Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast

Mark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.

Earth

Earth is a planet that was destroyed five minutes before the result of the most important experiment in the universe was revealed. The team examines the possibility that we’re living in a simulation, but maybe not a good one. Here’s Jon Hickman’s Tesco ad generator, by way of example.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon VI is a published author, having penned the work The Big Bang Theory - A Personal View. Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body.

Eddie

Eddie is the shipboard computer, and the object of an earlier poll. Now we’re in a tie situation, the panel pick a personality and make a case as to why they should win the spot. To cast your vote, tweet @btlpodcast

Edmund Lucy Fentible

Fentible is the DoorBot of the Starship Titanic, voiced by Jonathan Kydd. He’s the first character you meet when the ship crash lands in your house. The panel discusses what Douglas Adams had against houses, and why he kept wanting to destroy them.

Electron ram

From the turret of the electron ram emerges a sharp prong which spats a single lethal blaze of light. A scout robot demonstrates the use of such a weapon when talking to Marvin, who’s trying to distract the robot so that his friends can run away.

Electronic thumb

A subetha device without which an interstellar hitchhiker would have as much chance of survival as a welk in a supernova.

Book recommendation

This week we’re recommending /You’re Never Weird on the Internet/ , by Felicia Day. Pick it up in audiobook form for free by taking out a free 30 day trial with Audible. Just head to audibletrial.com/leopard to get started.

Get in touch

Share your thoughts on conservation via [email protected].

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Mark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.

Warning: This episode contains lots of swearing and sex talk.

Dogs

Arthur makes a passing reference to having a dog in the second radio episode, and the first book. So the panel asks “where’s Arthur’s dog?”

Dolphins

Dolphins are the second most intelligent species on earth, but did you know just how kinky they are? Danny reveals all.

Domain of the King

Is Elvis really dead, and are we forgetting him? The panel discusses Elvis in recent pop culture, and ask an academic question about the slipping of the King out of our cultural memories.

Douglas Adams

The panel embarks on some general appreciation of Adams’ work inside and outside of the Hitchhiker’s Guide , involving his Apple fandom and his friendship with Richard Dawkins.

Jon Hickman’s H2G2 Warsaw article

Book recommendation

This week we’re recommending /The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin/ , by David Nobbs. Pick it up in audiobook form for free by taking out a free 30 day trial with Audible. Just head to audibletrial.com/leopard to get started.

Get in touch

Share your thoughts on Douglas Adams via [email protected].

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Mark Steadman, Jon Bounds and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.

Definit-Kil photrazon cannon

A Vogon weapon, and an excuse for us to talk about firing guns and nihilism.

Dentrassis

The best cooks and _the _ best drinks mixers, and they don’t give a wet slap about anything else. The team discusses their favourite ways of annoying Vogons.

The Digital Village

The company that renamed to H2G2, and were in charge of the original H2G2 website before it was stewarded by the BBC.

Digital watches

A pretty neat idea and a chance for our teams to get some things off their chests.

Dine-o-Charge

An intergalactic credit card used by Ford Prefect.

Dingos’ kidneys

This piece of profanity used only by Ford Prefect is a good excuse for the team to discuss some mostly-harmless swearwords.

Dire Straits

A band of which Douglas Adams would appear to be a big fan. Here, Bounder shares a wonderful story from a biography, in which Adams encounters a young Mark Knopfler.

Hypothetical Eddie

Vote on your favourite actor to play Eddie the shipboard computer, in a hypothetical new Netflix series of the Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Book recommendation

This week we’re recommending /What Was Lostby Catherine O’Flynn/. Pick it up in audiobook form for free by taking out a free 30 day trial with Audible. Just head to audibletrial.com/leopard to get started.

Get in touch

Share your thoughts on Dire Straits or digital watches via [email protected].

Follow @ iamsteadman, @ bounder and @ probablydrunk on Twitter.

Mark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.

Cruxwan University

The seat of learning that was attended by Vroomfondel. We discuss whether Cruxwan would be a redbrick uni or a former polytechnic.

D’Astragar ‘d’Astragaaar d’Astragar

The Maitre d’Bot of the Starship Titanic, voiced by Philip Pope (who also voices the lift).

Damogran

A planet 500,000 light years from our sun, made up of lots of middling-to-large desert islands, and the secret home of the starship Heart of Gold.

David Jason

Jason played the captain of the Golgafrincham B Ark and the caveman in the radio series. The team celebrates their favourite David Jason roles. He’s still alive at the time of broadcast, just so you know. Mark and Jon Hickman also land a massive knowledge bomb on Bounder.

David Tate

Tate played a huge number of roles in the radio series, and Jon Bounds discusses one of his favourite lines.

Deep Thought

The computer that designed the earth, but wasn’t capable of coming up with a good answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. Is this down to the GIGO principle?

Book recommendation

This week we’re recommending /The Player of Games/ , the second in the Culture series by Ian M Banks. Pick it up in audiobook form for free by taking out a free 30 day trial with Audible. Just head to audibletrial.com/leopard to get started.

Get in touch

Share your Deep Thought thoughts, via [email protected].

Follow @ iamsteadman, @ jonhickman and @ bounder on Twitter. Also check out Jon Hickman’s Tesco ad generator, and Thread, Jon Hickman and Mark’s other show.

Mark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.

Colin

Colin is a delightful, and constantly delighted little security robot captured by Ford. The team discusses whether such a hack job could work on Marvin.

CompuTeach

Another computerised device that can also be made happy. The CompuTeach educates listeners to the radio series about the Shoe Event Horizon.

Cosmovid, Thinkpix and Home Brain Box

Three subethanet services that show films, and a chance for the team to come up with “hilarious” ideas for new Netflix-style shows.

Counting

This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer. Once again Mark asks Jon to defend one of Adams’ sci-fi gags.

Cows

Here we discuss the morals around vegetarianism and veganism. And because your podcasters are children, they discuss whether they would eat human flesh.

Book recommendation

This week we’re recommending /After on: A Novel of Silicon Valley/ by Rob Reid. Pick it up in audiobook form for free by taking out a free 30 day trial with Audible. Just head to audibletrial.com/leopard to get started.

Get in touch

Share your thoughts on sentient cows, via [email protected].

Follow @ iamsteadman, @ jonhickman and @ probablydrunk on Twitter.