Sport personality
Sujoy Roy

Profession
The UK’s first professional video gamer

Date of Birth
Sept 1975

Personal best:
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

"Space," [The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

(used by kind permission of Pan Macillan)

Background:
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy, originally broadcast on radio in 1978 and more recently developed into a film in 2005. It follows the adventures of Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect (who turns out to be an alien) who escape Earth before it is demolished by a race of aliens called the Vogons.

Sujoy Roy says:
"I’m a big reader, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, is just one of many books that I have enjoyed reading time and time again. In essence I like it mainly because it broadens your horizons and makes you think that there is so much more to life . . . but perhaps, above all, it makes you see the funny side to everything."