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Dave | 1 Mar 2005 01:40
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> At 04:52 PM 2/28/05 -0500, John Donaldson wrote:
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>>  looked at the trailers, whoever is doing the voice of Marvin, has it 
>>down pat. It's exactly what I
>>imagined Marvin's voice to sound like. I have all four books of the triligy.
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> The books are based on the radio series, which I have squirreled away on
> tape. And also the later TV series. And the LP made from the TV series. And
> the books. And the post-mortem book. And the Dirk Gently books. :)
Anyway you could make available the radio series?
Either downloadable or streaming broad cast.

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Allen Huffman | 1 Mar 2005 02:19
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

On Feb 28, 2005, at 3:52 PM, John Donaldson wrote:
>   looked at the trailers, whoever is doing the voice of Marvin, has it 
> down pat. It's exactly what I imagined Marvin's voice to sound like. I 
> have all four books of the triligy.

Allan Rickman!!!  He is a good choice, though I wish they could have 
used Stephen Moore (voice from the radio series and TV miniseries and 
voice of the first versions of the books on tap).

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Allen Huffman | 1 Mar 2005 02:21
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On Feb 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Dave wrote:
> Anyway you could make available the radio series?
> Either downloadable or streaming broad cast.

You can listen to it here -- under the "QuickTime" link, I think.

http://www.themacisp.net/

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Rob | 1 Mar 2005 02:55

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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

> What's the second? I have the double-LP of the TV series, blue TV 
> screen cover.

I'm sure there was a 2nd, with a rubber duck on the front. I'll check in the
garage on my way to work this morning...

Yes, there was a 2nd album. It was 'Restaurant at the End of the Universe.'
The records were actually re-recordings of the original radio series; The
BBC originally balked at the idea of a 6-album release. (I don't make this
stuff up...)

Are you aware of the third radio drama? No? Here it is -- the end of the
Universe -- and you haven't lived yet!

>>the computer game, the *towel*,
> Now *that* I want. I'll send my boys over.

The game is still around. No need for emulators. Just go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
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Allen Huffman | 1 Mar 2005 03:03
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It's a good time to be a Hitchhiker, and probably a bad time to 
actively be doing things with names that are subject to lawsuits, like 
"Sub-Etha Software" might have been :-P

(There's a Mac developer with SubEthaEdit out...)

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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz | 1 Mar 2005 03:11

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At 08:03 PM 2/28/05 -0600, Allen Huffman wrote:
>It's a good time to be a Hitchhiker, and probably a bad time to 
>actively be doing things with names that are subject to lawsuits, like 
>"Sub-Etha Software" might have been :-P

And I have composition even closer, for flute and percussion, called "The
Sub-Aether Bande".

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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz | 1 Mar 2005 03:13

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At 08:55 PM 2/28/05 -0500, Rob wrote:
>The records were actually re-recordings of the original radio series; The
>BBC originally balked at the idea of a 6-album release.

My LP recording appears to be of the TV series (which I also have on Beta
tape somewhere), not the radio series.

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Allen Huffman | 1 Mar 2005 04:57
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On Feb 28, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

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> My LP recording appears to be of the TV series (which I also have on 
> Beta
> tape somewhere), not the radio series.

Is it a BBC thing?  I know they had discs of programmes (but I didn't 
know if they did audio from TV series).

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Mark McDougall | 1 Mar 2005 09:50
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Rob wrote:

> Yes, there was a 2nd album. It was 'Restaurant at the End of the
> Universe.' The records were actually re-recordings of the original radio
> series; The BBC originally balked at the idea of a 6-album release. (I
> don't make this stuff up...)

Yes, I *knew* there was a 2nd album, something I also confirmed today  <at> work 
in section 3.2 of the FAQ...
<http://opossum.rat.at/~anno/DA/dna_faq.txt>

But alas, whilst I can locate the 1st album, I can't find my copy of the 
2nd! :O I have a terrible feeling I got careless about 6 months ago when I 
purged my vinyl collection... :(

> Are you aware of the third radio drama? No? Here it is -- the end of the 
> Universe -- and you haven't lived yet!

Yes, and the pending 4th and 5th as well! I have yet to hear it - was going 
to wait until it was available on CD...

I note there's a "collectors edition" of the original radio play with 20th 
anniversary extras on 8 CDs, or a 'complete' version which appears to be the 
same on a single CD in MP3 format. I'll have to check that out sometime...

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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz | 1 Mar 2005 14:15

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At 09:57 PM 2/28/05 -0600, Allen Huffman wrote:
>Is it a BBC thing?  I know they had discs of programmes (but I didn't 
>know if they did audio from TV series).

I looked at it again. It says it's from the radio series, but it has the TV
screen cover, so that tricked my memory of it.

I remembered correctly that it was a 2-LP set. It's dated 1979, Original
Records Ltd., 38 Long Acre, London WC2. Simon Jones and the crew in all the
familiar roles. It reads, "Based on the BBC Radio 4 series. Recorded in
July and August 1979 at Sound Development Studios."

And in an interesting look forward to the intellectual property debates of
the present day, at the bottom it reads: "When the events on this record
take place, only those who have not made tape copies will stand any chance
of being rescued."

I took some photos of it. Here:
Front http://maltedmedia.com/photos/hh-1.jpg
Open http://maltedmedia.com/photos/hh-2-3.jpg
Back http://maltedmedia.com/photos/hh-4.jpg

Though I was a Hitchhiker's Guide and Monty Python fan (I have their
multi-groove "Matching Tie and Handkerchief"), that was 20-plus years ago
and I had put all that behind me ... which is why the renaissance in that
comedy came as a bit of a surprise. I hadn't much been paying attention!
You guys probably know all about this record!

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