![]() ![]() “I said I’ll take the idea and turn it three or four twists through and make it impossible, and that was the beginning for me of the idea of London Below, creating a London that doesn’t exist based partly around puns and partly around what I always wonder about with London, which is what is really going on.” “Then Christopher Lee said yes, and we all nearly fainted.” I don’t ever want to think of some kid having a rotten life somewhere running away to London because they’ve seen how cool it is on the telly. ![]() ![]() We could do something about tribes of homeless people in London.’ I went home and thought about it, and I sent him a long fax – which dates the conversation, it’s like sending strange pigeon messages – and I said to him thanks, but I don’t want to do tribes of homeless people in London, because I think I could make it really cool to be homeless in London. Lenny basically said at the time would I write a TV series for him on the BBC. “It actually began with a conversation with Lenny Henry, who is a huge comics and fantasy fan, a very long time ago. ![]()
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