimes.com can reveal the first exclusive shot of the star-studded cast, which reads like a who’s who of cult TV.
Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch and X-Men’s James McAvoy are joined by Game of Thrones and former Fades star Natalie Dormer, Doctor Who alumnus Sophie Okondeo and Homeland’s David Harewood for the tale of London Below, an alternate reality beneath the capital where famous landmarks take on a life of their own.
Screen legends Christopher Lee and Bernard Cribbins also star in an adaptation that is being described as an “audio film”.
The six-part series begins with an hour-long episode on Saturday 16 March on Radio 4 and continues with five 30-minute instalments on Radio 4 Extra from Monday 18 March.
More photos and news to follow in the coming weeks…
Via http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-20/benedict-cumberbatch-and-the-cast-of-neverwhere—-first-photo-and-air-date-revealed
NEVERWHERE MYSTERIES ANSWERED
If you are curious about the full NEVERWHERE Radio Cast list, actors and cast, it is up on my blog at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/11/author-meets-world.html.
(Actually, it’s not complete, but it’s got about 2/3rds of the cast on it.)
This just arrived in my inbox. They are recording the Neverwhere Radio series right this moment.
Best cast. Best adapter-director. Best everything. AND I AM NOT EVEN IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS THEM.
(I’ll try to reblog the first person who identifies everyone in the photo correctly. I’ll give you a clue to start you off with: Benedict Cumberbatch is on the left and he is playing the Angel Islington.)
