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Saturday, 2 Jan 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 7. Repeated at 20:00

"Angus Deayton introduces Radio Active; Hordes of the Things; Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful; Ernest Fontwell; The Twenty Seven Year Itch and The Hitch Hiker's Guide."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pk92h

The programme in scheduled for a slot that lasts 180 minutes, so we can expect full episodes of the above named programmes, along with anecdotes by Deayton.

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A half hour Radio 4 programme called Shelved is being broadcast at 10:30am on Saturday 12 December. The one line description in the schedule says, "How the politics of the late 1970s affected the most popular TV series' of the time."

The more detailed description at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p7g8b says, "Shaun Ley recounts how the political circumstances of the late 1970s resulted in three of the most popular TV series' of the time - Dr Who, Secret Army and The Professionals - each having at least one episode scrapped after filming. Interviewees include the then Dr Who, Tom Baker."

Further digging reveals that the portion of the programme devoted to Dr Who will be about the Douglas Adams scripted story, Shada, which had its studio filming affected by industrial action after the location filming had been completed in Cambridge.

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BroadwayWorld.com reports that Bries Vannon of the WNEP Theater "is now writing a stage mash-up of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist titled The Anarchist's Guide to the Galaxy for their 2010-2011 season."

Contacting Bries he said: "There are no firm production dates set yet, and the script is still in its very early stages."

The WNEP Theater is based in Chicago, USA. The name seems to stand for 'What No-one Else Produces'.

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SavetheRhino are auctioning many items on eBay and there are a couple of great interest to Douglas Adams / Hitchhiker fans.

Douglas Adams' Bath
Kindly donated by Jane Belson and Polly Adams
Many people ask writers where they get their ideas from. Douglas Adams always maintained that when he ran out of ideas he took a long bath. This is that bath. Here's your opportunity to lie where genius lay, to soak up some of the inspiration that created the galaxy's favourite science-fiction comedy series, in a beautiful wrought-iron bath! Recently removed during a bathroom refit, Douglas’s widow Jane Belson kindly donated this bath to be part of Hitchcon’09 at London’s Royal Festival Hall, in celebration of 30 years of the great man’s most famous creation: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the publication of And Another Thing – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three by Eoin Colfer. Think like a genius - take a bath!

Vogon Commander Kwaltz in bronze
Kindly donated by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
This Vogon model was created specially for the film adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Sculpted by Jamie Courtier for Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, it is a scale representation of Vogon Commander Kwaltz. When the directors and producers of the film were trying to visualise Vogon Commander Kwaltz, different models were made and the best representation was made into a full size Vogon. The original model was then used to cast five bronze statues of which this is one. The base has been inscribed with the immortal words "Resistance is useless", upon the request of the films director, Garth Jennings. Standing 18cm tall and weighing over 6kg, this piece is a must-have collector's item for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Aa full list of the items is online at: http://www.savetherhino.org/eTargetSRINM/site/1115/default.aspx

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The latest edition of SFX was out on Wednesday. It includes an interview with Eoin Colfer about Hitchhiker's. Some of the interview is online at: http://blog.fph.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=eoin_colfer_interview_about_hitchhiker

I got my copy from Tescos and there was an exclusive Hitchhiker's coaster featuring some of the imagery from Pan reissues. However, the SFX website says the offer is only in Morrisons.
See: http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=latest_issue

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