John Lloyd, creator and founding producer
In 1978, when Douglas Adams asked me to help him finish The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show, I was halfway through writing my own science-fiction novel. Fifteen years later, aged 42, I woke up one Christmas Eve and completely lost the plot. I’d won two lifetime awards, got married and had my first kid – and had no idea what to do with the rest of my life. I was directing ads, travelling the world, and rushing home in the evenings to read philosophy. Wherever I went – Moscow, Arizona, the Australian outback – I read. And the more I read, the more I thought: “This is ridiculous. Everything I was taught at school doesn’t make sense.”
