New Radio Hitch-Hiker's

[coalescent]

BBC Cult Site:

A six-part adaptation of Life, the Universe and Everything will be up first in the spring. This will be followed towards the end of 2004 by an eight-week serialisation combining So Long and Thanks for All the Fish with Mostly Harmless.
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The Hitchhiker's production is set to re-unite six members of the original cast: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore and announcer John Marsh. Those joining them will include William Franklyn as the voice of the Book and Richard Griffiths as Slartibartfast. The late Douglas Adams himself will appear as Agrajag (a cameo he favoured playing) thanks to recordings made for Dove Audio's unabridged book readings.

Substantial amounts of original cast. This could actually be quite good.

(Via the RSFG mailing list)

Comments

Hehehehehehehehehe

[xsabx.livejournal.com]

Ah, now would this be the moment to hunt down Geoffrey Perkins, whom I have (on tape) saying that 'hell would freeze over and have a multi-storey NCP car park built over it' before any more Douglas Adams was ever adapted for radio???

Ironically it was suggesting this very same thing back in the early 1990's that lost me a job at the BBC...

I say... bring it on :D

Re: Hehehehehehehehehe

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Ironically it was suggesting this very same thing back in the early 1990's that lost me a job at the BBC...

Eeep.

[hddod.livejournal.com]

Obviously I knew about this already (we wrote about it in MH 90), but what I didn't know was that there's a RSFG mailing list! How do I join?

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that, I'll have a word with the keeper of the list.

Does this mean you don't know about the Reading SF Group Christmas Dinner?

[hddod.livejournal.com]

I knew that there was one being planned, but I have no idea where/when it's going to be...

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Well, without your email address I can't get Mark to add you to the list, but if you go to

http://www.rsfg.org.uk

you can contact him yourself. The dinner is on Monday 8 Dec, and he'd appreciate a reply about it by Monday 8 Nov.