Customer Reviews
A Mixed Bag in terms as Quality as Well as Subject. - By: D. Wright, 29 Jan 2008 
Douglas Adams has a devoted set of fans who have a ravenous appetite for scraps from his table. This postumous collection is a scattershot approach to his output :- there are radio sketchs, wildlife reports, a snippet from a tribute to Peter Jones etc....
Unfortunately, none of it is rivetting or essential. Some of the "Footlights" sketches are good but unfortunately it isn't an inspiring collection.
At long last... - By: , 12 Oct 2004 
...recordings of materials which had only been referred toin biographies of Douglas!
Running very nearly four hours, this three disc set covers many "Douglasy" items that were run either on radio or television, covering a timespan between 1974 & 2001. The programme spanning the three discs is narrated & bridged by Simon Jones, & the entire thing is laid outin an "A to Z" format.
Excerpted are such programs as "The Burkiss Way," with 2 clips from 1977, Last Chance to See (the radio series), with 4 clips from 1989, many many clips from the Omnibus tribute to Douglas Adams from the 4th of August 2001 (which I believe is on the US edition of the H2G2 DVDs,in its entirety), 4 clips from his very last radio project (while alive) "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future", from late 2000, & a couple of clips from his first Doctor Who story, "The Pirate Planet" (as well as a radio interview about Doctor Who that also appears on "Doctor Who at the BBC, Vol. 1").
While a lot of clips from/about H2G2 itself are conspicuous by their absense, Simon Jones himself says on disc 2 that so much has been said & written about the series already, that further statements would be redundant. But there's still quite a wealth of material here, & lots of it has NOT been releasedin recorded form before (with the two exceptions noted above).
Overall, I give it a fairly high score, 4 out of 5, as it's nice to finally be able to hear a lot of the material that IS referred to within the various biographies (again, as noted above). Although I have to admit I like the version of the Kamikaze sketch that has its script printedin "Don't Panic" over the recorded version here (although, granted, that one is written for a visual presentation, & the other is an audio adaptation).
