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INTERVIEW:Eoin Colfer, who has written the sixth book in the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ series, tells Anna Careyabout the perils of following in Douglas Adams’s footsteps (and explains why he beheaded Zaphod Beeblebrox)

‘MONTY PYTHON, Fawlty Towers, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy– they’re like the holy grails of English popular culture,” says Eoin Colfer. “You just do not mess with them.”