'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show, Live!' BBC-4

'The Hitch Hiker's Guide
to the Galaxy
Radio Show, Live!' BBC-4
20th June 2012 at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester
192K - One rar File (156 Mg) containing 2 mp3s, 5 jpgs and 1 txt File

by Douglas Adams,
adapted by Dirk Maggs THHGTTG Live Cast

Performed live on stage by Simon Jones, Susan Sheridan, Geoff McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and other original Hitchhiker's cast members under the direction of Dirk Maggs, Douglas's personal choice to complete the saga in its original medium, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show, Live!’ created anew the most enduring version of Douglas Adams’s masterwork in a radio-style stage show filled with laughter, really wild sound effects and drinks with extremely silly names.

After a sell-out tour in 2012, the producers had promised that the show would return in 2013 and continue to 2016!

Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoff McGivern (Ford Prefect / Deep Thought), Susan Sheridan (Tricia McMillan ["Trillian"]), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), Stephen Moore (Marvin the Paranoid Android / Gag Halfrunt / Whale), Toby Longworth (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz / Slartibartfast), Andy Secombe (Colin the Robot / Max Quardlepleen), Philip Pope (Garkbit / Krikkit Singer), Samantha Béart (Random / Nutri-Matic), Douglas Adams (Agrajag), Various [see below] (Voice of the Book)

Directed by Dirk Maggs
Produced by Perfectly Normal Productions (Dirk Maggs and Simon Jones), The Entertainment Business Ltd. and The Radio Theatre Company

Adapted from the B.B.C. Radio series

Tour Dates:
8th-9th June 2012 at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow - (Voice of the Book: Billy Boyd)
10th June 2012 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle - (Voice of the Book: Billy Boyd)
12th June 2012 at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham - (Voice of the Book: Phill Jupitus)
14th June 2012 at the The Anvil, Basingstoke - (Voice of the Book: Phill Jupitus)
15th-16th June 2012 at the Derngate, Northampton - (Voice of the Book: Phill Jupitus [15th] and Rory McGrath [16th])
17th June 2012 at the The Grand Theatre, Blackpool - (Voice of the Book: Roger McGough)
18th-19th June 2012 at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool - (Voice of the Book: Roger McGough)
20th June 2012 at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester - (Voice of the Book: Jon Culshaw)
21st June 2012 at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham - (Voice of the Book: Christopher Timothy)
22th June 2012 at the St David's Hall, Cardiff - (Voice of the Book: Phill Jupitus)
24th June 2012 at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth - (Voice of the Book: Rory McGrath)
26th-27th June 2012 at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking - (Voice of the Book: Clive Anderson)
28th-30th June 2012 at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley - (Voice of the Book: Andrew Sachs)
1st July 2012 at the New Theatre, Oxford - (Voice of the Book: Roger McGough)
2nd-4th July 2012 at the Opera House, Manchester - (Voice of the Book: John Challis [2nd] and Jon Culshaw [3rd-4th])
5th July 2012 at the Grand Opera House, York - (Voice of the Book: John Challis)
6th July 2012 at the Venue Cymru, Llandudno - (Voice of the Book: Christopher Timothy)
9th-10th July 2012 at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury - (Voice of the Book: Phill Jupitus)
12th-14th July 2012 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton - (Voice of the Book: Roger McGough [12th-13th] and Hugh Dennis [14th])
15th July 2012 at the Mayflower, Southampton - (Voice of the Book: Hugh Dennis)
16th-17th July 2012 at the Corn Exchange, Cambridge - (Voice of the Book: John Lloyd)
18th July 2012 at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend - (Voice of the Book: John Challis)
19th July 2012 at the Hackney Empire, London - (Voice of the Book: Terry Jones)
21st July 2012 at the Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh - (Voice of the Book: Neil Gaiman)

Notes:
*Featuring Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Tricia "Trillian" McMillan and Marvin the Paranoid Android

'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show, Live!' LINK

BONUS SELECTION BELOW ----------------------- R

Douglas Adams - Live in Concert - Read by Douglas Adams (Bonus)

Source Internet
Duration approx 1:14 hours
FhG MPEG 1 Layer III 64 Kbps CBR
44100Hz, 16-bit, Stereo

Found during an Internet trawl, apart from file renaming and tagging it is untouched, treat as "Bought as seen". Ithought you might enjoy this too. -------------------------------------------------- R

The book

On a hot night in August 1995 Douglas Adams gave a barnstorming performance to an invited audience at the Almeida Theatre in London. This compact disc is a record of that remarkable event. Douglas gives dramatic solo performances of episodes and passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. Including: How to Fly! Arthur and the Irrational Sofa and much, much...more.

Standing before a very live and appreciative audience at the Almeida Theater in London in August 1995, Douglas Adams claimed to have five performing voices: "posh quiet, posh loud, less posh quiet, less posh loud, and Australian." This performance is about the silliest, most delightful, poshest dramatic reading you'll ever want to hear--with Adams choosing three selections from his wonderfully irreverent, hugely successful canon of science fiction satire. With the subject matter being irrational couches and Frogstar Battle Robots, he gleefully presents some of his best-loved characters, including Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and Marvin the Paranoid Android. Adams died unexpectedly in 2001. This live CD is a fine remembrance of a beloved author of gentle insight and exceptional style.

The author and reader

Douglas Noël Adams, (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.

Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a 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), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.

Adams became known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and also as a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh. He was a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate his view that the fine-tuned Universe argument for God was a fallacy. Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion (2006) to Adams, writing on his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."

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Riklaa April 7, 2014 at 4:48pm

Douglas Adams - Live in Concert - Read by Douglas Adams (Bonus)

Source Internet
Duration approx 1:14 hours
FhG MPEG 1 Layer III 64 Kbps CBR
44100Hz, 16-bit, Stereo

Found during an Internet trawl, apart from file renaming and tagging it is untouched, treat as "Bought as seen". Ithought you might enjoy this too. -------------------------------------------------- R

The book

On a hot night in August 1995 Douglas Adams gave a barnstorming performance to an invited audience at the Almeida Theatre in London. This compact disc is a record of that remarkable event. Douglas gives dramatic solo performances of episodes and passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. Including: How to Fly! Arthur and the Irrational Sofa and much, much...more.

Standing before a very live and appreciative audience at the Almeida Theater in London in August 1995, Douglas Adams claimed to have five performing voices: "posh quiet, posh loud, less posh quiet, less posh loud, and Australian." This performance is about the silliest, most delightful, poshest dramatic reading you'll ever want to hear--with Adams choosing three selections from his wonderfully irreverent, hugely successful canon of science fiction satire. With the subject matter being irrational couches and Frogstar Battle Robots, he gleefully presents some of his best-loved characters, including Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and Marvin the Paranoid Android. Adams died unexpectedly in 2001. This live CD is a fine remembrance of a beloved author of gentle insight and exceptional style.

The author and reader

Douglas Noël Adams, (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.

Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a 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), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.

Adams became known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and also as a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh. He was a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate his view that the fine-tuned Universe argument for God was a fallacy. Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion (2006) to Adams, writing on his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."

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