BONUS: Kaleidoscope - Hitchhiker's Guide Special - 1980/01/21

The BBC Radio 4's arts magazine programme Kaleidoscope previews the forthcoming BBC TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Presenter Colin Ford talks to comedian Rob Buckman. Originally broadcasted on 13 January 1980.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams. It was originally broadcast in the UK by BBC Radio 4 in 1978. The series follows the adventures of hapless Englishman Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, an alien who writes for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. After Earth is destroyed in the first episode, Arthur and Ford find themselves aboard a stolen spaceship piloted by Zaphod Beeblebrox, depressed robot Marvin, and Trillian, the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction.