The Book is played by John Lloyd, co-author of Douglas Adams’ Meaning of Liff dictionaries. I have never heard this particular recording, but I was able to say the lines along with them, matching the intonation. Simon Jones and Geoffrey McGivern have not only not changed in voice (Jones told me personally that a sound guy measured his voice from the original recording and now and found that it literally has not changed one jot), but they also take pains to deliver the lines exactly the same as they have in the past. While we’re missing some of my personal favorite scenes, we do still get some of the best jokes (i.e. To make time, this is all summarized in dialogue between Ford and Arthur aboard the ship. Upon discovering that the council is trying to knock down his house to put in a bypass, he lies in front of the bulldozer, at which point Ford shows up to tell him that the world is about to be destroyed. But wait! If you’re familiar with the series, you know that Arthur’s story begins in London. Our heroes, earthling Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, who he’s just discovered is an alien, have materialized here just seconds before the Vogons blew up the Earth, a few minutes before the planet-like computer finished its program to calculate the question of life, the universe, and everything. And the computer shall be called…The EARTH!įlash forward to the spaceship of the most bureaucratic and bad-tempered creatures in the galaxy, the Vogons.
When it’s revealed that the answer is 42, Deep Thought begins designing a greater computer, one that will be capable of calculating the great question, to which the answer is 42. The area surrounding this grand thinking machine looks a bit like Woodstock, people standing as far as the eye can see, eager to hear the outcome of the three and a half million-year long program to find the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, everything. Our story opens in the distant past in the shadow of the great and powerful computer, Deep Thought. They recorded in front of a live audience.ĭouglas Adams (1952-2001) is the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently series of novels, as well as other adaptations of these franchises, such as films, television shows, radio shows, and computer games. That’s Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davy, Stephen Moore, and Toby Longworth, directed by Dirk Maggs.
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As part of BBC Radio 4’s “ Character Invasion,” the cast of the original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series reunited for a brand new 75-minute taping, based largely on the live shows they’d been touring the last couple years.
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