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The Penguin Podcast: Neil Gaiman

In this episode of the Penguin Podcast, award-winning author Neil Gaiman discusses his friendship with the late Terry Pratchett and how they collaborated to create Good Omens, a story of the impending apocalypse.  

18 October 2015

Neil reveals how they relied on an answerphone to write the book and how Terry helped him with writers block.

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Good Omens

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    What if, for once, the predictions are right, and the Apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?

    It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon, now find themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse.

    Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day.

    You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.

    And then there's the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
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    CAST INCLUDES:

    Crowley - David Tennant
    Aziraphale - Michael Sheen
    Angel Gabriel - Jon Hamm
    Voice of Satan - Benedict Cumberbatch
    Voice of God - Frances McDormand

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Neil Gaiman

Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages. www.terrrypratchett.co.uk Neil Gaiman is the acclaimed creator of the graphic novel series SANDMAN and of such novels for children as Coraline and for adults as American Gods. His comics and novels have sold in their tens of millions. Like Terry, his works have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and also like Terry, he is the winner of multipleprizes, including the Carnegie Medal. Unlike Terry, he has never been awarded a knighthood for services to literature, although his mother thinks that sooner or later the Queen will read one of his books and immediately knight him if she likes it, and that to be on the safe side he should leave out the rude words. He does have the Newbery Medal, though. www.neilgaiman.com

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