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Cast members link up for Hitchcon '09

Simon Jones and Mark Wing Davey are being joined by Andrew Sachs and Harry Shearer of The Simpsons fame as cast members for a one-off radio-style performance of "Hitchhiker's Live!" at Hitchcon '09.

Benedicte Page, The Bookseller, 3rd October 2009

Great diabolic plots of creeping mystery! Here come master detective Sexton Blake (Simon Jones) and his plucky sidekick Tinker (Wayne Forester) plus an assortment of posh birds, cross archbishops and fiendish profs to solve any murder going, thwart all evil ploys. For anyone who remembers the real thing in book, magazine or comic form, this aural slapstick version (directed by dynamic Dirk Maggs) will lack proper gravitas. It is, however, huge fun in a Goon-show-ish sort of way. Quick, lads, to the locomotive. The chase is on!

Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 31st July 2009