Douglas Adams died (11-5-2001)

HHGTTG - great radio (the babelfish!)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Last Chance to See
and (Crystal mentions, I'd forgotten about)
The Meaning of Liff (w John Lloyd):
"The world is littered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places. Our job, as we see it, is to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society."