I’ve never really rated Mr Adams as a writer - mostly because he really came across to me as a moderately talented but very lazy writer whose success came about largely through a ridiculous amount of luck and good networking - but I am prepared to admit to be wrong. These scripts are superb. The characters leap off the page and the stage directions/ descriptions only add to the experience. It’s also ridiculously funny.

It’s also interesting to compare them to the various versions of the Guide that came after it. It is different from the novels (better-written for a start: while I love the Golgafrinchan B-Ark storyline in the second book, all the novels apart from the first leave me a little cold), from the tv series, the LP and the movie (which received the most complaints about the deviations from the text, which seems a little unfair, really). The conclusion to the second series also sets up a terrific opening to the long-waited-for third series...