by Nicolas Botti | May 18, 2008 | News
Andy Baio, an independent journalist and programmer living in Portland (USA), has just published on his website a detailed article about “Restaurant”, the aborted sequel to the Infocom classic text adventure game “The hitchhiker’s guide to the...
by Nicolas Botti | May 6, 2008 | News
According to Frank Halford, Douglas Adams’ former teacher “I have just been told that the BBC programme to which I contributed a minute or so, will be shown on May 17th. It will be included in a series called, “The Comedy Map of...
by Nicolas Botti | Apr 16, 2008 | News
When I was at the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy 30th anniversary celebration, Robbie Stamp introduced me to Frank Halford, Douglas’ famous teacher who gave him a ten out of of ten for an english essay when he was ten years old. This 77 years old retired...
by Nicolas Botti | Apr 8, 2008 | News
“Son of Rambow”, Hammer & Tong’s second movie after “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” is now in theaters in british cinemas since the 4th April. Of course there are references to Hitchhiker’s including this surprising...
by Nicolas Botti | Mar 21, 2008 | News
The new Hammer & Tongs movie is going finally to hit theatres in UK and US very soon. “Son of Rambow” will be released in UK the 4th April and in US the 2nd May. The movie had some great reviews when he was shown at The Sundance Film Festival last year...
by Nicolas Botti | Mar 15, 2008 | News
The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy 30th anniversary live performance was a great success. The historical event, which occured just after the Douglas Adams 6th Memorial lecture on wednesday 12th march at the Royal Geographical Society, was sold out. First...
by Nicolas Botti | Feb 26, 2008 | News
I hope you already have bought your tickets. Please don’t forget to be in London the 12th March for the annual DNA memorial lecture. You’ll have the opportunity to : – listen to a fascinationg lecture (Steven Pinker: “The Stuff of Thought: Language...
by Nicolas Botti | Jan 30, 2008 | News
The Sixth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture (Steven Pinker: “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”) will be followed by an incredible event. To mark the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...
by Nicolas Botti | Oct 3, 2007 | News
A few hours before the broadcast of Dirk Gently’s first episode on Radio 4, its director Dirk Maggs kindly answered to a few questions. He reveals a lot of interesting facts, so don’t forget to read this interview. You can find the interview in the radio...
by Nicolas Botti | Oct 1, 2007 | News
The Radio 4 mini website about the new Dirk Gently radio series has been redesigned and updated. It is not as good as the Radio 4 mini website about Hitchhiker’s but it is well done and there is some good stuff including the excellent Dirk Maggs’...
