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A day of talks, lectures, and panel discussions on the subject - both literal, and entirely otherwise - of what it means to be Underground. Speakers include the award-winning broadcaster and writer Stephen Halliday on The Great Stink of London, a lecture on London's sewers in the 19th Century; Ruth Adams on Notes from the Underground: Vertical Symbolism in Dostoyevsky; John Tercier on Sleeping Beauty and Snow White: No Dead Broads on the Table (on premature burial); Bernard Vere on Kafka: Critic of the Teletubbies; Award-winning writer Christopher Ross on Tunnel Visions: London Underground; Helen Mallinson on Classical Mines and Minds: The Netherworld of Civilisation; Francis Gooding on A Thousand Leagues of Blue, The Sub Aqua World; Paul Hirst on The Iconography of Hell: From Orpheus to What Dreams May Come.