Unpublished Hitchhiker’s Guide Material To Be Aired — londonist.com

| Books & Poetry, Comedy, Festivals | By: Will Noble Pens by Douglas Adams’ Highgate grave. Photo by Gábor Hernádi, in the Londonist Flickr pool. This is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. Unpublished material from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books is to be performed as part of the Chortle Comedy Book Festival, in Camden next month. Toby Longworth — comedy stalwart and recent incarnation of Slartibartfast — chats with Adams’ official biographer Jem Roberts on 10 November about his book The Frood — an all-new history of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It is furnished with newly-discovered secrets from the private archive of the cult sci-fi-comedy writer. A section of the talk will feature Longworth and Roberts reading extracts from the reams of work by Adams, which didn’t quite pass muster under his scrutinising eye.

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