Wish You Were Here (21 page)

Mark Wing-Davey wearing his extra head with panache as Zaphod Beeblebrox.

BBC

David Dixon and Simon Jones as Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent.

BBC

Douglas on the set of the TV series of
Hitchhiker’s,
which was first broadcast in January 1981.

BBC

Douglas’s first Golden Pan, presented in January 1984 for one million copies sold of
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
.

Pan Books

Jane Belson in the early eighties when she first met Douglas.

Mary Allen

Douglas, Jane and Polly.

Douglas and Polly.

Jane Belson

Jane Thrift, aka Little Jane, and James Thrift at an
Unplugged
party.

The “Guitar Henge” at the top of the house in Duncan Terrace. Douglas had twenty-four left-handed guitars.

Jane Belson

Douglas and Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd practicing at Earl’s Court for Douglas’s forty-second birthday appearance.

The author, Catherine Webb at age eight, Polly Adams at a few weeks old and Douglas in Duncan Terrace in June 1994.

Jane Belson

Douglas and Jane in party mode in November 1996.

Douglas, ecstatic, at an
Unplugged
party, with Margot Buchanan and Robbie McIntosh in the background.