DBarker.SiteSA@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (08/30/85)
From: Deryk Barker <DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>
2 points:
1) there certainly never was a 13th episode of the radio series made.
The 12th episode, ending with Arthur stealing Zaphods spaceship (is this
right?) and Peter Jones asking "Will there ever be another series of
that remarkable programme", first broadcast in the UK in January 1979
was definitely it.
2) dunno about episode six (and I will check this tonight) but the rest
of the background music - certainly in the first radio serial - was not
Jean Michel Jarre but was Terry Riley. Excerpts from "A Rainbow in
Curved Air" and "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" were used
extensively behind Peter Jones as the book informing. Frankly, given
the extremely derivative nature of JMJ's music, I wouldn't be at all
surprised to find that the music in episode 6 was Riley also. For the
tv series and records this was ditched (presumably because of royalties)
and special background music was composed by Tim Souster; who also did
an electronic arrangement of Bernie Leadon's "Journey of the Sorceror" -
also presumably to cut down on royalty payments.
deryk.