Good Omens: devilish festive fun as fantasy novel makes radio debut

Ambitious Radio 4 adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s comic apocalypse novel airs over Christmas week

In the depths of a west London industrial estate, a minor theological crisis has broken out. The biblical point in question is over whether it was Adam or Eve who took the first fateful bite of the apple, thus causing the downfall of humankind. As shouts of “quick, someone fetch a bible” echo around the production studio, the confusion is swiftly and slightly embarrassedly cleared up by a flick through Genesis.

Yet, in the process of making the first radio dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s bizarre and cult classic novel Good Omens – a book which grapples with the antichrist, a narcissistic angel and demon duo and a prophetic witch – such issues are simply par for the course.

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