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Dirk Maggs, a freelance writer and director working across all media, is principally known for his work in radio, where he evolved radio drama into "Audio Movies," a near-visual approach combining scripts, layered sound effects, cinematic music and cutting edge technology. He pioneered the use of Dolby Surround in BBC Radio. He was among the first nominees for the Directors Guild of Great Britain Outstanding Achievement in Radio Award, and in 2005 he was invited to become one of the first Honorary Fellows of the University of Winchester for his work in the dramatic arts. (The university, when King Alfred's College, was where Maggs trained as a teacher in the late 1970s.) From 2003 to 2005, Maggs produced new episodes of Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', adapted from the novels based on the original radio series that Adams wrote. The books that Maggs adapted were written after the radio series ended its original run. Maggs directed many leading actors in often award-winning productions, including Tom Hollander, Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, Rowan Atkinson, Leslie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Pryce, Hugh Laurie, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Patricia Hodge, Alison Steadman, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. He co-founded Perfectly Normal Productions Ltd (PNP) with Paul Weir and Richard Adams to create compelling high quality popular audio drama in serialized form for delivery to personal digital players and cell phones. == Biography == Adapted from the h2g2 website entry for Dirk: One of the plans for the original ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' radio series was that it would sound like a rock album. It was the intention that it would feature lots of music and various sound-processing techniques during the course of telling the story. All this was decided before Douglas Adams actually got around to putting pen to paper and writing the thing. Dirk Maggs has a similar vision. Though he has produced many radio shows, he specialises in the creation of Audio Movies. He aims to create radio with the sense of impact and atmosphere available on the big screen. These visions are clearly compatible. They must be, as Dirk was Douglas's preferred choice for the job of adapting, producing and directing the last three series concluding ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. The programmes (produced with Above the Title Productions for BBC Radio 4) feature much of the original cast from the first two radio series. The first of these new series, adapted from the novel ''Life, the Universe and Everything'', was ''The Tertiary Phase'', broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, and the latter was a double series adaptation of the final two novels, ''So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'' and ''Mostly Harmless'', ''The Quandary Phase'' and ''The Quintessential Phase'', broadcast back-to-back in 2005. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dirk Maggs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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