

The series will air in six parts, with the first being available now and the rest will air beginning Monday. Adapted for radio by the award-winning Dirk Maggs, this captivating dramatisation features a stellar cast including David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above. 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.

Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below. The cast included Paterson Joseph, Bernard Cribbins, Adrian Lester, Mitch Benn and Don Warrington.The first episode of Neverwhere, the BBC 4 radio play starring James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch and a cast of British luminaries, is now available for streaming on the BBC 4 website.īased on the best-seller from Sandman creator Neil Gaiman, an act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. The short story How the Marquis Got His Coat Back was subsequently adapted in 2016. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. Varney/Homeless man/Letting Agent/First Guard A BBC Radio six-part adaptation of Neil Gaimans bestselling novel, starring James McAvoy as Richard and Natalie Dormer as Door Beneath the streets of London there is another London. It was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 starting on Dec 25th 2013 and continuing for 6 days. The subsequent five half-hour episodes were broadcast throughout the following week on Radio 4 Extra (in Mono on DAB), and made available worldwide after broadcast on BBC iPlayer.

On Saturday 16 March 2013, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast the first, hour-long, episode of Neverwhere. Neverwhere is a radio drama based on the 1996 novel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. For other uses, see Neverwhere (disambiguation). This article is about the 2013 radio play.
