Programme Details

Engage the improbability drive and above all - don't panic! Its taken more than twenty years but the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy which amused and bemused radio listeners in 1978 has finally passed through the celluloid portals of Hollywood and emerged as a fully fledged science fiction film. The original heroes - Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect have survived the experience but they're not quite the same as the chaps who put Douglas Adams on the map...indeed the map itself seems to have changed.
There is obviously some serious exploring to do and in Night Waves this evening Matthew Sweet is joined on his quest for the restaurant at the end of the world by the film critic Nigel Floyd.

If the search for the secret of life, the universe and everything is not enough there'll also be an interview with Charles Jencks about iconic building. This is his way of describing the new type of architecture that's emerged in the last ten years - so everything from Ground Zero to the Erotic Gherkin.

To round off the programme there'll be a letter from Beirut by the writer Ronald Hayman and a discussion about an exhibition which examines our perennial fascination with mannequins, voodoo dolls and Barbie.

That's all in Night Waves with Matthew Sweet here on BBC Radio.





Presenter: Matthew Sweet
Producer: Zahid Warley 



Additional information:

1) The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy goes on release on Thursday 28th April
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/
2) The Iconic Building by Charles Jencks is published by Frances Lincoln. Its out on Thursday next week.
3) Guys and Dolls: Art, Science, Fashion and relationships is at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery until 12th June.