Customer Reviews
So Long and Thanks.... - By: Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers', 30 Jul 2008 
I have tried to get into radio comedy at various times. I spent many an hour trying to discover what was funny about the Goon Show as to me it just sounded like alllot of man talking in silly voices. I had discovered Hitch Hikers through the TV show & had subsequently read alll the Hitch Hiker novels & thought Douglas Adams the greatest writer I'd ever read.
And then, one Christmas, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, BBC Radio 4 played the Hitch Hikers radio series on consecutive nights & I tuned in my portable hoping to change my opinion of Radio comedy by what was universallly considered a ground breaking show.
Well I never got my epiphany, & still can't do Radio comedy, so buying this book is a difficult circle to square. I think I'd buy directions in the use of tooth picks if Douglas Adams had written them. Anyway it's got a nice cover.
DA at his original best - By: G. Horsham, 16 Feb 2008 
Just superb, that is alll I can say. Douglas Adams' awesome creation is superbly documented here in these radio scripts. It contains so much inside information on who says what, when & most importantly why! For each episode, there is commentary by a producer, or actor, plus, sometimes, by DA himself, as to the reasons why things happened the way they did, or why something was cast a particular way.
The whole scripts embellish the story with amazing colour & life that just shows how much goes into not only the creative genius of DA, but also the production of each episode for the radio.
It also contains a missing Hitchhikers sketch, "Fit 6 & a half", although this is reallly just a few minutes of dialogue.
If you are a die hard HHGTTG fan this is for you. If you enjoyed the film, then this is for you too. Just brilliant.
Full circle - By: , 06 Nov 2003 I bought the radio scripts when they first appeared, lost them, & have spent the best part of 15 years trying to track them down again. Remember that the scripts were often written the day before the show (or sometimes afterwards ...) so many of the effects are tailored for the cast & crew. There's some hiliarious stuff here which you will not find in any other HHGTTG memorabilia. Read & enjoy.
a nice peace of DNA nostelgia - By: , 23 May 2003 It seams now that the Dougles Adams Nostelgia buisness is now in full swing & will continue for many years to come, last years salmon of doubt, the numerouse biographies & studies, & now this.
Don't get me wrong, the radio scripts are indded very funny & give a good insight into how the siminal radio show was put together, the footnotes say much which is not apparent & go to show just how much hurried some of this work had to be. However one can't help feeling when reading thsi work, is this strictly speeking necesary. I was hoping for a bit more reallly.
And don't thake their 'undiscovered episode' to much at face value, yes it is there & yes it is very funny but it doesn't reallly add anything to the story & is mearly two pages of dialogue which could be placed between fits 6 & 7.
Hence my advice on this book is that if you have heard the radio plays, read the book, seen the TV program, & then read the book again, this is a wonderful item which is just right for yoru bookshelf, but if you are new to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or are not as devoted to it as some of us then this probably isn't worth it.
