With just music, sound effects, and the voices of these formidable thespians, the BBC’s experts will tell Gaiman’s story of two Londons: “London Above,” the one we all know and some of us love, and “London Below,” the city’s underground parallel inhabited by the grotesque, the flamboyant, the anachronistic, or-depending on your feelings about London Above-the more grotesque, the more flamboyant, and the more anachronistic. At the moment, it offers a slew of preview clips to give you a flavor of just how Gaiman’s material sounds as interpreted by cast including James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Christopher Lee. residents can listen on the BBC’s site here. Has the man’s work transcended all limits of form?
It went on to become a comic book, then a stage production and now, adapted by Dirk Maggs, a radio play.
Astute fans will know that Gaiman crafted this “urban fantasy” series first as a television series, and then as a novel. This Saturday, March 16, brings the debut of a much-anticipated BBC Radio 4 series adapted from the work of a British storyteller with inter-generational, international appeal, and a hybrid fantastical-realist sensibility all his own. listeners in search of continued dramatic innovation over the airwaves need only turn their ears toward the other side of the Atlantic, where the BBC has kept the craft in sturdy working order. American radio dramas, once the pride of the medium, died out soon after the rise of television.
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