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If you live in the Southern California area, you can hear The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, all original 12 episodes, in a marathon session from 9am to 3pm on January 1! Coolness! --oh, and they'll also be airing them sequentially afterward the following week. You can also go to the KCRW website now and listen to episodes 4-12 in their entirety, without commercials or voiceovers.

Here's the info from their website:

WED JAN 1, 2003

Hitchhiker's Guide Marathon

We invite you to travel the galaxy with Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblbrox in search of the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. We happily offer you a New Year's gift, a reprise of Douglas Adams' beloved sci-fi humor classic, all six hours, complete. Tune in New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2003 from 9 AM to 3 PM to hear the complete radio dramatization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Where's KCRW on the dial?

The terrestrial station serves Los Angeles and Orange Counties at 89.9 FM, Ventura County at 89.1 FM on KCRU/Oxnard-Ventura, the greater Palm Springs area at 89.3 FM on KCRI/Indio-Palm Springs and Kern and Northern LA Counties at 88.1 FM on KCRY/Mojave/Antelope Valley. KCRW can now be heard in Santa Barbara at 106.9. Other translators carry the signal to the Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley areas at 90.7 FM, Gorman at 89.7 FM, Banning at 90.9 FM, the Ridgecrest area at 100.1 FM, the Thousand Oaks and Conejo Valley areas at 102.3 FM, Ojai at 102.1 FM, and Lemon Grove/Spring Valley in San Diego County at 89.9 FM. KCRW can be found online at www.kcrw.com.

If you're like me, you first heard this radio series on NPR radio in the early 80's and fell in love with it then. And around the same time, Star Wars was broadcast as a radio show, with Mark Hamill voicing Luke Skywalker. 'Twas the coolest.

And Zaphod Beeblebrox? "He's just this guy, you know?" (episode 9)