Transcript of Interview prior to launch of The New Radio HHGTTG series

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Now if you want to know the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything, then you can do worse then listen to the radio tonight.

The 'HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy' is returning to its original home, twenty six years after the show was first broadcast but The tourch has been carried on on the web by some thing called H2G2 wich is on BBC's huge mega site and Jim Sangster from h2g2 is on the line now to tell us something about it. It is a bit of a succes has it not been Jim?

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The whole franchise of the hitchhikers has been fantastic It started of as a radio series then it became a tv series, then it became a book, it has been a novelty towel, it has been a game. smiley - laugh And now we have got the new radio series with the mostly original cast and yes it is going quite well.



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It has kind of gone out from that original idea of the answer to the life the universe and everything into all sorts of different colours. I mean looking at your website and people post-in the most exraordinary sort of explainations of things.

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smiley - laugh That is right yes, I mean the idea for h2g2 is a sort of a real live version of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. I mean fans know that it is written in the books that earth was just lifted out as mostly harmless. So the idea that Douglas Adams had when he sat up h2g2 was to sort of redress the balance and look at the real history the science and the culture and everything about earth.



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And this is a sort of community of people who can sort of log in and say whatever they like well, within reason, whatever they like.

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Yes we got people from all over the world lots of college students from Ohio, teachers in hongkong, you know people from all over the world. They just want to join in and help creating this guide.



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And does it still refer back to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

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It does in a way, I mean we sort of perpetuated the metaphore of the whole guide thing, but we are not really a fan site, we are are not looking for recipies for gargle blasters or vogon poetry. Although some people do that as part of the wider community aspect of it.



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And it has now build up a huge archive ?

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A massive archive, I mean we have sort of an edited version wich consist of seventhousand entries but we have also got thousands of other entries on all manners say the life the universe and everything.



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Well thanks for joining us Jim Sangster, I know you will be glued to the radio for tonight, but thanks for joining us for what is h2g2, the time is now six minutes to five.

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smiley - diva
Was it not fiftyfour? The answer to,
smiley - clown
Fourtytwo!

smiley - diva
Was it? Are you sure?

smiley - clown
It is six times nine wich they say is forty two.

smiley - diva
I am sorry I asked now....





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