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Hitchhiker's Guide Quandary Phase Starts May 3rd

Posted by timothy on from the hot-trillian-action dept.

MilenCent writes "Time to grab your towels once again! BBC Radio 4 is set to begin the Quandary Phase (that is, the fourth) of the radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on May 3, covering the events of So Long And Thanks For All The Fish. Once again you'll be able to listen to it on the web from Radio 4's site. There's a production diary on BBC Radio 4's website that discusses the Quandary and Quintessential Phases, which will each be four episodes and will deviate further from the books than the Tertiary Phase did (it may not end the same way it did in Mostly Harmless), as well as tie up loose ends from the first two phases. In other news, their illustrated version of the Hitchhiker's text game won a BAFTA! They also have an interview with the game's co-creator, Steve Meretzky, who also created Planetfall."

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  1. BAFTA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    In case anyone's wondering, BAFTA is the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They give awards sort of like the Oscar, only without quite as poor a sense of judgement.

    I'm not sure why an 'academy of film and television arts' thinks they're particularly qualified to judge interactive media though...

  2. Re:What is so great about the Hitchhiker's Guide? by Pfhreakaz0id · · Score: 4, Informative

    HHGG is really a parody of science fiction, or at least, science fiction written primarily for comdedic effect... or... really it's comedy that happens to be science fiction.

    Ok, listen, it isn't really any of those things. It's a deep parable of man and his nonsensical attempts to control the uncontrollable universe.

    And it has some good bits about robots and artificial inteligence.

    Oh, fark it, just read the damn thing. If you've are somewhat intelligent and a sense of humor, you like it.

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  3. Direct link for those listening live by Jaycatt · · Score: 4, Informative
    Last September, I used this method for listening to / archiving the tertiary phase:

    1) Grab RA WAV Recorder
    2) Open this location with it, at the appropriate time: BBC4 radio feed. Last September, it played Tuesdays at 10:30AM on the west coast (US).
    3) Convert WAV, if you want to (or put right to CD for the car).
    4) Profit (no, not really)

    Just tried it again, to make sure the address hadn't changed, and it still seems to work great!

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    "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy" - Spider Robinson
  4. Re:Torrents? by rich_r · · Score: 5, Informative

    Radio 4's 'listen again' feature will generally do it...