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My favourite of the Radio adaption sequels.
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Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series #4
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase
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Many are familiar with Douglas Adams's classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, but few know that these books started out as a multi-part series performed on BBC radio. This installment, part four, is a robust radio dramatization of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and Arthur Dent is in love with the otherworldly Fenchurch, but Ford Prefect has an idea that might burst Arthur’s happy little bubble. What is really going on with Arthur’s dream girl, where have all the dolphins gone, and what was their departing message to mankind?
3 pages, Audio CD
First published May 23,2005
This edition
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3 pages, Audio CD
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October 25, 2005 by BBC Audiobooks
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9781572704886
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1572704888
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English
About the author
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
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The Hitchhiker’s radio adaptations continue with the fourth installment in the trilogy, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish.
This one is funny and amusing, but the weaknesses inherint in the book are on display here—namely too much focus on Arthur. Part of the fun of Hitchhhiker’s is all the zany characters and you get the feeling Adams was tiring of the series at this point as characters such as Ford, Marvin and Trillian only have glorified cameos at best. This radio adapation does slim things down a bit and it does have some absurdly funny moments that work better in audio than they do in print.
This one is funny and amusing, but the weaknesses inherint in the book are on display here—namely too much focus on Arthur. Part of the fun of Hitchhhiker’s is all the zany characters and you get the feeling Adams was tiring of the series at this point as characters such as Ford, Marvin and Trillian only have glorified cameos at best. This radio adapation does slim things down a bit and it does have some absurdly funny moments that work better in audio than they do in print.
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In which Arthur returns to Earth finds love. WAIT wasn't Earth destroyed ???
And yet here Earth is. Even though Arthur has been gone for years only months have passed.
Arthur investigates this confusion and searches for others who experience this.
Not as funny as previous audio products but still better than the book. (Thanks For All the Fish)
Remind me to feed fish to the next dolphin I meet.
And yet here Earth is. Even though Arthur has been gone for years only months have passed.
Arthur investigates this confusion and searches for others who experience this.
Not as funny as previous audio products but still better than the book. (Thanks For All the Fish)
Remind me to feed fish to the next dolphin I meet.
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Rating between 3.5 and 4
a good adaptation of the 4th hitchhikers book i think.
different to the other stories as this is a smaller more intimate story centred on arthur dent and his new love fenchurch.
the interludes with ford were okay and served to stop the story getting too far away from the world of the guide.
the final episode with the final appearance of marvin (still played by stephen moore) was a touching reunion for arthur as well as a teary good bye to the miserable bugger.
overall definitely recommend, especially if listening to all of the phases in sequence.
a good adaptation of the 4th hitchhikers book i think.
different to the other stories as this is a smaller more intimate story centred on arthur dent and his new love fenchurch.
the interludes with ford were okay and served to stop the story getting too far away from the world of the guide.
the final episode with the final appearance of marvin (still played by stephen moore) was a touching reunion for arthur as well as a teary good bye to the miserable bugger.
overall definitely recommend, especially if listening to all of the phases in sequence.
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Another great entry. The quality of the performances, production and writing are really top-notch. What a brilliant legacy!
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The arrival of Fenchurch and the Earth is back. Shorter than the others (4 episodes instead of 6). Still great! Ford's attempts to make it to Earth were the best part, Wonko the Sane (Christian Slater was a fun surprise!)
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Spectacular - listening to the whole BBC audio series far outstrips even the pleasure of reading the books
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