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New BBC Hitchhiker’s Guide goodies

Posted September 24th, 2004 at 08:22am

Over at the BBC Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy site, you can now (after too many long years) listen to the first new HHGTTG episodes (direct link: RealPlayer or WMP). This takes up from where the original series left off, at the end of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Note that the late and much lamented Douglas Adams himself appears in the series: he recorded his voice playing his favourite part before he died suddenly of a heart attack in 2001.

Also at the site, you can play the re-tooled HHGTTG interactive computer game, originally written by Adams and published by Infocom back in the 1980’s (the source of many long nights and seemingly endless laughter for me in my teens).