Some days it's hard to bear the fact that Douglas Adams is gone.

Clive Anderson always cracks me up. His snide humor is right up my alley.

He's my inspiration as a writer. We lost him far too soon. He died just as the technology he's envisioned was starting to become reality...

The fact Hitchhiker's is still read, the TV series is still shown, the radio series is still listened to really shows just how good it was.

I miss Douglas. OH yes I do. Seen the book great read. Seen the 2005 anniversary celebration w Steven Fry. Great stuff. A terrible silence without him. Gone far far too soon.

The material from this interview would add a great chapter to a book. Douglas was such a witty man.

Last Chance To See is one of my favourite books of all time. I was lucky enough to hear Douglas's talk "Parrots, the Universe and Everything" back in 1996 and it was just far too much fun! So missed.

I remember watching this show back in the day and never realised quite what a twonk Clive Anderson really was at the time - combative even without reason. The great thing here is that Douglas Adams was such a good sport and keen intellect himself that he didn't feel the need to rise to any of the bait that would've ensnared and enraged so many others - he just lets the snide wash over him as good humour and then turns it into actual good humour. Utter, utter legend.

Happy 70th today Douglas!

I didn't 'tune it' to the great mans work-(to my shame) and I'm impressed with his demeanor here. He is a rare guest in that he joined in and competed with Clive's witty banter, instead of the usual sulky ones who get offended. Douglas was a really great MAN.

Every clip I see of this interviewer I always come away thinking: "Prick".

That book is awesome. Get the audio book, Douglas reads it himself.

I miss him so, I’d love to know his take on this modern hell!

Thanks for posting. Its understandable how many of us old gits choose to forget Clive, given how unlikable he was. Kudos goes to Douglas Adams for doggedly trying to enthuse us in a project he clearly believed in.

Clever funny guy. Gone too soon.

I remember those days - the very antithesis of long-form content.

Clive crapping himself as Douglas expounded and the cue for the break went whooshing by...

Holy sheet, I forgot Clive Anderson existed. Saw his face in the thumbnail on my homepage and now my hair is flying back due to all the memories wooshing past my head

How can I alert everyone to the fact that this video has 42 comments without myself making the 43rd? This is the possessing-tea-and-no-tea-simultaneously conundrum from the Infocom game all over again …

All of the movie making world lost some of the best content they could ever have hoped for when Douglas Adams was kinda "glossed over" in stupid wastes of time like this interview, where he ought to have featured as a genius megastar........ but merely bumped in as a 5 minute nothing........... it's going to be hilarious when someone (terry gilliam) makes a proper version of either Dirk Gentley, or Hitch Hiker's Guide......

Jeebus I forgot about Clive!

It’s interesting how an urbane and self deprecating Douglas Adams is so charming compared to the smug and sneering Clive Anderson

Sorry darling, I'm not in the mood. Why? I know you've been bellowing out here for 8 months and all, and I'm the last surviving female, but you see, the Podocarp tree is not in fruit. -- The cackapo female I could listen to Douglas Adams talk about any animal for hours 😂

2:27 You can really tell when someone lacks a well-developed sense of humour by how they react to parts of this book.

Too bad this had to be sort show. The interviewer is just as witty as the interviewer. I loved the bit about holding up the book.

Douglas died 4 days before 9/11 - so ironically the start of the end of the human race happened within a week of his death