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First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-we-stream-please dept.

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..."

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  1. BBC Radio Links by YetAnotherName · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:BBC Radio Links by WoodenRobot · · Score: 3, Informative

      Both of those are for Radio 4, and yes, it's 198KHz in the LW band and also 92-95 MHz in the FM. Radio 4 sometimes broadcasts different things on the two bands (cricket and religious programs often go on LW, but not on FM, which may broadcast a play or something at the same time) but AFAIK, HHGG is on both bands.

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    2. Re:BBC Radio Links by aardwolf204 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Real Alternative. Play real without installing the evil real

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  2. Re:Streaming by dykofone · · Score: 4, Informative
    According to the BBC site:

    Liten Again: Each episode will be available for 7 days following the Thursday evening repeats.

    So looks like we'll all be in luck.

  3. Re:And available for a listen 7 days after... by rob.sharp · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try again.. Listen Again Rob.

  4. Listen to the trailer by CheesyPeteza · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/mp3/hitchh ikers_trail.mp3

  5. While you're waiting... by Ronald+Dumsfeld · · Score: 3, Informative

    While you're waiting for the broadcast you can always play the game.

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  6. RTF Web site. It got the fucking link right there by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 3, Informative
    You can listen live and you can listen later. Who ever modded this intresting probably also couldn't be bothered to read the site.

    Oh and it is realplayer so it works fine under linux.

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  7. Re:Time-Shifting by Halo1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    WireTap works fine as well, and is free.

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  8. Re:Time difference by Triskele · · Score: 3, Informative
    Seems England "celebrates" daylight savings time as well.

    We certainly do - we invented it!

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  9. Re:Ayeee! Bobby Ewing syndrome! by DrVxD · · Score: 3, Informative

    > 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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  10. Re:When will the movie come out? by quiller · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is currently in post-production. Looks like it will be coming out next year. Here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

  11. Re:DOWNLOAD IT EARLY! by splice42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps you should've either got RealPlayer to test this out, or AT LEAST inspected the .ram file the server spits back. Turns out that this redirects to pnm://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/support/redirect.ra and not actually the HitchHiker's episode in question.

    In fact, if you had bothered to test further, you would have noticed that you can type whatever you want (with extension .ram, at least) after http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/ and it'll still spit back a .ram file that is just a redirect to the support site. What I'm really wondering is why it took you 2 tries to get the "good" address for the episode, as your first try should have given you the same .ram as the 2nd.

    And of course, why the hell do people moderate these posts up without verifying the information? But hey, this is /. after all. *sigh*.

  12. Re:And available for a listen 7 days after... by Excors · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or "listen again" right now at rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra - you can access anything from the past 7 days, without waiting for them to add it. Net Transport seems to be able to download the raw .ra file if you want a permanent copy.

  13. Re:DOWNLOAD IT EARLY! by Excors · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra (or rtsp://rmv7.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra etc) which does actually work? :-)