Tag: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ radio adaptation audiobook review

Neverwhere began life as a six-part BBC Two series in 1996. Sadly, a limited budget restrained its potential and it was in prose that the story truly came alive. Neil Gaiman, then known primarily for his comic work, is now a world-renowned author whose work straddles the worlds of prose, film and television. Neverwhere has never gone away though, with a comic version, stage adaptations and attempts at a movie in the intervening years.

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Win Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ audiobook!

To celebrate AudioGO’s release of the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on audiobook (RRP £16.25) for the first time on Thursday 5 September, we’ve got CDs to give away to four of our Twitter followers!

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‘Doctor Who’: ‘Nightmare In Silver’ spoiler-free review

We all love a bit of history, especially robot history, right? And there are few bits as fascinating as ‘The Turk’, an 18th century chess playing robot that amazed the folk of the time with its ability to beat a human at the game.

It was one of the first instances of man vs machine, and the concept of The Turk is something that writer Neil Gaiman clearly loves, for it’s embedded deep within ‘Nightmare in Silver’s’ programming.

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