Good Omens
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
2014
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, here 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. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; 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. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Heather Larmour.
Recorded in six parts at 192/44 - total length 3.5 hrs.
LINK:
https://www.adrive.com/public/PEqjm5/Good_Omens.rar
PASSWORD
Agnes_Nutter
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Bob you are a gentleman and a scholar.
I've listened to the first couple of these so far. I made a point with the first one of doing something I very rarely do now - actually listening to it on the radio as it was first broadcast.
If anyone is interested in such stuff - the lead artist on this series (and the images to accomany it) was Sean Phillips - he of the masterwork "Criminal". There is a nice little section on the Radio 4 website about Good Omens, and features on it's artwork and it's artists. Interesting little package of extras.
You are all welcome! I really enjoyed this production.
Did any opf you catch Pratchett and Gaiman's cameos?
Thanks, a favorite !!
many Thanks, each one sincere and heart-felt to you my friend. ------------------------------------------------- R
And so i have to praise you once again and be a happy Tom! Thank you!!! :)
Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks, Bob, and Happy New Year from the Land of Enchantment.
Thank you Bob:) My wife's a big fan of Pratchett:) We'll enjoy this!
Regards
David