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Lloyd: Liff most enjoyable thing Adams & I did
"I begged him to call it The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Dictionary by Douglas Adams, with my credit tucked away inside... But no sane publisher ever dreamt of disagreeing with him on anything, so The Meaning of Liff it was"
John Lloyd, Radio Times, 28th February 2013John Lloyd marks the 30th anniversary of the book he co-wrote with the late Douglas Adams. It's a strange dictionary, as you'd expect from the inventor of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and his radio producer. In The Meaning of Liff you'll find definitions in a new dimension, as place names become definitions for experiences we recognise but don't really have a word for. It started as a game for Adams and Lloyd but Stephen Fry and Matt Lucas now tell Lloyd why they love it. Fellow devotee Professor Steven Pinker talks about the psychological relief and sense of bonding that comes from realising you're not alone in having the thoughts and feelings that Liff captures. And the studio audience throw in their own suggestions, too, to be judged, accepted or rejected by Lloyd and his distinguished judges Helen Fielding (creator of Bridget Jones), ex-Python (and Chaucer scholar) Terry Jones and actor/writer Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 22nd February 2013New Meaning Of Liff book and Radio 4 celebration announced
To mark the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's hit book The Meaning Of Liff, submissions for a new Liff book are being sought via Radio 4.
British Comedy Guide, 26th January 2013Faber and Faber to publish 'Meaning of Liff' follow-up
Faber and Faber is set to publish a follow-up to Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's classic The Meaning of Liff, which has been in print since it was first released 30 years ago.
Joshua Farrington, The Bookseller, 9th October 2012Video: Douglas Adams' eBooks prediction brought to life
This year's Towel Day was a very special one, as Adams' collected Hitchhicker's novels - "a trilogy in five parts" - were formally released to download on eReaders.
What makes this occurrence so especially special is that to tie in with May 25, the books' publishers commissioned fans to create a video to accompany an audio recording of Douglas Adams back in 1993 where he predicted - you guessed it - the arrival of the eReader.
Alistair Plumb, The Huffington Post, 29th May 2012Dirk Gently axed by BBC Four
BBC Four will not make another series of Dirk Gently, the modern adaptation of Douglas Adams' detective series starring Stephen Mangan and Darren Boyd.
British Comedy Guide, 28th May 2012Douglas Adams celebrated by fans worldwide on Towel Day
Annual celebration of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams's birthday attracts huge support on Twitter from fans including Stephen Fry.
James Lachno, The Telegraph, 25th May 2012Douglas Adams biographer Nick Webb dies
Nick Webb, the man behind Douglas Adams' best-seller The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has died, according to The Bookseller.
BBC News, 12th April 2012As this three-part mini-series comes to an end, Dirk's negligence, scattiness and parsimony is catching up with him. He can't pay the rent, he can't pay his staff and he can't keep a cleaner. Worse still, someone's bumping off his past clients one by one. But, as is so often the way in matters Gently, might it be that all these situations are interconnected? It's probably been the misfortune of Howard Overman - who has adapted Douglas Adams's novels - that Dirk Gently appeared at roughly the same time as the masterful and, it must be said, much more lavishly produced Sherlock. It has its amusing moments, and Stephen Mangan and Darren Boyd make a decent double act. But most of the time, DG just comes over as Sherlock's slightly goofy younger brother.
Phil Harrison, Time Out, 19th March 2012We'd love another series of this double act of Stephen Mangan as Douglas Adams's eccentric holistic detective and Darren Boyd as his eyebrow-raising assistant. But for now, we'll just have to savour this twisting and turning final episode, in which Dirk is framed after several of his clients are murdered.
Metro, 19th March 2012