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New Trailer For Upcoming Hitchhiker's Episodes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-cram-in-your-ear dept.

Cally writes "I just heard a new programme trailer on BBC Radio 4 for the the first time. Some familiar voices... it's Arthur! It's Ford! It's the new radio series of Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy! The first broadcast goes out on Tuesday 21st September at 6:30pm (UK summertime, which is an hour off UTC.) Douglas Adams wrote the books in parallel with the two original radio series, which are still regarded as the definitive manifestation of HH-erdom. Hearing Mark Wing-Davey and Simon Jones' voices speaking new words - albeit new words from 'Life, The Universe and Everything' - is a spooky feeling. I just hope the sad death of Peter Jones does not detract from the final result. Let's hope the Beeb's live streaming media setup can cope with the mother of all Slashdottings!"

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  1. Re:Douglas Adams Cameo by irokitt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, Douglas Adams recorded the voice of Agrajag (Arthur's perennial whipping boy) before his death.

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  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Re:Original Series by RealSurreal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes

  4. And there is a video too ! by snowtigger · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only is there a mp3 stream as mentioned, there is also a a 83 MB Quicktime video, which I'm just downloaded at 360 KB/s.

    Come on slashdot, the server's still up, what are you waiting for ?

  5. Re:mother of all /.ings by mfg · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looking at http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/network/
    I don't think they've got too much to worry about

  6. Re:UTC? by pHDNgell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is that American for GMT?

    I assume this is a joke, but for anyone actually interested in time standards (or for those of you who think GMT and UTC mean the same thing), there was a really good discussion in the gnu arch mailing list about this recently. It's a pretty long thread, but very insightful.

    s/GMT/UTC/.

    Short answer: UTC is based on an atomic clock while GMT is based on the speed of earth rotation (which apparently varies). UTC adds and omits leap seconds to stay within about 0.9 seconds of GMT.

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  7. Re:UTC? by mbone · · Score: 4, Informative

    UTC stands for Universal Time Coordinated, and is the modern version of GMT. It has leap seconds to stay within 0.75 seconds of UT1, which is the (solar) time "kept" by the Earth. IAT (International Atomic Time) is the actual time kept by Atomic clocks. Since the Earth's rotation does indeed vary (because of weather changes and motions in the Earth's core, mostly), UT1 (and thus UTC) is slowly drifting off from IAT.

    The politics of international time are dominated by the French, and they took advantage of the changes required by more accurate clocks and also more accurate means of measuring Earth rotation to get "Greenwich" out of the name. Technically, a time system implies a longitude system, and the zero point of longitude implied by IAT/UTC is about 100 meters to the East of the zero longitude strip at Greenwich.

  8. Re:42 by damian · · Score: 5, Informative

    This wouldn't have been Tower 42 which includes a bar and a restaurant ?