ZZ9's December 2011 podcast is now available, rounding up the Hitchhiker's / Douglas Adams related news of the year and looking back at December in Hitchhiker history, and forward to what ZZ9 are doing in the near future.
You can find it at http://www.zz9.org/podcast

Tickets have gone on sale for the celebration of Douglas Adams's life that will be taking place at the HMV Apollo Hammersmith, London on Sunday 11 March 2012. They are thirty pounds plus fees and there are two different sources, HMV and Ticketmaster ( Read more... )

Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday there is a production of the play based on Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in the OUTheater in Groningen put on by Theatergroep Caesarion ( Read more... )

The Alley Theater in Louisville, Kentucky is staging the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays in November.

Details: http://thealleytheater.org/site/?p=1506

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Hitchhiker's actors, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Fry are appearing in the production of Howl's Moving Castle at the Southwark playhouse this winter between 28 November 2011 to 07 January 2012.

Details: southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/the-vault/howls-moving-castle

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The announcement of the 60th birthday party prompted Dirk Maggs (who is working on the 60th birthday party as well) to issue some more information about the radio show tour that was announced in April ( Read more... )

There will be an event at Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 11th March 2012 to mark what would have been Douglas's 60th birthday ( Read more... )

Gareth Robert's novelisation of Douglas Adams's Doctor Who story Shada has been listed for publication on Thursday 15th March 2012.
ISBN: 9781849903295. RRP: GBP 12.99

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h2g2.com the website set up by Douglas's company, The Digital Village, in 1999 to be "an unconventional guide to life, the universe, and everything" was taken over by the BBC in 2001, but with the cuts to the BBC's online budget that were announced in January the site was under threat of closure. A number of organisations came forward expressing an ( Read more... )

This book with an introduction by Adam Roberts and illustrations by Jonathan Burton has now been published. Issue 121 (July 2011) of the ZZ9 magazine interviewed Jonathan and had some exclusive pictures of his work. Details: http://www.foliosociety.com/book/ ( Read more... )