Dirk Gently: The BBC Radio Collection

Harry Enfield stars as the holistic detective in two full-cast radio dramatisations of Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently novels

Dirk Gently has an unshakeable faith in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats – until he becomes embroiled in two surreal, supernatural cases that will test his belief to the limits ...

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (CD 1–3)
When an old friend starts behaving strangely, Dirk is drawn into a murder investigation involving quantum physics, an Electric Monk and a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.
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First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 3 October–7 November 2007
Number of episodes: Six

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (CD 4–6)
Fallen on hard times, the psychic sleuth is reading palms in a tent, dressed as an old gypsy woman. But the discovery of a headless body in a sealed room plunges Dirk into a mystery involving a goblin, a giant eagle and several Norse gods…
An Above the Title Production

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 2 October–6 November 2008
Number of episodes: Six

Directed for BBC Radio 4 by Dirk Maggs (chosen by Douglas Adams to conclude the award-winning The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy), these fantastically entertaining comedy sci-fi dramas star Harry Enfield as Dirk Gently, with Olivia Colman, Billy Boyd, Andrew Sachs, John Fortune, Peter Davison, Jan Ravens, Susan Sheridan, Jim Carter and many more.

Featuring over 90 minutes of additional unbroadcast material!

An Above The Title Production
Adapted by Dirk Maggs and John Langdon
Produced by Jo Wheeler and Dirk Maggs
Directed by Dirk Maggs