Author:Douglas Adams,Simon Jones,Geoffrey McGivern,Full Cast
Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s saga returns once again with a full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams’s famous ‘trilogy in five parts’.
‘At the risk of being controversial, it’s better than the book... Hitchhiking is back – long may it continue.’ Guy Clapperton, Radio Times
The Earth has miraculously reappeared and, even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after... well... ages, he falls in love with the girl of his dreams.
But Ford Prefect is on to something which might well burst Arthur’s bubble. There is, after all, something very fishy about his girlfriend’s feet, and what has happened to all the dolphins? Perhaps, at last, all will be revealed in God’s Last Message to His Creation…
Simon Jones returns as Arthur, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford and Stephen Moore as Marvin. William Franklyn is the Book and Jane Horrocks is Fenchurch. Guest stars include Stephen Fry, June Whitfield, Bill Paterson, Arthur Smith, Sir Patrick Moore, Jackie Mason and Christian Slater.
This extended edition features 30 minutes of material not heard on BBC Radio 4.
The English Bill Bryson
—— Tony WilsonThe perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate
—— The TimesStuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton
—— Peter KayAn heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful
—— Antony Quinn , Sunday TimesIf you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one
—— GQWitty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North
—— Hunter DaviesA working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry's spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers
—— MojoMaconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny
—— GuardianExuberantly anecdotal, witty and poignant
—— GQ