Of course I listened to Hitchhikers, [though] not on its first run. I did see the Rainbow stage play with a girlfriend at the time, which was very strange.

My first memory of it is [before] I'd seen it somebody described listening to a wonderful series on the World Service where he described a whale falling out of the sky and hitting the ground. I thought 'Hm, that's the kind of series I might like to listen to.'