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Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams

4 Extra Debut. Zoologist Mark Carwardine chooses his friend and travelling companion, author Douglas Adams. With Matthew Parris. From 2018.

"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, this is an interesting world I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, don't you think?"

Douglas Noel Adams wasn't even 50 when he died in 2001, but his imagination had already roamed far.

He created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Meaning of Liff and several episodes of Doctor Who, plus the Dirk Gently character and Last Chance to See.

Nominating him is his co-writer on Last Chance to See, the zoologist Mark Carwardine.

Mark's role, Adams said later, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. "My role was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise."

Joining Mark and Matthew Parris in the bar where this was recorded, is Douglas Adam's biographer, Jem Roberts.

With archive of Stephen Fry, John Lloyd, Naomi Alderman, Griff Rhys Jones and Geoffrey Perkins.

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in September 2018.

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30 minutes

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Sun 13 Mar 2022 05:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest Mark Carwardine
Interviewed Guest Jem Roberts
Producer Miles Warde

Broadcasts

  • Tue 18 Sep 2018 16:30
  • Fri 21 Sep 2018 23:00
  • Thu 10 Mar 2022 18:30
  • Fri 11 Mar 2022 00:30
  • Sat 12 Mar 2022 07:30
  • Sat 12 Mar 2022 17:30
  • Sun 13 Mar 2022 05:30

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