Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
GenreDrama
Based on20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Written byKevin Elyot
Directed bySimon Curtis
StarringBryan Dick
Sally Hawkins
Zoë Tapper
Theme music composerJohn Lunn
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes3
Production
Executive producersRichard Fell, Gareth Neame
ProducerKate Harwood
CinematographyJohn Daly
EditorAdam Recht
Running time2 hours, 30 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC Four
Release19 April (2005-04-19) 
21 April 2005 (2005-04-21)

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.