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Working HealthcareEp. 68 - From Football to Big Pharma, Jon Hickman is Rewriting Pharmacy's PlaybookPress play as Jon Hickman tells Working Healthcare host Meredith Hirsh how juggling school and college athletics forged his leadership style. Follow Jon's path from all-conference track and field star and college football player to a 16-year career at Walgreens, where he built a foundation in patient care and executive management. Jon’s willingness to always raise his hand for new opportunities propelled him into Big Pharma, with impactful roles at AstraZeneca and now Genentech. Hear his perspective on why Genentech stands out in supporting uninsured and underinsured patients, challenging the common narrative around pharmaceutical companies. Explore timely issues li...
2025-09-0955 min
The Competitive Edge Podcast: Fatherhood | Fitness | FocusEP 76 | Jon Ross-Wiley: From Traditional Sports to Hybrid Racing | Consistency, Competition, Community and Camaraderie: Jon's Journey! "I just really love it. Love the work, love the people." Available on Youtube as well for the full video interview YouTube Channel Name: "Daniel Jason Hickman" Underdog Fitness (Episode sponsor): Discount code EDGE20 Summary In this engaging conversation, Daniel Jason Hickman interviews Jon Ross-Wiley, a hybrid racing athlete, about his journey from traditional sports to hybrid racing. They discuss the importance of competition, mental resilience, and the community aspect of racing. Jon shares insights on how racing has impacted his life, both personally and professionally, emphasizing the significance of consi...
2024-11-241h 10
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastFriendshipMark, 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 BoundsJon HickmanDanny SmithMark SteadmanConsume our things:Buy Danny's bookBuy Birmingham: It's Not Shit, the bookListen to Mark's daily podcastThank you for sharing, and we hope you enjoyed.
2023-12-281h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastThe Hitchhiker's Guide to BooksChildren'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".LinksSubscribe to our newsletterFollow Danny on TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterThe notorious Emma WrightLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts
2022-09-0848 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastThe Hitchhiker's Guide to HolidaysSummer 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 podcastsWhat’s in the tea? A Dollhouse re-watchSleep Minute — Dreams & The Science of SleepLinksSubscribe to our newsletterFollow Danny on TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterThe notorious Emma WrightLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts
2022-08-0450 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastProductivityMark, 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.
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2021-10-141h 04
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastProductivityMark, 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 TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the Outpost
2021-10-141h 04
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastSleepMark, 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.
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2021-06-171h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastSleepMark, 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 TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the Outpost
2021-06-171h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastBirthdays and ageingMark, 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.
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2021-04-011h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastBirthdays and ageingMark, 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 TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the Outpost
2021-04-011h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastDon't Panic! It's Christmas!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 baubles, and try and find something to hope for in 2021.
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2020-12-2448 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastDon't Panic! It's Christmas!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 baubles, and try and find something to hope for in 2021.Follow Danny on TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on T...
2020-12-2448 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastThe Don't Panic guide to musicMark, 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.
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2020-12-101h 05
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastThe Don't Panic guide to musicMark, 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 TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the Outpost
2020-12-101h 05
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastDon't Panic! goes back to schoolMark, 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.
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2020-11-121h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastDon't Panic! goes back to schoolMark, 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 TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the Outpost
2020-11-121h 02
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastThe Don't Panic guide to sportMark, 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 (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide.
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2020-08-0652 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastThe Don't Panic guide to sportMark, 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 (@ editorialgirl ) for being the voice of the Guide.Follow Danny on TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a...
2020-08-0652 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastTowel Day 2020Join Mark, Jon, Jon and Danny as they play Podcast Day, the text adventure game written by Mark.
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2020-05-251h 23
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastTowel Day 2020Join Mark, Jon, Jon and Danny as they play Podcast Day, the text adventure game written by Mark.Follow Danny on TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the OutpostPlay Podcast Day
2020-05-251h 23
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastThe Dont Panic Guide to the COVID-19 pandemicJoin 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 the apocalypse, whether or not you happen to know where your towel is.Stay safe, stay indoors, listen to podcasts.
