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New Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Series Announced

AllieA writes "The BBC has announced that they will be adapting the final three Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books for radio, with this 'tertiary phase' including Life, the Universe, and Everything; So Long and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. Members of the original radio series cast, including Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore and announcer John Marsh, will all take part in the new series, set to start next spring and be completed before the end of 2004."

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  1. GNAA Announces responsibility for kernel backdoor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Funny
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    Insertion of the GNAA backdoor came right between the consideration of Novell to buy out the entire Lunix Kernel programming team, and will most likely positively affect the decision. By adding all the gay niggers working for Novell with the gay niggers developing Lunix kernel source, GNAA will be all-powerful and will begin plotting our next plans to add "backdoors" into the next favorite operating system, BeOS.


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  2. Mixed-up order? by KFury · · Score: 2, Funny

    I assume that, in order to pay proper homage to the nature of the migration from radio to books for the original series, they'll rip the three new books apart and rearrange them in seemingly random order?

    (I'm still pissed that the SOBs reordered the Narnia books in current collections. How can you possibly appreciate The Magician's Nephew without having read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Stupidheads.)

  3. Remarkable!! by lina_inverse · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just started reading the third book in the trilogy, too! The probability of this happening must be pretty low..

  4. Eagles by Doomrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if they'll still use The Eagles - Journey of the Sorceror for the theme.

    I had a nightmare about the upcoming movie. I dreamed that Linkin Park covered this song for the soundtrack. I hadn't woken up screaming like that for years. My sheets were wet, and I don't mean with passion.

  5. Re:Finally.... by KDan · · Score: 2, Funny

    With the complete H2G2 read by Douglas Adams himself available, why bother listening to a BBC version? He reads it very well indeed, has a good voice, and for obvious reasons cares about the story enough to render it in a good and entertaining way.

    mod -1, redundant - for the bbc version!

    Daniel

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    Carpe Diem
  6. Re:Link to HHGTTG mp3's by Gubbe · · Score: 2, Funny
    Check out the link to the radio series mp3's
    or in other words: "Oh look, a rampaging stampede of mad elephants! Let's steer them this way!"
  7. Re:Finally.... by sydb · · Score: 2, Funny

    As no-one else has asked, may I have your hand in marriage?

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    Yours Sincerely, Michael.
  8. An as to why it took so long.... by red+floyd · · Score: 3, Funny

    W-E... A-P-O-L-O-G-I-Z-E... F-O-R... T-H-E... I-N-C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-C-E

    [this text is inserted to defeat the lameness filter, because nobody would ever be *quoting* something in all caps, so it's obviously lame]

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