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The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

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The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams

Manifest Destiny Lays a Golden Egg. The End of the Frontier. The Flag Outruns the Constitution. The Age of the Dinosaurs. America Revisits the Old World.

Biographical/historical information.
The Patriot Plan?
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Essay Awards - Postlogue. Epoch Plays Radio program. La Mauvaise Conduite adapted by May Sarton. Les Preludes Symphonic Poem No. Why Music is the Greatest of All the Arts. Why Literature is the Greatest of the Arts. The Psychology of Genius.

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What is Modern Art? What Has Happened to American Poetry? New Poetry Coming of Age. The Cartoon and Public Opinion. Art in a Democracy. The Renaissance in America. Mural Painting in America Today. Treasure Hunting in Meteor Crater. The American Writer in a Democratic Society. A New Concept of Tuberculosis. Behind the Movie Camera. The Museum and the Child. Gustav Mahler, Creator and Recreator.

The Museum and the General Public. Sculpture in America Today. Science, Industry and Society. The Role of the Museum in the Community Life. Walker Evans, American Photographer. The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. A Reading of Oriental Poetry. The Museum and Juvenile Delinquency.

The Writer in Present Day Society. The Art of Photography. Science and Common Sense. New Trends in the Dance. The Future of American Art. The Writer and His Audience. The Significance of Modern Architecture. The Theatre as a Social Force. Is the Critic an Aid or a Hindrance to the Artist? The Artist in Industrial America. Journalism and the Arts in Everyday Life. Humor and the Stage. Humor in Painting and the Graphic Arts. Created Equal An American Chronicle. If Ye Break Faith. The House That Doughnuts Built. Iroquois Part I 3. Iroquois Part II 4. The South East Indians 6. The South East Indians 7.

The Navajos Part I 8. The Navajos Part II 9. The Drama, Folklore of the Ojibways Legends of the California Indians A Ship is Born by Robert M. The Story of Juan Cabrillo.

The Story of Los Angeles Harbor. The Story of the Grape. The Story of the Orange. Ruddigore or the Witches Curse Act I. The Pirates of Penzance Act I. The Gondoliers Act I. The Gondoliers Act II. The Mikado Act I. The Mikado Act II. Yoeman of the Guard Act I. Yoeman of the Guard Act II. Edgar Allan Poe 1. James Buchanan Eads 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe 3. John Paul Jones 6. Alexander Hamilton by Jeanette Despres.

Thomas Paine, the Liberalist by Jeanette Despres. Madame Jumel by Jeanette Despres. Henry, the Caliph of Bagdad by Jeanette Despres. Two Women and Crime by Phyllis Frederic. Anthony by Phyllis Frederic. Mad Anthony Wayne by Jeanette Despres. Barnum by Harry Goldsmith. The Brooklyn Enigma by Michael Davidson. Treason by Jeanette Despres. Old Hays by Michael Davidson. His High Mightiness by Michael Davidson. Vermont Joins the Union by David Lesan. Dan Boone by David Lesan. The Purple Heart by Ed. John Paul Jones by W. The Elder Booth by Edward H. John Wilkes Booth by Edward H.

Custer by Jeanette Despres. Lydia Darrah by T. Plumes Defiant by Georgia Haswell Fawcett.

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Diamond Jim Brady by Edward H. Victoria Woodhull by David Lesan. The American Conflict by Lee Fontaine. John Brown by Joseph Miller. Theodore Roosevelt by Jeanette Despres. Samuel Adams by Lewis W. This date is crossed out on the manuscript. Jean and Pierre Lafitte by Lewis W. Gorgas by Joel S. Hammil and Will Glickman. The Louisiana Purchase by Jeanette Despres.

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Gold Dust by Phyllis Frederic. Kit Carson by Joseph W. The Last Dawn by W. Salem Witch Trials by John I. The Underground Railroad by Leon Alexander. Murray Hill by Georgia Fawcett. The Crisis of by Jeanette Despres. Ibsen Cycle Radio program. An Enemy of the People. Lady Inger of Ostrat. The Lady from the Sea. Pioneers of the Machine Age. Name of series has been changed on the cover to Police Mystery Book.

Sub-series 1 - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Sub-series 2 - Mysterious Island. Sub-series 3 - From the Earth to the Moon. Commandante's Headquarters, Presidio 9. The Ferry Building The House of Mystery The Monument of Drake's Cross The Mission Dolores The Stevenson Monument, Portsmouth Square The Seven Who Fled. The Backgrounds of Richard II. The Running of the Deer.

