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

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . We dedicate this episode to Jeremy Hardy, who died last week. The Great Ventilation and Telephone Riots of SrDt 3454 These riots led to three important events, which we’ll go through in turn, but it’s basically all the fault of a ventilation system called the Breathe-o-Smart, which was absolutely guar...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue with the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Slim’s Throat Emporium Slim’s Throat Emporium is a bar Ford and Hotblack Desiato used to crash, pretending to be health inspectors. Slo-Time The planet of Krikkit was to be enclosed for perpetuity in an envelope of Slo-Time, inside which life would continue almost infinitely slowly. All light wou...

Mark and the Jons are back off their Christmas break and ready to continue through the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax The best way to pick a fight with a Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax was just to be born. They didn’t like it, they got resentful. And when an Armorfiend got resentful, someone got hurt. They were the first race who ever manag...

Join Mark, Danny and the Jons as they ring in 2019 with a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy pub quiz, in which every single round – every single one – is completely and 100% to do with the Douglas Adams sci-fi universe.

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue traversing the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Sens-o-Tape Sens-o-Tape is another piece of VR equipment. In the first book, Arthur gets strapped into a machine that shows him how the Magratheans discovered the Ultimate Answer. Sesefras Magna Sesefras Magna is a planet around which Ford is orbiting when he hooks up a ship to the Speaking...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Saquo-Pilia Hensha King Antwelm made a famous assumption that what everybody wanted, all other things being equal, was to be happy and enjoy themselves and have the best possible time together. On his death he had willed his entire personal fortune to financing an annual festival to remind everyone of...

Join Mark and the Jons as they finish up the R section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , and make a move on the Ss. Rula Lenska Rula Lenska plays Lintilla and her clones, and the Guide in bird form in the radio series. Russell Russell is Fenchurch’s brother. To Arthur’s mind, the name Russell always suggested burly men with blond moustaches and blow-dried hair, who would at the slightest p...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the R section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Reverse temporal engineering Reverse temporal engineering is a new technology of “unfiltered perception”, which is a marvellous way of making anything you want to have happen, happen, without all that tedious mucking about with probability drives or Italian waiters. Danny, is there a name for the kind...

Mark and Jon Hickman welcome Danny back to the Leopard with an episode in which we pull out random letters from the Scrabble bag. Warning: your mother would not approve of you listening to this episode. We discuss feedback from Twitter and email, educate Danny on the Baby Shark phenomenon, learn more about the Mandela effect, and Jon continues to make fun of Mark for liking heavily-detailed Swedis...

Join Mark and the Jons as they continue through the R section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Radiophonic Workshop The Radiopohinc Workshop was a BBC department that mae music and noises for BBC programmes, originally for radio and then for TV too. Arguably their most famous contribution is the Doctor Who theme. They were formed in 1958 and carried on for another 40 years until John Birt...

Join Mark and the Jons as they finish up the P section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , and get into some Rs. President Yooden Vranx President Yooden Vranx was Zaphod’s predecessor. It was his idea to steal the Heart of Gold. but… was it? Probability The guide says that if you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds, but the chances of g...

Join Mark and the Jons as they traverse the P section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Politics The Jons explain why David Icke is like a British Rail sandwich, and that lizards eat babies. Pondermatic The Pondermatic is another computer not as smart as Deep Thought, who in fact called it a “cybernetic simpleton”. Poodoo Poodoo is an executive from the company that built the cloning machi...

Jon Bounds, Jon Hickman, Danny Smith and Mark Steadman meetup in real life to discuss their favourite characters, put the Guide on shuffle mode and drink a homemade pangalactic gargleblaster. Huge thanks to everyone who came to see us record, to Elle for holding the mic for Danny, and to the Mockingbird Cinema for having us.

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue traversing the P section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Philip Pope Philip Pope recorded a character voice in the Starship Titanic video game, wrote the Krikkit song and voiced one of the masters of Krikkit in the radio series. He’s also partly-responsible - along with Richard Curtis - for a pitch-perfect BeeGees parody. Photon-ajuitar The photo...

Join Mark, Danny and Jon Bounds as they play through as much of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game as they could. Spoiler: it’s still not much. This was recorded live on Friday 25th May 2018, for Towel Day .

Join Mark and the Jons as they traverse the P section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Paul McCartney In Life, the Universe and Everything , we’re treated to Adams’ thoughts on Paul McCartney. One of his little one-liners, in reference to a tune being sung on Krikkit is “Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening, humming it to Linda and wo...

Join Mark and the Jons as they traverse the P section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , and take a sneaky pitstop at O. Oolon Colluphid Oolon Colluphid is the author of heretical works of non-fiction. We’ve covered many of his books already, but titles include Where God Went Wrong , Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? Orion Beta Orion Beta is noted for i...

Join Mark, Danny and Jon Bounds as they play through as much of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game as they could. Spoiler: it's not much. This was recorded live on Friday 25th May 2018, for Towel DAy .

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the M section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Towel Day is coming! Join us on Friday 25th June for a special live event! Follow @ btlpodcast for details. New York In So Long and Thanks for All the Fish , Ford Prefect has a dream in which he meets a creature formed out of the pollutants of New York's East River. “I instinctively feel”, says the cr...

Join Mark, Jon and Jon as they traverse the M section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Mice Trillian - remember her? - kept some pet mice, who turned out to be the most intelligent beings on earth. We still don't know what species they are when they're not projecting themselves as little furry cratures with a cheese fixation. Milliard Gargantubrain The Milliard Gargantubrain is a super-co...

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the M section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Matter transference beams Ford and Arthur are teleported from the smouldering remains of the Earth to the Vogon ship, via a matter transference beam. A song that regularly used to be chanted by huge crowds outside the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Teleport Systems factory on Happi-Werld III goes "If...

Join Danny, Jon and Mark as they barrel through the M section of the Guide. Links Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts

Danny joins Mark and Jon Bounds to discuss crisps, Sundays and Zeno’s paradox. It’s all in the L section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Links Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Zoo (2007 film) - Wikipedia

Mark and Jon Hickman are joined by Jon Bounds to work through some more of the L section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Lazlar Lyricon Lazlar Lyricon is a customiser of space craft to the staggeringly wealthy. He customised the Disaster Area’s limo, and is said, by Ford Prefect, to have “no shame”. Lazlar Lyricon also leant its name to a convention of Hitchhiker’s fans. The first was in...

Mark and Danny Smith are joined by Jon Hickman to finish up the K section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , and tackle a couple of important Ls. Krikkit Of all the races on the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into what is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game. L Pros...