The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Original Radio Scripts

25th Anniversary Edition – updated and with new, previously unpublished material

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. A major movie is currently in development hell and will almost certainly be released any decade now.

Douglas Adams lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (www.gorillas.org) and Save the Rhino International (www.savetherhino.org). He was born in Cambridge, England, and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in May 2001.

For more information on Douglas Adams and his creations, please visit www.douglasadams.com, the official website.

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Geoffrey Perkins joined BBC Radio in 1976 where as well as producing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy he introduced the bizarrely incomprehensible ‘Mornington Crescent’ into I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and appeared in Radio Active (which has just returned to Radio 4 for a twentieth-anniversary show. It also became the TV series KYTV).

After six years he left BBC Radio and went on to produce Spitting Image, Saturday and Friday Night Live, and Ben Elton – The Man from Auntie and became one of the directors of Hat-Trick, where (as well as helping to develop shows like Have I Got News For You and Whose Line Is It Anyway) he produced Harry Enfield’s Television Programme, Norbert Smithy Game On and Father Ted, before leaving to become Head of BBC Television – Comedy in 1995.

He left the BBC after six years (there’s a pattern here) to become Creative Director of Tiger Aspect Productions, where he has been involved in the production of Blackadder Back and Forth, The Thin Blue Line, Swiss Toni and Double Take.

He is married to Hitchhiker’s studio manager Lisa Braun, has two children, but sadly no longer lives in a small cottage where Douglas Adams used to bang his head in every room.