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Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency opens for business on Radio 4
Douglas Adams' much-loved detective, the enigmatic Dirk Gently, will be make his UK broadcast debut on 成人快手 Radio 4 this October.
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Featuring a star-studded cast with Harry Enfield in the lead role, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency will be produced by the same award-winning team that made the conclusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
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Harry is joined by Lord of the Rings actor Billy Boyd, Fawlty Towers' Andrew Sachs, The Golden Compass' Jim Carter and Peepshow's Olivia Colman.
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Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things but his Holistic Detective Agency's only success seems to be tracking down missing cats for old ladies.
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Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely, and he is drawn into a four billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.
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This first series of six 30-minute episodes is adapted from the book of the same name and directed by Dirk Maggs, himself chosen by Douglas Adams to conclude the Hitchhiker's saga.
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The cast includes Billy Boyd as Dirk's client Richard Macduff; Olivia Colman as Dirk's secretary Janice Pearce; Jim Carter as Dirk's nemesis DS Gilks; Andrew Sachs as Professor Reg Chronotis; Felicity Montagu (I'm Alan Partridge) as Susan Way, with Robert Duncan (Drop The Dead Donkey) as her brother Gordon; Toby Longworth (Star Wars) as the Electric Monk; and Michael Fenton Stevens (Nighty Night) as Michael Wenton Weakes.
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Guest appearances are made by Andrew Secombe (Star Wars); Jon Glover (Harry Enfield And Chums); Jeffrey Holland (Hi-De-Hi); Wayne Forester (Captain Scarlet) and Tamsin Heatley (Broken Sword).
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Considered by many Adams fans to be as funny as, if darker than, Hitchhiker's, the Dirk Gently novels reflect Douglas's unique and funny take on matters as wide-ranging as consciousness, conservation, man's place in the cosmos and crime.
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The first series features everything from quantum physics to missing cats, via Coleridge, Bach and an Electric Monk.
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The cast and production team feature many old friends and colleagues of Douglas, including music composer Philip Pope.
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The production team, from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases is led by Executive Producer Helen Chattwell and the Producers are Jo Wheeler and Dirk Maggs.
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The series begins in October 2007 and will also have its own dedicated webpages on bbc.co.uk/radio4/dirkgently featuring trailers, photographs, production diaries, video and competitions. Programmes will also be available on Radio 4's listen again service.
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