Hey you, sass that hoopy friedo? There’s a frood who really knows H2G2 lore!
The radio drama was the version I was first exposed to. Not on BBC Radio 4 but on my local NPR station around 1982.
yeah that thought should more correctly be stated:
how many written works get made into radio plays, books, tv series and movies and all those get plenty of praise and do well.
the radio play was my first exposure.