**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 Door's 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 dramatization features a stellar cast including David
Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony
Head, and David Schofield. Contains more than 25 minutes of additional
unbroadcast material, including extended scenes, bloopers, and outtakes.
3 CDs. 3 hrs 48 mins.
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