Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth

Arvind Ethan David is a writer and producer, whose career started when he adapted the Douglas Adams novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency as his high school play, and the great author came to see it and took David under his wing.

He has written seven graphic novels, most recently an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business. He is currently writing his mystery novel The Dread & The Envy which will be released in 2026. He has also written multiple hit Audible Originals including the sci-fi anthology series Earworms and The Crimes of Dorian Gray.

David is a lead producer of the Grammy and Tony-winning musical Jagged Little Pill. The Boy With Wings, David’s children’s musical based on the best-selling books by Sir Lenny Henry, is at the Polka Theatre in London. He is co-writing and producing a live adaptation of the Douglas Adams masterwork The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which opens in London in November.

Sanjeev Bhaskar is an actor, writer and presenter. He first came to notice in the ground breaking television comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me which he co-created and the award winning comedy The Kumars at Number 42, (Both BBC) which he created, wrote and acted in and for which he was BAFTA nominated. He was the lead character in three series of The Indian Doctor (BBC) and six series of the ongoing crime drama Unforgotten (ITV).
His book India with Sanjeev Bhaskar , based on his BBC documentary series of the same name, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Movie credits include Notting Hill, Paddington 2 and Yesterday. On stage he has appeared in the West End in Art, as King Arthur in the Monty Python based musical Spamalot, and Dinner with Sadaam.
His personal claims to fame are having a #1in the pop charts with Spirit in the Sky with Gareth Gates in 2003 and adding the word ‘chuddies’ to the OED.