The Original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:5th Mar '20
Should be back in stock very soon
A special 42nd anniversary edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Original Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams with a brand-new introduction from Simon Jones.
A special 42nd anniversary edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Original Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams with an introduction from Simon Jones.
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.
He had almost a Wodehousian style and some of his phrases and jokes entered our language. He changed the way people spoke -- Stephen Fry
There has never been another writer remotely like Douglas Adams. He discovered a completely new genre – scientific wit – and having discovered it he raised it to dizzying heights -- Tony Robinson
Quite good I suppose, if you like brilliantly entertaining books written with a touch of imaginative genius -- Griff Rhys Jones
Very occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you laugh and what you laugh about -- Richard Dawkins
One of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices * Independent on Sunday *
Sheer delight * The Times *
Magical . . . read this book * Sunday Express *
ISBN: 9781529034479
Dimensions: 246mm x 190mm x 22mm
Weight: 436g
272 pages