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2020-04-101h 03
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastThe Dont Panic Guide to the COVID-19 pandemicJoin 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 the apocalypse, whether or not you happen to know where your towel is.Stay safe, stay indoors, listen to podcasts.Follow Danny on TwitterFollow Jon Bo...
2020-04-101h 03
List EnvyTop 5 things we’re leaving behindFellow podcaster Jon Hickman joins Mark to cast aside things from our adolescence that we can get by just as well without.Jon co-hosts the hilarious and often genuinely moving – no pun intended — fitness, running and tech podcast You Don’t Look Like a Runner with Nick Moreton, and Thread with Mark.(00:00) - Introduction
(04:58) - Jon's pick: Kevin Smith movies
(15:36) - Mark's pick: Smash Mouth
(23:28) - Jon's pick: Pop charts
(28:44) - Mark's pick: Bill Hicks
(37:58) - Jon's pick: Graham Linehan
(42:20) - Mark's pick: American Beauty
(50:42) - Jon's pick: Cheeky Nando's'
(55:02) - Mark's pick: The ch...
2019-11-261h 09
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastThe question to the ultimate answerJoin 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 TwitterFollow Jon Bounds on TwitterFollow Jon Hickman on TwitterFollow Mark on TwitterLeave us a review on Apple PodcastsFind more shows from the OutpostYou Don’t Look Like a Runner — Jon Hickman’s running podcastThread — Mark and Jon Hickman’s other podcastDan...
2019-04-181h 21
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastThe question to the ultimate answerJoin 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.
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You Don’t Look Like a Runner — Jon Hickman’s running podcast
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2019-04-181h 21
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastFrom Zaphod Beeblebrox to ZentalquabulaJoin Mark and the Jons as they finish up the last of the Zs in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Zaphod BeeblebroxZaphod 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 took him six months.ZarniwoopHidden away in a pocket universe, and played by Jonathan Price, Zarniwoop is the guy who concocte...
2019-04-1140 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Zaphod Beeblebrox to ZentalquabulaJoin Mark and the Jons as they finish up the last of the Zs in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Zaphod BeeblebroxZaphod 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 took him six months.ZarniwoopHidden away in a pocket universe, and played by Jonathan Price, Zarniwoop is the guy who concocte...
2019-04-1140 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom the Wormhole Disco to the Zansellquasure Flamarion Bridge ClubJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they saunter into the Z section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Wormhole DiscoThe 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 the Infinitely ProlongedWowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged was – indeed, is – one of the Universe’s very small nu...
2019-04-0447 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom wave harmonic theory to the Wise Old BirdJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the W section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Wave harmonic theory of historical perceptionReason 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 perception, in its simplest form, states that history is an illusion caused by the passage of time, and that time is an illusion caused by the passage of history. It also st...
2019-03-2852 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastFrom wave harmonic theory to the Wise Old BirdJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the W section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Wave harmonic theory of historical perceptionReason 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 perception, in its simplest form, states that history is an illusion caused by the passage of time, and that time is an illusion caused by the passage of history. It also st...
2019-03-2852 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Vogons to WalkmansJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the V section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Vogon constructor fleetsHere 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 Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public...
2019-03-2152 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom the Uncertain Areas to VodJoin 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 Gold, when Ford andn Arthur are brought on-board.Ursa MinorUrsa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the...
2019-03-1439 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Tri-D to TurlingdromeJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they clear the T section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Tri-DTri-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 PuThe Triganic Pu is a form of galactic currency. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six...
2019-03-0741 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Thor to Transtellar Cruise LinesJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the T section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Tea and DouglasWhat 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.ThorThor is a thunder god. Arthur picks a fight with him over Trillian at an airborne party.Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tense FormationsOne of the major problems encountered in time tra...
