Harry Enfield is to star as Douglas Adams' comic detective Dirk Gently in a drama on Radio 4.
Enfield will play the lead role in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which will co-star Andrew Sachs, Peep Show star Olivia Colman, Jim Carter and Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The six-part drama is being made by independent producer Above the Title, the same award-winning team that made the conclusion to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for Radio 4.
Dirk Gently will begin in October and will have its own website featuring trailers, production diaries and behind-the-scenes video from the show.
The Dirk Gently novels reflect Adams' "unique and funny take on matters as wide-ranging as consciousness, conservation, man's place in the cosmos and crime", said Radio 4, announcing the new series.
"The first series features everything from quantum physics to missing cats, via Coleridge, Bach and an electric monk," Radio 4 added.
"Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things but his Holistic Detective Agency's only success seems to be tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely, and he is drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction."
The Dirk Gently production team is led by executive producer Helen Chattwell and the producers are Jo Wheeler and Dirk Maggs.
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