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Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779]
If Hitchhiker is a must-see for the dedicated fan, so much more so is a new film biography of Douglas Adams entitled Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams. While a shorter bio and tribute appear on the second DVD of the Hitchhiker release, this is a full length look at the life and work of Douglas Adams.
This film, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, explores the details of Adams' life in a warm, funny, loving way. Life is sentimental but never mushy and, while an obvious tribute to the man, it never becomes one of those insipid eulogies that seem to sprout overnight like fungi whenever a celebrity passes on. This is a realistic look at a real live human being from the points of view of those who knew him best. Interviews with Adams' early teachers and comedy partners and friends, including Mary Allen, Terry Jones, and Berkeley Breathed and sister Jane Garnier, are interspersed with previously filmed interviews with Douglas Adams himself, as well as film clips of Adams giving lectures... and even video of Adams on vacation. Wonderful pop-up style factoids appear onscreen at opportune moments, and a Babelfish translates British English (batting=driving about aimlessly) for clueless Americans.
Readers of The Salmon of Doubt will find much of this film familiar. Many of the incidents recounted here are mentioned in Adams' own writing, compiled posthumously in Salmon. We see film footage of Adams, a passionate defender of endangered species, hiking in Africa wearing a rhinoceros suit. Mark Carwardine, Adams' collaborator on Last Chance to See, speaks of their travels. Adams himself speaks about his fascination with animals and nature. We learn where "42" came from, and when Adams first discovered the importance of having a towel on hand at all times.
As I mentioned, this is a film about a real human being, foibles and all. Mary Allen remembers Adams "exuberant, overenthusiastic" reaction to his early success...enthusiasm which led to him crashing his first Porsche! An extended section of the film discusses his insecurities, an issue that was probably at the heart of his legendary inability to meet deadlines (though Adams claimed he simply "loved the whooshing sound they made as they went by").
But this is also a film about a loving, caring, truly good man. The Douglas Adams pictured here was funny, witty, brilliant, and above all, kind. Friend Kanwal Sharma recounts how he seemed to always find himself upgraded to first class when he traveled; only later did he discover that Douglas was arranging the upgrades behind the scenes. Perhaps the most telling feature of this film is the warmth and joy that radiates from each speaker as they remember Adams. Though his work was incomparable, this film makes it clear that his legacy was something far more important.
I should mention especially that Neil Gaiman is a fantastic choice as narrator of Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams . The best documentaries are often ruined by dry, dull narration but there is no hint of that here. Gaiman is as warm and funny as the subject of the movie is and his voice draws the viewer instantly into the film. I was captivated from the very beginning.
Fans of Douglas Adams will want to watch this film again and again. Even better, those not familiar with Douglas Adams will learn a thing or two about being an all around decent human being, and ultimately they'll want to watch this film again and again, too. I smiled and laughed all the way through this movie, even through occasional tears. See this film when you need a good laugh, and a good cry.
[Maria Nutick]
Greater Talent Network Inc., 2002
http://www.douglasadams.com/news/
http://greenmanreview.com/film_douglasadams.html
- published: 22 May 2011
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Douglas Adams on Late Night with David Letterman, plugging 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'.
- published: 09 Jul 2012
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Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points.
This episode features Douglas Adams. He was an English author, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a radio play, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. Toward the end of his life he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment.
(Text from Wikipedia)
- published: 14 Oct 2011
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For our third video, please enjoy this reading from Douglas Adams' talk on the concept of an artificial god. This is an excerpt from his posthumous work, The Salmon of Doubt. Thank you and namaste.
- published: 24 Sep 2011
- views: 76045
This is the entire raw tape, shot May 2001 in San Francisco for the pioneering news magazine show Tech Now! which covered the beginnings of the internet, interviewing the innovators as they innovated. Over 600 episodes of the show were produced from Silicon Valley starting in the late 1990's. It is a treasure trove of early documentation.
- published: 01 Aug 2012
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books [sic] that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who; he also served as script editor for the show's seventeenth season in 1979. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, as a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh, and as a staunch atheist.
