Hitchhikers Guide Radio Shows for FREE!
First of all, if you aren't watching Coupling already, it's one of if not the funniest show on TV. BBCAmerica runs it in syndication.
Second, they've just released audio streams of the new version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for free on the net. Each episode will apparently be available for 7 days after it airs.
I've actually never read the books. My only exposure to it was a game I played for the Commodore 64 (that's a link to a new version of the old game!) back in 1991 and some friends who were giant Douglas Adams fans. So far, I've listened to 8 minutes of this, on and off, and I've already laughed about 10 times as much as I did through the entire second episode of Father of the Pride. Not that that's any great bar to measure by, but that's apparently this season's best comedic offering.
I'm also amazed that they chose to do this as a radio play. As far as I'm concerned, the decision was a masterful one. My brain is filling in the effects just fine, and I don't have to worry about how crap the CG looks. I can just lose myself in the very funny story, and the production values of the audio are great. It's as if they took the money they would have spent shooting it for TV and poured it into creating cinema quality audio. Very nice.
- Audio feeds:
- And, good stuff from the Slashdot comments:
- Save the stream: mplayer -dumpstream mms://wm.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/h2g3_episode 1.asf
- Listen to "Primary and Secondary phase"
- Even though I don't know what that means, this series is apparently the Tertiary phase. So is this the third retelling, or does it pick up somewhere in the 3rd book? Or maybe it's just the third radio series? Whatever it is, it's fine to start listening right here as I did.
Ya, this was stolen from Slashdot, but it was too good to not mention again!
