Peter Jones plays the book in both series of the BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy drama which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. Join Arthur, Ford, Trillian, Zaphod and Marvin the Paranoid Android in twelve episodes of adventuring.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...