New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online

Michael Sheldon writes "The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday."

Comments

There's isn't a 42 joke in here, I swear!

[Aquatopia17]

I for one am really excited that HG2G has finally made its way back to radio. And on top of that, I can listen to it hassle-free (not as in beer) and free (as in beer) of charge over the internet. I wish listening to American proprietary radio stations was always this easy.

Re:There's isn't a 42 joke in here, I swear!

[Billy69]

plus what the licensing people don't want the general public to realise is that digital TV tuners aren't detectable by their much hyped but rarely seen detection equipment
Surely it is not that hard to re-tune their equipment to the higher frequency produced by the local oscillator in the digital tuner. I mean, even I could probably do that.

Reason for no OGG / MP3

[tod_miller]

There are still copyrights, but more so they want to pull people into thier sprawl of a site.

I love the radio shows. I have them as MP3 (must OGG 'em)

Any updates on the film? It is a long way off, I don't wanna rush them, but they can keep us in suspense, and trickle delicious sweet information to us slowly - and an OGG of marvin saying 'diodes on my left side'.

In unrelated 42 news, Seinfeld 1-3 series set was 42 on the amazon sales rank, and I bought it today. Nov i'll be out.

HHGTTG Text Adventure

[stephendl]

Even better on the site is a flash version of the original HHGTTG text adventure game...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

While we are griping about formats...

[museumpeace]

go a little farther into the BBC website to hear/read the recorded interviews where Douglas Adams made predictions about how all these formats and playback technologies where going to mold the economy and user experience of consuming media. This page was also the entry point for a contest seeking new material you might create for submission to the HHGG. [like I wasn't already wasting enough time reading /. !-)]

Re:Updated Infocom Game

[Masem]

While HHGTTG may have been the worst, all of Infocom's games suffered from dying easily from making the wrong move; HHGTTG made it worse that you had to make right moves, wholely unrelated to your actions at the current time, in order to survive the game later (e.g. dog/sandwich). all you young'uns with your LucasArts never-can-die-at-all-no-matter-how-hard-you-try adventure games!