Iain Johnstone Interviews Douglas on BBC Radio 4 on the 20th anniversary of the original radio broadcast of HHGTTG.

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The Hitchhikers Guide
To The Galaxy

Radio Series
Full Cast
Simon Jones
Peter Jones
Geoffrey McGivern
Mark Wing-Davey
Stephen Moore
Susan Sheridan
John le Mesurier
Joanna Lumley
Christian Slater
Jackie Mason
Sandra Dickinson
Rula Lenska
Griff Rhys Jones
Jonathan Pryce.

This really is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - all five radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy collected together for the first time, in a handsome box with magnetic lid. From the original Primary and Secondary Phases, through to the more recent Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases, these are the adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and their assorted human, robotic and alien companions.

These full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas stars as listed.

Also included is an exclusive bonus containing two programmes from the BBC Archive: Kaleidoscope from 1980 (going behind the scenes of the second series) and Six Characters in Search of an Answer: Arthur Dent.

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The Hitchhikers Guide
To The Galaxy "Trilogy"

Radio Series

All 5 books Read by the man himself.....

5 hrs
5.25 hrs
5 hrs
4.25 hrs
5.15 hrs

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Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency

Radio Series

Dirk Gently's plot is non-linear, partly because time travel is one of the main elements of the story.

Four billion years ago, nine dozen multi-tentacled creatures called Salaxalans, discontent with their own world, leave and attempt to populate Earth.

They leave their mothership in orbit, but, because of the laziness of the engineer and faulty advice from their Electric Monk, an automaton designed to believe things so its owners don't have to, their landing craft explodes on Earth, triggering a spark that creates amino acids and the start of life on earth.

The Salaxalan engineer, having thus failed to complete a task during his life, is forced to wander the Earth as a ghost.

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Dirk Gently's
The Long Dark Tea-Time
of the Soul

Radio Series

Dirk Gently, who calls himself a "holistic detective", has happened upon what he thinks is a rather comfortable situation.

A ridiculously wealthy man in the record industry has retained him, spinning a ludicrous story about being stalked by a seven-foot-tall, green-eyed, scythe-wielding monster.

Dirk pretends to understand the man's ravings involving potatoes and a contract signed in blood coming due; in reality, however, Dirk is musing about what he might do if he actually receives payment for his "services".

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Last Chance to See

Audio Book
Read by Douglas Adams

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine (the book) was first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name. The theme of documentary was to feature animal species which were endangered or threatened with extinction.

The Observer Colour Magazine initiated moves in 1985 to send a zoologist, Mark Carwardine, and a writer, Douglas Adams, to Madagascar, to search for the aye-aye, a nearly extinct lemur. Later this developed into several journeys to find various species, including the Komodo dragon on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, gorillas and white rhinoceroses in Zaire, Kakapos in New Zealand, the Yangtze River Dolphin in China, Rodrigues fruit bats (megabat) on the island of Rodrigues, and various other species in these locations.

Many of these excursions became the basis for the BBC Radio 4 series of the same name.

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Salmon of Doubt :
Hitchhiking the Galaxy
One Last Time

Audio Book
Narrated by Simon Jones

The Salmon of Doubt is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams. It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt (from which the collection gets its title, a reference to the Celtic myth of the Salmon of Wisdom, and was initially planned to be a Dirk Gently novel.

English editions of the book were published in the USA and UK in May 2002, exactly one year after the author's death.

The audiobook edition consists of 7 CDs, mostly read by Simon Jones, but also includes introductions by Stephen Fry & Christopher Cerf, read by their respective authors, as well as the tributes written and read by Richard Dawkins.

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Live in Göttingen

Live on stage

Doug on stage : 3rd March 1994

    01 - Introduction (German)
    02 - Twig Technology
    03 - Komodo via Melboune
    04 - Kakapos on New Zealand
    05 - Recording Dolphins
    06 - A Meal at Milliways
    07 - Learning to Fly
    08 - Marvin and the Machine

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Starship Titanic
By Douglas Adams
& Terry Jones

Terry Jones (Monty Python) reads Starship Titanic - the book written by him based on Douglas Adams idea (and computer game).

The action takes place on a starship of the same name which has undergone "Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure" and crash landed on Earth on its maiden voyage (in an allusion to the 1912 disaster involving the real-world RMS Titanic).

In the game, the player acts the part of a human (whose house the starship crashed into) who goes aboard to help fix the ship, and must solve puzzles to collect the parts of the sabotaged onboard computer, Titania. Once all the parts have been collected and inserted in the correct places, Titania comes alive and talks.

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The Last 20th Century Battleground

The Internet

If you believe Winn Schwartau, one of the world's leading experts on cyberterrorism, we are on the edge of a technological upheaval "the like of which has never been seen before in the history of mankind". He passionately believes that the potential of the internet to undermine society and destabilise the world has yet to be recognised. It is, at least in his view, the world's most dangerous battleground.

This may all seem a bit far fetched, but there is little doubt that what we have seen so far in terms of the internet is only the tip of the iceberg. Riding the wave of change is Douglas Adams, who recognised nearly ten years ago (in 1990) that information technology was set to revolutionise the way in which we communicate, allowing for the first time connection between communities of people across the world.

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Marvin Sings

In 1981 Stephen Moore (who played Marvin in the radio series and on TV) released 2 pop single:

    Marvin / Metal Man (got to 52 in British Charts).
    Reasons To Be Miserable / Marvin I Love You

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