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

Mark, Danny and the Jons round out the second and final full season of Beware of the Leopard with a discussion on friendship, the spaceships it powers, and the capitalist hellscapes it smashes. Find us all on the Internet:   Jon Bounds Jon Hickman Danny Smith Mark Steadman Consume our things: Buy Danny's book Buy Birmingham: It's Not Shit, the book Listen to Mark's daily podcast Thank you for shar...

Children's books, Vogon poetry, dictionaries, ghost-writing, and choose-your-own adventures. All this, plus Jack the Ripper, sitcom reimaginings, David Williams, some news of our own, and the derivation of the term "Dirty Bristow". Links Subscribe to our newsletter Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Jon Hickman on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter The notorious Emma Wright Le...

Summer flings on Bethselamin, camping holidays in pissing Southport, the Holiday Theory of Relativity, and the inevitable books that followed on from Veet Voojagig's classic about Biros. All of this, plus the question: Zaphod Beeblebrox – sexist bully or scoundrel of his time? Listener Gemma's podcasts What’s in the tea? A Dollhouse re-watch Sleep Minute — Dreams & The Science of Sleep Links S...

One of the many major problems with producing podcasts is that of who you get to do it, or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarise: it is a well-known and much limited fact that those people who most want to produce podcasts are ipso facto those lists duty to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made a podcast producer sho...

Mark, Danny and the Jons present the Hitchhiker’s Guide to getting it all done. In our new format, each panelist writes a short essay on the given topic, in the style of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the book with the large friendly letters on the cover. Our thanks to Emma Wright (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follo...

Mark, Danny and the Jons present the Hitchhiker’s Guide to getting a good night's rest. In our new format, each panelist writes a short essay on the given topic, in the style of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  the book with the large friendly letters on the cover. Our thanks to Emma Wright (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twit...

To commemorate Towel Day 2021, Mark, Danny, and the Jons present the worst bits of Beware of the Leopard . These are all the bits that are normally cut from the main body of the episode and shoved to the back, to sit in shame and think about what they did. Now we're bringing them out into the light for you to judge, share, and hopefully on some level, enjoy. New episode coming in the next couple o...

Mark, Danny and the Jons present the Hitchhiker’s Guide to getting on in years. In our new format, each panelist writes a short essay on the given topic, in the style of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , the book with the large friendly letters on the cover. Our thanks to Emma Wright (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Foll...

Mark, Danny and the Jons present the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Christmas and the new year. In our new format, each panelist writes a short essay on the given topic, in the style of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , the book with the large friendly letters on the cover. Our thanks to Emma Wright (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide. Also in this episode, the panel show us their baub...

Mark, Danny and the Jons present the Hitchhiker’s Guide to music. In our new format, each panelist writes a short essay on the given topic, in the style of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , the book with the large friendly letters on the cover. Our thanks to Emma Wright (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Jon Hickman...

Mark, Danny, and the Jons present their Hitchhiker’s Guide entries on a return to school, including the long dark teatime of the soul, robot school, so-called non-subjects, and homework. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Jon Hickman on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Find more shows from the Outpost

Mark, Danny and the Jons present the Hitchhiker’s Guide to sport, with contributions on politics and PE, and a host of alien sporting activities sure to become major hits on Earth. In our new format, each panelist writes a short essay on the given topic, in the style of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , the book with the large friendly letters on the cover. Our thanks to Emma Wright (@ editor...

Join Mark, Jon, Jon and Danny as they play Podcast Day , the text adventure game written by Mark. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Jon Hickman on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Find more shows from the Outpost Play Podcast Day

Join Mark, Danny and the Jons as they tackle the fiddly social issues that arise from living through a global pandemic. Each panelist – including Mark – was tasked with writing an entry for an updated version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide . Jon Hickman wrote his on virtual meetings, Bounder went Marxist, Danny tackled isolation and Mark wrote about panic. The team also share their tips for surviving t...

Join Mark, Danny and the Jons as they recap what they’ve been up to since our last full episode, say goodbye to a fellow Hitchhiker and Adamsify a piece of existing pop culture. How we picked up Hitchhikers We Apologise for the Inconvenience, by Mark Griffiths Stephen Moore on IMDb Marvin the Paranoid Android Podcast Day: the text adventure game Mark on Podcast Radio Hour

Join Mark, Danny and the Jons as they attempt to solve the world’s problems and make it a good and happy place. Jon Hickman turns to pop culture, Danny says it’s all about kindness, Jon Bounds has a 19th century German philosopher to thank, and Mark’s solution, unsurprisingly, involves a lot of talking. Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Jon Hickman on Twitter Follow Mark...

Join Mark and the Jons as they finish up the last of the Zs in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Zaphod Beeblebrox Zaphod Beeblebrox is – or was – President of the Imperial Galactic Government. His favourite mother is Alice Beeblebrox, of 108 Astral Cresent, Zoofroozelchester, Betelgeuse V. Zaphod’s great grandfather is Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth. He grew an extra arm for Trillian, which to...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they saunter into the Z section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Wormhole Disco The place Zaphod and Roosta transport themselves to is the Wormhole Disco, which might as well have been called the Placeholder Club. In this disco there are nozels on the wall that spray the smell of hot sweat over everything, and the place is packed with dancing robots. Wowbagger...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the W section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Wave harmonic theory of historical perception Reason not withstanding, the universe continues unabated. Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, even in its simpler moments which are, roughly speaking, the beginning and the end. The wave harmonic theory of historical perceptio...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the V section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Vogon constructor fleets Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy – not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ra...

Join Mark and the Jons as they traverse the V section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , with a quick final stop-off at U. Uncertain Areas “Wild horses thundered through the sky taking fresh supplies of reinforced railings to the Uncertain Areas”. That’s a line from the popular book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to teh Galaxy , and it describes a thing that happens aboard the starship Heart of Gol...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they clear the T section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Tri-D Tri-D is Adams’ allusion to some sort of 3D TV, and is distinct from Five-D, the sub-etha, the Sense-o-Tape, the Hall of Informational Illusions and whatever other technology he created to show things to characters. Triganic Pu The Triganic Pu is a form of galactic currency. Its exchange rate of ei...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the T section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Tea and Douglas What JB said about kettles isn’t entirely inaccurate, according to an American friend of Mark’s, who also has a lovely story to tell about Douglas Adams. Thor Thor is a thunder god. Arthur picks a fight with him over Trillian at an airborne party. Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tens...

Join Mark and the Jons as they traverse the [letter] section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Sun dive Hotblack Deseato’s band has a completely black stunt ship that dives into the sun on Kakrafoon, as part of the climax of a gig. Susan Sheridan Susan Sheridan played Trillian in the radio series. She died in 2015, but had a good career as a voice actor with credits including Budgie the Li...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Strag A strag is a non-hitchhiker. Given that we’ve discussed the idea of the hitchhiker as a class of person, Strangulous Stilettans of Jajazikstak The Strangulous Stilettans of Jajazikstak are mortal enemies of the Silastic Armourfiends of Striterax. Strateej-o-Mat The Strateej-o-Mat is a strategy a...