# Heads Up: New Hitchhikers BBC radio show

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**Created:** [September 13, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-new-hitchhikers-bbc-radio-show/264231 "2004-09-13T10:56:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-new-hitchhikers-bbc-radio-show/264231/1 "2004-09-13T10:56:38Z")

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> The last three books of the ‘trilogy in five parts’, Life, The Universe And Everything; So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and Mostly Harmless, have been dramatised as two new series (none of them were previously produced for radio).

I can hardly wait. between this and the upcoming movie (please don’t fuck it up, please, please please please) it’s a good time for HHGTTG fans.

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml)

Previews and downloads available from that link. You can also listen to the show via the link if you can’t get BBC4 radio.

OHHH only a week and a day to go.

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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-new-hitchhikers-bbc-radio-show/264231/2 "2004-09-13T11:13:58Z")

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I shall be listening . I think I must be one of the first fans of the original radio series. Up till last year I had my original ( probably illegal ) off-air recordings. I have now replaced them with legitimate BBC tapes . Pity about them dropping that Pink Floyd track !

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-new-hitchhikers-bbc-radio-show/264231/3 "2004-09-13T14:48:39Z")

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I am actually more excited about this than the movie. I love how they’ve dealt with the absence of Peter Jones (the original voice of The Book) - in that it’s consistant with the books.