Tag: Douglas Adams

The loss of a human being is a grand but intangible event, particularly when it is sudden and unexpected, as was the death of Douglas Adams in May

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” The author of the radio series which became a book which became a television

It’s astonishing that anyone who is quite as lazy as Dirk Gently should simultaneously contrive to be quite so persistent. First presented to the public in the titular

Set in June 1978 at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel, what should be a place of relaxation and recovery and gentle activity is marred by the strange

It was in March 2013 that maverick director Alex Cox, best known to genre fans for 1984’s science fiction caper Repo Man and as the presenter of BBC2’s

On the afternoon of Friday 20th September, we were delighted to have a lengthy chat with one of the pioneering producers of contemporary radio, Dirk Maggs, about his

As the audience gathers for this return visit to the Edinburgh Playhouse on the evening of Friday 27th September, the stage is comfortably familiar, comfortable chair with a

Comedian, musician and radio personality turned science fiction writer, where in the world – or out of it – will Mitch Benn turn up next? Having previously worked

A former member of the Cambridge Footlights, that was where Simon Jones met Douglas Adams, himself an associate of the Monty Python team and later a script editor

The process of novelising a television or film script is unenviable, and while there are those who have made successful careers out of it, such as Alan Dean