Dates of
broadcasts, publications and events of interest to
Hitchhiker's/Douglas Adams fans. If we've missed anything out,
please contact the Publicity officer.
This is a list of events run by other organisations. There is a
separate list of ZZ9 Events.
2009
September
Tuesday 1st
Pan Macmillan Reissues.
The first five books of the trilogy are being reissued with new covers (the first with stickers so that you can have a DIY cover). They have forewords from: Russell T. Davies, Terry Jones, Simon Brett, Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs.
Hitchhiker Feature and Freebee in SciFiNow #32.
Issue #32 of UK based magazine SciFiNow goes on sale with a four page feature on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the set of stickers that comes with the Pan reissue (see above) as a freebee.
More information via their news post.
Thursday 3rd
Last Chance to See - TV Tie-In Book.
HarperCollins have purchased the rights to the book of the followup TV series by Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine. ISBN: 978-0007290727
Sunday 6th at 20:00 on BBC2 (and subsequent Sundays, also repeated on Tuesdays)
Last Chance to See - TV series Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine retrace the steps that Douglas Adams and Mark took twenty years ago when they went to look for rare animals in the 1989 radio series Last Chance to See It is being made by West Park Pictures and BBC Wales.
Sunday 6th September - 1 - Amazonian Manatee.
Sunday 13th September - 2 - Northern White Rhino.
Sunday 20th September - 3 - Aye Aye.
Sunday 27th September - 4 - Komodo Dragon.
Sunday 4th October - 5 - Kakapo.
Sunday 11th October - No Episode - live snooker or something, anyway we will be in the pub after Hitchcon'09 or on our way home.
Sunday 18th October - 6 - Blue Whale.
See the BBC Series website and also the programme's microsite.
DVD and Blue-Ray releases of the series are in November - see below.
Saturday 12th 10:00 - 10:30
Stephen Fry on Excess Baggage.
Stephen Fry discusses the making of Last Chance to See on Radio 4's travel show.
More details at the Excess Baggage webpage.
Wednesday 23rd
Hitchhiker Feature in SFX #188.
Features editor, Nick Setchfield, got to rummage through the Pan archives for a Hitchhiker special in the November edition of SFX, and commented "It was like handling sacred texts. With sacred Tipp-Ex marks." There is an interview with Nick about this experience in issue #114 of the ZZ9 magazine, Mostly Harmless.
Issue #188 details at eh SFX Website.
Friday 25th
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .
Guy Adams is the third author to update Neil Gaiman's book on Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker phenomenon.
ISBN: 978-1848564961
October
Thursday 1st
Last Chance to See Arrow is publishing the original book by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine with a new introduction by Richard Dawkins.
ISBN: 978-0099536796
The Rough Guide to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
Marcus O'Dair has penned a book about the phenomenon that is Hitchhiker's, which is coming out in time for all the new stuff that is happening this autumn.
ISBN: 978-1848362420
Monday 5th 22:00 - 22:50 BBC4
Omnibus - Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams UK digital channel BBC4 is showing the edition of the documentary series Omnibus that was fisrt shown in August 2001 as a tribute to Douglas Adams.
Note - this is a 50 minute documentary that originally had the subtitle 'The Man Who Blew Up the Earth', and can be found as an extra on the North American DVD of the TV series. It is different to the longer Rick Mueller / Joel Greengrass video-documentary which shares that name.
Programme details at: Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams webpage.
Thursday 8th 19:15 - 20:00 BBC Radio 4
Front Row - Eoin Colfer Interview Kirsty Lang interview Eoin Colfer about picking up Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series in BBC Radio 4's weekday arts programme.
Series details at: Front Row website.
Friday 9th 14:30
Eoin Colfer Webchat Eoin Colfer will take questions (which can be submitted from now) about his new book in the Hitchhiker's series.
Submit questions beforehand and see the chat via : ZZ9's webchat webpage
Saturday 10th
ZZ9 Super Saturday Pre Hitchcon (see below) ZZ9 make a weekend of it with our Super Saturday of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first Hitchhiker book.
Saturday 10th 13:00 - 17:00
An Afternoon Without Ken Campbell The Showroom Cinema in Sheffield is hosting a tribute for Ken Campbell, with the theatre critic Michael Coveney and the film-maker Sheridan Thayer. Screenings will include:
'Firework Man', the 1977 feature on Ken for the ITV arts programme 'Aquarius',
'No Problem - The Theatre of Ken Campbell', a 1981 documentary going behind the scenes of Ken's famous theatre productions of 'The Warp' and 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
'Antic Visionary' - The World of Ken Campbell', Sheridan Thayer's amazing 2003 feature length profile of Ken.
Tickets £10 (concessions £6.50). See the Showroom Cinema website.
Saturday 10th 20:45 - 22:00
Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See talk at Cheltenham Literary Festival Details at Literary Festival website.
Sunday 11th
Hitchcon'09 Penguin are staging a one-day convention to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Hitchhiker book being published, and also the publication of the sixth one written by Eoin Colfer.
Hitchcon'09 is being held at the Southbank Centre, and involves a number of events - some free and some not.
11:30 Photo Call - FREE - Start the day at a photocall of the largest number of Hitchhiker's fans ever. Remember to wear your dressing gown and bring along a towel.
12:30 Session 1 - The Douglas Adams Chat Show £12.50
1 - A full panel of Hitchhiker’s experts and friends of Douglas Adams discusses the great man and his work.