Marionettes and a Medieval Christmas Play. Siren of Safety 1. Two Wheels and a Hay Wagon 6. The Crime of William Wrenn Case of Jane Means vs. Football in the Aire Steamlined Highway Robbers The Jitterbug Witness A Day in Traffic Court Carelessness on Trial The Modest Home of Joe Author The Case of Harvey Welch Raceground of an Accident The Fifth Horseman Little Lessons for Big People You Bet Your Life Little Lessons for Little People You Are Responsible Reasons for Anger Carnival of Drivers The Drunken Teetotaler Little Caesar for an Hour I Can Handle It Let There Be Light Am I My Brother's Keeper?

As One Having Authority The Absent Minded Man The Mounting Toll With Liberty and Justice for All Appointment with Death Jockebed, Mother of Moses 5. The Shunammite Woman Life of David Samson, the Youth 1. Samson and Delilah Solomon, the Wise Solomon and the Queen of Sheba Solomon and the Maid of Shunem Solomon, the Wise Fool Rahab and the Spies of Joshua Athaliah, Daughter of Jezebel Deborah, Mother of Israel Susanna and the Elders Daniel, the Righteous Adventurer He Who Was Born Yesterday Gideon and the Brave Three Hundred The Ark of the Covenant Deborah, Prophetess of Israel Daniel, Prince of Judah Mattathias, Patriot of Judah Ehud, the Left Handed Swordsman Saul, the Chosen One Sub-series 1 - Microbe Hunters Series 1.

First of the Microbe Hunters 1. Microbes Must Have Parents! Microbes Are a Menace 4. The Rival Microbe Hunters 5. Pasteur's Greatest Triumph 6.

Massacre the Guinea-Pigs 7. The Nice Phagocytes 8. Ticks and Texas Fever 9. Trail of the Tsetse The Fight on Yellow Jack Five Against Death The Magic Bullet Sub-series 2 - Hunger Fighters Series 2. A Man of Fundamentals: Things start getting complicated at this point. Not only do the scripts replicate the radio shows, but some of the lines that were cut for time or other reasons have been restored.

In addition, notes about each episode are included, as well as forewords by Adams and Geoffrey Perkins. Having first been introduced to the Hitchhiker universe via the novels, I found it quite interesting to see how the story evolved from this version to the novels, since a good chunk of the later episodes ended up in The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy.

If you're not used to reading scripts, sifting your way thru the directions can be a bit of a challenge at first, but worth the work. Recommended to Adams fans, whether or not you already have the radio shows or not. After reading a few plays by Stoppard and Sophocles, these Radio Scripts were quite a breeze-through! It's great to find the beginning of a franchise that's spawned numerous incarnations by the same, original author --such as a television series, a movie, a five-book trilogy and a stage play--telling the same story in slightly different ways.

Douglas Adams would write according to how the product would be presented; For TV he would re-write parts that would better translate ie, could actually b After reading a few plays by Stoppard and Sophocles, these Radio Scripts were quite a breeze-through! Douglas Adams would write according to how the product would be presented; For TV he would re-write parts that would better translate ie, could actually be done , but for radio when he got the green light he just had at it!

No scenerio was too rediculous! No character too bizarre! It was simple to read the pages and imagine the characters speaking. Douglas would explain what sound effects he'd want, how they should sound here and there, how an actor should speak their dialogue and what bits of music to use and it really showed his creativity attempting to convey what was in his head to others on the page. The end of every episode or "fit" had neat little trivia about it, including what music was used or how they achieved certain sound effects.

Also, you'd get the background on classic Hitchhiker traits, such as the infamous obsession with towels wasn't even introduced until episode seven! If you mention this book to your average British bookworm their eyes light up and they get super excited - similar sight when someones mentions Harry Potter to me. You can tell their are avid fans. In fact, this book is a prominent series in British popular culture, and as well as becoming a international phenomenon.

This is just the first book in a 6 part series, it's got a radio show thats actually how it started! The world is positively obsessed! Sadly, I cannot say I fall into that category. Trust me, no one is more upset about this news then I am. I just did not find it entertaining, funny or prolific in any sense of the word.

There were several factors for disliking this book, and I've managed to narrow it down to two things; characters and theme of absurdity. I struggled with the fact that all the characters were quite annoying, meaning I wasn't really rooting for anyone. You have Arthur, the main protagonist, who is meant to represent the human race and I believe the reader as well, that is just shocked for most of the novel and confused as are we!

Then there is his vague and preoccupied best-friend alien Ford Prefect, who occasionally answers Arthur's questions and seems a bit on edge for most of the book. He's meant to represent the nomad journalist longing for adventure and wanting to update his guide to the universe. There is also a depressed robot who I probably relate to most on this book while reading it , an arrogant president of the Imperial Galactic Government, Zaphod Beeblebrox slightly more intelligent than Trump. I understand that most of his characters are trying to prove a certain point i.

