Geoffrey McGivern, The Feinstein Ensemble

The great writer and humanist Douglas Adams spoke often of his obsession with Bach. Indeed in his novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency he explains the actual source of Bach’s masterpieces and how only time travel rescued them from oblivion.

Geoffrey McGivern, the voice of Ford Prefect in the legendary radio series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, reads from Douglas Adams’ books and introduces performances of some of Adams’s favourite pieces.

‘I’m convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy.’ Douglas Adams