Last Chance to See: The original BBC Radio series: In search of the world's most endangered species

Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travel the world in pursuit of species on the brink of extinction

In 1985, The Observer magazine sent Douglas Adams to Madagascar to look for the exotic and potentially extinct aye-aye lemur. There he met zoologist Mark Carwardine, and together they made a radio pilot about their travels, In Search of the Aye-Aye. This led to a hugely popular radio series, Last Chance to See, later adapted as a bestselling book. Douglas Adams died in 2001, but his friend Ste...