What is Neverwhere?
Once in a while a television series comes along that stretches the imagination and pushes fiction in exciting new directions. One such is Twin Peaks. Another is Babylon 5. To this list we can add Neverwhere, a six-part television series first broadcast in 1996. Written by Neil Gaiman, probably best known for the dreamy and nightmarish Sandman graphic novels, Neverwhere tells the story of Richard Mayhew, who discovers a strange alternative London peopled by weird and wonderful characters and places – many of them interpretations of places on the London Tube map. Gaiman’s Neverwhere is a place where an Earl holds Court, where there is a real live Angel, and dangerous people. Lots of them. Richard joins a girl called Door to help her discover who slaughtered her family… but no brief description can really do it justice. The series was a production of Lenny Henry’s Crucial Films company, and Eno wrote the music. How did Eno get involved? Neil Gaiman explained: “Eno did the music for Neve
