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And for those of you who would like to hear the original Radio Series again, it's being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra right now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m I wonder if they will have the original Pink Floyd music when they land on Magrathea, or whether it will be edited out, as it was in the BBC recordings due to rights issues.
I think I still have casette tapes of the original run.
I love these books, but why post a pece that is paywalled?
Paywalled in US too. The Economist have a new paywall.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
And for those of you who would like to hear the original Radio Series again, it's being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra right now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m I wonder if they will have the original Pink Floyd music when they land on Magrathea, or whether it will be edited out, as it was in the BBC recordings due to rights issues.
(Albeit the audiobook, not the radio play)
I really enjoyed it, and couldn't tell you if I preferred it to the one read by Douglas Adams himself.
Radio series CD box set available in my car's changer, currently on disc three of the Tertiary Phase.
I recently reread Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan" and was really surprised to notice to what degree Adams drew inspiration from that book. He did acknowledge it as an influence [1], but some ideas my naive self had attributed to Adams are closer to well-done rearrangements/retellings of elements from Sirens of Titan (which certainly wasn't written in a vacuum either) in a different comedic voice. Both works are fant…