For those who know the significance of 42, it may come as a bitter sweet surprise that The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is 42 years old.
And to mark that event the BBC is broadcasting on Radio 4, “a brand new full-cast series based on And Another Thing...,the sixth book in the famous Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy.………. Arthur Dent and friends return to be thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash, in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrica Gallumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal.
Starring John Lloyd as The Book, with Simon Jones as Arthur, Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson and Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Jim Broadbent as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch. The cast also includes Samantha Béart, Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen Hawking.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018, the series is written and directed by Dirk Maggs and based on And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams.
Music by Philip Pope
Production research by Kevin Jon Davies
Written and directed by Dirk Maggs
Based on the novel And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional material by Douglas Adams
Recorded at The Soundhouse Ltd by Gerry O'Riordan
Sound Design by Dirk Maggs
Produced by Dirk Maggs, Helen Chattwell and David Morley
A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.”
Those of us who devoured the books will each have their own favourite character, event and saying. Mine were Marvin the Paranoid Android, the spaceship carrying only hairdressers and estate agents, and the final words of the Dolphins when they left earth forever uttering the words, “So long and thanks for all the fish”.
But it will always be Marvin who would mutter "the brain the size of a planet and you ask me to make a cup of tea”, and his personal take on existence “I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter.
I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings.
After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell.
My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there”.**
Location; Space
Picture; from The Pictorial History Book, & Co, Ltd Sampson Low, Marston & Co, Ltd, 1955 and the front of the Eagle February 11 1952
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xnnjl
**Douglas Adams, from Fit the Twelfth (radio series)
Starring John Lloyd as The Book, with Simon Jones as Arthur, Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson and Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Jim Broadbent as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch. The cast also includes Samantha Béart, Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen Hawking.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018, the series is written and directed by Dirk Maggs and based on And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams.
Music by Philip Pope
Production research by Kevin Jon Davies
Written and directed by Dirk Maggs
Based on the novel And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional material by Douglas Adams
Recorded at The Soundhouse Ltd by Gerry O'Riordan
Sound Design by Dirk Maggs
Produced by Dirk Maggs, Helen Chattwell and David Morley
A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.”
But it will always be Marvin who would mutter "the brain the size of a planet and you ask me to make a cup of tea”, and his personal take on existence “I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter.
I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings.
After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell.
My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there”.**
Location; Space
Picture; from The Pictorial History Book, & Co, Ltd Sampson Low, Marston & Co, Ltd, 1955 and the front of the Eagle February 11 1952
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xnnjl
**Douglas Adams, from Fit the Twelfth (radio series)
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