Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 1/12 (Holistická detektivní agentura Dirka Gentlyho, 2008?)

Přidal: Přemek |

Červen 10, 2009

Douglas Adams. Hudba Philip Pope. Výkonný producent Sioned Wiliam. Režie Jo Wheeler a Dirk Maggs.

Osoby a obsazení: Richard MacDuff (Billy Boyd), sestra Sally Millsová (Morwenna Banks), detektiv seržant Gilks (Jim Carter), Janice Pearceová (Olivia Colman), Simon Draycott (Peter Davison), Thor (Rupert Degas), Dirk Gently (Harry Enfield), dr. Standish (John Fortune), konstábl Luke (Wayne Forester), Geoff Anstey (Jon Glover), Elena (Sally Grace), tulák (Philip Jackson), Kate Schechterová (Laurel Lefkow), Viking hlasatel (Gary Martin), Odin (Stephen Moore), Neil Sharp (Philip Pope), Cynthia Draycottová (Jan Ravens), Toe Rag (Michael Roberts), Tsuliwaensis (Susan Sheridan), Nobby (Michael Fenton Stevens), Sarah Montagueová (Sarah Montague), hlasatel (John Marsh).

Obrázek
Nastudoval BBC Radio 4 v roce 2008 (?) – dvě série po 6 dílech. Vydal BBC v roce 2008 (?) (3 CD, disk 1 – 1:11:59; disk 2 – 1:15:28; disk 3 – 1:10:03).

O seriálu více zde.
Pozn.: Dirk bills himself as a „holistic detective“ who makes use of „the fundamental interconnectedness of all things“ to solve the whole crime, and find the whole person. This involves running up large expense accounts and then claiming that every item (such as needing to go to a tropical beach in the Bahamas for three weeks) was, due to the „fundamental interconnectedness of all things“, actually a vital part of the investigation. Challenged on this point in the first novel, he claims that he cannot in fairness be considered to have ripped anybody off, because none of his clients have paid him yet. He maintains an office at 33a Peckender St. N1 London, with telephone number 01-354 9112 (407-2882 in the advertising campaign for the book).

Once a student at St. Cedd’s College, Cambridge, he left in disgrace when on one occasion, attempted to acquire money by selling exam papers for the upcoming tests. His fellow students were convinced that he had produced the papers under hypnosis — in reality, he had simply studied previous papers and determined potential patterns in the questions. However when his papers turned out to be exactly the same as the real papers, to the very comma, he was arrested and sent to prison. This is but one example of Gently’s odd facility for accurate assumptions: every wild guess and flippant answer he makes turns out to be absolutely true.

From AudioFile
Douglas Adams is the inspired maniac who created the BBC’s cult classic „The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“ and who wrote many of the wittiest episodes of „Dr. Who.“ In this hilarious novel, he continues the same combination of satire, pure silliness, paradox and ersatz New Age cosmology. As a reader, he benefits from a pleasant, expressive voice and an authentic appreciation of the author’s (i.e., his own) overtones. Most listeners will forgive his lack of comic timing, which derails some of his jokes, for the ones that survive will delight the silly savants for whom he writes.

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently’s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.