Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

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Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.

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English

Runtime

128 mins

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Release Date

28 May 2001

Country

United States of America

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Douglas Adams

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