2019-02-2843 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom sun diving to Terry JonesJoin Mark and the Jons as they traverse the [letter] section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Sun diveHotblack 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 SheridanSusan 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 Little Helecopter and Jimbo(a personal favourite). We’re going to talk about Trillian in a f...
2019-02-2140 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Strags to the Sub-Etha Sens-o-MaticJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.StragA strag is a non-hitchhiker. Given that we’ve discussed the idea of the hitchhiker as a class of person,Strangulous Stilettans of JajazikstakThe Strangulous Stilettans of Jajazikstak are mortal enemies of the Silastic Armourfiends of Striterax.Strateej-o-MatThe Strateej-o-Mat is a strategy aparatus on the Grebulon ship, that will only follow the commnads of the Chief Strategic Officer.St...
2019-02-1435 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom SrDt 3454 to Stephen MooreJoin 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 3454These 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 guaranteed to never, ever, ever, go wrong; so much so that the company demanded all customers seal shut all the windows in buildings that used it. So...
2019-02-0742 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Slim’s Throat Emporium to SqornshellousJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue with the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Slim’s Throat EmporiumSlim’s Throat Emporium is a bar Ford and Hotblack Desiato used to crash, pretending to be health inspectors.Slo-TimeThe 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 would be deflected round the envelope so that it would remain invisible and impenetrable. Escape from the envelope would be utterly impossible unless...
2019-01-3137 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Striterax to SlartibartfastMark 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 StriteraxThe 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 managed to shock a computer. The computer in question was Hactar, and they commissioned him to build an ultimate weapon, which almo...
2019-01-2449 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Sens-o-Tape to the Siderial Daily MentionerJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue traversing the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Sens-o-TapeSens-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 MagnaSesefras Magna is a planet around which Ford is orbiting when he hooks up a ship to the Speaking Clock on Earth, and where Xaxisians dock their battle fleet. Its sun is Zondostina, known to Sesefrasians as Pleiades Zeta. Orbiting the pl...
2018-12-2035 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastFrom Saquo-Pilia Hensha to Sector ZZ9 Plural Z AlphaJoin Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the S section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.Saquo-Pilia HenshaKing 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 this, with lots of good food and dancing and very silly games like Hunt the Wocket. His Assumption had been such a brilliantly good one that he...
2018-12-1333 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast52: From Rula Lenska to Santraginus VJoin 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 provocation start wearing velvet tuxedos and frilly shirtfronts and would then have to be for...
2018-12-0644 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast51: From reverse temporal engineering to RoostaJoin 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 of thing you add to a sci-fi or fantasy universe that can just solve any problem? Is it a deus ex machina or is that someth...
2018-11-2937 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast50: Loose tiles vol 1Mark 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 Swedish crime-fiction.
We also look into staffing and casting a hypothetical Random Dent TV series, Jon reads some spam and Mark talks about being scared by VR.
2018-11-2236 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast49: From the Radiophonic Workshop to Reg NullifyJoin 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, the then Director General shut them down as they weren’t profitable enough.
Random Dent
Random Dent is Arthur’s daug...
2018-11-1537 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast48: From President Vranx to radiation swampsJoin 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 getting picked up by another ship within that timeframe are two to...
2018-11-0840 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast47: From politics to Pralite monksJoin 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 machines that created the hundreds of millions of Lintilla clones we meet on Bro...
2018-11-0144 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast42: Live at the Birmingham Podcast FestivalJon 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.
2018-07-1252 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast45: From Philip Pope to PoghrilJoin 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 photon-ajuitar is a musical instrument, with a keyboard.
Pikka birds
Pikka birds live on Lamu...
2018-06-2839 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastTowel Day special - Part 2Join 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.
2018-06-2151 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast43: From Paul McCartney to the Phargilor KangarooJoin 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 wondering what to buy with the proceeds”.
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings is from Es...
2018-06-1437 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast41: From Oolon Colluphid to partiesJoin 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 its madronite mining belts, where Ford learned to play a drinking game involving teleke...
