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The Black Friars

Episode 4 of 6

Richard and Hunter travel to the monastery of the Black Friars where Richard faces a terrifying ordeal. Stars James McAvoy.

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 a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.

So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.

Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.

A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 25 Feb 2016 00:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Richard Mayhew James McAvoy
Lady Door Natalie Dormer
Marquis de Carabas David Harewood
Hunter Sophie Okonedo
Croup Anthony Head
Vandemar David Schofield
Old Bailey Bernard Cribbins
The Abbot George Harris
Lamia Lucy Cohu
Jessica Romola Garai
Gary Paul Chequer
Writer Neil Gaiman
Director Heather Larmour
Producer Heather Larmour

Broadcasts

  • Wed 20 Mar 2013 18:00
  • Thu 21 Mar 2013 00:00
  • Sat 28 Dec 2013 23:30
  • Wed 24 Feb 2016 18:00
  • Thu 25 Feb 2016 00:00

Good Omens - from the team behind Neverwhere

Good Omens - from the team behind Neverwhere

Adaptation of the 1990 comedic fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.