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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Returns—With the Original Cast

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:37PM   
from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Forty years to the day of its first broadcast, there's a new BBC radio series.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy deserves a special place in the geek pantheon. It's the story of hapless BBC radio editor Arthur Dent, his best friend Ford Prefect, and the adventures that result when Prefect saves Dent when the Earth is unexpectedly destroyed to make way for a galactic bypass. Written by the late, great Douglas Adams, HHGTTG first appeared as a radio series in the UK back in 1978. On Thursday—exactly 40 years to the day from that first broadcast—it made its return home with the start of Hexagonal Phase, a radio dramatization of the sixth and final book of an increasingly misnamed trilogy.

Source: ArsTechnica

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• Re:Not necessarily final, and not written by DNA Re:Not necessarily final, and not written by DNA (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:38PM (1 child)

  by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:38PM (#651923)

  > Doesn't quite have that quintessential (or is quandary?) Douglas Adamsness to it

  Neither did Mostly Harmless, IMO, so that's not exactly a damning review. (Not exactly praise, either.)

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• Re:Not necessarily final, and not written by DNA (Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:19PM

  by wonkey_monkey (279) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:19PM (#652008) Homepage

  If I remember correctly, I think Douglas Adams would have agreed.

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