EXCLUSIVE Dirk Gently 2 to feature Hitchhiker's crossover
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Having made his audio debut last year courtesy of Harry Enfield's vocal cords, Douglas Adams's holistic detective Dirk Gently is returning in Radio 4 and BBC Audiobooks adaptation of second book The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. And this time the Gently universe is set to overlap with that of Adams's other famous creation. “There is definitely Hitchhiker’s/crossover,” explains Dirk Gently adapter-in-chief and director Dirk Maggs. “In this second series there is one particular idea from Douglas’s notes for the third [unfinished] Dirk Gently book which at one point he thought might be a Hitchhiker’s book. It’s a very simple idea that puts one of the Hitchhiker’s characters in the same universe as Dirk Gently in a way that I thought had enormous potential. In this series we find that the characters in both universes are inhabiting the same world, and I think where we’re going with this is something that actually resolves later on in Hitchhiker’s. It’s turning into a bit of a prequel!” You can read more about the second series of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (coming to Radio 4 and BBC Audiobooks later this year) in the brand new issue of SFX, on sale Wednesday 2 July. |
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Consider Dirk's words very carefully: "In this second series there is one particular idea from Douglas’s notes for the third [unfinished] Dirk Gently book which at one point he thought might be a Hitchhiker’s book. It’s a very simple idea that puts one of the Hitchhiker’s characters in the same universe as Dirk Gently in a way that I thought had enormous potential".
If it's somebody from the *third* Dirk Gently book..... Well, since there's nobody in the published chapters of "The Salmon of Doubt" who is identified as a Htchhikers character, it must be either somebody who is only featured in unpublished bits.... or somebody in the published bits who *resembles*, but is not identified as, a Hitchhiker's character..... Follow me?
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the character Arthur Dent says "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays". A few minutes later the planet Earth is destroyed. Thor, for whom the day was named, also appears later in the Hitchhiker's series and in other Adams books. Appropriately, in The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul, one of the characters says to Thor: "I'm not used to spending the evening with someone who's got a whole day named after them".
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