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This is one of those times when you think – this is important I better write this down. The last time this happened I was in an Irish college away from home and learning to do a particularly complicated jig – and I thought this is totally unimportant but I better write something or the Christian Brother with the club will make good on his threat to beat some sense into me, though I still don’t see how that’s possible. I once went back to read through that diary and found that I had written Brother Murphy is a tosser four hundred different ways. A touch of the Shinings. It’s nice to realize how close to lunacy we all are all the time.

Eoin lists his 42 favourite things about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The radio programme mentioned here back in January now has a broadcast slot. It will be on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 on Good Friday, 2nd April. The host is John Culshaw and the interviewees are: Steven Moffat, Lalla Ward, Nev Fountain (Dead Ringers writer), Frank Halford (Douglas's teacher at Brentwood Prep School), David Fisher (Doctor Who writer), Anthony Read (Doctor Who script editor), Michael Hayes (City of Death director) and John Lloyd.

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The Doctor and Douglas is the title of a BBC Radio4 programme looking at Douglas Adams relationship with Doctor Who. From being a fan whilst at school, where he wrote a parody called Doctor Which, through to being script editor on season seventeen.

It is being made by Simon Barnard of independent radio production company Wise Buddah. Simon previously worked at the BBC where for Radio 1 he made, amongst other things, the "Space Oddity" documentary about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that was broadcast on Lamacq Live back in April 2005.

Simon is currently arranging interviews for the programme which is expected to be broadcast sometime in March/April on BBC Radio 4. More news when we have it.

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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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