Just hearing the music again brings back all those long lost memories!!! It was on BFBS after the Archers if I remember rightly. Pebbleswilma - listened to this fantastic series when I was serving with the Army in Germany. I use it as a way to filter out girlfriends. I still own them and listen to them once a month. My dad brought me the tapes (shiney covers) as a Christmas present about 13 years ago. Wonder if I can get my kids interested?Įnglish Exile - I'm a mere sapling at 26. It will be nice for the past to join to the future when the new series is on next week. I'm 46 now and I know where most of the time went. My radio was called Fred (must be a girl thing). Just the same - home built radio & everything. I still listen to them whenever I need reassuring that the universe is still there. they are in MONO (remember that) - a bit like listening in black and white. I managed to tape the very original first broadcast. Where did the time go?īanana Splat - Not exactly home build, but certainly a very old radio. I'm nearly 40 now but it all seems like yesterday. listening to the original HHGTTG series in bed on my home built crystal set when I should have been asleep before school the following day. Nick Webb's biography of Douglas Adams, Wish You Were Here, is published by Headline.Ī conversation on the Hitchhiker Message Board: Gritting their teeth at the thought of getting delivery, publishers persisted in bunging him advances to persevere. However, his unique humour,Īn inventive mix of the cosmic and the minutely local, and his unsettling ability to convey how bloody strange it is that we exist at all, appealed to millions all over the planet. Many times he tried to stop writing altogether. Writing was something he did with painstaking anguish, and he was notoriously delinquent about meeting deadlines. A militant atheist, his sense of wonder was all the more intense for his understanding that the beauty and complexity of the world had come about through push-pull material causality.ĭouglas enjoyed being a famous author, but hated the process of becoming one. Underwater he must have resembled one of the friendlier marine mammals, a manatee perhaps. Despite the latter, he loved scuba diving. He suffered from a giant brain and a nose like the Northern Line. Douglas always seemed to inspire that sort of excellence.Īws2001 - from the Hitchhiker Message Boardĭouglas Adams was a huge man of great personal warmth. I hope the new series is as good as the previews sound - I'm sure it is. When he died I had one of those feelings of knowing there was something I would now never do - along with seeing Frank Zappa or Pink Floyd live again, I would never hear any new HH. I told him this, and we chatted a bit about digital audio, and we even swapped emails, one of which I used to offer my services for his film, but at that point he was not having fun with the whole film thing, and nothing happened. For me this was awfully relevant - sound had inspired him, and now it inspired me. I bumped into Douglas at a Procul Harem concert in the mid-nineties - he was propping up the bar after having introduced the act by recounting to the audience how a PH track had given him the idea that became the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Listening to the HHGTTG Radio series inspired me to become a sound engineer, as I could hear the power that sound had in communicating a universe that we had no idea about.
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