The Bearded Wit

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We're BACK! Finally, we get to join our intrepid galactic hitchhiking heroes as they attempt to make sense of anything at all. We're about a third of the way into the sixth book "And Another Thing"...

Zaphod has promised to kill Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, a promise Wowbagger is VERY keen to see fulfilled. The only problem is that they're on their way, at Zaphod's suggestion, to Asgard. What Zaphod does not know, however, is that the beasts guarding Asgard have been given Zaphod's scent...

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in the meantime has got a whiff of the fact that a small colony of homo sapiens escaped the multidimensional destruction of (all the) Earth(s) and is now on his way to obliterate them in order to complete his paperwork.

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Wowbagger the infinitely prolonged is very busy trying to ensure his own demise, everyone else is just trying to stay alive. Will any of them succeed? Who cares if you're all watching Belgium v Portugal... (during EURO 2020, when this went out live) BELGIUM MAN! BELGIUM!!!

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The gang are apparently safe and secure having found themselves first being "saved" by Zaphod - and then being REALLY saved by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. But is this all really helping? Listen in and find out!

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Our intrepid heroes are emerging from a spacetime envelope that has held them "safely" in place for quite some time. But now they are being sliced to death by the Grebulon death rays...

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We continue to uncover what on EARTH happened to our intrepid heroes after Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz got to put a final tick on his "to-do" list...

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And Another Thing... We dive into the sixth book of three - the final instalment in the Hitchhiker's saga - this time penned by Eoin Colfer of "Artemis Fowl" fame. Sanctioned by Adams' widow, Jane Belson, this is the book that he had intended to write before his all-too-early passing. After writing five Hitchhiker books, Adams had felt the need to continue the story: "I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book...", and "People have said, quite rightly, that Mostly Harmless is a very bleak book. I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of number." Grab your towels and put on a brew, we're off again!

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And now, the end is near, we turn to face the final curtain... But ONLY if we can find out WHERE in the zarking universe Stavromula Beta actually is...

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Ford has arrived on Lamuella and having been knocked out twice by Random (who then disappeared off with the new version of the Guide to find Earth) has met up with a bewildered Arthur and persuaded him to try and get off the planet by riding on a Perfectly Normal Beast through a rip in reality at the end of Anhondo Plains... This has pleased Old Thrashbarg very much indeed. But where will Arthur and Ford end up - and who, for zark's sake, is "THE" King?

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Random has vanished with the new multidimensionaltimesandrealitythingy version of the guide, and Arthur has been left sitting on a body in a cave. Doesn't sound awfully promising does it? Ah well... there's always tea...

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Arthur and (his up-to-now completely unknown daughter) Random have been getting to know one another. Thrashbarg is running out of ways to make more spaceships fit into his blatantly self-serving "Almighty Bob" narrative. And Trillian is off... somewhere in the spacetime continuum... But where will this all end? Listen in and find out more...

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