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kilikili
09-24-2004, 04:32 PM
The first new radio series episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can be heard online. There's also going to be a major film release sometime in 2005.

What they said:

" 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.

The last three books of the ‘trilogy in five parts’, Life, The Universe And Everything; So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and Mostly Harmless, have been dramatised as two new series (none of them were previously produced for radio).

As the original two series were dubbed the Primary and Secondary Phases by Douglas Adams, these new series form the Tertiary, Quadrenary and Quintessential Phases.

Thanks to the wonders of digital technology, Douglas Adams himself can be heard playing the part of Agrajag."

More >>> (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml)

-Kilikili

Clanger
09-24-2004, 04:39 PM
Only listened to it 3 times so far, must be slacking.

JeroenDStout
09-24-2004, 06:50 PM
This is... amazing... doing the 2nd run now! Amazingly funny. Best commedy ever. Ever. Got the first series on CD.

Funfact: the music on the background during the piece about Starship Titanic actually is from the game Starship Titanic!..

DarkLight
09-24-2004, 11:19 PM
I actually have a record of the original radio series. I'll have to dig it out and listen to it again sometime :)

JDex
09-25-2004, 07:17 AM
Thank You sooooooo much...

Methinks the TV will get a long rest.

dotTom
09-25-2004, 07:45 AM
Audible.com has Douglas himself reading, in unabridged form: 'Hitch Hikers, 'Restaurant, 'Holistic Detective Agency & 'Long Dark Tea Time. They also have Stephen Fry and co reading (again unabridged) The Salmon of Doubt. You should read (or listen, if you get the audio-book) to Douglas's essay: Why I Am An Atheist, irrespective of one's own position on the subject it's a masterful piece and a great example of how Douglas was more than just a writter of great commedy. Personally I love his observation on the cost of replacement power transformers/adaptors for things like WalkMen and all those other little gadgets - and his assertion that Sony is really in the replacement adaptor business, not the WalkMan business. :)

The world was robbed when Douglas died.

Andrew W
09-27-2004, 08:59 AM
I actually have a record of the original radio series. I'll have to dig it out and listen to it again sometime :)
[nerd mode] I've got the same album (double album Hitch Hikers) and also the single Restaurant at the End of the Universe single LP. They're not actually the BBC radio series, it's a complete re-recording with the radio cast and the script, sound effects and music are a bit different from the original radio series (the one you can buy on CD). I actually grew up with the vinyl versions and so in my mind they're the "definitive" version. I wish they'd release them on CD actually as my LPs are in a fairly poor state after pretty continual use for ooh, about 20 years. Worth tracking down if you can though just to hear how bits of the script were tweaked, almost like a newer, slightly improved draft. OK enough geekery.[/nerd mode]

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