Towel Day anyone?
1. One of Douglas Adams’s early jobs was as a bodyguard to a Qatari family of oil tycoons.
He also had a job cleaning a chicken-shed at one point. The ‘eureka moment’ for
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
came when he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in the early 1970s. At the time he was carrying a copy of
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe
with him, and it occurred to him – as he looked up at the stars – that ‘somebody ought to write a
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.
It took a few years for the idea to take shape, but in 1978 the radio programme made its debut. A trilogy – comprising, as trilogies don’t tend to, five books – followed. If you want to see an interview with a young Douglas Adams talking about the series, there is a great
Youtube clip
of Adams being interviewed on the…
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