New HHGTTG Radio Show Gets Douglas Adams' Voice

trellick writes "The BBC has not only announced that they are to make radio adaptations to The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy's final three books: Life, The Universe and Everything; So Long and Thanks For All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. Also, Douglas Adams is to himself provide the voice of Agrajag, the character constantly being reincarnated and dying at the (inadvertent) hands of Arthur Dent, since Adams 'always intended to play the part of Agrajag and recorded himself in the part a few years ago.' Wonderful stuff!"

Comments

Re:strangely appropriate

[tcopeland]

> project his voice back across time and death

Dr Dan Streetmentioner would approve - "Douglas Adams willion have be recorded an excellent radio series!"

Ehhhh....... I feel my leg stretching

[cardshark2001]

What business does he have voicing radio shows? Dead people need to be reminded of their place. Why, in my day, dead people didn't just gallavant about and muck up perfectly good radio stories. No sir, they stayed in the box (or urn) where they belonged, and were happier for it! We had a word for it - yax, which means (loosely) "person who is dead and shouldn't be doing any more voice-overs, but does them anyway out of some overblown sense of self worth".

Get a lif.... errr.... never mind.

Re:In related news...

[The_K4]

The Bush Administration announced today that the next State of the Union Address will be delivered using Ronald Reagan's voice.

No, No, No....Richard Nixon's voice.....we've got tons of recordings.

Re:In related news...

[bgeer]

Funny, I had heard it was going to be delivered in John Kerry's voice. Go figure.

Adams on electronic democracy

[geordi177]

Douglas Adams had a website that he posted on. One of his last posts (less than a month before his death) I thought had an interesting connection to /. and electronic forums in general:

"If anybody has any suggestions of features they'd like to see added (or taken away) please say so. We will of course completely ignore them. That's how the new electronic democracy works."
- Douglas Adams talking about updating his website

ah hem

[fizban]

In related news...

A resident of Tibet by the name of Dug lah-sa Dams was reported to have screamed "Oh no, not again!" before being accidentally run over by a bus load of tourists. The driver of the bus, one Arthur Dent, originally from England, is being held for questioning.

Re:In related news...

[madpoet_one]

And it will be 18 minutes shorter than usual....