London Below
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted into a mysterious subterranean world beneath 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.
"Something strange has happened and it's like I'm falling through gaps..."
London Below. Richard Mayhew finds himself in a mysterious subterranean world.
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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 |
Old Bailey | Bernard Cribbins |
Jessica | Romola Garai |
Gary | Paul Chequer |
Anaesthesia | Yasmin Paige |
Lord Ratspeaker | Johnny Vegas |
Iliaster | Paul Stonehouse |
Varney | Stephen Marcus |
Letting Agent | Stephen Marcus |
Sylvia | Karen Archer |
Lord Portico | John Glover |
Mr Figgis | Neil Gaiman |
Fop (with no name) | Neil Gaiman |
Writer | Neil Gaiman |
Director | Dirk Maggs |
Producer | Heather Larmour |
Broadcasts
- Sat 16 Mar 2013 14:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 17 Mar 2013 18:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 18 Mar 2013 00:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Christmas Day 2013 23:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Sun 21 Feb 2016 18:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 22 Feb 2016 00:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra