After many years, I’ve finally got to listen to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show, from the original 1978 episodes to 2004-2005’s Quintessential Phase. I’ve heard it all before, but as the timespan was several years (from borrowing the original two series CDs and then hearing the Tertiary-Quintessential phases on the radio) spanned several years, I bought the entire set in 2012.
Then left it on the shelf, unplayed, along with the MP3 rip I took. The problem is, you need continuity. There’s 13 discs, plus a bonus one, and each disc is around an hour.
My ongoing hate of most radio, and the fact I’m unable to choose a music CD in the morning, has meant that my commute has tended to be accompanied by a Pump-Duse engine and tyre and wind noise, as while VAG’s PD is not the smoothest or quietest, it’s better than the breakfast show. Seems like an opportunity.
So the last few weeks have been filled with Vogons, Marvin, and the Total Perspective Vortex. It’s been great; taking some of the tedium out of the commute, showing just what a genius Douglas Adams was.
The only problem now is that I’m back to diesel knock and tyre roar, with HHGTTG back on the shelf for a few years. Oh well: Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
If you’ve got DAB radio in the car try radio 4 Extra
As many of the guys I work with, currently and recently, are based in or around the M25. a social night out can be a long and complex process of coach journeys and tubes,
Though the Coach ticket costs less than a cab from cheltenham to Gloucester !
During the last few evenings out, I managed to read HHGTTG & restaurant at the end of the universe on kindle. My first non technical, non self help, books I have read since i was 15.
And oddly that was also HHGTTG 🙂
however the kindle is also responsible for allowing me to read
What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by Grayling, A.C. #
and
The God Delusion by Dawkins, Richard
both great $deity rebuttal fodder !
@species5618: I love my Kindle. Never expected to, but bought it for on holiday after running out of books despite weighing my case down with them. Kindle is ace.
I’ve read The God Delusion, liked it a lot.
@agm: No DAB, I’m afraid, or it’d be BBC Radio 6, probably.