The BBC audio version of Good Omens is heading to vinyl this August.

Following the very successful Doctor Who and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy releases on vinyl, Demon Music Group presents Good Omens, adapted and co-directed for BBC Radio 4 by the award-winning Dirk Maggs (Stardust, The X-Files, Batman) and based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The four discs of heavyweight vinyl will be released on August 2nd 2019 and are available for pre-order now for the RRP £99.99.

‘It’s very exciting to be announcing this brilliant new product as fans get ready to enjoy the new TV adaption. We’re pleased to offer the original BBC Radio 4 production on these beautiful pieces of heavyweight vinyl.’ Ben Stanley, Head of Product & Marketing, Demon Music Group.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014, the radio play stars Mark Heap as Aziraphale and Peter Serafinowicz as Crowley, with Josie Lawrence as Agnes Nutter (who reprises her role in the Amazon Prime Video TV adaptation alongside Michael Sheen’s Aziraphale and David Tennant’s Crowley), Colin Morgan as Newton Pulsifier and Charlotte Ritchie as Anathema Device, the cast also includes Phil Davis, Harry Lloyd, Paterson Joseph, Rachael Stirling, Jim Norton, Nicholas Briggs, Neil Maskell, Steve Toussaint, Simon Jones, Julia Deakin, Mitch Benn, Louise Brealey, Mark Benton and many more including cameo appearances by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett themselves.

The four 180g heavyweight coloured pieces of vinyl — including a laser-etched Side B — are presented in illustrated wallets inside a rigid, bound 16 page book, with exclusive sleeve notes written by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs.

Read our review of episode 1 here, and our visit to the recording here.

The new TV adaptation is released on Amazon Prime on May 31st, with a broadcast on BBC Two later this year.

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