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Neverwhere

A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

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


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Critic reviews

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.
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. (Gillian Reynolds)
funny but haunting... black humour and deft characterisations (Chris Maume)
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Magical stories just leave me cold but I try to understand, so once in a while I read one more book of this kind and find some good thing but overall they are formulas that pretend to be metaphors, in this case the writing is entertaining and sometimes humorous, but I just do not care about the characters because they have powers and rational that are outside humanity so my expectations are of a normal universe but the writer controls this universe and he only knows the rules, and when a character returns from the dead and explains some mumbo-jumbo as the explanation for this event, it just annoying and lazy writing, like amnesia in soaps, or the long lost never mentioned what ever in soaps, a cheat to bend and fit a plot that collided with it self; or just a manipulation of the readers feelings.
I did like some of the writing, some of the humour, the plot not so much, the magic is not my kind of magic.

It is not my kind of magic but it has some sparkle

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this cast are all big film or tv stars, therefore to have them all in one radio play shows the quality of the book and the pull of neil gaiman. A very good adaptation and well well worth a punt if your looking for something a bit strange and a bit different

Unbelievable Cast Amazing story

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This was adapted with great skill and the casting is brilliant. A truly wonderful accomplishment.

perfection <br />

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Well read and excellent story to enjoy. Lots of famous voices brings it alive - i wish there were more like this.

excellent story

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Would you consider the audio edition of Neverwhere [Adaptation] to be better than the print version?

Not read the book but this radio play was outstanding.

What did you like best about this story?

Every character brilliantly brought to life

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No but read several of his books including collaborations with Sir Terry

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Enthralled from start to finish

Any additional comments?

Very disappointed that act seven consisted entirely of outtakes and cut scenes. Felt short changed hence the slightly lower rating.

Why only four stars?

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