Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy returns to Radio 4

[Badgers]

Cult classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is returning to the radio to mark the 40th anniversary of it first hitting the airwaves.

Hitchhiker's Guide returns to Radio 4

It is set to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 next spring, with archive episodes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also being aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hitchhiker's Guide returns to Radio 4

It is set to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 next spring, with archive episodes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also being aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

which character's your favourite?

 

[Badgers]

which character's your favourite?

Slartibartfast

 

[Pickman's model]

Slartibartfast

more of a ford prefect man myself

 

[Badgers]

more of a ford prefect man myself

I like the cut of his jib as well

 

[wiskey]

Marvin!

 

[a_chap]

The bowl of petunias.

 

[ginger_syn]

Marvin!

Me too

 

[wiskey]

Me too

*sigh*

 

[krtek a houby]

Is the book it's based on any good?

 

[Crispy]

The radio version is the canonical version as far as I care. My parents had it on tape and would listen to the whole thing on long car journeys. The SFX are fantastic

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Is the book it's based on any good?

Ha ha ha ha

 

[wiskey]

Is the book it's based on any good?

LOL. Nah it's dull. Nothing happens.

Lovely fjords though.

 

[krtek a houby]

Ha ha ha ha

Ach, you know what I mean - it's not a Douglas Adams book, so I didn't read it...

 

[xenon]

The radio version is the canonical version as far as I care. My parents had it on tape and would listen to the whole thing on long car journeys. The SFX are fantastic

I've still got the cassette box set of that somewhere. It says don't panic on it.
One of the first things I heard on the radio where stereo was vital. I mean, even telly, films weren't stereo then.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Ach, you know what I mean - it's not a Douglas Adams book, so I didn't read it...

 

[a_chap]

I think I should point out that I used to be the Vice President of the Zaphod Beeblebrox appreciation society.

I only mention it now because, having Googled it, there's no mention of it on the internet at all

We predated the internet by quite a few years. In fact we used to mimeograph the newsletters. (aka Roneo, Banda, Spirit duplicator for the Millenials here)

 

[belboid]

I think I should point out that I used to be the Vice President of the Zaphod Beeblebrox appreciation society.

I only mention it now because, having Googled it, there's no mention of it on the internet at all

We predated the internet by quite a few years. In fact we used to mimeograph the newsletters. (aka Roneo, Banda, Spirit duplicator for the Millenials here)

I loved Bandaing, rotating the handle at just the right speed to get a print that wasn’t too feint, wasn’t too inky. Happy days

 

[tim]

I loved Bandaing, rotating the handle at just the right speed to get a print that wasn’t too feint, wasn’t too inky. Happy days

You could print any colour you wanted as long as it was purple.

 

[wiskey]

Thsi starts on Thursday on R4

Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I don't have many claims to fame but Zaphod Beeblebrox was my main tutor at drama college

 

[Badgers]

Thsi starts on Thursday on R4

Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back

YES YES YES

 

[JimW]

Someone had this on double LP when I was a kid unless I'm completely deluded. Made me look up Uriah Heep too.

 

[Badgers]

I don't have many claims to fame but Zaphod Beeblebrox was my main tutor at drama college

Woah

Closest I cum to that is a wank or two dedicated to Trillian.

 

[krtek a houby]

I don't have many claims to fame but Zaphod Beeblebrox was my main tutor at drama college

I met Douglas Adams years back and once worked with a mate of his.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Archive on 4 - Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers - @bbcradio4
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers

Worth a listen before the big day to get you in the mood.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is the book it's based on any good?

Depends if you like shit books or not.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The Eoin Colfer thing that this seems to be at least half based on was utter fucking rubbish - really embarrassingly unlistenable when it went on the radio.

 

[pogofish]

The radio version is the canonical version as far as I care. My parents had it on tape and would listen to the whole thing on long car journeys. The SFX are fantastic

Much as I love HGTG - from the very first time it was broadcast, also the first time I'd listened to Radio 4. I have to say that for me, listening on better quality radio gear than my old transistor radio, IMO the production values have dated it badly. To the point that I don't think I can listen to it again - I'd rather keep the memories of that magical and funny story that totally changed my idea of SF/Fantasy just as I got going in my teens.

Its the book or nothing for me now.

 

[pogofish]

Is the book it's based on any good?

I sent a copy to my cousin's boy in the States as he hit his teens - He took it to school and it got confiscated.

His parents had to go for a meeting where they had to explain why he had such a bad book.

Last I heard, the lad was working for NASA.