2018-06-0737 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastTowel Day special - Part 1Join 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.
2018-05-311h 08
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast39: From New York to Old ThrashbargJoin 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 creature, “that I need to be beautiful. Am I?”
NowWha...
2018-05-2443 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast38: From mice to Murray Bost HensonJoin 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-computer from Maximegalon which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond.
Milliways
2018-05-1737 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast37: From matter transference to memory dumpsJoin 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 you have to take me apart to get me there, then I don't want to go".
Max Quordlepleen
Max Quordlepleen is...
2018-05-1037 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast36: From Majikthise to MarvinJoin Danny, Jon and Mark as they barrel through the M section of the Guide.
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2018-05-0337 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast35: From logic to MagratheaDanny 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.
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2018-04-2637 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast34: From Lazlar Lyricon to LintillaMark 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 our home city of Birmingham, and there’s a link in the show notes to an episode of Saturday...
2018-04-1934 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast34: From Lazlar Lyricon to LintillaMark 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 our home city of Birmingham, and there’s a link in the show notes to an episode of Saturday...
2018-04-1934 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast33: From Krikkit to LamuellaMark 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 Prosser
Mr L Prosser is 40, fat and shabby. He works for the local council, and is...
2018-04-1231 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast31: From Juju-flop to Know-Nothing-BozoMark and Jon Bounds are joined by Danny Smith to continue pawing through the J section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Juju-flop
When in a national speech, the financial minister of the Royal World Estate of Qualvista said that the economy had now arrived at “one whole juju-flop situation”, everyone was so pleased he felt able to come out and say it, that they quite failed to notice that their five-thousand-year-old civilisation had just collapsed overnight.
Jynnan tonnyx
It is a curious fact that someth...
2018-04-0534 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast30: From Jaglan Beta to Judiciary PagMark and Jon Hickman are joined by Jon Bounds to continue pawing through the J section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Jaglan Beta
Jaglan Beta is second out from the star Jaglan, near the Axle Nebula (and no, Jon, this isn’t a real place). We know three things about it: it has cold moons so it’s useful to wrap a towel around you to keep you warm, Ford once saw a star buggy smash into its third moon, and there’s a song called “I Left My Leg in Jaglan...
2018-03-2240 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast30: From Jaglan Beta to Judiciary PagMark and Jon Hickman are joined by Jon Bounds to continue pawing through the J section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Jaglan Beta
Jaglan Beta is second out from the star Jaglan, near the Axle Nebula (and no, Jon, this isn’t a real place). We know three things about it: it has cold moons so it’s useful to wrap a towel around you to keep you warm, Ford once saw a star buggy smash into its third moon, and there’s a song called “I Left My Leg in Jaglan...
2018-03-2240 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast29: From the Imperial Galaxy to IslingtonMark and Danny Smith are joined by Jon Hickman to continue pawing through the H section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Imperial Galaxy
In the last moments of his dying coma, the hereditary Emperor of the Galaxy was locked in a statis field which kept him in a state of perpetual unchangingness. All his heirs are now long dead, and this has meant that without any drastic political upheaval, power simply and effectively moved a rung or two down the ladder, and is now seen to be vested in a body which used to...
2018-03-1535 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast28: From human beings to the Ident-i-EezeMark and Jon Bounds are joined by Danny Smith to continue pawing through the H section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Human beings
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in “It’s a nice day”, or “You’re very tall”, or “Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?”
Hunt the Wocket
A game played on one of the worlds the Guide settles on...
2018-03-0840 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast27: From the Hooloovoo to HrundiMark and Jon Hickman are joined by Jon Bounds to continue pawing through the H section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Hooloovoo
A super-intelligent shade of the color blue
Hoopy
A person who is hoopy, or posesses the property of hoopiness is a “really together guy”. I feel like I meet hoopy people from time to time, and I’m never quite sure how to recover.
