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Radio It's been recorded. A lengthy interview with Dirk Maggs, the producer of the Tertiary Phase of The HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy opens the lid on what we can expect the news series to sound like:

"It's kind of like an update. Peter Jones actually begins our first episode, and there's a rerun gag that HHGG is being updated. You suddenly have Bill Franklyn break in and there's a tennis effect back and forth as they tell the story so far. Then it settles down to be Bill for the rest of the series. Douglas liked what I was doing on the radio, and always said he wanted HHGG to sound like a rock album in terms of being very richly mixed and produced in layers. I think here as you get into the first episode you realise it's got more layers, because that's the style Douglas wanted it to move in and that fits in with what I do."

Elsewhere, Maggs suggests that he might try and get Sandra Dickenson to play the alternative Trilliam in their version of Mostly Harmless. That should be interesting...