The BBC has released the trailer for new drama ‘The Listeners', which is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One on 19th November 2024.
Starring Rebecca Hall (‘Christine', ‘The Town', ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona', ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'), the trailer offers a sneak peak of what’s to come in the brand-new drama based on the novel by Jordan Tannahill, who has also written the adaptation. All episodes directed by Janicza Bravo (‘Zola', ‘Poker Face', ‘Mrs America').
Produced by Element Pictures (‘Normal People', ‘The Favourite', ‘Poor Things'), a Fremantle company, for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, the series centres around Claire (Rebecca Hall), a popular English teacher, who begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear.
This seemingly innocuous noise gradually upsets the balance of her life, increasing tension between herself and her husband, Paul, and daughter, Ashley – and despite multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found. When a student of hers, Kyle, claims he can also hear the sound, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families, friends and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group of neighbours, led by a charismatic couple, Jo and Omar, who also claim they can hear what they call “The Hum” – but believe it is a gift, heard only by a “chosen few.”
Enigmatic, provocative, and haunting, ‘The Listeners' explores the seduction of the wild and unknowable, the human search for the transcendent, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West, and the desire for community and connection in our increasingly polarised times.
Also starring in the series, which was filmed in Greater Manchester, are Prasanna Puwanarajah (‘The Crown', ‘Ten Percent', ‘Patrick Melrose'), Amr Waked (‘Ramy'), Gayle Rankin (‘Men', ‘Perry Mason', ‘The Greatest Showman'), Mia Tharia (‘Phoenix Rise'), Ollie West (‘Hamnet'), Franc Ashman (‘The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself', ‘Inside Man'), Samuel Edward Cook (‘Peaky Blinders', ‘The Gallows Pole'), Karen Henthorn (‘Coronation Street', ‘The Rising'), Lucy Sheen (‘Ping Pong') and Ian Mercer (‘Doctors', ‘All Creatures Great And Small').
‘The Listeners' is an Element Pictures (a Fremantle company) production for the BBC. The series is written by Jordan Tannahill and directed by Janicza Bravo. Both also serve as executive producers, alongside Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann and Rachel Dargavel for Element Pictures, Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC, and Alice Birch.
