SEASON 2 EPISODE 5: FATE

We're halfway! In chapters 9 and 10 of Neverwhere, Richard and Door crash a fancy party, meet the Angel Islington, and maybe definitely get a little drunk. Hunter takes them to Serpentine of the Seven Sisters to recover. Meanwhile, the Marquis tempts fate by bargaining with Croup and Vandemar.

This episode was recorded on 20 February 2021.

Show notes

Christchurch! What a city! Heart eyes for days. (Shout out to Jenn D’s bookish mate Charlotte who lives there, what up!)

The book Jenn D was thinking of (with the protagonist who had face blindness, also known as prosopagnosia ) is Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven. 

Memory Charms (“obliviate”) - a bit more info on the spell itself.

The show Jen V mentions is I May Destroy You.

Jenn D and her incessant banging on about that one essay by Donald Hall, again: read it, we love it!

More about Chepstow Castle - and specifically about the magnificent ancient castle doors!

Serpentine - a “natural” manmade lake. More info here!

And more about Seven Sisters (in Tottenham).

Info on the Pleiades…

…and more on Matariki and the Māori new year.

Finally, another local Wellington recommendation - Oikos, a fab greek restaurant in Miramar.

We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and tangata whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.

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Thanks for listening! Next week, we’ll be reading Chapters 11-12 through the theme of transformation.