September 2004
Douglas Adams at the BBC
ISBN: 0563494042
BBC Audio is releasing a three-CD set celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams.
Produced by Dirk Maggs and presented by Simon Jones (Arthur Dent),
Douglas Adams at the BBC includes archive clips of Douglas' work and radio interviews.
Amongst the many highlights are Adams-written sketches from radio and TV comedy programmes, archive interviews,
excerpts from programmes including Doctor Who and Last Chance to See,
Douglas's appearances on programmes including Wogan and Tomorrow's World,
and contributions from his many friends and colleagues.
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Adams at the BBC is a three CD set released by BBC Audio in 2004 (ISBN 0563494042).
By using extracts from many radio and TV productions, the three discs cover
Douglas Adams's association with BBC Radio and TV from 1974 to 2001, and also
include tributes to Adams that were transmitted between 2001 and 2003. Subjects
are covered in an A-Z format (thus becoming an "A-Z of Douglas Adams").
Linking narration on all three discs is provided by Simon Jones. Several of
the sketches, many of which are included for the first time since their original
transmissions, had been discussed in biographies of Adams (e.g. Don't Panic
by Neil Gaiman and Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb). In addition, the complete
script for "The Lost Hitchhiker Sketch" appears in the 25th anniversary
edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts.
Disc one covers subjects A to G, disc two covers subjects H to P, and disc
three covers subjects Q to Z.
Subjects
A: Animals: The Aye-Aye Lemur and the Amazonian Manatee, with excerpts from
the radio series version of Last Chance to See
B: The Burkiss Way, including sketches by Adams
C: Computer Games (including the 1985 computer game adaptation of The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy and Starship Titanic)
D: Dirk Gently
E: Endangered Species
F: Footlights Revue
G: Graham Chapman
H: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future, Adams's final radio documentary series
for BBC Radio 4
I: The Internet
J: "Keeping up with the Joneses" - an extract from Adams's radio
tribute to Peter Jones in 2000.
K: The Kakapo Parrot
L: "The Lost Hitchhiker Sketch" - Sheila Steafel interviewing Simon
Jones, in character as Arthur Dent from the radio show Steafel Plus, written
by Adams.
L (continued): Light Entertainment, including an extract from Black Cinderella
Two Goes East
M: Music and The Meaning of Liff
N: News Huddlines
O: Oh No, It Isn't - with a sketch from this 1970s radio series written by
Adams.
P: Publishing and Performing
Q: Quiz Shows
R: The Rodrigues Fruit Bat
S: Science
T: Technoogy
U: The Universe
V: Virtual Reality
W: Doctor Who with extracts from The Pirate Planet
X: Extra-Terrestrial Life
Y: The Yangtze River Dolphin
Z: Zoology
Note
The CD set was released in early September 2004, after the Tertiary Phase of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had been recorded,
but before transmissions began. The earliest material on the set is from August 1974 (with material Adams had written while a student at Cambridge)
and the most recent extracts are from the TV and radio tributes to Adams from August and September 2001 and March 2003.
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