The BBC has unveiled a trailer for The Listeners, the upcoming drama series based on Jordan Tannahill’s novel of the same name.
Rebecca Hall stars as Claire, a teacher who finds her life thrown off-balance after she begins to hear a low humming sound that leads her on a path to discovering ‘The Hum’.
Directed by Janicza Bravo, the series sees Rebecca Hall joined in the cast by Prasanna Puwanarajah, Amr Waked, Gayle Rankin, Mia Tharia, Ollie West, Franc Ashman, Samuel Edward Cook, Karen Henthorn, Lucy Sheen, and Ian Mercer. Watch the trailer below…
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.”
The Listeners premieres on BBC One and iPlayer on November 19th.
