Neverwhere: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

Gaiman, Neil

ISBN 10: 1471316475 ISBN 13: 9781471316470

Publisher: BBC Physical Audio, 2013

Synopsis

**Neil Gaiman was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama**

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere...

An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. Accompanied by the mysterious Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family - all the while trying to get back to his old life in London Above.

Contains over 25 minutes of additional unbroadcast material, including extended scenes, bloopers and outtakes.

Adapted for radio by the award-winning Dirk Maggs, this captivating dramatisation features a stellar cast including David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head and David Schofield.

3 CDs. 3 hrs 48 mins.

About this title

Review:

"Nobody anticipated the impact the BBC’s 2013 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s cult novel by the same name would have... the production was a smash hit with Gaiman fans and non-fans alike, propelling the audio play into the public eye and showing just how exciting the form can be." (The Guardian)

"Maggs... does soundscapes after the manner of Turner painting sea storms. In Neverwhere when Benedict Cumberbatch flew you heard, saw and felt his angel’s wings rise." (The Telegraph Gillian Reynolds)

"funny but haunting... black humour and deft characterisations" (Chris Maume The Independent)

From the Publisher:

This is the author’s preferred edition, never before published in the UK.

Also includes exclusive extra material:
An Introduction to This Text by the Author
An Altogether Different Prologue
A new Interview with Neil Gaiman about NEVERWHERE
Reading-group Discussion Questions

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Physical Audio
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1471316475
• ISBN 13: 9781471316470
• Binding: Audio CD