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what the critics said:
“the quality of the acting is razor-sharp, the radio adaptation pinpoint.”
Chris Campling,
Times T2
“The radio event of the month... [it] didn’t disappoint at all.”
Ruth Cowen,
Sunday Express
“There will be those who listen to...the final series of writer Douglas Adams’s consistently brilliant intergalactic comedy sequence and, with Pavlovian predictability, moan that ‘it’s not as good as the first’. Well let’s put the universe to rights immediately and state, with the full force of a Vogon highway clearance programme, that it is just as good. In fact it’s better.”
Jane Anderson,
Radio Times
“...a true work of the imagination – ironic, affectionate and faintly optimistic beneath its long dark teatime of the soul.”
Gillian Reynolds,
The Telegraph
“With the original cast back together once more, there’s a real buzz about this production. The series is crammed full of guest stars...there are so many jokes you’ll be desperate to listen again on line.”
Jane Anderson,
Radio Times
“Yes I did bang on about [it] last week, but this episode is really very good.”
Phil Daoust,
Guardian G2
“...sci-fi comedy class..”
Chris Campling,
The Times
“Douglas Adams’s brilliantly skewed sci-fi-fantasy world is back for its final instalment.”
Mail on Sunday
“...the original cast can still stroll comfortably into their old roles...the jokes are still funny.”
Pick of the Week,
Lisa Mullen,
Time Out
“eagerly awaited..”
James Rampton,
The Independent
quandary phase – the second series
So Long & Thanks For All The Fish
Broadcast 3rd May - 26th May 2005
In the first four episodes, adapted from Adams’ fourth book So Long & Thanks For All The Fish, The Earth has miraculously reappeared, and even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after ... well ... ages, he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. But Ford Prefect is on to something, which might well burst Arthur’s bubble. There is, after all, something very fishy about his girlfriend’s feet, and what has happened to all the dolphins? Perhaps at last all will be revealed in God’s Last Message to His Creation…
cast list (alphabetical order)
| ANN BRYSON | BT Operator/Barmaid/News Anchor |
| FIONA CAREW | Hooker 2 |
| NICK CLARKE | Nick Clarke |
| BRIAN COBBY | Speaking Clock |
| MICHAEL CULE | Vogon Guard |
| RUPERT DEGAS | Russell/Pilot |
| SANDRA DICKINSON | Tricia McMillan |
| DAVID DIXON | Ecological Man/Zirzla Leader |
| PETER DONALDSON | Peter Donaldson |
| CHRIS EMMETT | Evil Looking Bird/Canis Pontif |
| WILLIAM FRANKLYN | Voice of the Book |
| STEPHEN FRY | Murray Bost Henson |
| BOB GOLDING | Alien Teaser/ The Lajestic Vantrashell Of Lob |
| CHARLOTTE GREEN | Charlotte Green |
| SIMON GREENALL | Jim/News Anchor 1/Steward |
| DOMINIC HAWKSLEY | Vogon Councillor |
| JANE HORROCKS | Fenchurch |
| SIMON JONES | Arthur Dent |
| RULA LENSKA | Voice of the Bird |
| TOBY LONGWORTH | Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz |
| JOHN MARSH | Announcer |
| JACKIE MASON | East River Creature |
| GEOFFREY McGIVERN | Ford Prefect |
| SIR PATRICK MOORE | Sir Patrick Moore |
| STEPHEN MOORE | Marvin The Paranoid Android |
| BILL PATERSON | Rob McKenna |
| GEOFFREY PERKINS | Arthur’s BBC Boss |
| ALISON PETTITT | Hooker 1/Air Traffic/ Old Lady/ Stewardess Bot |
| MARGARET ROBERTSON | Mrs Kapelsen |
| CHRISTIAN SLATER | Wonko the Sane |
| ARTHUR SMITH | Barman |
| JUNE WHITFIELD | Raffle Woman |
Writer/Director: Dirk Maggs
Producers: Bruce Hyman & Helen Chattwell
Production Manager: Jo Wheeler
Production Assistant: Ruth Waites
Production Assistant: Susie Matthews
Sound Manager: Paul Deeley
Spot Sound Effects: Ken Humphrey
Script Editor: John Langdon