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87:37Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and EverythingDouglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779] -
76:57Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams
Life, The Universe and Douglas AdamsLife, The Universe and Douglas Adams
If Hitchhiker is a must-see for the dedicated fan, so much more so is a new film biography of Douglas Adams entitled Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams. While a shorter bio and tribute appear on the second DVD of the Hitchhiker release, this is a full length look at the life and work of Douglas Adams. This film, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, explores the details of Adams' life in a warm, funny, loving way. Life is sentimental but never mushy and, while an obvious tribute to the man, it never becomes one of those insipid eulogies that seem to sprout overnight like fungi whenever a celebrity passes on. This is a realistic look at a real live human being from the points of view of those who knew him best. Interviews with Adams' early teachers and comedy partners and friends, including Mary Allen, Terry Jones, and Berkeley Breathed and sister Jane Garnier, are interspersed with previously filmed interviews with Douglas Adams himself, as well as film clips of Adams giving lectures... and even video of Adams on vacation. Wonderful pop-up style factoids appear onscreen at opportune moments, and a Babelfish translates British English (batting=driving about aimlessly) for clueless Americans. Readers of The Salmon of Doubt will find much of this film familiar. Many of the incidents recounted here are mentioned in Adams' own writing, compiled posthumously in Salmon. We see film footage of Adams, a passionate defender of endangered species, hiking in Africa wearing a rhinoceros suit. Mark Carwardine, Adams' collaborator on Last Chance to See, speaks of their travels. Adams himself speaks about his fascination with animals and nature. We learn where "42" came from, and when Adams first discovered the importance of having a towel on hand at all times. As I mentioned, this is a film about a real human being, foibles and all. Mary Allen remembers Adams "exuberant, overenthusiastic" reaction to his early success...enthusiasm which led to him crashing his first Porsche! An extended section of the film discusses his insecurities, an issue that was probably at the heart of his legendary inability to meet deadlines (though Adams claimed he simply "loved the whooshing sound they made as they went by"). But this is also a film about a loving, caring, truly good man. The Douglas Adams pictured here was funny, witty, brilliant, and above all, kind. Friend Kanwal Sharma recounts how he seemed to always find himself upgraded to first class when he traveled; only later did he discover that Douglas was arranging the upgrades behind the scenes. Perhaps the most telling feature of this film is the warmth and joy that radiates from each speaker as they remember Adams. Though his work was incomparable, this film makes it clear that his legacy was something far more important. I should mention especially that Neil Gaiman is a fantastic choice as narrator of Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams . The best documentaries are often ruined by dry, dull narration but there is no hint of that here. Gaiman is as warm and funny as the subject of the movie is and his voice draws the viewer instantly into the film. I was captivated from the very beginning. Fans of Douglas Adams will want to watch this film again and again. Even better, those not familiar with Douglas Adams will learn a thing or two about being an all around decent human being, and ultimately they'll want to watch this film again and again, too. I smiled and laughed all the way through this movie, even through occasional tears. See this film when you need a good laugh, and a good cry. [Maria Nutick] Greater Talent Network Inc., 2002 http://www.douglasadams.com/news/ http://greenmanreview.com/film_douglasadams.html -
6:32Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985)
Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985)Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985)
Douglas Adams on Late Night with David Letterman, plugging 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'. -
353:18Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams Audiobook
Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams AudiobookStarship Titanic by Douglas Adams Audiobook
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335:55The Restaurant at the End of The Universe Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of The Universe Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of The Universe Douglas Adams
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22:27Big Thinkers - Douglas Adams [Author]
Big Thinkers - Douglas Adams [Author]Big Thinkers - Douglas Adams [Author]
Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points. This episode features Douglas Adams. He was an English author, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a radio play, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. Toward the end of his life he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment. (Text from Wikipedia) -
44:27Douglas Adams - An Artificial God?
Douglas Adams - An Artificial God?Douglas Adams - An Artificial God?
For our third video, please enjoy this reading from Douglas Adams' talk on the concept of an artificial god. This is an excerpt from his posthumous work, The Salmon of Doubt. Thank you and namaste. -
337:51Life The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
Life The Universe and Everything Douglas AdamsLife The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
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388:02Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless Douglas AdamsMostly Harmless Douglas Adams
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10:28Douglas Adams' Last TV Interview
Douglas Adams' Last TV InterviewDouglas Adams' Last TV Interview
This is the entire raw tape, shot May 2001 in San Francisco for the pioneering news magazine show Tech Now! which covered the beginnings of the internet, interviewing the innovators as they innovated. Over 600 episodes of the show were produced from Silicon Valley starting in the late 1990's. It is a treasure trove of early documentation.
Adams, Douglas Filmography
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2005, role: miscellaneous crew
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Play in Full Screen Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: director
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2000, role: actor , character name: Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Catamount
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2013, role: producer
Famous quotes by Douglas Adams:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair"
"If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves."
"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
"'This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'"
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened."
"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be."
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
"The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two."
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
"Life is wasted on the living."
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams
ALBUMS
- Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums released: 2010
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series released: 2008
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency released: 2007
- Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille: Enimmäkseen harmiton released: 2005
- Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille: Elämä, maailmankaikkeus – ja kaikki released: 2005
- Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille: Terve, ja kiitos kaloista released: 2005
- Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis: Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums released: 2005
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy released: 2005
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase released: 2005
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase released: 2005
- Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille: Maailmanlopun ravintola released: 2004
- Douglas Adams at the BBC released: 2004
- Die Letzten ihrer Art released: 2003
- Doctor Who: Shada released: 2003
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe released: 2002
- Life, the Universe and Everything released: 2002
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish released: 2002
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete 'Trilogy' of Five Volumes released: 2002
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy released: 2002
- The Salmon of Doubt released: 2002
- Mostly Harmless released: 2002
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish released: 2002
- Life, The Universe and Everything released: 2002
- Mostly Harmless released: 2002
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe released: 2002
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy released: 2002
- Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille released: 2002
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Unabridged released: 2002
- Raumschiff Titanic released: 1999
- Starship Titanic released: 1998
- Per Anhalter ins All released: 1996
- Last Chance to See released: 1995
- Last Chance to See released: 1994
- Stopařův průvodce Vesmírem released: 1989
- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy released: 1988
- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Part Two: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" released: 1980
- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy released: 1979
- Zu den Sternen released:
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy released:
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy released:
- 2008 - Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul released:
- Your Hundred Best Tunes - Golden Classics released:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Quintessential Phase released:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase released:
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe released:
- Douglas Adams's Guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy released:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Secondary Phase released:
- Per Anhalter ins All released:
Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums
Released 2010- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums 01
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series
Released 2008- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen This Is the Story
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You’ve Got to Build Bypasses
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A Strange Coincidence
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Six Pints of Bitter
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen On This Particular Thursday
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Let Them Have Their Fun
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen People of Earth, Your Attention Please
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Bought Some Peanuts
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen What the Devil’s That?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Babel Fish
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen What an Extraordinary Book
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Vogon Poetry
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Far Out in the Uncharted Backwaters
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Your Very Lives in Your Hands
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Girls? The Leather? The Machismo?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Perhaps We Died
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Infinite Improbability Drive
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen 5-to-1 Against and Falling
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Encyclopædia Galactica
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Select Your Own Re-Entry Point
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Has the Big Z Finally Flipped? / Glad to Be of Service
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Released 2007- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Crime Scene
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Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis: Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums
Released 2005- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Schluss mit der Erde, Teil 01
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Released 2005- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Episode 01-1: Fit the First
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase
Released 2005- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A Planet in the Way
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Now Wash Your Hands Please
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Old Pink Dog
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Putting the Universe to Rights
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase
Released 2005- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen This Is the Story
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen You've Got to Build Bypasses
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A Strange Coincidence
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Six Pints of Bitter
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen On This Particular Thursday
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Let Them Have Their Fun
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen People of Earth, Your Attention Please
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen I Bought Some Peanuts
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen What the Devil's That?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Babel Fish
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen What an Extraordinary Book
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Vogon Poetry
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Far Out in the Uncharted Backwaters
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Your Very Lives in Your Hands
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Girls? The Leather? The Machismo?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Perhaps We Died
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Infinite Improbability Drive
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen 5 to 1 Against and Falling
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen "The Encyclopedia Galactica"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Select Your Own Re-Entry Point
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Has the Big Z Finally Flipped?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Glad to Be of Service
Douglas Adams at the BBC
Released 2004- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Introduction / a) Animals: The Aye-Aye Lemur
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Amazonian Manatee
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen b) The Burkiss Way
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Logical Positivism Avenue Sketch
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Kamikaze Sketch
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen c) Computer Games
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen d) Dirk Gently
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen e) Endangered Species
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen g) Graham Chapman
Die Letzten ihrer Art
Released 2003- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Rasierwasser für die bevölkerungsreichste Nation
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Der rasende Klang der Fahrradklingel
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Die Entdeckung des Baji-Delfins
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mit Mr. Ho auf dem Yangtse-Fluss
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Doctor Who: Shada
Released 2003- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prelude
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete 'Trilogy' of Five Volumes
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue (continued): "In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, ..." / Chapter 1: "The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "The word bulldozer wandered through his mind..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "A cloud passed overhead."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "He struck most of the friends he had made on Earth as an eccentric, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "A shadow moved across him again."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Ford stared at Arthur, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "'You want me,' said Mr Prosser, spelling out this new thought to himself, 'to come and lie there ...'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2: "Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "Ford looked back at him, genuinely surprised."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3: "On this particular Thursday, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "... you can sleep under it beneath the stars..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "Suddenly Ford's spell was broken."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "'Will that help?' asked the barman."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "Only one man stood and watched the sky, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "'As you will no doubt be aware, ...'"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Introduction
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The Salmon of Doubt
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Credits
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Foreword: Eulogy for Douglas Adams
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Foreword: Lament for Douglas Adams
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Foreword: Lament for Douglas Adams
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Foreword: US Introduction
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Foreword: US Introduction
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Foreword: US Introduction
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: Eagle and Boy's World Magazine
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: The Voices of All Our Yesterdays
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: The Voices of All Our Yesterdays
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: Shorts
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: Y
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: The Meaning of Liff
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: My Nose
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: The Book That Changed Me
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Life: Maggie and Trudie
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun." / Chapter 1: "That evening it was dark early, which was normal for the time of year."
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "The figure paused to examine the barrier and then dropped the bag he was carrying over it before climbing over himself." / Chapter 2: "Rob McKeena was a miserable bastard and he knew it..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "Since he had left Denmark the previous afternoon, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3: "The next two lorries were not driven by Rain Gods, but they did exactly the same thing."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4: "Whether it was because he was drunk, ill or suicidally insane would not have been apparent to a casual observer, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "'What?' said Ford. He seemed a little taken aback."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "'You gonna die, boy,' the barman murmured quietly at Ford Prefect, and the evidence was on his side."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5: "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a powerful organ. Indeed, its influence is so prodigious that strict rules have had to be drawn up by its editorial staff to prevent its misuse."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "'Want some?' he said, after he'd had a swig himself."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "At the end of the alley a steel grey limousine crawled past."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "This was a planet he had seen completely destroyed, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "Arthur Dent was one thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven light years away in a Saab, and anxious."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "Russell hooted his horn fiercely at the car that came round the corner towards them half-way on to their side of the road, making them swerve. The anger seemed to make him feel better."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "Arthur whirled round in his seat and stared into her suddenly open but utterly vacant eyes."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "'That was the moment she cracked up. She was in a cafe somewhere. Rickmansworth.'"
Life, The Universe and Everything
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1: "The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "The alien creature frowned briefly and consulted what appeared to be some species of clipboard..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Wowbagger closed his eyes in a grim and weary expression, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "The computer beeped tunelessly to indicate that it had finished its calculations." / Chapter 2: "This morning, two years later than that, was sweet and fragrant..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "'You see,' said Ford, '— ...'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "He smiled weakly."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "'What?' said Ford. 'Er, who,' said Arthur, 'is Eddy, then, exactly?'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "'I told you!' shouted Ford, leaping to his feet. 'Eddies in the space-time continuum!'" / Chapter 3: "Important facts from Galactic history, number one:" / Chapter 4: "It was a charming and delightful day at Lord's..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "The applause of the crowd had been rapidly succeeded by gasps of astonishment, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "There was a pause while the first commentator considered this."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "'There are two things I fell which I should tell you,' said Ford, tossing a copy of the Guardian over the table at him."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "He looked along the flight path of the ball again and his eyes twitched again."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "Play resumed with a new ball, the sun continued to shine..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "'Exciting, isn't it?' said an apparition."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "Ford was humming, irritably."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "What was most extraordinary about them was that they appeared to have come dressed for the occasion."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "Slartibartfast was gesturing urgently at Ford and Arthur and shouting at them, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, ..." / Chapter 5: "Important facts from Galactic history, number two:"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6: "It seemed to Arthur as if the whole sky suddenly just stood aside and let them through."
Mostly Harmless
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue: "Anything that happens, happens." / Chapter 1: "The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Click, hum. The huge grey Grebulon reconnaissance ship moved silently through the black void."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "This made the whole problem very simple to deal with."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Before it blanked out for good the ship would have to pass on those instructions, ..." / Chapter 2: "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "Spring is over-rated."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "The word was out that maybe, just maybe, a British accent would fit."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "She sat on a chair in the lobby, under a kentia palm, and opened the little cellophane-windowed envelope."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "Gail Andrews was a well groomed woman in her mid-forties."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "They went through it all a couple more times till Tricia was certain that everything that possibly could be clear was as clear as it possibly could be."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "As she was getting into the elevator Tricia, slightly preoccupied, realised she had left her bag in her room..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "Tricia felt as if she had been kicked in the back of the head. She blinked."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "A tiny security camera up behind the bar had turned to follow her movement."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "A member of the hotel staff was now going round the bar asking people if they were Mr Miller."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "''Mr Martin? You mean Andy Martin at NBS?'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3: "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "This neutrino struck an atom." / Chapter 4 : "Tricia began to feel that the world was conspiring against her."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "'I see,' said Tricia."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5: "She watched it coming in from over the Henley direction with mild curiosity at first, wondering what those lights were."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "'We have been monitoring you.'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "All three of them stood, slightly awkwardly in her sitting room, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "'But I don't know anything about astrology.'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6: "Ford Prefect hit the ground running."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "Within about thirty seconds a security robot the size of a small melon came flying down the corridor at about waist height, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "They checked their figures and realised that what they had actually discovered was 'boredom', ..."
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue: "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for..." / Chapter 1: "The story so far."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Tricia McMillian — or Trillian — had skipped the planet six months earlier..." / Chapter 2: "Like all Vogon ships it looked as if it had been not so much designed as congealed."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "It has been said that Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "He toyed with this thought a little before reluctantly dismissing it."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "When put to the test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "'I'm going to need some help with this one,' said the machine tersely." / Chapter 3: "'Does anyone have a kettle?' Arthur asked..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "He started to speak, and stopped."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "Quite how Zaphod Beeblebrox arrived at the idea of holding a seance at this point..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "On Zaphod's brow stood beads of sweat, first of concentration, then of frustration and finally of embarrassment."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "The noise and the shaking had reached terrifying proportions."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "'No, you listen to me, you see-through old bat,' said Zaphod..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "'It is trying,' said Zaphod with wonderful restraint, 'to make tea.'" / Chapter 4: "Ten light years away, Gag Halfrunt jacked up his smile by several notches."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 4 (continued): "They searched every corner of the ship in increasing bewilderment and alarm." / Chapter 5: "Ursa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the most appalling places in the known Universe."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "The book is a guide book, a travel book."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 5 (continued): "If at that moment you had then looked at the next table but one you would have seen Zaphod Beeblebrox..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6: "'Hello? Yes? Megadodo Publications, home of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "Zaphod Beeblebrox entered the foyer."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "'Mr Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "'Oh, fine,' said Marvin, 'if you happen to like being me which personally I don't.'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "At that moment a commotion broke out in the reception hall behind them."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "'You know something?' said Zaphod to Marvin."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 6 (continued): "From the opposite direction came a larger black spider-like object."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue (continued): "In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, ..." / Chapter 1: "The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "The word bulldozer wandered through his mind..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "A cloud passed overhead."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "He struck most of the friends he had made on Earth as an eccentric, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "A shadow moved across him again."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "Ford stared at Arthur, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 1 (continued): "'You want me,' said Mr Prosser, spelling out this new thought to himself, 'to come and lie there ...'"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2: "Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 2 (continued): "Ford looked back at him, genuinely surprised."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3: "On this particular Thursday, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "... you can sleep under it beneath the stars..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "Suddenly Ford's spell was broken."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "'Will that help?' asked the barman."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "Only one man stood and watched the sky, ..."
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Chapter 3 (continued): "'As you will no doubt be aware, ...'"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Unabridged
Released 2002- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Prologue
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Raumschiff Titanic
Released 1999- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Wie alles anfing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Wo ist Leovinus?
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Willkommen an Bord
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Gefangen in der Super Galactic Traveller Class
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Eddewas villeikt nix in Ordnunk
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Wie zwei Schnorke in einem Eimer voll Schnorktrunk
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Es stürzte das Mädel ihm auf den Schädel
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ein simpler Übersetzungsfehler
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Nettie in Falten
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Das Leben so kurz...
Last Chance to See
Released 1995- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Meeting the Lemur
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen At the Restaurant
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Marvin and the Frogstar Battle Tank
Last Chance to See
Released 1994- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Introduction
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Part Two: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
Released 1980- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Journey of the Sorcerer
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Big Black Cars
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Released 1979- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Journey of the Sorcerer
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Gargleblaster Sonata
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Zu den Sternen
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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2008 - Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A Needy Cause
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Your Hundred Best Tunes - Golden Classics
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Irsh Tune From County Derry
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779] -
Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams
If Hitchhiker is a must-see for the dedicated fan, so much more so is a new film biography of Douglas Adams entitled Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams. While a shorter bio and tribute appear on the second DVD of the Hitchhiker release, this is a full length look at the life and work of Douglas Adams. This film, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, explores the details of Adams' life in a warm, funny, loving way. Life is sentimental but never mushy and, while an obvious tribute to the man, it never becomes one of those insipid eulogies that seem to sprout overnight like fungi whenever a celebrity passes on. This is a realistic look at a real live human being from the points of view of those who knew him best. Interviews with Adams' early teachers and comedy partners and friends, incl... -
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Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams Audiobook
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Big Thinkers - Douglas Adams [Author]
Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points. This episode features Douglas Adams. He was an English author, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a radio play, a computer g... -
Douglas Adams - An Artificial God?
For our third video, please enjoy this reading from Douglas Adams' talk on the concept of an artificial god. This is an excerpt from his posthumous work, The Salmon of Doubt. Thank you and namaste. -
Life The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
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Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams' Last TV Interview
This is the entire raw tape, shot May 2001 in San Francisco for the pioneering news magazine show Tech Now! which covered the beginnings of the internet, interviewing the innovators as they innovated. Over 600 episodes of the show were produced from Silicon Valley starting in the late 1990's. It is a treasure trove of early documentation.
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
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Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before h...
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779]
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Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779]
- published: 22 May 2008
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Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams
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- Updated: 22 May 2011
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If Hitchhiker is a must-see for the dedicated fan, so much more so is a new film biography of Douglas Adams entitled Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams. Whil...
If Hitchhiker is a must-see for the dedicated fan, so much more so is a new film biography of Douglas Adams entitled Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams. While a shorter bio and tribute appear on the second DVD of the Hitchhiker release, this is a full length look at the life and work of Douglas Adams.
This film, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, explores the details of Adams' life in a warm, funny, loving way. Life is sentimental but never mushy and, while an obvious tribute to the man, it never becomes one of those insipid eulogies that seem to sprout overnight like fungi whenever a celebrity passes on. This is a realistic look at a real live human being from the points of view of those who knew him best. Interviews with Adams' early teachers and comedy partners and friends, including Mary Allen, Terry Jones, and Berkeley Breathed and sister Jane Garnier, are interspersed with previously filmed interviews with Douglas Adams himself, as well as film clips of Adams giving lectures... and even video of Adams on vacation. Wonderful pop-up style factoids appear onscreen at opportune moments, and a Babelfish translates British English (batting=driving about aimlessly) for clueless Americans.
Readers of The Salmon of Doubt will find much of this film familiar. Many of the incidents recounted here are mentioned in Adams' own writing, compiled posthumously in Salmon. We see film footage of Adams, a passionate defender of endangered species, hiking in Africa wearing a rhinoceros suit. Mark Carwardine, Adams' collaborator on Last Chance to See, speaks of their travels. Adams himself speaks about his fascination with animals and nature. We learn where "42" came from, and when Adams first discovered the importance of having a towel on hand at all times.
As I mentioned, this is a film about a real human being, foibles and all. Mary Allen remembers Adams "exuberant, overenthusiastic" reaction to his early success...enthusiasm which led to him crashing his first Porsche! An extended section of the film discusses his insecurities, an issue that was probably at the heart of his legendary inability to meet deadlines (though Adams claimed he simply "loved the whooshing sound they made as they went by").
But this is also a film about a loving, caring, truly good man. The Douglas Adams pictured here was funny, witty, brilliant, and above all, kind. Friend Kanwal Sharma recounts how he seemed to always find himself upgraded to first class when he traveled; only later did he discover that Douglas was arranging the upgrades behind the scenes. Perhaps the most telling feature of this film is the warmth and joy that radiates from each speaker as they remember Adams. Though his work was incomparable, this film makes it clear that his legacy was something far more important.
I should mention especially that Neil Gaiman is a fantastic choice as narrator of Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams . The best documentaries are often ruined by dry, dull narration but there is no hint of that here. Gaiman is as warm and funny as the subject of the movie is and his voice draws the viewer instantly into the film. I was captivated from the very beginning.
Fans of Douglas Adams will want to watch this film again and again. Even better, those not familiar with Douglas Adams will learn a thing or two about being an all around decent human being, and ultimately they'll want to watch this film again and again, too. I smiled and laughed all the way through this movie, even through occasional tears. See this film when you need a good laugh, and a good cry.
[Maria Nutick]
Greater Talent Network Inc., 2002
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If Hitchhiker is a must-see for the dedicated fan, so much more so is a new film biography of Douglas Adams entitled Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams. While a shorter bio and tribute appear on the second DVD of the Hitchhiker release, this is a full length look at the life and work of Douglas Adams.
This film, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, explores the details of Adams' life in a warm, funny, loving way. Life is sentimental but never mushy and, while an obvious tribute to the man, it never becomes one of those insipid eulogies that seem to sprout overnight like fungi whenever a celebrity passes on. This is a realistic look at a real live human being from the points of view of those who knew him best. Interviews with Adams' early teachers and comedy partners and friends, including Mary Allen, Terry Jones, and Berkeley Breathed and sister Jane Garnier, are interspersed with previously filmed interviews with Douglas Adams himself, as well as film clips of Adams giving lectures... and even video of Adams on vacation. Wonderful pop-up style factoids appear onscreen at opportune moments, and a Babelfish translates British English (batting=driving about aimlessly) for clueless Americans.
Readers of The Salmon of Doubt will find much of this film familiar. Many of the incidents recounted here are mentioned in Adams' own writing, compiled posthumously in Salmon. We see film footage of Adams, a passionate defender of endangered species, hiking in Africa wearing a rhinoceros suit. Mark Carwardine, Adams' collaborator on Last Chance to See, speaks of their travels. Adams himself speaks about his fascination with animals and nature. We learn where "42" came from, and when Adams first discovered the importance of having a towel on hand at all times.
As I mentioned, this is a film about a real human being, foibles and all. Mary Allen remembers Adams "exuberant, overenthusiastic" reaction to his early success...enthusiasm which led to him crashing his first Porsche! An extended section of the film discusses his insecurities, an issue that was probably at the heart of his legendary inability to meet deadlines (though Adams claimed he simply "loved the whooshing sound they made as they went by").
But this is also a film about a loving, caring, truly good man. The Douglas Adams pictured here was funny, witty, brilliant, and above all, kind. Friend Kanwal Sharma recounts how he seemed to always find himself upgraded to first class when he traveled; only later did he discover that Douglas was arranging the upgrades behind the scenes. Perhaps the most telling feature of this film is the warmth and joy that radiates from each speaker as they remember Adams. Though his work was incomparable, this film makes it clear that his legacy was something far more important.
I should mention especially that Neil Gaiman is a fantastic choice as narrator of Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams . The best documentaries are often ruined by dry, dull narration but there is no hint of that here. Gaiman is as warm and funny as the subject of the movie is and his voice draws the viewer instantly into the film. I was captivated from the very beginning.
Fans of Douglas Adams will want to watch this film again and again. Even better, those not familiar with Douglas Adams will learn a thing or two about being an all around decent human being, and ultimately they'll want to watch this film again and again, too. I smiled and laughed all the way through this movie, even through occasional tears. See this film when you need a good laugh, and a good cry.
[Maria Nutick]
Greater Talent Network Inc., 2002
http://www.douglasadams.com/news/
http://greenmanreview.com/film_douglasadams.html
- published: 22 May 2011
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Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985)
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- Duration: 6:32
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Douglas Adams on Late Night with David Letterman, plugging 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'.
- published: 09 Jul 2012
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Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams Audiobook
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- Duration: 353:18
- Updated: 10 Apr 2016
- views: 2188
- published: 10 Apr 2016
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The Restaurant at the End of The Universe Douglas Adams
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- Duration: 335:55
- Updated: 12 Mar 2016
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- published: 12 Mar 2016
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Big Thinkers - Douglas Adams [Author]
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- Updated: 14 Oct 2011
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Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields...
Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points.
This episode features Douglas Adams. He was an English author, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a radio play, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. Toward the end of his life he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment.
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Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points.
This episode features Douglas Adams. He was an English author, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a radio play, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. Toward the end of his life he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment.
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- published: 14 Oct 2011
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Douglas Adams - An Artificial God?
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- Duration: 44:27
- Updated: 24 Sep 2011
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For our third video, please enjoy this reading from Douglas Adams' talk on the concept of an artificial god. This is an excerpt from his posthumous work, The Sa...
For our third video, please enjoy this reading from Douglas Adams' talk on the concept of an artificial god. This is an excerpt from his posthumous work, The Salmon of Doubt. Thank you and namaste.
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For our third video, please enjoy this reading from Douglas Adams' talk on the concept of an artificial god. This is an excerpt from his posthumous work, The Salmon of Doubt. Thank you and namaste.
- published: 24 Sep 2011
- views: 76045
Life The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
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- Duration: 337:51
- Updated: 15 Feb 2016
- views: 8985
- published: 15 Feb 2016
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Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
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- Duration: 388:02
- Updated: 25 Mar 2016
- views: 4577
- published: 25 Mar 2016
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Douglas Adams' Last TV Interview
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- Duration: 10:28
- Updated: 01 Aug 2012
- views: 25510
This is the entire raw tape, shot May 2001 in San Francisco for the pioneering news magazine show Tech Now! which covered the beginnings of the internet, interv...
This is the entire raw tape, shot May 2001 in San Francisco for the pioneering news magazine show Tech Now! which covered the beginnings of the internet, interviewing the innovators as they innovated. Over 600 episodes of the show were produced from Silicon Valley starting in the late 1990's. It is a treasure trove of early documentation.
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This is the entire raw tape, shot May 2001 in San Francisco for the pioneering news magazine show Tech Now! which covered the beginnings of the internet, interviewing the innovators as they innovated. Over 600 episodes of the show were produced from Silicon Valley starting in the late 1990's. It is a treasure trove of early documentation.
- published: 01 Aug 2012
- views: 25510
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Out of the Trees (1975), by Graham Chapman & Douglas Adams
Special surprise for Towel Day 2012: "Out of the Trees", a show written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams in 1975. While Graham Chapman was still lingering in the Monty Python style of absurd comedy, Douglas Adams was already busy with themes like blowing up the world through crazy bureaucracy, ideas he would use later in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After a rather unsuccesful transmission in 1975, no further episodes were produced although a second part had been written. The pilot was wiped, although the filmed inserts survived (Peony Sketch and some shots of Gengis). Then a couple of years ago it turned out a copy had been made off air on a Philips N1500 VCR. As you can see it isn't a lost masterpiece, because it's no longer lost and it never was a masterpiece. -
Douglas Adams Hyperland
Here Douglas Adams discusses the then ground-breaking concepts which just 20 years later we take for granted. Not much description as google seem to take delight in wiping channels with no recourse. Too much work to just start again so I'm just uploading the rarer & more critical stuff. Hi to all my YT pals. I do not claim any rights yada yada yada.
Out of the Trees (1975), by Graham Chapman & Douglas Adams
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Special surprise for Towel Day 2012: "Out of the Trees", a show written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams in 1975. While Graham Chapman was still lingering in...
Special surprise for Towel Day 2012: "Out of the Trees", a show written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams in 1975. While Graham Chapman was still lingering in the Monty Python style of absurd comedy, Douglas Adams was already busy with themes like blowing up the world through crazy bureaucracy, ideas he would use later in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
After a rather unsuccesful transmission in 1975, no further episodes were produced although a second part had been written. The pilot was wiped, although the filmed inserts survived (Peony Sketch and some shots of Gengis). Then a couple of years ago it turned out a copy had been made off air on a Philips N1500 VCR. As you can see it isn't a lost masterpiece, because it's no longer lost and it never was a masterpiece.
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Special surprise for Towel Day 2012: "Out of the Trees", a show written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams in 1975. While Graham Chapman was still lingering in the Monty Python style of absurd comedy, Douglas Adams was already busy with themes like blowing up the world through crazy bureaucracy, ideas he would use later in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
After a rather unsuccesful transmission in 1975, no further episodes were produced although a second part had been written. The pilot was wiped, although the filmed inserts survived (Peony Sketch and some shots of Gengis). Then a couple of years ago it turned out a copy had been made off air on a Philips N1500 VCR. As you can see it isn't a lost masterpiece, because it's no longer lost and it never was a masterpiece.
- published: 24 May 2012
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Douglas Adams Hyperland
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Here Douglas Adams discusses the then ground-breaking concepts which just 20 years later we take for granted.
Not much description as google seem to take delig...
Here Douglas Adams discusses the then ground-breaking concepts which just 20 years later we take for granted.
Not much description as google seem to take delight in wiping channels with no recourse. Too much work to just start again so I'm just uploading the rarer & more critical stuff. Hi to all my YT pals.
I do not claim any rights yada yada yada.
wn.com/Douglas Adams Hyperland
Here Douglas Adams discusses the then ground-breaking concepts which just 20 years later we take for granted.
Not much description as google seem to take delight in wiping channels with no recourse. Too much work to just start again so I'm just uploading the rarer & more critical stuff. Hi to all my YT pals.
I do not claim any rights yada yada yada.
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Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
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Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams
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The Restaurant at the End of The Universe Douglas Adams
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Big Thinkers - Douglas Adams [Author]
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Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams' Last TV Interview
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Out of the Trees (1975), by Graham Chapman & Douglas Adams
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Michelle Obama’s “I Wake up Every Morning in A House Built by Slaves” Is Only Partially Right
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingJust as she did on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, it has become very fashionable, even unsuspecting, for First Lady Michelle Obama to travel the country and in her speeches declare. “I wake up every morning in a house built by slaves.” The only problem is that she is partially right, one-sixth right to be exact ... He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com ... Washington....
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[VIDEO]: Mysterious Fireball Soars Over Western U.S. Skies
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Areas of the Western United States were lit up last night as a blazing fireball streaked across the sky Wednesday, igniting a social media frenzy, ABC News reported.From southern California all the way to Utah, residents observed a curious streak of light, with many people taking to the Internet to find out what it was and share their own theories ......
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North Korea says U.S. has crossed red line, relations now on war footing
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North Korea's top diplomat for U.S. affairs said Thursday that Washington "crossed the red line" and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. and South Korea hold annual war games as planned... ....
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Military Offensive in Manbij Yields ISIS Data Windfall
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A U.S.-supported military offensive on the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group’s strategic hub in the Syrian city of Manbij has yielded a mother lode of more than four terabytes of data on the group’s foreign fighter network, Newsweek reported Thursday.The cache of information is the biggest data seizure from the radical Islamist group since the U.S ... “We think this is a big deal....
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[VIDEO]: Chelsea Clinton – Like Ivanka Trump – Offers Softer Side Of Candidate
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The final night of festivities – known as the Democratic National Convention – kick off Thursday culminating in Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech with the Democratic nominee being introduced by the woman who knows her simply as mom. Chelsea Clinton will open for her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., as Clinton accepts a place in history as the first female presidential nominee for a major party ... ....
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Athletics: Adams' coach to miss Olympics
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Valerie Adams with coach Jean-Pierre Egger ... A knee injury will see Valerie Adams' coach Jean-Pierre Egger miss the Olympic Games. Egger, >Adams' mentor since November 2010, suffered a fall. The state of the 73-year-old's knee worsened during travel to the Monaco Diamond League, an event Adams won with a throw of 20.05m to beat key rivals Christina Schwanitz of Germany and American Michelle Carter ... Adams went straight to Egger's house. ...
Gase, Tannehill are tied at the hip as Dolphins camp begins
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Armando Salguero, Ryan Tannehill, Adam Gase, Miami Dolphins, NFL, training camp ... Adam Gase has told his assistants coaches that nothing, ... Adam Gase and Ryan Tannehill are tight....
Gyllenhaal, Portman in Venice Film fest lineup
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This year’s Venice Film Festival will include a stylish thriller from Tom Ford, a sci-fi drama with Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams and a star turn from Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis....
Jackson residents react to police chief being put on leave
Edit Conway Daily Sun 29 Jul 2016
JACKSON — Selectmen shared little Thursday about the mysterious circumstances that led to Police Chief Douglas Jette being put on administrative leave last week. But they did divulge that Jackson police officer Lauren Orsini had resigned. On Tuesday, Selectmen's Chair Bob Thompson told the Sun that Jette had been put on paid leave following an accusation by another employee ... Thompson read aloud brief minutes from that meeting ... ....
Professor: unidentified toxins may exist in blue-green algae blooms
Edit WPTV 29 Jul 2016
For many of the people here, these are anxious days. They want answers about the toxic algae in the water and in the air in Martin County. Dr. Larry Brand, a professor from the University of Miami who's been studying the effects of algae here in florida for more than 20 years spoke to the Rivers Coalition about potential health risks coming from a lesser known toxin called BMAA ... I don’t touch fish,” said Douglas Ashley, a local realtor ... ....
What we learned: Day 1 of Bears training camp
Edit Chicago Sun-Times 29 Jul 2016
The Chicago Sun-Times’ Adam L. Jahns, Patrick Finley and Mark Potash break down the first day of Bears training camp.. What we learned. Practice No. 1, Thursday. Bourbonnais. Big man moves. New defensive tackle Akiem Hicks, who is listed at 6-5, 336 pounds, is the team’s largest defensive starter. Linebacker Danny Trevathan described him as a “mountain.” But he’s mountain who can move ... … ... — Adam L. Jahns. Fast feet ... Receiver B.J ... Up next ... ....
Now: LFC's new third kit to be presented live on Facebook (Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds plc)
Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
James Milner, Adam Lallana and Simon Mignolet will show off the brand new strip at Facebook HQ in California as part of the club's pre-season tour of the USA - and you can watch the event live on LFC's official Facebook page ......
Pacers, Nuggets to play regular-season game in London
Edit Arabnews 29 Jul 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1469726777820222400. Publication Date. . Thursday, July 28, 2016. NEW YORK ... It will be the first time either team has played in Britain. “We are thrilled to return for our seventh regular-season game in London,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said ... Main category. . Sports. ....
Baez hits 2-run HR, Russell adds slam as Cubs rout White Sox
Edit Arabnews 29 Jul 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1469726777730222200. Publication Date. . Thursday, July 28, 2016. CHICAGO. The Chicago Cubs saved their scoring and drama until the later innings ... The St ... Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer off Adam Wainwright to cap a three-run comeback in the seventh that gave the Mets a 4-3 lead ... At Toronto, Adam Rosales hit a two-run home run to help San Diego beat the Blue Jays 8-4 to avoid a three-game sweep ... ....
photo: US Coastguard / Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew Kendrick.
Minority Delegates Give Accounts of Tensions With Bernie Supporters At DNC
Edit WorldNews.com 29 Jul 2016
By Wednesday of the Democratic National Convention, most of the floor was quiet for the speakers that took the stage after the tumultuous start of the week with lingering "Bernie or Bust" supporters that were a vocal portion of the program and were causing some frustration with delegates of color according to The Associated Press. "I am so exhausted by it," said Danielle Adams, a black Clinton delegate from North Carolina ... ....
Out now: Liverpool FC's brand new 2016-17 third kit (Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds plc)
Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
(Source. Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds plc) ... Jürgen Klopp was joined by James Milner, Adam Lallana and Simon Mignolet at Facebook HQ in California as the strip was unveiled as part of the club's pre-season tour of the United States. Liverpool vice-captain Milner said ... (noodl. 34741560) ....
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