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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..."
Star Wars DVDs or HHGG Radio play? Well, I'll probably be in my car at the time, so Hello Arthur...
Phil
I do hope it's being streamed over the net - I can't get Radio 4 here... Sure, I may be in Loughborough and have a perfect signal, but I don't have a radio tuner at the moment, and my car aerial has snapped off! Grrr!
It's so awesome that Douglas Adams already recorded his part.. I'll be listening with a tear in my eye. :)
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.
Belgium!!!
Woo hoo!
All's true that is mistrusted
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtm l
Should appear there soon!
Rob.
So long and thanks for all the episodes.
So no need to destroy your mind with a homemade Total Perspective Vortex if you don't catch it first time. Though I'm sure a CD release will follow shortly.
my towel and I are ready!
-Teiresias
I've been listening to the old shows on the way to work, and it still makes me laugh. The other people on the bus must think I'm nuts...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/mp3/hitchh ikers_trail.mp3
Nonsense. The pictures are much better on Radio. just compare the original radio series (available on CD from the amazon of your choice) with Zaphod's second head on TV (available on DVD etc)!
Phil
Well, it's at 10:30am Pacific and 1:30pm Eastern.
Anyone have backup audio links in case BBC's is overwhelmed?
you're trying to slashdot the BBC !
So let's do the math...
The planet factory was 13 light/sec in circumferance. Light travels at approximately 3e8 m/s which puts the circumferance at 3.9e9 meters around.
3.9e9 / (2 * PI) ~= 6.2e8 meters which is the radius. That puts the diameter at 1.24e9 meters.
There is 6.2e-4 meters/mile, so 1.24e9 * 6.2e-4 = 7.7e5 miles. That's pretty close to the estimated 1 million mile diameter!
I really like the way this guy thinks.
No HHFTTG is not same as harry potter. Harry Potter is fantasy while Hitchhiker is Humor ( and not childish humor). And you are never to too old to enjoy humor. Give it a try again. you will be amazed. Now that you have grownup you will understand it more. :)
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
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What's with all these 503 errors???
If the editors were smart, Slashdot would Migrate to Windows Server 2003!
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Why not attempt to fit sections of HHGTTG dialog over video clips from the StarWars DVDs?
It could work!
...will I be able to watch without a babel fish?
It can't make it worse.
Seriously, they should make a movie or something. I dont even own a radio.
They should make a movie? Because you don't own a radio? Boy, if there ever was a need for the Total Perspective Vortex...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Please note that the time listed is GMT+1 - adjust accordingly. Seems England "celebrates" daylight savings time as well.
This sig no verb.
You've got to love how easy some Mac software is to use. (and, no, I am in no way affiliated with them, other than I'm about to own their software.)
i've missed out on all these radio shows etc. where can i find digital version of these shows? for purchase or for legal free download.
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.
In which Arthur wakes up, Trillian opts out, and Marvin is stuck fast...
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If you view the HTML of the BBC page, you'll notice much longer introductions to each story, currently commented out...
Arthur Dent awakes to find that he has spent the last four years on prehistoric Earth, alone in all that time save for five minutes with an infuriating alien called Wowbagger who arrived, insulted him, and left. Reunited with Ford Prefect, Arthur discovers that the Hitchhikers Guide he threw in the river still works - and is being updated. Rescue appears in the form of a sofa caught in the Space-Time Continuum and Arthur and Ford disappear in a fashion which would cause stern looks from the Campaign For Real Time.
Aboard the Heart of Gold Zaphod Beeblebrox is nursing a large Pan Galactic Gargleblaster and two headaches. He believes that he survived the Total Perspective Vortex while pursuing a Hitchhikers Guide employee called Zarniwoop and that Arthur marooned him by stealing the Heart of Gold, which of course Zaphod himself stole (but then Zaphod thinks he alone has the right to indulge in excitement, adventure and really wild things).
His girlfriend Trillian (who, as Tricia McMillan, is the only human apart from Arthur to survive the Destruction of Earth by the Vogon Constructor Fleet) has no memory at all of these events and is therefore convinced that Zaphod has had a psychotic episode brought on by too many drinks. Tired of his selfishness she snaps and leaves him, having herself beamed by Eddie the shipboard computer in any direction but here.
Meanwhile in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta, Marvin the Paranoid Android pivots helplessly in circles on an artificial leg, his only company a talkative mattress called Zem
And we all know Zaphod Beeblebrox shot first...
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"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be."
The secret, my dear fellow, is that on the two channels here in Blighty one can actually find something worthy of watching...
It's five now, by the way, if you exclude satellite, cable, etc.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
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.
Why they should make a movie is simply Somebody Elses Problem.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Oh and it is realplayer so it works fine under linux.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Duh, the preview is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/hitc hhikers_trail.ram
:(
Took two attempts to guess this one
Though I don't have RealPlayer so can't listen to it
From the sounds of it, they turned the entire original second season into a dream sequence!
That really sucks. I wish they'd pick up at the end of the second season, where Arthur learns from the strange old man that the Earth was destroyed by an alliance of psychiatrists (who were afraid that the revelation of the ultimate answer would cause them to lose business) and Zaphod, and flees in the Heart of Gold.
Damn.
3PO: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed...
Phil
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.
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
He wrote "Mostly Harmless" when he was pretty depressed. I read an article/interview (Maybe in "Salmon of doubt"?) where he said that he wanted to go back to the series one last time to put it to rest in a slightly more cheery way. He was going to do it after he finished the dirk gently novel he was working on when he died.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
The original Infocom HHGTTG game : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Gives:
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
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 linkyou bastards...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
The music was the same. It's by The Eagles, and was used in the '80s HHGTTG.
:-)
Also, the weird flashbacks, and particularly the stuttering on the book, were to bring everything up to speed. It has been twenty years you know! Of course, the first episode was going to be slow going. Although, to be honest, I'm glad I recorded it because I found it as hard as ever to follow
I guess in jolly olde england where they only have two channels
You might want to edit this list then.
There is no inconsistency. The Guide is definitive!
MPlayer can capture it, just do -ao pcm -aofile heresmyfile.wav
It is currently in post-production. Looks like it will be coming out next year. Here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Actually, having lived in the UK and the US I think that fewer channels is actually better. My experience is that there is the same amount of good TV to watch but that with 100 channels its a lot harder to find!