The long-awaited sixth series of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the wittiest and most epic adventure yet!
Douglas Adams (Author)
Douglas Noel Adams was born on 11 March 1952 in Cambridge. On
leaving school, he won a scholarship to study English at Cambridge,
where he joined the Footlights and later set up his own successful
revue group, Adams-Smith-Adams.
In 1977 Douglas met BBC Radio 4 producer Simon Brett, who felt that
Douglas' style of humour should have its own show. Having been
inspired by a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe, Douglas
came up with a draft for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The
worldwide phenomenon spawned by the radio series includes five
novels, a book of scripts, two LPs, a television series, a computer
game and two stage plays.
In addition to Hitchhiker's, Douglas' work included two Dirk Gently
detective novels and two humorous place-name 'dictionaries', The
Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (both co-written
with John Lloyd) as well as Last Chance to See, an account of a
global search for rare and endangered species which he co-wrote
with Mark Carwardine.
His last series for Radio 4 was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Future, a look at the advances mankind was likely to make in future
years. He died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 49, in May 2001. A
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy feature film was produced in 2005,
whilst both Stephen Mangan and Samuel Barnett have portrayed Dirk
Gently on television in recent years.
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