Book Details
Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts (25th Anniversary Edition containing previously unpublished material)
Author: Douglas Adams and Edited by Geoffrey Perkins
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Pan Books
Year: 2003
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 258
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-330-41957-9
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact. There is some minor shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges. Superficial scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"March 2003 sees the 25th anniversary of the first ever transmission of Douglas Adams's 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' on BBC Radio 4. This celebratory edition of the script-book includes a previously unpublished Hitchhiker script; a new introduction by producer Geoffrey Perkins; and a Who's Who of all those involved in the radio series.
'It seemed to me, listening to radio comedy, that we hadn't progressed much beyond Door Slam A, Door Slam B, Footsteps on Gravel Path and the odd Comic Boing... I wanted Hitchhiker to sound like a rock album. I wanted the voice and the effects and the music to be so seamlessly orchestrated as to create a coherent sound picture of a whole other world...' Douglas Adams
So began the Hitchhiker phenomenon. The legendary BBC series did indeed push back the barriers of radio comedy, and in so doing won lavish praise from the cities and a variety of awards. It attracted a deluge of letters from a curious audience throughout the world and went on to spawn records, books, a stage production, a TV series, a computer adventure game and a towel.
Along with the new material in this edition, here are the twelve original radio scripts - Hitchhiker as it was written and exactly as it was broadcast for the very first time. Included are amendments and additions made during recordings and original notes on the writing and producing of the series by Adams and Perkins.
For perennial Hitchhiker fans and those new to Adams's comic genius, this updated and embellished edition of the script-book is essential reading..."
Book Details
Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts (25th Anniversary Edition containing previously unpublished material)
Author: Douglas Adams and Edited by Geoffrey Perkins
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Pan Books
Year: 2003
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 258
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-330-41957-9
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact. There is some minor shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges. Superficial scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"March 2003 sees the 25th anniversary of the first ever transmission of Douglas Adams's 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' on BBC Radio 4. This celebratory edition of the script-book includes a previously unpublished Hitchhiker script; a new introduction by producer Geoffrey Perkins; and a Who's Who of all those involved in the radio series.
'It seemed to me, listening to radio comedy, that we hadn't progressed much beyond Door Slam A, Door Slam B, Footsteps on Gravel Path and the odd Comic Boing... I wanted Hitchhiker to sound like a rock album. I wanted the voice and the effects and the music to be so seamlessly orchestrated as to create a coherent sound picture of a whole other world...' Douglas Adams
So began the Hitchhiker phenomenon. The legendary BBC series did indeed push back the barriers of radio comedy, and in so doing won lavish praise from the cities and a variety of awards. It attracted a deluge of letters from a curious audience throughout the world and went on to spawn records, books, a stage production, a TV series, a computer adventure game and a towel.
Along with the new material in this edition, here are the twelve original radio scripts - Hitchhiker as it was written and exactly as it was broadcast for the very first time. Included are amendments and additions made during recordings and original notes on the writing and producing of the series by Adams and Perkins.
For perennial Hitchhiker fans and those new to Adams's comic genius, this updated and embellished edition of the script-book is essential reading..."
