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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
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.
Woo hoo!
All's true that is mistrusted
So long and thanks for all the episodes.
my towel and I are ready!
-Teiresias
Liten Again: Each episode will be available for 7 days following the Thursday evening repeats.
So looks like we'll all be in luck.
Try again.. Listen Again Rob.
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
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.
What's with all these 503 errors???
If the editors were smart, Slashdot would Migrate to Windows Server 2003!
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...will I be able to watch without a babel fish?
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.
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."
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.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
What kind of a geek are you. Just ram a coathanger in the end of the snapped off bit. Works great.
Philip
Signatures are broken
3PO: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed...
Phil
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
WireTap works fine as well, and is free.
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We certainly do - we invented it!
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> 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!
Not everything that can be measured matters; Not everything that matters can be measured.
It is currently in post-production. Looks like it will be coming out next year. Here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
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.
.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.
/. after all. *sigh*.
In fact, if you had bothered to test further, you would have noticed that you can type whatever you want (with extension
And of course, why the hell do people moderate these posts up without verifying the information? But hey, this is
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.
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!
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? :-)