The Original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts

Before the novels, Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC radio, and this volume prints those original scripts as they were performed. Reading the material in script form shows how the comedy was built for sound: the cues, the timing and the announcements that shaped jokes later rewritten for the page. Familiar elements appear in their first versions, and the differences between them and the books give the collection real interest for anyone curious about how the series took shape. Things this volume brings: • Complete radio scripts as broadcast by the BBC, written by Douglas Adams • Shows the material in its earliest form, before the novels • Of particular value to collectors and students of radio comedy • Pan MacMillan edition in English A good choice for Hitchhiker's readers, script collectors and followers of British comedy writing, available at Boipoka.