Douglas Adams

Does H2G2 still answer the ultimate question?

Thirty years after Douglas Adams embarked on his journey into outer space, Jenny Turner asks if his greatest work is stranded in the late 1970s.

PanMac and Penguin join forces in Hitchhiker's galaxy

A "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" convention will take place in October to mark the 30th anniversary of the famous Douglas Adams series (12th October) and publication of the authorised sequel from Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing....

Adams's unfinished novel heads to R4

Douglas Adams's unfinished Dirk Gently novel is to be adapted for Radio 4.

Douglas Adams' final Dirk Gently novel to be adapted for Radio 4

Spice World writer Kim Fuller has been enlisted to adapt and complete Douglas Adams' final and unfinished Dirk Gently novel for BBC Radio 4.

My favourite. Not just a wonderful idea, not just very funny, not just the only known portrayal of a hero travelling the galaxy in a dressing gown, but a show that made real use of the radio medium. And, yes, I realise I have already contradicted myself, but the amusing noises of The Hitchhiker's Guide were somehow more convincing than the amusing noises of the Goons. Perhaps it's a generation thing.

Series two of Dirk Maggs's brilliant dramatisation and production of Douglas Adams's cosmic sleuth, and if the first episode is anything to go by the next six weeks of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul should just surf by on a wave of surreal laughter.

It has to be admitted that knowing the book probably helps the listener to follow the plot, which seems at this early stage to be a bit all over the place.

We find Dirk Gently (Harry Enfield again, wonderful again) somewhat on his uppers (a scene in which he prizes the arrival of an envelope containing a charity appeal for the free pen that comes with it - very Ed Reardon). We also discover that Odin, Thor and other gods have been reduced to appearing in commercials. No doubt it will all start to come together next week. But even if it doesn't, who cares?

Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Verdict on the new big-screen version of Douglas Adams' much-loved science-fiction novel.