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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Agency – The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
Tomorrow night (2 October) at 11pm Douglas Adams returns to Radio 4 with Dirk Gently, under the same director that brought The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy back to radio. Starring Harry Enfield as Dirk Gently and William Boyd as Richard McDuff.
When a passenger check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk’s latest–and late– client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record “Hot Potato”? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe…
It can only be Douglas …
Hear Douglas Adams discuss Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
To help you listen to it live, here are the times around the world when it will be on (if you miss it you should be able to find the show on the listen to it again service here):
| Addis Ababa | Fri 1:00 AM | Guatemala | Thu 4:00 PM | Nassau * | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Adelaide | Fri 7:30 AM | Halifax * | Thu 7:00 PM | New Delhi | Fri 3:30 AM | ||||
| Aden | Fri 1:00 AM | Hanoi | Fri 5:00 AM | New Orleans * | Thu 5:00 PM | ||||
| Algiers | Thu 11:00 PM | Harare | Midnight Thu-Fri | New York * | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Almaty | Fri 4:00 AM | Havana * | Thu 6:00 PM | Oslo * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Amman * | Fri 1:00 AM | Helsinki * | Fri 1:00 AM | Ottawa * | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Amsterdam * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Hong Kong | Fri 6:00 AM | Paris * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Anadyr * | Fri 11:00 AM | Honolulu | Thu 12:00 Noon | Perth | Fri 6:00 AM | ||||
| Anchorage * | Thu 2:00 PM | Houston * | Thu 5:00 PM | Philadelphia * | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Ankara * | Fri 1:00 AM | Indianapolis * | Thu 6:00 PM | Phoenix | Thu 3:00 PM | ||||
| Antananarivo | Fri 1:00 AM | Islamabad * | Fri 4:00 AM | Prague * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Asuncion | Thu 6:00 PM | Istanbul * | Fri 1:00 AM | Reykjavik | Thu 10:00 PM | ||||
| Athens * | Fri 1:00 AM | Jakarta | Fri 5:00 AM | Rio de Janeiro | Thu 7:00 PM | ||||
| Atlanta * | Thu 6:00 PM | Jerusalem * | Fri 1:00 AM | Riyadh | Fri 1:00 AM | ||||
| Auckland * | Fri 11:00 AM | Johannesburg | Midnight Thu-Fri | Rome * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Baghdad | Fri 1:00 AM | Kabul | Fri 2:30 AM | San Francisco * | Thu 3:00 PM | ||||
| Bangkok | Fri 5:00 AM | Kamchatka * | Fri 11:00 AM | San Juan | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Barcelona * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Karachi * | Fri 4:00 AM | San Salvador | Thu 4:00 PM | ||||
| Beijing | Fri 6:00 AM | Kathmandu | Fri 3:45 AM | Santiago | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Beirut * | Fri 1:00 AM | Khartoum | Fri 1:00 AM | Santo Domingo | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Belgrade * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Kingston | Thu 5:00 PM | Sao Paulo | Thu 7:00 PM | ||||
| Berlin * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Kiritimati | Fri 12:00 Noon | Seattle * | Thu 3:00 PM | ||||
| Bogota | Thu 5:00 PM | Kolkata | Fri 3:30 AM | Seoul | Fri 7:00 AM | ||||
| Boston * | Thu 6:00 PM | Kuala Lumpur | Fri 6:00 AM | Shanghai | Fri 6:00 AM | ||||
| Brasilia | Thu 7:00 PM | Kuwait City | Fri 1:00 AM | Singapore | Fri 6:00 AM | ||||
| Brisbane | Fri 8:00 AM | Kyiv * | Fri 1:00 AM | Sofia * | Fri 1:00 AM | ||||
| Brussels * | Midnight Thu-Fri | La Paz | Thu 6:00 PM | St. John’s * | Thu 7:30 PM | ||||
| Bucharest * | Fri 1:00 AM | Lagos | Thu 11:00 PM | St. Paul * | Thu 5:00 PM | ||||
| Budapest * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Lahore * | Fri 4:00 AM | Stockholm * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Buenos Aires | Thu 7:00 PM | Lima | Thu 5:00 PM | Suva | Fri 10:00 AM | ||||
