The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith ...

At the heart of nerd culture: Douglas Adams, left, with UK comics magnate Nick Landau, after the launch of the first 'Hitchhiker's Guide' novel in 1979. Credit: Colin Davey / Evening Standard / Getty ...

Four radio series, five novels, a TV series, online games, a dance craze even, and of course a movie later, the Hitchhiker phenomenon continues. Arthur Dent, wakes up to find bulldozers trying to ...

Congress faces year-end crunch on health care as premium spikes loom for 24 million Americans, with Republicans and Democrats ...

Don't panic! A Lost showrunner and Wonder Woman screenwriter will reportedly head up the show based on Douglas Adams' sci-fi classic. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide ...

The Netflix documentary The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker details the stunning viral fame and quick fall of a young man named Caleb McGillvary, a.k.a. “Kai the Hitchhiker.” But McGillvary was arrested ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. At 10:30pm on Wednesday, 8 th March 1978, the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast on Radio 4. At the time no-one – least of all ...