It’s time…five years later I finally recorded and am releasing the FORTY SECOND episode of y2cl-Radio*!
This one is all about Douglas Adams and The Hithchikers Guide to the Galaxy!
Is y2cl-Radio back on the airwaves? I sure hope so. I plan to release a new episode every Sunday for you!
Bow excuse me while I remember how to edit and prepare audio.
Oh, also, I’m sorry the song on this episode is shit. It was the first song I ever wrote on my own when I was 14.
Music:
Artist: Damn The Cow
Song: I lie here cause I am dead
Album: Black & White Chicken Scratches Vol. 2
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Episode Notes:
Forty Two script:
Fun facts
While wanting to be a writer he became a bodyguard for a Qatari oil tycoon’s family
Not only wrote coe Monty Python, he played two characters, a doctor and a pepperpot.
He wrote for Doctor Who, eventually becoming a Scipt editor
He named Pink Floyd’s album The Divisiopn Bell in 1994 and played guitar on stage with them.
Was the first person to buy an Apple Macintosh in the UK.
Is one of only two non-python to recieve a writing credit on the series, the other being Neil Innes
He was left handed
How I got introduced to Douglas Adams
Playing the text game with my dad on the computer
Reading the books over an over that my dad gave me
Little history of Douglas Adams:
3/11/1952 – 5/11/2001
was 6 feet tall at the age of 12 (6’5″ as an adult)
Educated at Primrose Primary School.
Only student to received a 10/10 for creative writing from his writing master Frank Halford at Brentwood School
Short story “Suspense” was published in 1965 at 13 years old in the children’s comic Eagle.
In 2014 a poem written by Adams was discovered in a school cupboard that he wrote in January 1970
History of H2G2
Got the idea while drunk in a field in Inssbruck, Austria in the early 1970’s while carrying a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe.
Originally a BBC radion play in 1978
Adapted into a novel in 1979
Adapted in to a mini series in 1981
Adapted into a text game in 1984
Hollywood movie in 2005
Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent
Mox Def as Ford Prefect
Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zooey Deschanel as Trillian
Alan Rickman as the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android
Warwick Davis as Marvin
Stephen Fry as the narrator
Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast
Books in the “Trilogy”
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe (1980)
Life, the Universe, and Everything (1982)
So long, and thanks for all the fish (1984)
Mostly Harmless (1992)
And Another Thing… (2009)
Monty Python
co-wrote “Patient Abuse” for the final episdoe of Monty Python’s Flying Circus