| Show Name: | Neverwhere |
| Format: | Fantasy |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: | Neil Gaiman |
| Director: | Dirk Maggs Heather Larmour |
| Producer: | Heather Larmour |
| First Aired: | 16 March 2013 |
| Last Aired: | 22 March 2013 |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
Neverwhere is a radio drama based on the 1996 novel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. It was dramatised by Dirk Maggs. The theme music is by James Hannigan.
On Saturday 16 March 2013,[1] BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast the first, hour-long, episode of Neverwhere.[2] 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. It was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 starting on Dec 25th 2013 and continuing for 6 days.
| Character | Actor | |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Mayhew | James McAvoy | |
| Lady Door | Natalie Dormer | |
| The Marquis de Carabas | David Harewood | |
| Hunter | Sophie Okonedo | |
| The Angel Islington | Benedict Cumberbatch | |
| Mr. Croup | Anthony Head | |
| Mr. Vandemar | David Schofield | |
| Old Bailey | Bernard Cribbins | |
| Lamia | Lucy Cohu | |
| The Abbott | George Harris | |
| The Earl | Sir Christopher Lee | |
| Jessica | Romola Garai | |
| Figgis/The Fop With No Name | Neil Gaiman | |
| Tooley | Andrew Sachs | |
| Fuliginous/Ruislip/Blackfriar | Don Gilet | |
| Sable/Sump/Clarence/Homeless man | Abdul Salis | |
| Gary/Second Guard | Paul Chequer | |
| Anaesthesia/Female Tenant/Match Girl | Yasmin Paige | |
| Lord Ratspeaker | Johnny Vegas | |
| Varney/Homeless man/Letting Agent/First Guard | Stephen Marcus | |
| Sylvia/Old woman/Dream Hawker/Mother... | Karen Archer | |
| Lord Portico/Stockton | Jon Glover | |
| Iliaster/Halvard | Paul Stonehouse | |
| Dagvard/Dunnikin/Hammersmith | Ben Crowe | |
| The Herald | Robert Blythe (actor) | |
| Lear | David Tughan | |
| Underground Announcer/Footman | Patrick Brennan | |
| Little Girl | Clodagh Casey |
The short story How the Marquis Got His Coat Back was subsequently adapted in 2016. The cast included Paterson Joseph, Bernard Cribbins, Adrian Lester, Mitch Benn and Don Warrington.[3]