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Richard and Door locate a guide for the labyrinth deep below, home of the mythical Great Beast of London. Stars James McAvoy.
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 a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
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Beneath the streets of London there is another London - Neverwhere.
The people of London Below.
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Preview "Oh my goodness you've got very cold hands.."
Duration: 01:17
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Richard Mayhew | James McAvoy |
Lady Door | Natalie Dormer |
Marquis de Carabas | David Harewood |
Hunter | Sophie Okonedo |
Croup | Anthony Head |
Vandemar | David Schofield |
Islington | Benedict Cumberbatch |
Lamia | Lucy Cohu |
Writer | Neil Gaiman |
Director | Heather Larmour |
Producer | Heather Larmour |
Broadcasts
- Thu 21 Mar 2013 18:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 22 Mar 2013 00:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 29 Dec 2013 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4 FM
- Thu 25 Feb 2016 18:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 26 Feb 2016 00:00大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra