Steve Goble: The Hitchhiker�s Guide To The Galaxy � Tertiary Phase

Steve Goble: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy  Tertiary Phase

Found this while still wasting time on the internet, you know the drill, let's search for stuff on Dirk Maggs, just to make sure that I am being linked to, that I am still in the top ten of the search results.

Well when I read this page, my first thoughts were what? why?, but on thinking about it a bit more, there is something to Steve's argument that Dirk missed a trick or two in his radio shows of Hitchers( I know what will Dirk think?)

But, and it is a big but, Dirk did not have complete control on how the new shows were to be produced and what form they would take (Hey copyright holders hold the strings of power you know, and if I was in their position, I would be trying to protect my material as much as I could)

Why do I say that?

Well money is one reason e.g the bods who came up with the money to produce the new shows, then you have the estate of Mr Adams as it's his stuff they must have had some input into how the shows were going to be like and will want to keep his stuff pure.

Finally you have the guys with the real power, yes the guys who want to sell the CD's and books to you and me.

Finally whatever Dirk did, there will always be someone, somewhere who will not like what he did with "their" show, series, book or film, and that is a fact of life.

Me?

I am glad that the shows got made, I like them they are not 1982 radio, they are 2004 radio that's the bottom line, great radio what ever year it's produced is still great radio, I happen to think that is what Dirk produced in 2004, when you back in years to come if it;s good radio then it will be timeless as its the story you want not how it was made, how much did it cost and all that sort of stuff.

The other last thing to say, is that I wanted to be entertained, to be taken to some other place, somewhere were the world was not telling me what, when and how to do something and any great radio production will always do that if given half a chance be you the listen, the Director Actors only have to lead you to it.