Chris PetrilliDouglas Adams died 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad. And has been widely regarded as a very bad thing.
Alun Jones@petrillic I can still remember the thrill of waiting to hear each episode on the radio. Fantastically advanced use of audio effects and music in a radio drama! Now I love in the USA, and find myself explaining to incredulous fans of Douglas Adams that radio is where this started.
@ftp_alun I still love the radio version best of all. I think because the voice actors are so amazing. I have them all on CD.
yunchtimeAlun, yes! I was in NYC at the time (1978) and a fen from UK returned with the first half dozen shows that he'd recorded live on audio cassettes while listening to BBC. He basically hijacked me and demanded to know if I had a cassette player. when I said "yes" he insisted (wildly, like a demon possessed) that we get the deck and listen to the episodes. "This is probably the first experience of this in the USA!" he claimed. Maybe. But it was worth it! Magic!
Paul Martin@[email protected] @[email protected] My first encounter was of the BBC 2 TV series. Then when I was at University it was conveniently repeated on Radio 4. I even sat with a boombox on Castle Hill a few Saturday afternoons to record some of the episodes of series 2. And shortly after that the CD box set came out.