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Dirk not Gently into the night
25/07/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency opens for business on the UK BBC's Radio 4. Buy Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in the USA - or Buy Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in the UK  Douglas Adams's detective of oddness, the enigmatic Dirk Gently, will be make his UK broadcast debut on BBC Radio 4 during October 2007.
Featuring Harry Enfield in the lead role, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency will be produced by the same team that made the conclusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Harry is joined by Lord of the Rings actor Billy Boyd, Fawlty Towers' Andrew Sachs, The Golden Compass' Jim Carter and Peepshow's Olivia Colman.
Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things but his Holistic Detective Agency's only success seems to be tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely, and he is drawn into a 4 billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.
This first series of six 30-minute episodes is adapted from the book of the same name and directed by Dirk Maggs, himself chosen by Douglas Adams to conclude the Hitchhikers saga.
The cast includes Billy Boyd as Dirk's client Richard Macduff; Olivia Colman as Dirk's secretary Janice Pearce; Jim Carter is Dirk's nemesis DS Gilks; Andrew Sachs as Professor Reg Chronotis; Felicity Montagu (I'm Alan Partridge) as Susan Way, with Robert Duncan (Drop The Dead Donkey) as her brother Gordon; Toby Longworth (Star Wars) as the Electric Monk; and Michael Fenton Stevens (Nighty Night) as Michael Wenton Weakes.
Guest appearances are made by Andrew Secombe (Star Wars); Jon Glover (Harry Enfield And Chums); Jeffrey Holland (Hi-De-Hi); Wayne Forester (Captain Scarlet) and Tamsin Heatley (Broken Sword).
The Dirk Gently novels reflect Douglas's take on matters as wide-ranging as consciousness, conservation, man's place in the cosmos and crime. The first series features everything from quantum physics to missing cats, via Coleridge, Bach and an Electric Monk.
The cast and production team feature many old friends and colleagues of Douglas, including music composer Phillip Pope. The production team, from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases is led by Executive Producer Helen Chattwell and the Producers are Jo Wheeler and Dirk Maggs.
The series begins in October and will also have its own dedicated webpages on bbc.co.uk/radio4/dirkgently featuring trailers, photographs, production diaries, video and competitions. Programmes will also be available on Radio 4's listen again service
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