| Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
 Box cover of Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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| Author | Douglas Adams and Debbie Barham |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy documentary |
| Genre(s) | Comedy, Science fiction |
| Publisher | BBC |
| Publication date | 1998 |
| Media type | Audio cassette (two tapes) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-563-55236-0 |
Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC Radio production sold as an audio book on two cassette tapes. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist Deborah Ann "Debbie" Barham ( 20 November 1976 &ndash 20 April 2003) was an English Comedy writer who died at The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series A comic novel is a work of fiction in which the writer seeks to amuse the reader sometimes with subtlety and as part of a carefully woven narrative sometimes above all other Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927 The programme was first broadcast in 1998, marking the 20th anniversary of the first radio programme in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Tape one
The first tape runs 55 minutes and is narrated by Peter Jones, who narrated the original radio series. Peter Jones (12 June 1920 – 10 April 2000 was an English Actor, Playwright and broadcaster. It features comments by many of the people involved, telling how the series was created and how it developed. The participants are Douglas Adams, Simon Brett (producer of the very first programme), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Paddy Kingsland (sound effects and audio mixing), Stephen Moore (Marvin), Geoffrey Perkins (producer of the first two radio series, except for the very first programme) and Nick Webb (Pan Books). Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist Simon Brett (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a prolific writer of Whodunnits Brett worked for BBC Radio Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English Actor, most famous for his appearances in the Television and Radio series For the Australian political activist see Albert Langer Arthur Philip Dent is a Fictional character, the hapless Protagonist Geoffrey McGivern (born 1952 is an English Actor in Film, Radio, stage and Television. Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a Fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Paddy Kingsland is a composer of Electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the Stephen Moore (born 11 December 1937) is an English Actor, known for his work on British television in the 80s and 2000s Geoffrey Howard Perkins ( 22 February 1953 - 29 August 2008) was a Comedy producer writer and performer and a central figure in Nick Webb (born 1949) is a book editor and author He approached Douglas Adams and John Lloyd in 1978 to commission the two of them for a novelization Pan Books is an Imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers
These people tell their first-hand account of how it all started, and how surprised they all were at the huge success they had created. They also tell the exciting story of how the last programme in the second series was so plagued by deadline problems that it almost didn't get broadcast, and the mind-boggling conditions they worked under to complete the job in time.
These comments are intermixed with some clips from the radio programmes, including some highlights such as the destruction of the earth and Marvin telling everyone how depressed he is.
The programme was written by Debbie Barham. Deborah Ann "Debbie" Barham ( 20 November 1976 &ndash 20 April 2003) was an English Comedy writer who died at
Tape two
The second tape runs 50 minutes and consists of Douglas Adams being interviewed by Iain Johnstone. Iain Johnstone (born 1943 is a British Film critic. He was for seven years the film critic for The Sunday Times and presenter of the Douglas Adams was intelligent, knowledgeable and outspoken, which the interview makes very evident. Many topics are touched upon, often with surprising connections between them.
Some of the topics discussed by Douglas Adams are: University of Cambridge and Footlights, Monty Python, Graham Chapman, Star Wars, Tolstoy's Resurrection, Last Chance to See, the Nordic god Thor, is Arthur Dent really Douglas Adams, Simon Jones, light switches, Richard Dawkins, atheism, Procol Harum, Doom Watch, X-Files, Sherlock Holmes, Arthur C. Clarke, The Digital Village, John Cleese's influence in selecting "42", the Hubble Constant, and his daughter Polly (born when Douglas Adams was, you guessed it, 42). The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge England, run by the students Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) is the collective name of the six creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British Television Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 &ndash 4 October 1989 was an English Comedian, Actor, Writer, Physician and one of the Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (originally released as Star Wars) is a 1977 Space opera Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( –) (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, was a Russian Writer widely regarded Resurrection (Воскресение Voskresyeniye) first published in 1899, was the last Novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine was first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC Thor ( Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded God of Thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism For the Australian political activist see Albert Langer Arthur Philip Dent is a Fictional character, the hapless Protagonist Simon Jones (born 27 July 1950) is an English Actor, most famous for his appearances in the Television and Radio series Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941 is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and Popular science Atheism Procol Harum are a British rock band formed in the 1960s which built an important foundation for what would become Progressive rock, or perhaps more The X-Files is a Peabody, Golden Globe and Emmy Award -winning American Science fiction television series created by Chris Carter Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008 was a British Science fiction Author, Inventor, and The Digital Village ( TDV) was a digital media company based in Covent Garden, London WC2 in the United Kingdom. John Marwood Cleese (ˈkliːz born 27 October, 1939) is a British Actor, Comedian, Writer, Film producer The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything is numeric in Douglas Adams ' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hubble's law is the statement in Physical cosmology that the Redshift in light coming from distant galaxies is proportional to their distance
Availability
The product is no longer available at BBC Shop, but can usually be found on Internet auction sites and used book sites and Internet book stores that sell used books via "partners". It is available as a bonus on the CD boxset of the first two series: 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Collector's Edition' ISBN: 9780563477020.
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