Horse & Groom
Arthur’s local pub on Earth, in which hung for many years a battered o...
2018-03-0136 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast26: From Hastromil to Hig HurtenflirstMark and Danny Smith are joined by Jon Hickman to continue working thorugh the H section of the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Hastromil
A star system we can see disappear into the black void of space, at Milliways.
Hawalius
A planet of soothsayers.It’s where Arthur met the old woman who lives in a cave, and the man on a pole when he seeks guidence.
Heart of Gold
The starship Heart of Gold is a beautiful ship, shaped like a running shoe...
2018-02-2231 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast25: From Hactar to the Happy Vertical People TransportersMark and Jon Bounds are joined by Danny Smith to start work on the H section of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers’ universe.
Hactar
Hactar is the first computer ever to be shocked. The Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax disintegrated it into dust, but it still functioned, slowly. In the radio series, he was played by Leslie Philips.
Haggunenons
The Haggunenons of Vicissitus Three have the most impatient chromosomes in the Galaxy. Whereas most races are content to evolve slowly and carefully over thousands of generations, discarding a prehensile toe here...
2018-02-1538 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast24: From the Grebulons to the G’GugvunttsMark and Jon Bounds are joined by Jon Hickman to finish rattling through the Gs, including a stop off at the Guide, and some very special found poetry.
Grebulons
The Grebulons were awoken from hyperspace sleep with no memories, after a meteorite struck their ship. They are thin and, under domestic lighting conditions, a sort of dim purplish green. They settled on a moon orbiting Pluto, and monitored Earth, believing astrology to be an exact science.
Grunthos the Flatulent
Grunthos the Flatulent is a Krian poet; the...
2018-02-0846 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast23: From Golgafrincham to the greater drubbered wintwockMark and Danny are joined by Jon Hickman to discuss who should end up on the B Ark and understand impossible sentences.
Golgafrincham Ark Fleet
A fictional fleet of ships, invented to allow the inhabitants of Golgafrincham to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population.
Googleplex Starthinker
A super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity, with the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.
It was deemed, by Deep Thought...
2018-02-0132 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast22: From Geoffrey McGivern to Gogrilla MincefriendThe team are back for 2018, and continuing their mission to explore the Hitchhiker’s Guide universe in alphabetical order. This week, Danny Smith and Jon Bounds tackle the G section, and we reveal the results of our Hypothetical Slarti poll.
Geoffrey McGivern
In his time on the radio series, he’s played Ford Prefect, Deep Thought, a Frogstar robot, the Heart of Gold ventilation system, and a priest on Brontitall. He’s subsequently gone on to a successful career in TV, playing bit parts in scores of shows.
Geoffrey Perkins...
2018-01-2537 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast20: From the Gagrakacka Mind Zones to Genuine People PersonalitiesMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon, in alphabetical order. As well as the usual affair, we submit to yuletide cheer and discuss Christmas in the Hitchhiker’s universe.
Gagrakacka Mind Zones
The place Disaster Area come from. In other news, we discuss what a mind zone is.
Gail Andrews
A famous astrologer, who was berated by Tricia McMillan on TV, but who was gracious enough to come and see her, to find...
2017-12-2139 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast19: From Fortillian Bantoburn O'Perfluous to the Fulornis Fire DragonMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Fortillian Bantoburn O’Perfluous
The BarBot of the Starship Titanic, played by Dermot Crowley (from Luther, among other things). In the game, he mixes your character a bizarre cocktail that ends up helping to fix the ship. Here, Danny runs the team through some working class cocktails.
Frastra
Where they say “life begins at 40,000 degrees”. This planet has fire storms, and an equable...
2017-12-1438 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast18: From Flolloping to Ford PrefectMark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Flollop
Flolloping is a way of moving that only a matress can do. In a sort-of Meaning of Liff kind of way, I wondered if you two had any similarly onomatopoeic terms for movement. The panel shares their favourite onomatopoeic words.
