You will want to hear BBC Radio 4 programme With Great Pleasure on Christmas Day. in fact it may even be worth your while to listen to both versions of it, the morning one and the evening one, because they may have different stuff in them. And look Mitch Benn, John Finnemore, me, Nina Sosanya, and the inestimable Peter Capaldi.
Neil Gaiman from Amazon’s ‘Good Omens/Homecoming/The Expanse/The Tick’ poses for a portrait in the Getty Images Portrait Studio powered by Pizza Hut at San Diego 2018 Comic Con at Andaz San Diego on July 20, 2018 in San Diego, California.
Photo taken about 10:00 am. There was pizza if we wanted it but nobody did. (I’m only from Good Omens. The other shows were other people.)
Still pondering the beard.
Our Neil Gaiman Christmas just moved into fifth gear. We’ve our shiny, new production of Anansi Boys on Radio 4, PLUS another chance to hear the mesmerizing Good Omens on our sister station Radio 4 Extra. Lower Tadfield here we come :)
We’ve also put together this short guide on how you can listen to both these dramas for free anywhere in the world:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1LWt1nZc1k9xtWRjwDC0tKr/listening-to-anansi-boys
I love seeing the BBC enter the Tumblr age…
So this is the cast of the new radio production of Anansi Boys, coming this Christmas.
Some serious talent involved. By serious we mean IMMENSE…..Jacob Anderson, Grey Worm in Game of Thrones.
The legend that is Sir Lenny Henry, long-time friend of Neil and early influence on Anansi Boys, the book.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett from cult British series Misfits.
Some AMAZING WOMEN including Adjoa Andoh who’s pretty much been in everything from Doctor Who to Thunderbirds are Go to MI High.
Sheila Atim, Pippa Bennett-Warner (Harlots).
Ariyon Bakare who is spellbinding in as butler Stephen Black in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Also currently cast in the TV adaption of Good Omens.
Earl Cameron 100-year-old movie LEGEND.
And so many more…. See the cast list and 22 photos taken during the recording here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ghv0c
Coming soon we’ll also be posting up details of how you can listen - anywhere in the world :)
Look!
This is the best picture of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos. Ever.
Straight up Sear’s Portrait Studio style.
I’m printing this, putting it in a frame, and saying these are my parents. Nobody will bat an eye.
It may be the only portrait of us ever. (We met in long-forgotten pre-selfie days.) It was taken for an interview in an English magazine, when Tori was in Minneapolis for the day. And it was indeed a very Sears Portrait Studio shoot, crammed in between a soundcheck and a gig. (I like that she has a set-list written on her hand.)
We are happy to be your parents.
You can listen to the opening here…
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyZNH0nuVk)
In which I go to Iceland, for the American Gods TV series. You can watch a taster for the documentary here…
Here’s the opening on Soundcloud of the NORSE MYTHOLOGY audiobook.
I made a cartoon about @neil-gaiman ’s new Norse Mythology book for the @guardian
This is as good as it gets, really, isn’t it?
From Rob Hansen’s pages at http://www.fiawol.org.uk/fanstuff/FanDiary/1985c.htm
Terry Pratchett and me at the 1985 Eastercon. 32 years ago. (And 7 years before I quit smoking.) I sold the grey leather jacket about a year later, and started wearing black ones instead.