Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with Dirk Gently
posted by The Joe
With Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency already completed, Radio 4 and BBC Audiobooks are now set to adapt Douglas Adams‘ second Gently book, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. There’s an added surprise this time around, with a crossover written in with the classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Dirk Gently adapter-in-chief and director Dirk Maggs had this to say . . .“In this second series there is one particular idea from Douglas’s notes for the third [unfinished] Dirk Gently book which at one point he thought might be a Hitchhiker’s book. It’s a very simple idea that puts one of the Hitchhiker’s characters in the same universe as Dirk Gently in a way that I thought had enormous potential. In this series we find that the characters in both universes are inhabiting the same world, and I think where we’re going with this is something that actually resolves later on in Hitchhiker’s. It’s turning into a bit of a prequel!”
I’m curious to see if this crossover will be all about the unfinished Dirk Gently chapters included in the posthumous Adams collection The Salmon of Doubt, or some new, previously unreleased material. The audiobook is released later this year in Britain and probably never in the U.S., so look for it in illegal torrent form shortly thereafter.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – BBC Miniseries Part One