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First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight!
Prof.Phreak writes "From HHGG: Twenty-five years after the original radio series of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero, Arthur Dent, are being brought to life in their original medium and with the (mainly) original cast. Episode 1- Tuesday 21 September 2004 6.30pm; In which Arthur wakes up, Trillian opts out, and Marvin is stuck fast..."
If you're out of reception range of BBC Radio Four, then you can listen online:
BBC Radio Player
It requires a Real player of some kind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtm l
Should appear there soon!
Rob.
Liten Again: Each episode will be available for 7 days following the Thursday evening repeats.
So looks like we'll all be in luck.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/mp3/hitchh ikers_trail.mp3
Well, it's at 10:30am Pacific and 1:30pm Eastern.
Anyone have backup audio links in case BBC's is overwhelmed?
I concur
This should bring you up to date. At the end of the last series: The gang have discovered the whereabouts of the guy who makes all of the desicions about the universe. Arthur Dent (the last remaining male human) has stormed off in the "heart of gold" (powered by the improbabilty drive) after hearing that one of his companions Zaphod beeblebrox was behind the destruction of Earth. So the rest of the gang are stranded and its making marvin depressed.
Dan
Please note that the time listed is GMT+1 - adjust accordingly. Seems England "celebrates" daylight savings time as well.
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So they say they're going to keep the latest episode archived and listenable on the BBC web site for seven days after the 2nd broadcast -- anybody know if this will be the same RealAudio version that's streamed live?
And if it is, how do you capture it for time-shifting (since RealAudio streaming works RealBad)?
Normally I don't go for non-free software, but I paid real money to register Total Recorder -- Windows I'm afraid -- so that I could record the BBC's John Peel RA streams to MP3. It's nice, and if the server plays ball (as the BBC ones do), you can stream non-live content as fast as your network can deliver it.
While you're waiting for the broadcast you can always play the game.
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
Oh and it is realplayer so it works fine under linux.
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Duh, the preview is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/hitc hhikers_trail.ram
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Took two attempts to guess this one
Though I don't have RealPlayer so can't listen to it
Unfortunately BBC Radio 4 isn't broadcast on Shortwave, only BBC World Service is.
BBC Radio 4 is on 198LW, 92-94FM, DAB Digital Radio, Digital Television and Online. Unless you're near the UK (I think the 198LW can be received in northern France etc.) then the Internet, through RealPlayer is the only option. It'll be on the live stream in a little under an hour (6:30pm BST (GMT+1)), and then available on demand after Thursday's repeat.
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WireTap works fine as well, and is free.
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The original Infocom HHGTTG game : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Yah the origial radio show is what got me started on the whole HHGTG trip. I had a contraption of one of those automatic light timers connected to my Quasar 3 in one stereo set to turn it on (with play/record already depressed) and record the NPR broadcast while I was at my boy scout meeting. How's that for super nerd style. I grabbed a collection of the mp3's last year, and listened for 7 hours straight. Something about the radio drama really capured my imagination in the way that only a book or really good spoke word can. You can buy a CD set from BBC.... Or just looked and you can buy a mp3 cd of them too. bbcshop I am still looking for the jack flanders adventures that aired on NPR back then. I can't remember what they were about, some sort of mystery with mystical elements ( a big soft chair that transported Jack to another world if I remember). Reply if you can point me there.
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Mandrake maintain a src rpm, which could be unpacked into a source bundle and compiled elsewhere. I used the 0.5-5 version and it rebuilt fine for SuSE 9.1.
random mirror linkKCRW in Santa Monica CA has the twelve original episodes available for download, at: http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=h g&tmplt_type=Program
Enjoy!
I guess in jolly olde england where they only have two channels
You might want to edit this list then.
> I have twelve of the original radio shows..
That's the lot.
> are there six to a season or am I missing some?
The first season (Now widely referred to as "The Primary Phase") was six episodes (often referred to as "fits", as that's how they were billed in the BBC listings magazine way back then), there was a "one off special" (
Beeblebrox at the offices of the guide - "Don't try to outwierd me three eyes, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal"), and the Seconddary Phase season was five fits.
Glad to be of service!
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It is currently in post-production. Looks like it will be coming out next year. Here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Get it while it lasts!
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