Paranoid Android Paranoid Android "Paranoid Android" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album "OK Computer" (1997) on 26 May 1997. The darkly humorous lyrics were written primarily by singer Thom Yorke following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. The song is almost six minutes long and contains four distinct sections. "Paranoid Android" takes its name from Marvin the Paranoid Android of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Released as the lead single from "OK Computer", "Paranoid Android" charted at number three on the UK
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) discussed the new series, directed and co-produced the radio adaptation as well as adaptations of the remaining "Hitchhiker's Guide" novels "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless". These became the third, fourth and fifth radio series, transmitted in 2004 and 2005. A sixth series, adapting Eoin Colfer's sixth part in the "trilogy", "And Another Thing..." was broadcast in March 2018. Douglas Adams had contributed comedy sketches for BBC radio programmes produced by Simon Brett (including "The Burkiss Way" and "Week Ending"), and was asked to pitch a radio sitcom in February 1977. Adams initially pitched a