13:30 Book Signing - FREE - Mega-signing of the fantastic new edition of the first five Hitchhiker's novels. We presume the books are being signed by the people who have written the new forewords, and not remotely by DNA himself.
15:00 Sessions 2 And Another Thing... & 3 Hitchhikers Live On Stage £25.00
2 - And Another Thing... Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of Artemis Fowl, gives an exclusive reading from his new Hitchhiker's novel - the sixth book in the series. Introduced by Ireland’s multi-platinum selling band The Blizzards, playing their single inspired by And Another Thing...
3 - Hitchhikers Live On Stage Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin The Paranoid Android and Trillian are set to appear in person - Improbability Drive permitting - along with intergalactic plutonium rock band Disaster Area, to recreate classic moments from the saga, joined by special guests including Eoin Colfer.
A combined ticket for all three paid sessions is available. When you add both to your basket the Sessions 2&3 ticket will be priced £20.00.
ZZ9 will be doing fun stuff around the event and having a party in London the evening before see the ZZ9 Diary
Monday 12th
And Another Thing... - The Sixth Hitchhiker's Book Published on the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first Hitchhiker novel.
US rights have been sold to Hyperion, and the book is also being published in Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
UK Hardback ISBN: 978-0718155148;
UK Audiobook ISBN: 978-0141044125 US Hardback ISBN: 978-1401323585
Monday 12th 18:30 - 19:30
Eoin Colfer Event at Glasgow Film Theatre Eoin Colfer will be reading from and taking questions about his new book And Another Thing…
Tickets £5 and are available from the Glasgow Film Theatre
Details at Colfer's website.
Monday 12th 18:30 - 19:30
Beyond our Ken: The Multiverse of Ken Campbell at the National Theatre In this evening of capers, memories and divine improvisation we aim to invoke the spirit of the late, great Ken Campbell. With those he inspired we journey from Road Show days, through Illuminatus! and The Warp, to his acclaimed one-man shows and improventriloquial escapades.
Ken produced and directed two Hitchhiker stage shows - no word as yet as to whether there is any Hitchhiker content to this show.
Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) and are available from the National Theatre. Details at the National Theatre website.
Tuesday 13th 13:30 - 14:30
Eoin Colfer Event in Birmingham FREE signing at Borders in the Bullring
Details at Colfer's website.
Tuesday 13th 19:15 - 20:15
Eoin Colfer Event at Cheltenham Literary Festival Eoin Colfer will be reading from and taking questions about his new book And Another Thing…
Tickets £7 and are available from the Cheltenham Literature Festival box office
Details at Literary Festival website.
Wednesday 14th 13:00 - 14:00
Eoin Colfer Event in Cambridge Eoin Colfer will be reading from and taking questions about his new book And Another Thing…
Tickets £5 and are available from Waterstone’s on Sidney Street
Details at Colfer's website.
Wednesday 14th 18:00 - 19:00
Eoin Colfer signing at Forbidden Planet, London Megastore Details at Forbidden Planet website.
The current location of Forbidden Planet is 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR
Thursday 15th 13:00 - 14:00
Eoin Colfer Event in Manchester FREE signing at Waterstone's, Deansgate
Details at Colfer's website.
Thursday 15th 19:00
Kevin Jon Davies Talk in London A FREE talk by Honorary Member of ZZ9 Kevin Jon Davies about Hitchhiker's in all its forms at the Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green London, N22 6BG.
Details on Facebook and at the Big Green Bookshop website.
Thursday 15th 20:00 - 21:00
Eoin Colfer Event at Manchester Literary Festival Eoin Colfer will be reading from and taking questions about his new book And Another Thing…
Tickets £5-7 and are available from Contact Theatre Box Office
Details at Literray Festival website.
Thursday 15th 20:00
Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See Lecture.
Mark gives the A World Land Trust Celebrity Lecture at St George's, Bristol. Book via http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/ or 0845 40 24 001.
Details at the World Land Trust website.
Wednesday 27th 19:30
Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See talk. In aid of Save the Rhino.
At the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Details at Save The Rhino website.
Saturday 31st 20:00 - 21:00
Archive on 4 - Ken Campbell.
Poet Ian McMillan presents Archive on 4, which for this edition looks at Ken Campbell, who appeared in the second Hitchhiker's radio series, and also produced and directed two Hitchhiker stage shows, amongst other things in his varied career.
Details nearer the date at the Archive on 4 website.
November
Friday 6th
Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See Talk.
Mark gives an illustrated talk for Avon Wildlife Trust at the QEH Theatre, Bristol.
Contact mail at avonwildlifetrust.org.uk to register interest. Details on the Avon Wildlife Trust website.
Saturday 16th
Last Chance to See DVD / Blu-Ray Releases.
The TV series is released on DVD and Blue-ray
The Eighth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture takes place on what would have been Douglas's 56th birthday at The Royal Geographical Society, London.
The 2010 lecture is being given by the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, and is entitled: 42: the answer to life, the universe and prime numbers.
Details at the Save The Rhino website.
Summer
Dates to be confirmed
The Salmon of Doubt - The Third Dirk Gently Radio Series expected to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and extended episodes released on CD.
This is being written by Kim Fuller and produced by Above the Title.
Please
note: book publication and radio/TV broadcast dates are always subject to change. Other events can also be cancelled or postponed so please check details with their organisers before attending.
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