Hitchhikers Guide - Tertiary Phase question

[thwartme]

So, isn't Douglas Adams dead?

I've just been listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Tertiary Phase episodes. This is the new BBC radio series, picking up where the old one left off all those years ago.

So far, I like it.

But one thing confuses me. In the credits, it says that Douglas Adams plays the role of Agrajag. He's even in the cast list. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/cast.shtml)

So what's the scoop? How did he record his role from beyond the grave?

thwartme

[Evil Death]

How did he record his role from beyond the grave?

He didn't. He recorded it ten or fifteen years ago, for the talking book of Life, The Universe and Everything.

[thwartme]

Ah! This, of course, is a perfectly decent answer. I thank you for it.

For a while there, I had visions of some sort of Andy Kaufman thing happening...

Thanks,
thwartme