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Informationen zum Autor Douglas Adams (Author) DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker' s Guide to the Galaxy! which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No. 1 bestseller. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980 ); Life! The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK! the US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age of 49. Simon Jones (Reader) Simon Jones MBE is a former professional cricketer who played for England! Glamorgan! Hampshire and Worcestershire. In 2005 he tore through the Australian batting order! swinging the ball at pace! and inspiring some of England's greatest ever victories as they regained the Ashes for the first time in almost twenty years. That series he dismissed every single Australian batsman apart from Glenn McGrath! taking 18 wickets at an average of 21. Injury forced him out of the final match at the Oval and prevented him from playing Test cricket again. He subsequently fought for eight years to return to the top level despite a series of further setbacks. Now retired! he lives in Cardiff with his wife Justine and his two young sons. Klappentext All five BBC radio series collected together for the first time! presented in a handsome box with magnetic lid. Also includes two 30-minute radio programmes looking at the Hitchhiker's phenomena: a behind the scenes from 1980 and a programme about Arthur Dent from 2002. Running time: 14hrs 20mins. Zusammenfassung These full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas star Simon Jones! Peter Jones! Geoffrey McGivern! Mark Wing-Davey! Stephen Moore and Susan Sheridan! with a stellar guest cast including John le Mesurier! Joanna Lumley! Christian Slater! Jackie Mason! Sandra Dickinson! Rula Lenska! Griff Rhys Jones and Jonathan Pryce. ...
