Holy Zarquon's singing fish - HHGTTG is back on the radio!

Harry Palmr · 12-10-2017 3:22pm #1

A new series with the old cast reassembled (as much as possible) for an adaptation of one of Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing novel in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first series in 1978

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/12/dont-panic-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-in-line-for-radio-reboot

Zaph · 16-10-2017 7:30pm

Holy Zarquon, a post in this forum! :eek:

It's great they're doing that, but I hated that book so much that I just couldn't bring myself to listen to it.

Harry Palmr · 27-02-2018 10:16pm

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/feb/27/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-bbc-radio-4

March 8th

FunLover18 · 17-03-2018 8:43pm

Anyone been listening to this? It's not very good ... It's just not the same. John Lloyd brings nothing as the book, he just sounds bored.

Zaph · 17-03-2018 11:28pm

To be fair, the source material isn't very good, so I'm afraid I'm not overly surprised. It's kind of like the Hitchhikers' equivalent of the Star Wars prequels.

Harry Palmr · 18-03-2018 12:17am

After a think about it I made a point of not listening. Even deleted the recording I made.

I was 14 when the first series was on BBC radio 4 - caught it on its first rapid repeat and recorded the whole lot onto C60 tapes ditto series two. I still have them, now in digital form and listen every so often and I still enjoy it but that love is informed by the impact they made on me back then. I suspect if came to HH now it would just be mildly amusing rather than era defining. So I'll keep my memories intact Thanks but no thanks.

Holy Zarquon's singing fish - HHGTTG is back on the radio!

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