I was absolutely honoured to meet Peter about 35 years ago. I was getting the book of the scripts signed by as many of the original cast as possible, and while other cast members had me send the book to sign, Peter simply gave me his address in London and invited me to visit. We chatted for ages and he was absolutely wonderful.
It's the British. They do that. A fine London gentleman can give you a firm dressing down with insults of ire, and you would thank him very well for it.
@@jimheimerl1637 Some Londoners will also enquire if you are a 'Banker' (I believe that's the term), if you have a problem pertaining to sexual intercourse, and whether you 'want some'... A response at this point to the effect that you are not, in fact, homosexual in orientation (or indeed, are) may be ill advised. Generally in such cases one is actually being asked whether it is 'trouble' that they seek, and reassurances to the enquirer that this is _not_ actually the case, although in almost all cases the wisest course, will often be treated as polite reticence. As with, say, offers of cups of tea, traditional British hospitality demands that such demurrals be waved away, and indeed there is a certain class of Londoner who would feel deeply ashamed were it said of him that he failed to supply a visitor with 'trouble' in the most fulsome and enthusiastic manner possible...
Peter Jones, very simple. Top Bloke. A sublime talent over many years and many formats. Radio, Television, Stage and Films. Sadly missed. Thank you for the pleasure you gave
Peter Jones possessed a unique, instantly recognisable voice. A very clever comic actor, with great timing and brilliant, expressive face. What a sad day it was to learn of his death. As I get older, I am reminded often that we lived in a time of true celebrity, true talent and peerless originality. The world of entertainment these days seems to consist of five minute wannabes, many of whose fame stems from some shallow, cheaply produced, reality bilge. We were spoiled rotten in the worlds of film, theatre, music and, although there are still 'greats' who entertain us, they are far fewer and far further between.
ah come on. "true celebrity" This nostalgic bogus. Times change and you change with them or you stay where you were once upon a time. Today you have far more art produced and therefore far more things we both argueably would or will call crap and which hinder us to see the jewels you wish to see.
Modern technology made making media too easy thus everybody and their dog does it. watered down to pap. ditto where every TV show and movie has amazing walls of sound that makes real music redundant in the real world, but thats a comment and view on the mostly dead music industry.
It the laugh he used it always tickled me he was one of a group of actors of his time that can never be replaced luckily school for scoundrels has a few of them
I've performed the radio series several times on stage, as The Book, and I think Peter Jones' voice is the one I've studied the most. I love love love his performances.
It's very strange seeing Peter, all my knowledge of him is from listening to Just A Minute and Hitchhiker's Guide. Such a great and funny man, and greatly missed, along with Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo.
We will never see his like again, sadly. He was always a superb addition to the Just a Minute team too. The man was a genius at making us laugh while sounding utterly sincere about being serious.
Uploaded 2016. only 124 comments in the eight years since. But it seems to have been pushed to the fore - thankfully - and has been suggested to me. (And many others in the last eight weeks). Always a big fan of his narration, but until seeing this, I didn't realise how effortlessly he makes good comedy. It starts off seemingly dry, then the banging of the headphones sets the tone. Very glad to have seen this. Thanks for uploading. 👍👍👍
That's amazing for the Beeb to put something like that in the evening schedule, but what a wonderful find, thanks for the UL. Apart from his smashing voice, what great comedy timing Jones has, really super sharp - a Ledge ;-)
"Can we get someone who sounds like Peter Jones ..." This takes me back to Dec 1978 when I turned on Radio 4 by chance and was instantly hooked. Still have the cassette's I recorded off air, and the "beautiful continuity announcements" improvised by the station staff.
The best British ironic narrator voice and voice actor that has ever been and there ever will be, Stephen Fry took a leaf out of this guys performance I bet. I have always thought that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV series has never been surpassed, anyone ever think otherwise please inform me and I will check out any new (or old) attempt to do so.
I could I suppose tell you of other series that surpass this, but that would bring you pleasure and joy. Pah! What use of such emotions whilst the diodes on my left hand side are still hurting. Oh! A deep bleak desolate hole to wallow in. I must be off. Love Marvin.
Top actor and one of the best voices in the business. His performance as Kevin Pork as the new Prime Minister with a surprising secret in LWT's "Whoops Apocalypse" was hilarious.
Peter Jones narrated the instructions on "how to fly" in my dreams last night. Well, technically it was this morning as far as I can tell and not actually last night when I was, in fact, awake. Here they are, as told from inside of my mind of my dream self but in Peter Jones' voice, pulled out of the dream state by my very effective 32K RAM Memory chip implantation (circa 1982) and presented to you, ,here in full 7-bit ASCII, as transcribed by a jackal: In order to fly, you must have continuous intent to be flying. You can do other things - many things - while you fly, but you have to _continuously intend_ to be flying at that moment. Remember that when you fly, you have to know that gravity is there and parts of your body will succumb to it You'll only reach heights with certain flying methods but most of the time, most of your body will be hanging part of the way down as it might when you're swimming in very deep water but tired. It's best to not fly too high because if you start to second-guess the experience as you're having it, asking "How?" or "Why" or have a moment of incredulous as in, "As if I could cfly lol", you'll begin to fall until you can get your continuous intent to be flying at that moment back. -Instructions to self before flying, standard protocols, revisited in a dream by Kenneth Udut on Feb 20, 2017, just prior to flying.
I first saw Peter Jones on TV in the comedy show The Rag Trade, back in the days of live TV well before he was on the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide. The Rag Trade was set in a clothing firm Fenner's Fashions, makers of women's fashion garments. With Peter Jones as Mr. Fenner, that was on the BBC. The Rag Trade was later seen on ITV television, these are available on DVD. I think a few of the BBC show episodes are also on DVD.
Peter Jones, the only and one voice who inspired Kevan Brighting, the Narrator from Stanley Parable. Genius voices that will remain forever in our hearts
I seem to remember Peter Jones playing a factory manager in a very early BBC sit com called 'The Rag Trade'. Also has an excellent cameo part in The Buldog Breed with Norman Wisdom.
For years I always mentally credited that to the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. Why they never credited The Eagles or Bernie Leadon for it was always a bit of a mystery to me. Perhaps they assumed it was sufficiently well known that to specifically credit would be superfluous?
@@richiehoyt8487 Radio credits on-air must be brief. Pre-web there wasn't anywhere else to publicly list credits. In those days you could post a letter to the BBC requesting a program transcript or other information and get a reply.
If there was an announcement with instructions and advice regarding the public non human, extraterrestrial alien invasion of the UK in the 1980s and 1990s it should have had the voice of Peter Jones.
@@joefish6091 Some very interesting commentary recently - the 'liberal' press using identity politics - part (vacuous) virtue signalling, part Machiavellian endeavour to drive political illiterati still farther Right. It isn't difficult to weigh the Beeb's true ethics - look for the coverage on Assange! Or any other subject matter that really matters.
It's Kevin Jon Davies who made the "Making of Hitchhiker's Guide" documentary in 1993, and also helped with all the animations of the book entries in the 1980s TV show.
No, it wasn't taped over, one of the rare occasions at that time that they came to their senses and kept it intact. Although the rare original recordings of episode 3, where on exiting the Heart Of Gold on Magrathea, Marvin hummed like Pink Floyd, sang the Beatles' Rock 'n' Roll Music and then went into Thus Spake Zarathustra, were excised from the tapes because the Beeb were too f***in' tight to stump up the cash for the rights to those pieces - those tapes still exist in the BBC archive (and as the archivist for the appreciation society, I still have the off air recordings from the original broadcast!) The original versions are still broadcast on the BBC World Service whenever they run repeats of the series, but the edited versions still are the only ones to be aired on any other station (Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, local stations, etc), as well as the numerous reissues of the series on CD. Iniquitous!
Jones really is the iconic narrator for Hitchikers. He really knows where his towel is.
Such a hoopy frood
Also his vowels and consonants.
Peter Jones' voice takes me right back to 1979, a rather pleasant experience.
Peter jones was always my favourite on Just A Minute, his contributions low key and laconic, witty and good natured, a beautiful voice too.
And balanced with Kenneth Williams histrionics made it wonderful listening.
I was absolutely honoured to meet Peter about 35 years ago. I was getting the book of the scripts signed by as many of the original cast as possible, and while other cast members had me send the book to sign, Peter simply gave me his address in London and invited me to visit. We chatted for ages and he was absolutely wonderful.
I love how expertly he can say the most ridiculous thing imaginable, and do so with the utmost sincerity and authority.
It's the British. They do that. A fine London gentleman can give you a firm dressing down with insults of ire, and you would thank him very well for it.
@@jimheimerl1637 Some Londoners will also enquire if you are a 'Banker' (I believe that's the term), if you have a problem pertaining to sexual intercourse, and whether you 'want some'... A response at this point to the effect that you are not, in fact, homosexual in orientation (or indeed, are) may be ill advised. Generally in such cases one is actually being asked whether it is 'trouble' that they seek, and reassurances to the enquirer that this is _not_ actually the case, although in almost all cases the wisest course, will often be treated as polite reticence. As with, say, offers of cups of tea, traditional British hospitality demands that such demurrals be waved away, and indeed there is a certain class of Londoner who would feel deeply ashamed were it said of him that he failed to supply a visitor with 'trouble' in the most fulsome and enthusiastic manner possible...
@@richiehoyt8487 Your Majesty, forgive my base statement and my petty ignorance.
As mellifluous as Stephen Fry's voice is, Peter Jones will always be *The* Voice of the Book.
Peter Jones, very simple. Top Bloke. A sublime talent over many years and many formats. Radio, Television, Stage and Films. Sadly missed. Thank you for the pleasure you gave
Peter Jones possessed a unique, instantly recognisable voice. A very clever comic actor, with great timing and brilliant, expressive face. What a sad day it was to learn of his death. As I get older, I am reminded often that we lived in a time of true celebrity, true talent and peerless originality. The world of entertainment these days seems to consist of five minute wannabes, many of whose fame stems from some shallow, cheaply produced, reality bilge. We were spoiled rotten in the worlds of film, theatre, music and, although there are still 'greats' who entertain us, they are far fewer and far further between.
ah come on. "true celebrity" This nostalgic bogus. Times change and you change with them or you stay where you were once upon a time. Today you have far more art produced and therefore far more things we both argueably would or will call crap and which hinder us to see the jewels you wish to see.
@@oliverweidemann1553 if only that were true.
Modern technology made making media too easy thus everybody and their dog does it. watered down to pap.
ditto where every TV show and movie has amazing walls of sound that makes real music redundant in the real world, but thats a comment and view on the mostly dead music industry.
I had a fleeting memory of Ronnie Corbett's voice in my head there. Similar?
It the laugh he used it always tickled me he was one of a group of actors of his time that can never be replaced luckily school for scoundrels has a few of them
Broadcasting from the set of an episode of The Goodies...!
Thank you Peter. RIP, with Douglas Adams. 😢 🥴👍🆙 🌎💥💢✨ 🛸↗️ So long.
Brilliant Peter Jones very funny such a dry sense of humour, love the Just a Minute episodes he was in & the rag trade. Superb ❤️
The only voice of the Book.
A truly iconic voice. Many, many hours of joy.
"!SHARE AND ENJOY!"
I really like the version read by Douglas Adams himself
That's just superb. Peter Jones was a class act.
I've performed the radio series several times on stage, as The Book, and I think Peter Jones' voice is the one I've studied the most. I love love love his performances.
It's very strange seeing Peter, all my knowledge of him is from listening to Just A Minute and Hitchhiker's Guide. Such a great and funny man, and greatly missed, along with Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo.
Loved "Just A Minute " on the BBC World Service in the early 1970's
He's even funnier, if that's possible. His gestures and facial expressions are just as brilliantly timed as his voice.
i'm old enough to remember hin the The Rag Trade.
THE BEST voice for any book or omnibus or guide!
We will never see his like again, sadly. He was always a superb addition to the Just a Minute team too. The man was a genius at making us laugh while sounding utterly sincere about being serious.
I can listen to Peter Jones babbling all day
On Just A Minutes he was the pithiest & wittiest of guests
A very random suggestion, but a lovely reminder of a beautiful voice and programme
Perfect voice and timing for the job and will always listen to his output when I find it. Very funny performer.
Uploaded 2016. only 124 comments in the eight years since. But it seems to have been pushed to the fore - thankfully - and has been suggested to me. (And many others in the last eight weeks).
Always a big fan of his narration, but until seeing this, I didn't realise how effortlessly he makes good comedy. It starts off seemingly dry, then the banging of the headphones sets the tone.
Very glad to have seen this. Thanks for uploading. 👍👍👍
He was a massive part of what made the radio series so good.
Dear KnowlesKnows
Thanks so much for posting.
Unsigned copies of the book are more valuable.. I like that. 😆
This has actually been true of some books by John Green.
And I sit here listening with one bose ear bud in.
He had such a great voice!
Go Peter!! Funny guy. Perfect voiceover artist and actor.
That's amazing for the Beeb to put something like that in the evening schedule, but what a wonderful find, thanks for the UL. Apart from his smashing voice, what great comedy timing Jones has, really super sharp - a Ledge ;-)
This video was made for screening at the NFT Screen 2, to record a laughter track. Peter Jones was a master of timing, yes!
@KevinJonDavies great to know the context behind it...
"Can we get someone who sounds like Peter Jones ..."
This takes me back to Dec 1978 when I turned on Radio 4 by chance and was instantly hooked. Still have the cassette's I recorded off air, and the "beautiful continuity announcements" improvised by the station staff.
The best British ironic narrator voice and voice actor that has ever been and there ever will be, Stephen Fry took a leaf out of this guys performance I bet. I have always thought that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV series has never been surpassed, anyone ever think otherwise please inform me and I will check out any new (or old) attempt to do so.
Check out the radio series, if you haven't already. To my taste, it's better than the TV series, but reasonable people can disagree about this.
The scenery is better, that's why
I could I suppose tell you of other series that surpass this, but that would bring you pleasure and joy. Pah! What use of such emotions whilst the diodes on my left hand side are still hurting. Oh! A deep bleak desolate hole to wallow in. I must be off.
Love Marvin.
Brilliant! What a talent. And he went a little Ronnie Corbett at the end there with that gag, I thought :)
Top actor and one of the best voices in the business. His performance as Kevin Pork as the new Prime Minister with a surprising secret in LWT's "Whoops Apocalypse" was hilarious.
Awesome! I've never seen this before!
Peter Jones narrated the instructions on "how to fly" in my dreams last night. Well, technically it was this morning as far as I can tell and not actually last night when I was, in fact, awake. Here they are, as told from inside of my mind of my dream self but in Peter Jones' voice, pulled out of the dream state by my very effective 32K RAM Memory chip implantation (circa 1982) and presented to you, ,here in full 7-bit ASCII, as transcribed by a jackal:
In order to fly, you must have continuous intent to be flying. You can do other things - many things - while you fly, but you have to _continuously intend_ to be flying at that moment.
Remember that when you fly, you have to know that gravity is there and
parts of your body will succumb to it You'll only reach heights with
certain flying methods but most of the time, most of your body will be
hanging part of the way down as it might when you're swimming in very
deep water but tired.
It's best to not fly too high because if you start to second-guess the experience as you're having it, asking "How?" or "Why" or have a moment of incredulous as in, "As if I could cfly lol", you'll begin to fall until you can get your continuous intent
to be flying at that moment back.
-Instructions to self before flying, standard protocols, revisited in a dream by Kenneth Udut on Feb 20, 2017, just prior to flying.
KENNETH UDUT Directed by Terry Gilliam?
did you miss the ground?
Floating in the sky the way bricks don't.
I first saw Peter Jones on TV in the comedy show The Rag Trade, back in the days of live TV well before he was on the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide. The Rag Trade was set in a clothing firm Fenner's Fashions, makers of women's fashion garments. With Peter Jones as Mr. Fenner, that was on the BBC. The Rag Trade was later seen on ITV television, these are available on DVD. I think a few of the BBC show episodes are also on DVD.
I love Peter Jones in everything he did. I'm so glad he found fame with so many as the narrator of THGTTG
Perfect books, perfect voice 👏👏 go with it, Resistance is unless 🎉
a legend in his own lunchtime !
That's just an illusion
A marvelous comic actor. i'm old enough to remember him the The Rag Trade many years ago.
Wonderful actor and voice actor, and great in Spike Milligan's Q
The legend that is Peter Jones!
Thank you for posting this. I had never put a face to the voice of The Book but do recognise him now. Naturally funny.
Peter Jones, the only and one voice who inspired Kevan Brighting, the Narrator from Stanley Parable. Genius voices that will remain forever in our hearts
I still have my unsigned copy of that paperback.
Best narrative ever
Peter Jones is brilliant.
I seem to remember Peter Jones playing a factory manager in a very early BBC sit com called 'The Rag Trade'. Also has an excellent cameo part in The Buldog Breed with Norman Wisdom.
Also checkout Whoops Apocalypse TV series, Peter Jones plays the British PM who thinks hes Superman..
I thought that was Peter salis....(Wallace/grommet)
He also played a brilliant, shady car salesman alongside the great Dennis Price in School For Scoundrels with the true legend that was Terry-Thomas.
