Merlin star Colin Morgan will be playing Newton Pulsifer in Dirk Maggs’ new radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s “Just William meets the Antichrist Damien” drama, Good Omens. Morgan will […]
Merlin star Colin Morgan will be playing Newton Pulsifer in Dirk Maggs’ new radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s “Just William meets the Antichrist Damien” drama, Good Omens.
Morgan will be joined for the audio drama by Josie Lawrence as Agnes Nutter and Paterson Joseph as Famine, as well as a host of delightful cameos, from the Gardener’s Question Time team to Neil and Terry themselves. According to the BBC, “Other cameos are set to delight listeners, but they are under wraps for now. Probably in a dusty occult bookshop in Covent Garden, but no-one is quite sure.”
Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz will be taking the central roles as angel and demon, Aziraphale and Crowley, respectively. The cast will also include Clive Russell, Julia Deakin, Louise Brealey, Simon Jones, Arsher Ali, Phil Davis and Mark Benton.
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4.
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky, the Four Horsepersons are assembling; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. In fact the prospect of Armageddon is all really rather inconvenient for them actually. But if they are to stop it taking place they’ve got to find and kill the one who will bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. There’s just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him….
Released in 1990 and listed among the BBC’s Big Read Nation’s 100 favourite books, Good Omens has never been dramatised – until now.
The team behind Radio 4 & 4 Extra’s Neverwhere has reunited for this special six-part dramatisation of Good Omens. Dirk Maggs is once again back in the director’s and adaptor’s chair, joined by producer Heather Larmour and ably assisted by Neil Gaiman.
The drama is currently scheduled to air in December. It will broadcast across a week in five half-hour episodes and culminate in an hour long final apocalyptic showdown, on a Saturday, shortly before Woman’s Hour, should the world not actually end…
Gwyneth Williams, Controller, BBC Radio 4 noted: “I’m delighted to have Neil Gaiman back on Radio 4 – and this time with Terry Pratchett. I can’t wait to hear what they will do with the apocalypse. The Radio 4 audience loved Neverwhere and Good Omens will be a splendid Christmas treat. “
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Amazing ans exciting news especially about Colin Morgan! I so love Colin Morgan and his acting is fabulous, outstanding!
Fantastic! I’m very excited for Colin and would love to hear it but fear unless it’s becomes available on CD that’s not likely to happen as I like many of his other fans live on the other side of the pond!
This year has been very busy for our workaholic Colin, but if he’s happy that’s all that really matters. I can only hope that the majority of his work becomes avaable in one form or another for all of us non-Brits! GO COLIN!
It will be available on the BBC iPlayer which can be accessed worldwide in the week after broadcast, I believe; it’s certainly getting a UK CD release in January 2015.