RHLSTP Book Club 98 - Kevin Jon Davies

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Book Club #98 - 42 The Wildly Improbably Ideas of Douglas Adams - Richard talks to Kevin Jon Davies, the editor of this fascinating collection of items from the archives of Douglas Adams. They chat about the insight the notes, letters, scripts and thoughts give to the mind of this extraordinary thinker, the notebooks that started with optimism, moved into self-hatred and then largely remained blank (that most writers will be familiar with), the alternate reality where Adams gave up writing, what Arthur Dent was almost called, how unusually for a writer Adams became a celebrity himself and the unusual focus of the paparazzi at the film premiere. A terrific insight into the man and his work from someone who worked alongside him.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/42-the-wildly-improbable-ideas-of-douglas-adams-douglas-adams/7442032?ean=9781800182684

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0:00.0	Hello my fanist of friends it's me Richard Terring thank you for listening to my podcast
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0:10.0	there's some really great podcasts not all of them are the most famous names, but I think you'll agree if you listen
0:16.7	that they're all really good chats. And I'm still on tour with Can I Have My Ball back.
0:21.5	It's been going really well. Thank you to everyone who's
0:23.7	come so far. I'm really pleased with the show. It's getting better every time. Right,
0:28.5	bollocks being a lot of fun. I think you're going to like meeting him.
0:33.0	And this week I will be in Doncaster on Wednesday,
0:36.8	Scarborough on Thursday.
0:38.2	That one's selling pretty well.
0:39.4	Scarborough was the lowest seller of last time I toured stand up but nearly sold out different venue
0:45.9	and Friday I'm at Stockton Arts Center tickets available for all of those and then
0:50.0	there's a little hiatus and I'm back in London in the Bloomsbury on the 7th of June and the Leicester Square Theatre on the 9th of June.
0:56.0	Be terrific if you're in London if you could come and see one of those shows.
1:00.0	They both need a bit of a boost with ticket sales and there may be reviewers in so if you
1:06.1	like these podcasts at all and would like to give me anything in return and you live in
1:10.4	London coming to one of those two gigs Bloomsbury 7th of June
1:13.8	lessor square theatre 9th of June would be an enormous boost but go to rich chain
1:19.3	dot com slash ballback slash tour to find out all the tour dates.
1:23.6	We'd love to see you there.
1:25.4	And you know, it doesn't matter how many people are in.
1:27.7	It's all about the fun we have.
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