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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."
Sure, the BBC sell them off their web-site, as do Amazon I expect. CD or cassette sets.
The most likely station they'll broadcast on will be radio 4, as that is the talk radio station that gets dramas, series, comedy etc.
If they do, there's a good chance it'll end up archived on listen again, or possibly BBCi H2G2
Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
I listen to radio everyday. In the morning I listen to the Today programme whilst driving in to work. In the evening on the way home from work I'll listen to PM or the world at six. I look forward to the The Now Show or Just a minute. Then quite often I listen to BBC 7 which is a sort of Radio 4 Gold.
As for TV, I must get my dose of Dr Who, CSI and SG-1.
You don't have to wait. When broadcast, you will be able to listen directly. All BBC Radio stations are streamed live on the net.
I'm a Radio 4 head too, but you forgot:
a) The News Quiz
b) I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
c) In Business
d) Material World
d) From Our Own Correspondent
e) Et al!
Radio 4 is the best radio station yet conceived, it's really only Woman's Hour, You and Yours and The Archers that are holding it back!
That was classic intercourse!
Here are the 25th anniversary radio scripts. Very good. Very funny.
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was closed YEARS ago, more's the pity.
Still, there are LOADS of CDs of their work available now, so it's not all bad...
That was classic intercourse!
There were two series of HHGTTG broadcast on the radio, with the second series being waaaaaay different to the storyline in the books.
See amazon.co.uk
What DNA was after was a slight air of befuddled incomprehension but total authority, a sort of "I have no idea why this might be the case - but it most certainly is the case" state of mind. If you've heard Peter Jones on "Just a Minute" you'll know why he was perfect for the role.
I still reckon that the best replacement would have been Oliver Postgate... not only does he have that same befuddled air when narrating the Clangers (et al) but for at least two generations he's a voice you'd instinctively trust. If he said "Don't Panic", you wouldn't...
The reordering was done in an attempt to honor C.S. Lewis's wishes. A couple of quotes, for more information:
HarperCollins and the C.S. Lewis companiy "renumbered the entire Chronicles of Narnia on the basis of a letter Lewis wrote to a child suggesting that he preferred to read them in Narnian chronology rather than the order in which they were written." (source)
"It must be conceded that in a letter written in 1957 (published in 'Letters to Children'), Lewis did appear to state a mild preference for the chronological order. But in that same letter Lewis concluded: 'So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them.'" (source)
With that said, I prefer the original ordering. Oh well.