Flying
There is an art, the guide says, or rather a knack to flying, which lies in learning how to throw yo...
2017-12-0739 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast17: From the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga to the Flex-o-PanelMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Fire Mountains of Frazfraga
We don’t know much about the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga, except that it’s not a hospitable location for a Silastic Armorfiend of Striterax. The panel discusses the most inhospitable places they’ve been to.
Five-D
5D TV is, we can only assume, two better than Tri-D, which we’ll no doubt cover when we get to the Ts. Fo...
2017-11-3034 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast17: From the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga to the Flex-o-PanelMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Fire Mountains of Frazfraga
We don’t know much about the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga, except that it’s not a hospitable location for a Silastic Armorfiend of Striterax. The panel discusses the most inhospitable places they’ve been to.
Five-D
5D TV is, we can only assume, two better than Tri-D, which we’ll no doubt cover when we get to the Ts. Fo...
2017-11-3034 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast16: From the Evildrome Boozarama to FinlonMark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Hickman continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Evildrome Boozarama
The Evildrome Boozarama is a bar Ford and Hotblack used to crash, pretending to be health inspectors. Here, Danny and Jon share some stomach-turning foodie tales.
Fallian marsh gas
When mixing a Pangalactic Gargleblaster, one should allow four litres of Falian marsh gas to bubble through, “in memory of all those happy hikers who have died of pleasure in the Mars...
2017-11-2336 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast16: From the Evildrome Boozarama to FinlonMark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Hickman continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Evildrome Boozarama
The Evildrome Boozarama is a bar Ford and Hotblack used to crash, pretending to be health inspectors. Here, Danny and Jon share some stomach-turning foodie tales.
Fallian marsh gas
When mixing a Pangalactic Gargleblaster, one should allow four litres of Falian marsh gas to bubble through, “in memory of all those happy hikers who have died of pleasure in the Mars...
2017-11-2336 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast15: From Enid Kapelsen to Everything You Never Wanted to Know About SexIn a very sexy episode, Mark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Enid Kapelsen
Enid is an elderly resident of Boston, MA, who, while on a flight one day, flipped up the shutter to see Arthur and Fenchurch checking in on a one-way trip to bone-town, only several thousand feet in the air.
Envir-o-Form
The Envir-o-Form is a piece of Grebulon technology that we know little about, but can as...
2017-11-1635 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast14: From the earth to the electronic thumbMark 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...
2017-11-0937 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast14: From the earth to the electronic thumbMark 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...
2017-11-0937 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast13: From dogs to Douglas AdamsMark 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.
D...
2017-11-0236 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast12: From the Definit-Kil to Dire StraitsMark 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...
2017-10-2436 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast11: From Cruxwan University to Deep ThoughtMark 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 o...
2017-10-1935 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast11: From Cruxwan University to Deep ThoughtMark 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 o...
2017-10-1935 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast10: From Colin to cowsMark 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 su...
2017-10-1233 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast9: From the Campaign for Real Time to the Cloudworlds of YagaMark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. This episode has some bad language.
Campaign for Real Time
Danny shares his story of getting his chest waxed at a Twitter-based charity event.
Cathedral of Chalesm
In memories of this lost cathedral, the team discusses things they’ve lost.
Celestial Homecare Omnibus
Here the team discuss how-to books and YouTube videos. “Go ahead and” enjoy this cha...
2017-10-0534 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast8: From Brantisvogan to CaliforniaMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Brantisvogan
A many-faceted place where banking and bureaucracy happens. Also yes, Mark is aware he pronounced amoeboids with a G. That’s how they pronounce it on Brantisvogan.
The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Brockian Ultra Cricket
Jon Bounds presents his rules for what can be considered a sport...
2017-09-2834 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast7: From Bistro Illegal to body debitsMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. This episode has bad language in it from the start.
Bistro Illegal
This is a bar Ford and Hotblack used to crash, pretending to be health inspectors, and a chance for Danny to share a story of impersonating a journalist and discovering shorthand.