Vogons are a stab at the beaurocrats while the mice are meant to be a higher intelligent version of humans, etc but the author wrote the book made these characters like subjects in a lab rather than characters that you can sympathise or get to know better.

The other struggle for me was the theme of absurdity that forms the basis of this book. It just really didn't fly with me, if anything it agitated me as it was hard to follow the plot and get into the book. What kind of absurdities do you say? Take the entire page written about the importance of towels.

Yes, you've read it correctly: A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value Just not really a laugh out loud moment for me. There are other things, that aren't only absurd, but that happen randomly, without any cause of meaning. Take Ford Prefect's question to Arthur whether he was busy, when he was trying to stop the bulldozer from destroying his home: Hello, how are you?

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I could just hear the audience laughing in the background. I can tell that these are meant to be funny, and highlight the absurdity of what was happening but I kept just looking at how many pages were left in the chapter and hoping it would get better I'm afraid to say! There are many contradictions throughout the novel as well. Such as mice ruling the human race, instead of them being our lab rats. Or the name of the ship that Zophad commands is called Heart of Gold, implying someone that is caring and nice, which is a contradiction because he's a devious, narcissistic and irresponsible fellow.

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Most of the other characters and machines that they encounter in the galaxy are all selfish individuals who are pretending to be all sorts of things if it benefits them. Douglas Adams is also trying to test our understanding of intelligence, by shattering our view that humans are the more intelligent life forms on the planet, and instead declaring that dolphins and mice are actually the more superior species in the galaxy, for the dolphins knew about the destruction of Earth and tried to, unsuccessfully to warn the humans, and we learn that it was the mice who had actually commissioned Earth to be made: The most fun I had was actually writing this review and looking back and trying to analyse some of the passage and their meaning.

He's a brilliant guy and I applaud him for trying something a bit different with this novel, I just can't say I enjoyed the journey particularly. Maybe if I read it a third time Check out my other reviews here: The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is the first of 5 books in the series by Douglas Adams The novel features the disgruntled character of Arthur Dent an ordinary man with a rather bleak outlook on life. That soon changed whence a long time friend, Ford Prefect reveals that the world is about to end and that he is in fact an alien who happens to be an expert at navigating the nooks and crannies of the galaxy.

The book takes you through their various adventures throughout the galaxy. The characte The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is the first of 5 books in the series by Douglas Adams The novel features the disgruntled character of Arthur Dent an ordinary man with a rather bleak outlook on life. The characters in the book were quite unique but a bit too outlandish and one dimensional. Douglas uses characters like waves in the ocean and it was quite annoying as a reader to constantly have to move planets and adapt to a new set of rules and people. The plot has a similar vibe to this since the characters and their objectives are ever changing.

Douglas proves to be humorous as promised however many of his ideas sound like something out of a comic drawn by an eight year old. The ending of the book was quite a good twist but it feels a bit anticlimactic and unsatisfying because of all the effort a reader puts to reading it.

Overall, this book is like a drug. As soon as you get bored it drags you back in with a fresh and exciting twist. I can see why it is a bestseller and popular amongst teenagers but it is a bit childish for my liking. Personally I don't think it was worth the time and the overdue notice in my inbox. I would highly recommend it to children below the age of 14 however not for older kids and adults. Jan 10, TheIron Paw rated it really liked it Shelves: A very good read. Not only do we get to relive our favourite scenes in this weird galaxy of ours, but we get an inside look at how the radio programme was made.

The sections detailing how sound effects were produced was particularly interesting, as were the details about the development of the storyline did you know that Marvin, the paranoid android, wasn't originally meant to be a steady character? Worth reading, if you can find it. May 25, James Cridland rated it really liked it.

Ben Stilitz, Colin Booth Producer: Mark Hellaby Sound engineer: Are you experiencing a case of the Mondays? Do you suffer from a once-weekly outbreak of sore personality, swollen mood or inflamed temper? To report a case of the Mondays, call the Marmite helpline on Marmite is best enjoyed at breakfast. Breakfast can be eaten any time of day if you get up late enough. Simon Lotze, Miguel Nunes Producers: Victoria Smith, Sarah Hall Sound engineer: The more someone makes you think about your body, the harder it becomes to ignore. Your tongue, for example. But when I mention it, you can feel your tongue bumping against your lower front teeth.

You notice your tongue feels just a little too long for your mouth. And you notice it never really lies still. You move it about constantly, without thinking about it.

The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams

And from side to side. A few seconds ago, you hardly noticed your tongue. Now imagine the hundreds of messages girls are exposed to every day, subtly changing the way they think about their bodies. My wall looks like a colouring book.