Wait, really? Why did the UK use Fuck instead of Belgium if the original radio series was also using Belgium?
Edit: Ahhhh, having done some quick research/ “Life, The Universe, and Everything” was initially written as a potential Dr Who storyline before being adopted into the third Hitchhiker’s book. The radio version came later and had be made ‘safe’ for broadcast and somewhere along the way Belgium just became the word substituted in both instances of censorship.
Edit edit: This all is fairly disappointing to me. The whole ‘Belgium’ and ‘only Earth could be so stupid to call a country this terrible word’ joke is great and its a let down to think that originally Adams had just outright used Fuck as the dirtiest word in the universe.
