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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts

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Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 121670

Media: Paperback
Edition: 25Anniversary Ed
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 0330419579
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9780330419574
ASIN: 0330419579

Publication Date: March 21, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Excellent read! Thanks for looking!

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

So Long and Thanks.... July 30, 2008
I have tried to get into radio comedy at various times. I spent many an hour trying to discover what was funny about the Goon Show as to me it just sounded like allot of man talking in silly voices. I had discovered Hitch Hikers through the TV show and had subsequently read all the Hitch Hiker novels and thought Douglas Adams the greatest writer I'd ever read.

And then, one Christmas, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, BBC Radio 4 played the Hitch Hikers radio series on consecutive nights and I tuned in my portable hoping to change my opinion of Radio comedy by what was universally considered a ground breaking show.

Well I never got my epiphany, and still can't do Radio comedy, so buying this book is a difficult circle to square. I think I'd buy directions in the use of tooth picks if Douglas Adams had written them. Anyway it's got a nice cover.

5 out of 5 stars

DA at his original best February 16, 2008
Just superb, that is all I can say. Douglas Adams' awesome creation is superbly documented here in these radio scripts. It contains so much inside information on who says what, when and most importantly why! For each episode, there is commentary by a producer, or actor, plus, sometimes, by DA himself, as to the reasons why things happened the way they did, or why something was cast a particular way.

The whole scripts embellish the story with amazing colour and life that just shows how much goes into not only the creative genius of DA, but also the production of each episode for the radio.

It also contains a missing Hitchhikers sketch, "Fit 6 and a half", although this is really just a few minutes of dialogue.

If you are a die hard HHGTTG fan this is for you. If you enjoyed the film, then this is for you too. Just brilliant.

5 out of 5 stars

Full circle November 6, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I bought the radio scripts when they first appeared, lost them, and have spent the best part of 15 years trying to track them down again. Remember that the scripts were often written the day before the show (or sometimes afterwards ...) so many of the effects are tailored for the cast and crew. There's some hiliarious stuff here which you will not find in any other HHGTTG memorabilia. Read and enjoy.

3 out of 5 stars

a nice peace of DNA nostelgia May 23, 2003
5 out of 14 found this review helpful

It seams now that the Dougles Adams Nostelgia buisness is now in full swing and will continue for many years to come, last years salmon of doubt, the numerouse biographies and studies, and now this.

Don't get me wrong, the radio scripts are indded very funny and give a good insight into how the siminal radio show was put together, the footnotes say much which is not apparent and go to show just how much hurried some of this work had to be. However one can't help feeling when reading thsi work, is this strictly speeking necesary. I was hoping for a bit more really.

And don't thake their 'undiscovered episode' to much at face value, yes it is there and yes it is very funny but it doesn't really add anything to the story and is mearly two pages of dialogue which could be placed between fits 6 and 7.

Hence my advice on this book is that if you have heard the radio plays, read the book, seen the TV program, and then read the book again, this is a wonderful item which is just right for yoru bookshelf, but if you are new to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or are not as devoted to it as some of us then this probably isn't worth it.