h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have been listening to the Sunday Format on Radio National Australia. I would buy it on CD to share it with friends if it were available.

Although it is very funny, I also find it depressing because it basically presents something like a core-sample of the human psyche - constantly seeking some kind of escape from reality. It is actually not very far from real life at all.

It is not comforting. You can have a laugh at it, but then our own minds work the same way at least to some degree in that we (at least most of us) are constantly seeking a mental occupation as a kind of escape. If we weren't, we wouldn't get all this advertising as we do.

Obviously a choice was made not to get into the way the Sunday papers (or the papers generally) present 'news'. It would add an interesting aspect, but I can see why they haven't gone down that path.

The couple with the perfect apartment except for the deliberate imperfection of not have a doorbell were a classic. I could really empathise with their daughter who was in the bathroom with the lights out and running warm water, in a fetal position engaging in a 'return to the womb'. (I don't mean that my parents were like hers!) One of the postings criticises the lack of traditional techniques of timing etc. I couldn't disagree more! The way they take their daughter in as part of their guided tour was spot on!

Matt, I too listened to The Sunday Format and would very much like a copy on CD. Did you have any luck acquiring one?
AndrewZ

Researching Sunday Format and just found out it is currently being repeated on bbc radio7 Next show is thurs 10th at 2pm..repeated early on the friday. Last weeks show still available on the "listen again" section. Parts 1 and 2 of this 4 show run already repeated and gone.