'It's all absolutely devastatingly true - except the bits that are lies.'<br/><br/>This is the story of an ape-descended human called Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck, in 1971, had an idea.<br/><br/>It is also the sotry of a book called, at a very high level of improbability, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; of the radio series that started it all; the five book trilogy it comprises, and the computer game, towl and television series that it, in its turn, has spawned.