Please excuse me if this has been covered already but did anyone listen to the radio adaptation of 'Dirk Gently'? Was it good?

There was a radio adaptation of Dirk Gently?!?

Their was indeed. It was on Radio Four two or three months ago in six thirty minute episodes. I managed to miss the whole lot due to the instability of moving into uni accommodation and settling into PhD studies.

I keep meaning to buy the CDs... but noone knows if it was good or not.

Curses!

I managed to listen to the show - thanks to BBC's online radio playback thingy - and it was pretty good, but not spectacular. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, I feel, is very much a book rather than a radio show, and there were certainly parts of it that I feel wouldn't work very well - indeed, may be downright confusing - to someone who hasn't read the book. It's also simply not as funny as either the book or Hitchhiker's (in any form, other than the film).

On the positive side, it was well made with good performances, and it certainly wasn't a bad adaptation. I would, however, only suggest it for people who have read (and preferably are somewhat familiar with) the book. Also, I'd put priority on buying CDs of Hitchhiker radio series (either the original or newer ones) before getting Dirk Gently.

I felt much the same about the first episode of Nightwatch when I listened to that last week - I still need to listen to episode 2 before No 3 airs on Wednesday. Hmmm....

Newer ones?

I must have missed the 40 foot high banners that should have accompanied such an announcement....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Indeed. Radio does an awful job of promoting itself sometimes...

Newer ones as in 2004ish... the third, fourth and fifth books were adapted into radio shows and recorded with as much of the original cast as possible. Tertiary Phase was excellent; Quandry was alright, but I was never that taken with the book anyway, so it was let down by that, and Quintessential was very good except for the unbelievably irritating voice of Sandra Dickenson (who played Trillian in the TV show and became Tricia McMillan - the alternative one who didn't leave with Zaphod - in the radio show).

It was a pretty good version, the cd set is extended by 40 minutes, I've just got to wrestle it out of hubby's car in order to listen to it.

I have it as a book on tape as read by Douglas Adams.

After that I couldn't get into this version.

The newer ones did a superb job, I thought. Funnily enough, i preferred the new material to the attempts to shoe-horn the original DNA stuff into the radio progs. As a card-carrying DNA fan (admittedly no longer a member of ZZ9) it hurts me to write that, but it is true.

I also enjoyed the Dirk Gently adaptations.

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Very wise plan.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Heard about this in the Douglas lover's 'Space group over a year ago-
had to go searching in the archives & finally found a link to more links:

[www.douglasadams.se]

You know, in case you want to keep up with all things Douglas-y...

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I sadly couldn't listen to it for some reason- my puter's realplayer doesn't work *sniff*

Ah, you should try an unrealplayer. They're very nifty.

Forgive me, is that a real unreaplayer? Or are you pulling my e-leg?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/2008 06:44AM by BibwitHart.

It's actually an unreal unrealplayer, and I was indeed pulling your leg-e. Where are all the Easter Eggs?

I don't know some big boys came and took them all.