BBC Radio 4 to Adapt Neil Gaiman’s ‘Anansi Boys’
Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s popular American Gods follow-up novel Anansi Boys is getting a star-studded radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4. The six-part drama will air this holiday season.
Anansi Boys isn’t exactly a sequel to Gaiman’s American Gods, but the two are connected in several significant ways, most notably in that they both feature Mr. Nancy, otherwise known as the West African god Anansi.
The story follows the story of Charlie Nancy (otherwise known as “Fat Charlie”) who not only discovers that his recently deceased father was actually a trickster god, but also that he has a heretofore unknown brother named Spider who inherited their dead father’s powers. Shockingly enough, this turns “Fat Charlie’s” life upside down.
