# TERRY PRATCHETT’S UNSEEN ACADEMICALS

- Link: https://andrewjamesspooner.com/portfolio/terry-pratchetts-unseen-academicals/
- Published: 2018-07-02T14:36:41+01:00
- Author: Andrew Spooner

It was a huge pleasure to be a small part of this epic dramatisation of Terry Pratchett’s
Unseen Academicals.Produced by Audible and Directed by Dirk Maggs.

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old fashioned, grubby
pushing and shoving but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and
balls that go _gloing _when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University
must win a football match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for trying
everything else.

The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for
kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who
might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the
mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt,
which worries him, too).

As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because 
the thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not
just about football.

This Audible Original multicast dramatisation is directed by the multiaward-winning
Dirk Maggs, best known for his adaptations of Douglas Adams’_ Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy_ and Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_ for the BBC.

Starring Tom Alexander, Samantha Béart, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Mark Benton, Stephen
Briggs, Stephen Critchlow, Jon Culshaw, Phil Davis, Ray Fearon, Tony Gardner, Edward
Harrison, David Holt, Mathew Horne, David Jason, Josie Lawrence, Toby Longworth,
Harry Myers, Maggie Service, **Andrew James Spooner**, Steven Webb, Keith Wickham
and Jaime Winstone.