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

All four episodes of the BBC's audio dramatisation of 'Mort' are now available on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b5r2q

I'm looking forward to listening to it this weekend.

Thanks for the heads up. It's available for the next 27 days so I'll catch them next week.

Thank you. I just listened to the first episode - I wasn't sure I'd be able to over here...

Very nice, that story.

Brilliant! Thanks for the heads up.

I'm listening to ep. III today. Just boinging this so it doesn't slip too far down my convolist.

I haven't listened to it, but fans of more traditional fantasy can listen to a radio adaptation of Ursula Le Guin's 'Earthsea' on iPlayer now. It's in 6 parts - the final part will be available tomorrow:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pktp7/episodes/player


Can anyone recommend the story?

I've read 4 in the Earthsea trilogy, and I think a short story or two too., but all a few years ago, now. I remember that some I thought were better than others. All were enjoyable enough for me to buy more of her work when I find it around second hand, but she's not my favourite author. Which story are they adapting? I've not seen the Studio Ghibli film, but I know she didn't like it.

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The blurb says:

"Published between 1968 and 1972, the first three books of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea cycle (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore) are re-told across six intertwined episodes. Set on a vast archipelago of islands, where magic is a central part of life, they tell the stories of Ged and Tenar. Ged is a boy from the island of Gont, born with innate magical talent and a reckless nature, who releases a terrible shadow into the world and must risk everything in order to restore the balance. Tenar, a girl from the island of Atuan, is taken from her home and family to become Arha, the Priestess Ever Reborn, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. Deep within the Tombs, Ged and Tenar encounter one another and seek a way of bringing peace to the troubled archipelago."

Odd that you mention Studio Ghibli...


I'm currently reading the Tiffany Aching books. I've read Wintersmith previously, but now I'm starting over with Wee Free Men. I got to the scene with her rushing ahead with her frying pan wielded high and thought to myself that Studio Ghibli could do a damn fine job with that story. Probably because they have done well with other stories of adventurous and daring young girls like in Spirited Away and especially Kiki's Delivery Service, what with it being about a young girl learning to be a witch.

I'm half way through the Earthsea dramatisation (post 7), and I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. It's a gently paced and understated production which gives me some space to imagine, which I guess is the point of that genre.

Pratchett's "Eric" is being rebroadcast on iPlayer, in 4 short episodes starting on Monday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r0zb9

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Thank you!

I nearly forgot about this. Fortunately it will remain available for another couple of weeks.

Yes, I should have reminded you.

So, did you enjoy it?

I haven't listened to it yet. That's why I'm glad I remembered before it was too late. I'll listen to it this week.

Well, that didn't take long. Just four 15 minute episodes.

It's been so long since I read Eric I hardly remembered any of it.

Yes, short but fast-moving.

There are a couple more BBC Radio Pratchetts I'm waiting to come around - I suspect we smay get them by the end of the year: Wyrd Sisters and Guards Guards.

Keep us posted.