Douglas Adams: His Life, the Universe, and Everything

The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/biographics5 → Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 This video is #sponsored by Skillshare. TopTenz Properties Our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Our sister channel TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Our Newest Channel about Interesting Places: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor https://youtu.be/jTOLCWtnKbA Robert Hanssen: The FBI Mole who Spied for the KGB https://youtu.be/v40HN6dNaAk Source/Further reading: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’s entry (paywall - although free to access with a valid UK library card): https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9000220 The Guardian’s obituary of Adams: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/may/15/guardianobituaries.books A history of Out of the Trees, Adams’ sketch show with Chapman: https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/inside-graham-chapman-and-douglas-adams-lost-sketch-show-out-of-the-trees.html Adams’s work on Doctor Who: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-01-18/doctor-who-douglas-adams-krikkitmen/ Some background to the Hitchhiker’s radio series: https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A943184 Destroying the world sketch from Out of the Trees (to be honest, it’s not that great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx3-IjHNzTc Flying Circus episode featuring Douglas Adams’s Patient Abuse sketch (around 08:00): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gf7r1 Some stuff on his Fringe show and (if you scroll up a few pages), a few interesting tidbits on writing for Python: https://books.google.cz/books?id=K-E2cAzsxwUC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=the+unpleasantness+at+brodie%27s+close&source=bl&ots=C-pkVvsAli&sig=ACfU3U1t9Ed-CXgdSfpriuAEY1DoMp5ydA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGnKv6u4DnAhVNx4UKHS3fCRMQ6AEwAHoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20unpleasantness%20at%20brodie s%20close&f=false Douglas Adams on atheism: https://douglasadams.eu/douglas-adams-and-god-portrait-of-a-radical-atheist/ Last Chance to See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/lastchancetosee/sites/about/last_chance_to_see.shtml Neil Gaiman on Douglas Adams’ influence: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/04/neil-gaiman-douglas-adams-writer-genius