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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!"
isn't it, that the inventor of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe should project his voice back across time and death? I can't wait to hear this, one of my best memories of late childhood is hearing the Hitchiker's Guide radio series on the BBC.
----- One learns to itch where one can scratch.
It just seems fitting that Douglas Adams had the forsight to record the lines for a character who always dies, so that he himself could be re-incarnated in a way.
Lets just hope he does'nt mind coming back as a potted plant at some point
Where are we going, and why are we in this hand cart?
I asked Douglas Adams sign a book for a friend. When he had asked about it, I said "it's for a friend"... he gave me a sad look and I felt like a heel.
Meanwhile my wife had him sign the Apple II version of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Infocom game. His reaction to her was "oh, wow, I've never signed one of these".
(sigh)
IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
Get a lif.... errr.... never mind.
WWJD? JWRTFA!
In high school senior year brit lit, I wrote my thesis paper on the HHGttG series. In the course of my study, I (re)read the entire series in about a week and a half. The concentration of DA's work in such a short time made me a very strange person to be around for awhile... I can't think of any sort of parallel for the experience. I'll be sure to get a copy of the radio broadcast if i can though ;-) DA was a genius.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
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.
Funny, I had heard it was going to be delivered in John Kerry's voice. Go figure.
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
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.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
And it will be 18 minutes shorter than usual....
Remain lost in hidden worlds where I reign. Head engine and caboose in my toy train...