Even 30 years on this is still a fresh and funny series of stories, whether you read them or listen to the original BBC radio shows. The anarchic, or ‘random’ to use modern parlance, plot, place settings and characters makes them more appealing than a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster!
DON’T PANIC. Useful advice for Arthur Dent who is about to discover that along with his house, the Earth, is going to be destroyed by the Vogons and he is about to become embroiled in the search for the ultimate question to life the universe and everything (as we know the answer is 42).
Celebrate 42 years of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with this anniversary edition featuring the original radio scripts that started it all.
March 1978 saw the first ever transmission of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4, launching a cult phenomenon. March 2020 marks the 42nd anniversary of that groundbreaking debut. Pan Macmillan commemorates the occasion by reissuing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, featuring an introduction by Simon Jones.
This collection faithfully reproduces the text as first published in 1985, with all twelve original radio scripts presented exactly as they were broadcast. Amendments and additions made during recordings are included, as well as the previously 'lost' script from the 25th anniversary, 'Sheila's Ear', and original notes by producer Geoffrey Perkins and Douglas Adams himself.
These scripts are essential reading for both longtime fans and the next generation just discovering the brilliance of Douglas Adams. A must-have for collectors, this special anniversary edition release coincides with reissued novels in the Hitchhiker's series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory
manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV,
computer game, stage adaptation, comic book and bath towel. The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy was published thirty years ago......on 12 October 1979 and its phenomenal success sent the
book straight to number one in the UK bestseller list. In 1984 Douglas Adams
became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. His series has sold over
15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a bestseller in
German and many other languages. The feature film starring Martin Freeman and
Zooey Deschanel with Stephen Fry as the Guide was released in 2005 using much of
Douglas’s original script and ideas. Douglas lived with his wife and daughter in
Islington, North London, and briefly in California, where he died in 2001.
