Neverwhere

Under the streets of London lives your worst nightmare.

Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below. Pursued by the murderous Messrs Croup and Vandemar, Door and Richard with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas, attempt to find the Angel Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Door's family, and possibly a way for Richard to go home.

An urban fantasy adventure by cult novelist Neil Gaiman.

Synopsis

Under the streets of London is a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and soul-sucking girls in black velvet. This is the London of the dispossessed, the people who have fallen through the cracks. Richard Mayhew is a young executive who is about to find out more than he ever wanted to know about this other London. Catapulted out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre, Richard finds a strange destiny waiting for him, below the streets of his native city. An extraordinary vision of a world beneath the streets of London, this flagship BBC drama is a funny, scary, urban fantasy conceived by cult graphic novelist Neil Gaiman and the BBC's own Lenny Henry, with music supplied by the legendary Brian Eno. Starring Gary Bakewell (Casualty, Backbeat), Laura Fraser (A Knight's Tale), Hywel Bennett (Pennies From Heaven), Tamsin Greig (Black Books, Doctor Who), Stratford Johns (Doctor Who, Softly Softly) and directed by Dewi Humphreys (The Vicar Of Dibley).