Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
| Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Based on | 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton |
| Written by | Kevin Elyot |
| Directed by | Simon Curtis |
| Starring | Bryan Dick Sally Hawkins Zoë Tapper |
| Theme music composer | John Lunn |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Richard Fell, Gareth Neame |
| Producer | Kate Harwood |
| Cinematography | John Daly |
| Editor | Adam Recht |
| Running time | 2 hours, 30 minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Four |
| Release | 19 April – 21 April 2005 |
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a 2005 BBC television serial depicting the intersecting lives of three working-class Londoners in the 1920s. The series is based on the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by British author Patrick Hamilton. It stars Sally Hawkins, Zoë Tapper and Bryan Dick. The three-part drama was shown on BBC Four, accompanied by the documentary Words, Whisky and Women, and was also released on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray. The series was released in the United States on BBC America on 11 February 2006.