Along Came A Spider

Radio 4’s take on Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys is set to be epic

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It’s possible that in 22 years of SFX, there’s never been an actor quite so enthusiastic as Jacob Anderson (Game Of Thrones’s Grey Worm) about a project. “Anansi Boys is a fantasy epic, with more heart than any fantasy epic that I’ve ever seen, or read, or heard.”

Anderson, a self-confessed geek (“I keep getting offered jock roles in American things, and that’s not me”), is a major fan of Neil Gaiman’s 2005 book. So when he says of the upcoming Radio 4 adaptation, “I was really surprised with how faithful it is to the book – I think it adds to the book and gives it extra life,” you can’t help but get excited too.