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2008<br><strong>Director:</strong> Euros Lyn<br><strong>Starring:</strong> David Tennant as the Doctor</p> <div class="origin-quote"></div> </div> <div> <p>"Doctor Who's in town," announced <a href="http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/">This Is Swansea</a> as they reported on "the stellar cast" seen at the "former central library in Alexandra Road [set] to take centre stage for the special two-parter, which is based on the secrets of an old abandoned library".</p> <p>For the episodes <a href="/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S4_08">Silence In The Library</a> and <a href="/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S4_09">Forest Of The Dead</a>, the Doctor and Donna Noble's arrival at the planet-sized 51st century data repository complex of the Library required an impressive venue which the BBC Wales team could use for several days of location recording in early 2008.</p> <p>To give the suitably studious and literary atmosphere to these scenes, director Euros Lyn and his crew were able to use the premises of the Old Swansea Central Library. The building had been closed on 6 November 2007, with its services transferred to the city's Civic Centre pending the opening of a new establishment in March 2008.</p> <p>The magnificent Victorian structure on Alexandra Road had originally been opened by former British Prime Minister William Gladstone on 6 June 1887, and offered a striking circular reading room in particular. Euros recalled the venue as where he had revised for his A level examinations years earlier.</p> <p>Since all of the books had been removed, the empty shelves were restocked by the Doctor Who art department using thousands of stationery folders bearing special graphics. An elaborate pattern to represent a marble floor had been painted by the team on multi-density fibreboard for laying at the abandoned location.</p> <p>The first day of recording, Friday 31 January, covered the pre-credit sequence for Silence In The Library with the mysterious Girl in the library, and also the Doctor and Donna's entry to the Blue Index; the colour-coding of the chamber was achieved by shining light through a blue filter onto the white folders.</p> <p>By Thursday 7 February, all the scary scenes with the archaeological team and the approach of the Vashta Nerada in the Blue Index had been recorded, and with a simple change of lighting, the same area became the Red Index where the Doctor's party got its glimpse at an indistinct image of Donna.</p> <p>By Monday 11 February, the chamber had been re-illuminated as the Yellow Index so that the Doctor could leap into the light beam of the lift that would take him to heart of the repository. Work at the location then concluded the following day with the sequence of the Auto Destruct countdown commencing.</p> <h2>Episode synopses: <a href="/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S4_08">Silence In The Library</a>/<a href="/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S4_09">Forest Of The Dead</a></h2> <p>The TARDIS materialises in a vast, apparently deserted Library in the 51st century. The Doctor and Donna Noble meet a group of archaeologists including River Song, a woman whom the Doctor had never met before, but who knows him intimately. As the group investigate the premises, they are stalked by the shadows of the Vashta Nerada.</p> <p><a href="/wales/arts/map/doctor-who-wales/">Return to the Doctor Who in Wales map</a>.</p></div> </div>   <div id="me-gallery-template" style="display: none;"> <div class="me-gallery"> <div class="image-container"> </div> <div class="controls"> <p class="info"></p> <ul class="extra"></ul><ul class="image_no"></ul></div> </div> </div>  </div> <br style="clear:all"><div id="prg-bookmark"> <h2>Bookmark this page:</h2> <ul class="prg-bookmark-items"><li class="icon-delicious"><a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/index.shtml">delicious</a></li> <li class="icon-digg"><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/index.shtml">Digg</a></li> <li class="icon-reddit"><a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/index.shtml">Reddit</a></li> <li class="icon-stumbleupon"><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/index.shtml">Stumbleupon</a></li> <li class="icon-facebook"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/index.shtml">facebook</a></li> </ul><p class="helplink"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/6915817.stm" title="Learn how to use our social bookmarking links">What are these?</a></p> </div> </div><div class="right-content"> <div class="contentblock minimap"> <div id="mapHeader"> <p class="toplink"> <a class="standardBullet" href="/wales/arts/map/doctor-who-wales/">Back to main map</a> </p> </div> <div id="map" class="map"> <script type="text/javascript"> function loadMapData() { glow.net.get('/wales/arts/map/doctor-who-wales/map-data/data/swansea-library.xml', { onLoad: function(response) { var xmlNodeList = glow.dom.get( response.xml() ); var itemList = xmlNodeList.get('item'); itemNodes = glow.dom.get(itemList[0]); itemNodes.each(function(x){ var childNodes=glow.dom.get(this).children(); childNodes.each(function(y){ var childNodeValue=childNodes[y].text?childNodes[y].text:childNodes[y].textContent; switch(childNodes[y].nodeName){ case "geo:long": gLon = childNodeValue; break; case "geo:lat": gLat = childNodeValue; break; } }); }); makeMap(); } }); } </script></div> <div id="mapInfo"> <ul><li><strong>Region : </strong>South west Wales</li> </ul><div class="getThere"> <h2>How to get here</h2> <p>The old library stands to the north of the heart of Swansea's city centre on Alexandra Road, and situated opposite the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.</p> <p>By train: the nearest train station is Swansea.</p> <p>By car: There are multi-storey car parks in Orchard Street and at the railway station nearby. 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