| Cairo | Midnight Thu-Fri | Lisbon * | Thu 11:00 PM | Sydney | Fri 8:00 AM | ||||
| Canberra | Fri 8:00 AM | London * | Thu 11:00 PM | Taipei | Fri 6:00 AM | ||||
| Cape Town | Midnight Thu-Fri | Los Angeles * | Thu 3:00 PM | Tallinn * | Fri 1:00 AM | ||||
| Caracas | Thu 5:30 PM | Madrid * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Tashkent | Fri 3:00 AM | ||||
| Casablanca | Thu 10:00 PM | Managua | Thu 4:00 PM | Tegucigalpa | Thu 4:00 PM | ||||
| Chatham Island * | Fri 11:45 AM | Manila | Fri 6:00 AM | Tehran | Fri 1:30 AM | ||||
| Chicago * | Thu 5:00 PM | Melbourne | Fri 8:00 AM | Tokyo | Fri 7:00 AM | ||||
| Copenhagen * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Mexico City * | Thu 5:00 PM | Toronto * | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Darwin | Fri 7:30 AM | Miami * | Thu 6:00 PM | Vancouver * | Thu 3:00 PM | ||||
| Denver * | Thu 4:00 PM | Minneapolis * | Thu 5:00 PM | Vienna * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Detroit * | Thu 6:00 PM | Minsk * | Fri 1:00 AM | Vladivostok * | Fri 9:00 AM | ||||
| Dhaka | Fri 4:00 AM | Montevideo | Thu 7:00 PM | Warsaw * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Dubai | Fri 2:00 AM | Montgomery * | Thu 5:00 PM | Washington DC * | Thu 6:00 PM | ||||
| Dublin * | Thu 11:00 PM | Montreal * | Thu 6:00 PM | Winnipeg * | Thu 5:00 PM | ||||
| Edmonton * | Thu 4:00 PM | Moscow * | Fri 2:00 AM | Yangon | Fri 4:30 AM | ||||
| Frankfurt * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Mumbai | Fri 3:30 AM | Zagreb * | Midnight Thu-Fri | ||||
| Geneva * | Midnight Thu-Fri | Nairobi | Fri 1:00 AM | Zürich * | Midnight Thu-Fri |
OTHER BLOGS:
New Hitchhikers book “And Another Thing”
Douglas Adams will be stirring in his tea cup. 
Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write the sixth book in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. Just like Bond who was stirred not shaken back into life by Sebastian Faulks, Arthur Dent will be back, towel in hand cup of tea in the other, to find out more about the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
Colfer author of children’s books was said to be terrified to be following in Douglas’ footsteps. Whether fear rather than a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is the best source for humours inspiration we will find out next year in October when “And Another Thing” is published.
“Douglas Adams was an extraordinary writer, with an ability to come at the reader from the most unexpected angles, knock them off balance and make them laugh at the same time,” said Helen Fraser the Penguin managing director.
“Eoin Colfer is an inspired choice as Douglas’s successor… He is a huge talent and a fantastically funny writer, and this new book will bring as many new young readers to Douglas Adam’s work as it will introduce adults to the brilliance of Eoin Colfer.”
Will it be any good? There is an answer, but you are not going to like it …
Don’t Panic
In the mean time while it has been 16 years since “Mostly Harmless” was published the Hitchhikers Universe has played on – not just the long awaited film which people liked if they were used to the multi media formatted parallel universes that make up the dis jointed story as radio, books, TV and then film - but in a 21st century broadcast to its original incarnation as a radio series.
The surviving actors reunited 25 years after the original radio broadcast that first introduced Arthur Dent, picking off with him and Ford Prefect being stranded on prehistoric earth as the books had it starting with Life, the Universe and Everything. The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases were broadcast on Radio 4 from September 2004 to June 2005. My advice is that you have not heard the definitive version of Douglas Adams till you have heard them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/hitchhikers_trail.ram
Thanks to Louise for alerting me to the story