I can do better than "seem to remember".
I DEFINITELY remember him in The Rag Trade.
@@joefish6091 And is completely believable. The first time he walked the dog I fell off my chair laughing, literally.
Space is big. Really big! 😎👍❤️
5:30 Arthur Dent is played by Simon Jones, Ford Prefect by David Dixon, Mr. Prosser by Joe Melia, Vogon Captain by Martin Benson.
And Simon Jones is his son.
Have the eagles tune “journey of the sorcerer” playing in the background....makes it much better!
Just imagining it brings a warm glow to my heart!
For years I always mentally credited that to the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. Why they never credited The Eagles or Bernie Leadon for it was always a bit of a mystery to me. Perhaps they assumed it was sufficiently well known that to specifically credit would be superfluous?
@@richiehoyt8487 Radio credits on-air must be brief. Pre-web there wasn't anywhere else to publicly list credits. In those days you could post a letter to the BBC requesting a program transcript or other information and get a reply.
I was lying in the bath when I heard this by chance---I bacame a total fan. So intellectually amusing!
Fascinating.
Perfection. Excuse, me, prefection.
Spared no expense I see.. *nods in approval*
the electrical box and basement concrete wall is deliberate, a joke 'low budget' thing.
"Well they did say no expense would be spared, and the haven't, they've cut all of my expenses" 😂
that was brilliant.
Great voice.
Love ya peter...
This is soo cool
Can you believe they got this intro on the very first take?
Just watching a documentary that Tom Hollander is narrating and if they ever remake H2G2 then he has to be the voice of the book.
Addams got so sick of Disney in the end I think he was sorry he signed up to make the movie.
"I'll offer you the full amount, 50 thousand pounds... but I'd want 25% of the business"
Is David Mitchell Peter Jones' secret love child?
Oh that's lovely :)
This was before he started wearing contact lenses, entered the den and became a dragon.
that voice !
It's an available out of work actor who has a suitably Peter Jonesey voice...
And his son played Arthur Dent.
Shades of the little Ronnie
Ronnie Corbett?
God bless him.
If there was an announcement with instructions and advice regarding the public non human, extraterrestrial alien invasion of the UK in the 1980s and 1990s it should have had the voice of Peter Jones.
Kevin Davies alert @1:30
Back in the days before the Beeb turned into ....
When they were independent of government and political appointees
a Politically Correct machine, the BBC was amongst the first big org to transform.
@@joefish6091 Some very interesting commentary recently - the 'liberal' press using identity politics - part (vacuous) virtue signalling, part Machiavellian endeavour to drive political illiterati still farther Right. It isn't difficult to weigh the Beeb's true ethics - look for the coverage on Assange! Or any other subject matter that really matters.
... a bunch of mindless jerks, who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
I hope (Mrs) Olivia Firth of Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex recanted on her view that HGtG should remain only as a radio show.
The radio version is still the best.
Luxurious surroundings 😂
A proto content creator on a budget.
nice
❤
That kid looks like a young Matthew Waterhouse.
It's Kevin Jon Davies who made the "Making of Hitchhiker's Guide" documentary in 1993, and also helped with all the animations of the book entries in the 1980s TV show.
It's half of the winsome Welshmen!
Why couldn't we have this, instead of female Siri?
Where's the original radio series or did the BBC tape over this as well?
ygg drasil It is available on CD, or well it was when I bought it. The Radio Scripts were published too, well worth getting.
No, it wasn't taped over, one of the rare occasions at that time that they came to their senses and kept it intact. Although the rare original recordings of episode 3, where on exiting the Heart Of Gold on Magrathea, Marvin hummed like Pink Floyd, sang the Beatles' Rock 'n' Roll Music and then went into Thus Spake Zarathustra, were excised from the tapes because the Beeb were too f***in' tight to stump up the cash for the rights to those pieces - those tapes still exist in the BBC archive (and as the archivist for the appreciation society, I still have the off air recordings from the original broadcast!) The original versions are still broadcast on the BBC World Service whenever they run repeats of the series, but the edited versions still are the only ones to be aired on any other station (Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, local stations, etc), as well as the numerous reissues of the series on CD. Iniquitous!
I have all the episodes on CD
@@____uncompetative I also have the scripts.
@@zapkvr Please upload!
hey guys what if an amateur had their way
To low, but tanks.👍🌞