BS: 42

Subject: BS: 42
From: John J
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 06:41 AM

Tuesday evenings at 6.30pm on BBC R4.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 08:03 AM

Whoooo hooooo!!!! And about bloody time!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 10:15 AM

Towel in hand.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 10:33 AM

The referencesw are obvious. Now, what's this all about, really?

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 10:51 AM

Don't panic!

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Teresa
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:25 PM

I hope it won't have bad poetry. I'm going to tune in. ;)

T

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:53 PM

When have you last visited the local planning office?
There might be a bypass planned ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:53 PM

Vogons rule OK
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Peg
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:21 PM

Is this to be the original radio play? I got tapes of it years agao from a professor in college who had somehow recoded it and played it in the scene shop on Saturdays when we were working...

The radio play is so much better than the novels and TV show, I think...

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Teresa
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:34 PM

Oh the radio play came first, then all the other stuff.

Once I went to visit a friend in a very small town, and, having nothing else to do there, we listened to it in a marathon session. fun fun. :)

T

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:43 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.shtml?logo

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:58 PM

As I understand it, the original radio series resulted in the first book , then there were the follow up books . This radio series ,I believe , continues where the first series ended .

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 04:03 PM

Lovely, I'm sticking a fish in my ear even as I type.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: 42
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 04:39 PM

gee and I thought this was a thread about me!

j

is this online radio?

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 04:47 PM

Radio 4 can be listened to online, as can all BBC radio stations. Try Aunty Beeb and click on Radio at the top of the page. You should be able to listen to it at any time, 24 hours after the original broadcast, during that week.

Oh frendled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Peg
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 01:00 AM

yup, I knew the radio play came first, but I think most Americans do not since we had the books widely available well before the radio tapes were...

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 01:16 AM

I might tape it, if i'm not doing nowt.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:55 AM

Surely jOhn if tha's not doin' nowt, then tha moost be doin' summat?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 05:09 AM

Switching to infinite improbability drive,

seemes to make no difference on this site.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: John J
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 06:11 AM

The pictures on the wireless are so much better.

John

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 02:46 AM

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 03:05 AM

I've always wondered if the conversations here are anything like those at the 'End of the Universe'.

Then I reckon they must be more sensible, they don't mention melodeons!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: John J
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 06:14 AM

Miaow!!!

J

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 06:32 AM

Time for a strong 'Brownian' solution methinks whilst listening to Hotblack Desiato jamming on a nearby planet. Very loud the Squornshellus banjo, which accounts for the fact that the matressess are so easy to kill - they're deaf and can't hear you creeping up on them.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 06:54 AM

Well it's a good excuse for rushing into the pub and ordering lots of beer and packets of crisps. Be nice to any white mice which you have as pets, and keep your eyes out for a whale and bowl of petunias which might be falling out of the sky.

Linda bought me the DVD set of the TV version for last Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:37 AM

feresh, its tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: John J
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:38 PM

51 minutes to go!

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Emma B
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 01:38 PM

NOW!

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Sooz
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:39 PM

I thought that Marvin was given some good new lines. He was always my favourite character though.

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Teresa
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:54 PM

Oh shoot, I missed it. will go to the replay :)

T (with her American time-sense all scrambled)

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:27 PM

The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: vectis
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 06:14 PM

I didn't catch the question...

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: GUEST,Sooz (at work)
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 03:37 AM

What is six times nine?

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Davetnova
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 03:52 AM

I listened. Standards seem to have replaced petunias

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:03 AM

101010

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 10:06 AM

I heard the radio show here in the U.S. before the books and the rest came out. I think I listened to it on public radio, but it might have been a Canadian station since I did always listen to those, especially in the car. It has been so long, that I can remember where I was when I was listening to it, but I can't remember where I tuned in. But it must have been KUOW-FM. I also listened to a lot of other radio plays. Anyone else remember fondly the old "Mind's Eye" program and the various dramas and mysteries they used to play (not to be confused with the long-running CBS Radio Mystery Theater for which I timed my late evening drives so I could tune in to it).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 02:58 AM

Does anyone know if the BBC World Service will be carrying it?

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 07:51 AM

I think the Inter-Galactic Sub-Ether Worm-Hole Radio has it, the URL is http://GGG.gag.halfront.info/he's-just-an-ordinary-guy-you-know/zaphod

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 09:26 AM

Sooz — 54; what's your point?

david

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: MudGuard
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 09:54 AM

Guest, 6 times 9 is 42 (you just have to use a number system that fits, in this case use a 13-based number system).

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Sooz
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 10:19 AM

(Almost) the whole point of H2G2 was the quest for the answer to the ultimate question. (=42) Then they had to start all over again to find out what the question had been in the first place (what is 6 times nine?)

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 10:19 AM

NPR ran it on the East Coast back in '82. I taped it in Dolby and quite a few times was asked for dupes in Alaska. Soon after Napster made its appearance a friend downloaded it in high bit rate.

It must be wonderful hearing it come over the air all fresh. I remember sitting between Klipsch speakers and listening to the world come to an end and looking forward to the happy-go-lucky days to come.

Cheers!

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Teresa
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 10:42 PM

I just heard it ... I do love it all over again. Like the mattress and sofa bit. :) It's on demand now for the current week's show:

BBC 4

T

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: darkriver
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 03:31 AM

God.

Mudcat......

Here I am with a brain the size of a planet.....

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: 42
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 06:57 AM

and the fastidious habits of a Golgafrincham. Watch those telephones.
j

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 07:45 AM

I've got a pain in the diodes all down my left side

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: muppett
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 10:57 AM

Do you care to go for Flumuck

Subject: RE: BS: 42
From: Teresa
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 09:44 PM

I want a pet ratchet.

T