Bistromathics
A wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances without all that dangerous mucking about with improbability factors. Jo...
2017-09-2139 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast7: From Bistro Illegal to body debitsMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. This episode has bad language in it from the start.
Bistro Illegal
This is a bar Ford and Hotblack used to crash, pretending to be health inspectors, and a chance for Danny to share a story of impersonating a journalist and discovering shorthand.
Bistromathics
A wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances without all that dangerous mucking about with improbability factors. Jo...
2017-09-2139 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast6: From Bastablon to biscuitsMark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. This episode has bad language in it.
Followup
Douglas Adams’ Apple Macintosh SE/30, by Andy Taylor.
Bastablon
The planet whose marketing executives came up with the slogan for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and a jumping-off point to discuss Talk Like a Brummie Day.
Bath Sheets in Space
A coffee-table book on the subj...
2017-09-1436 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast5: From artificial disabilities to BartledanMark Steadman, Jon Bounds and Jon Hickman continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Artificial disabilities
A medical marvel that can make your life as difficult as you need it to be, and provide a winning backstory for your next talent show appearance.
Asgard
The world of norse myth that brought us Thor, and gives us a good opportunity to talk about gods in sci-fi literature.
Babel fish
The most im...
2017-09-0735 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast4: From Argabuthon to Arthur DentMark Steadman, Jon Bounds and Jon Hickman continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Argabuthon
From which planet the plexiglass sceptre of justice was obtained.
Arkintoofle Minor
Upon which planet the bad-news drive was invented.
Arthur Dent
A six-foot tall ape descendent, and the main focus of our conversation.
Book recommendation
This week we’re recommending Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!, by Richard P Feyn...
2017-08-3135 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast3: ArcturaMark Steadman, Danny Smith and Jon Bounds continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. This week, it’s everything Arcturan.
Arcturan megadonkey
A four-legged beast off which Deep Thought could talk all legs. Of. In that vein, we discuss the things we’ve persuaded people to do.
Arcturan megafreighter
A mode of transport which Zaphod hitches aboard. Here, Jon and Danny share their worst travel stories.
Arcturan megagin
Three cubes of whi...
2017-08-2436 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast2: From Alpha Centauri to AppleMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Alpha Centuri
A real star system that might’ve put paid to the Vogons’ plan to destroy earth. Otherwise known as an intergalactic Slough.
Altarian Dollar
A now defunct currency that probably doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
The organisation to which Vroomfondel and Maji...
2017-08-1736 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast1: From Advanced Vectoid Stabilisis to Almighty BobMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds embark on a mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.
Advanced Vectoid Stabilisis
A device you can add to your spaceship, “that only wimps go for”. It might also be prime fodder for a Top Gear discussion.
Agrajag
The creature with the sprained mind, who constructed the Cathedral of Hate in Arthur’s name, after believing him to be the cause of his many deaths. Here we share some confessions and decide i...
2017-08-1037 minBeware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcastFrom Advanced Vectoid Stabilisis to Almighty BobMark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds embark on a mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order.Advanced Vectoid StabilisisA device you can add to your spaceship, “that only wimps go for”. It might also be prime fodder for a Top Gear discussion.AgrajagThe creature with the sprained mind, who constructed the Cathedral of Hate in Arthur’s name, after believing him to be the cause of his many deaths. Here we share some confessions and decide i...
2017-08-1037 min
Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy PodcastTrailerMark Steadman, ape descendent, is on a mission to discover and discuss everything from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , in entirety, and in alphabetical order.With the help of his friends Jon Hickman, Jon Bounds and Danny Smith, he’ll examine everything from Arthur to Zaphod, and all points in-between. This is not a definitive guide to the Guide , but rather an exploration of a pop culture universe that’s brought joy to old nerds and young geeklings alike. Search “Beware of the Leopard” in your favourite podcast app, find the show at btlp...
2017-07-1502 min