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(00:00):
Hello, chaps is Mark from English on command.
And today, we're going to read chapter 3 of Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy. Now, I hope you remember who are
hitchhikers, do you? All right, so let's do a quick
recap before begin, right. In the first and second chapter,

(00:21):
we got to know a person after that, it's a typical guy.
Very normal person. Living somewhere in a village
in. Great Britain, his house was
about to be destroyed. Because with the local Council,
wanted to be a road, a bypass instead now, Arthur than has a
friend. His name, his name is Ford
prefect. Ford prefect is not a human.

(00:44):
In fact, he's an alien, he came to the planet to collect some
data for the book, which is called Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy. Now that's the book where you
can learn anything about the Galaxy.
All right, so that's all for now.
And Arthur, Dent. Doesn't know that Ford prefect
is not, there isn't a human thathe doesn't know that right now,

(01:04):
they are in a bar in a pub theredrinking because something is
about to happen. All right, let's go chapter 3
on. This particular, Thursday is
something was moving quietly through the ionosphere, many
miles above the surface of the planet.
Several. Something's in fact, the several

(01:25):
dozen Huge yellow with chunky, slab like something, huge as
Office Buildings, silent as Birds, they soared with, he's
basking and electromagnetic racefrom the Star Soul.
Biding, their time, grouping preparing, the planet beneath
them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence,

(01:49):
which was just how they wanted for the moment.
The huge yellow Simon's went unnoticed at goon he lie.
They passed over a Cape Canaveral without blip Boomer.
And jodrell Bank looks straight through them, which was a Pity
because it was exactly the sort of thing they had been looking
for all these years. The only place that registered

(02:12):
at all was in a small black device called a sub ethis in
somatic, which winked away quietly to yourself.
Eat nestled in the darkness inside a leather satchel which
Full prefect were habit. Really around his neck.
The contents of Ford, prefect, Satchel were quite interested.

(02:33):
In fact, and would have made an earth physicist, eyes pop out of
their hat, which is why he always conceal them.
By keeping a couple of dog ears scripts for a place.
He pretended. He was an old Edition for a
stuffed in the time. The Sabbath is in semantics and

(02:53):
the scripts he had on the electronic thumb are sure Squad.
Black Rod, the smooth and mad the couple of flat switches and
dials at one end, he also had a device, which looked rather like
a largish electronic calculator.This had about a hundred, tiny
flat, Press buttons and the screen about four inches Square

(03:16):
on each. One of a million Pages could be
summoned, moment's notice Is it look insanely complicated and
this was one of the reasons why it's not like plastic cover it
feed it into the had the words don't panic printed on it in
large friendly letters. The other reason was that this

(03:37):
device was in fact that most remarkable of all the books ever
to come out of the great publisher incorporation of or
some minor Hitchhiker's Guide tothe Galaxy.
The reason why I was published in the form of a micro is
amazing. Electronic Component, is that
it? If it were printed in Normal
book form and Interstellar, hitchhiker would require several

(04:00):
inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.
Many of that, enforce, prefect, Satchel Warrior few beavers and
notepad and a large dish bath towel from Marks & Spencer.
Now, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has a few things to
say on the subject of towels a towel.

(04:22):
It says is about the most massively, useful thing, and
Interstellar hitchhiker can havea partly has great practical
value. You can wrap it around you for
warmth as you bound across the cold, moons of jagan Baden.
You can lie on it on the brilliant Marbles and and
bridges those things. You genius five inhaling the had

(04:44):
EC Vapors. You can sleep under it beneath
the stars, which shines so readily on it.
Is it world of Kharkov food? Use it to sail, a mini ramp
down, slow, heavy River, mouth. Waited for use in hand-to-hand
combat wrap around your head to World of nauseous views or to

(05:05):
avoid the Gaze of the ravenous bugblatter Beast thrall, and my
book only stupid anyway. It assumed that if you can't see
it, it can see you. Daft is a bush but their
revenues. You can wave your towel in
emergencies as a distress signaland of course dry yourself off
with it. If it still seems to be clean

(05:27):
enough, more importantly, the towel has enhance psychological
value. For some reason, if a strike, a
strike means not each hiker discovers that The Hitch-Hiker
has his style with him, he will automatically assume that he is
also in. Session over to brush face,

(05:48):
final soap to not biscuits flaskcompass map ball of string and a
spray wet, weather year, spacesuit, Etc, and Etc.
Furthermore, this track will then happily land hitchhiker,
any of this or dozen at Adams atThe Hitch-Hiker might
occasionally have lost. What the strike will think is

(06:09):
that any man who can hitch life and breath of the Galaxy?
Roughage llamas. Struggle against terrible.
Odds went through and still knows where his style is is
clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hands a phrase which is passed through hitchhikers land as in
hey your sizes hobby for prefect, that is a fruit who

(06:31):
really knows where his style is sad.
No, be aware of meat have sex with hoopoe really together guy,
fruit, really amazingly togetherguy.
Netlink white learn top of the towel in for prefix.
Such Elizabeth has in somatic began to wink more quickly.

(06:54):
Miles above the surface of the planet and a huge yellow zombies
began to Fan out and jodrell Bank.
Someone decided it was time for a nice relaxing cup of tea.
You got tile with you that perfect family to author,
author. Struggling through his third
paint, look around him. Why why?

(07:16):
No. Should I have?
Yeah, given, I've been surprisedthey didn't seem to be any point
any longer for it. Click is done in irritation
drink up, he urged at that moment, the dull sound of a
rumbling Crash from outside filter through the low murmur of

(07:36):
the pub. So, the sound of the Jukebox
resolve, the man next to for hiccuping over the whiskey for
had eventually bottom. Author choker his beer, led to
his feet. What's that yell?
Don't worry said forward. They haven't started yet.
Think of that. After I'm relaxed.

(07:58):
It's probably just your house beknocked down.
Said for a jar, he was paying for what, what shoud author
suddenly for spell was broken. After look wildly around him and
Randy doing the, my God AR they are knocking my house down.
Wonder, how am I doing? The Paw forward.

(08:18):
Not only makes any difference atthis stage to the Fort.
I've have their fun fun. Yep.
After fun, quickly checked out of the window and again, that
they were talking about the samething.
Damn, they're funny, we didn't run out of the pub.
Furiously, very nearly empty, beer glass, he made.

(08:39):
No friends at all in the pub that lunchtime stop.
You vandals your home. Accursed boletaria, you have
Crest Visigoths. Stop will you for we have to go
out of him turning quickly to the bar, when he asked for four
packets of peanuts, are you are sir said the barman slapping the

(08:59):
packets on the bar, 28 pounds, if you'll be so kind for fact
was very kind, he gave the barman.
Another five pound know and toldhim to keep the change the bomb
and look at it and then there's afford something to Shared
experience the mom. There is insulation that they
didn't send. There's no nerve had ever
experienced before, in moments of great stress, every life form

(09:24):
that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal the signal,
simply communicate, an exact andalmost pathetic science how far
that being is from the place of his birth.
There're if it is never possibleto be further than 16,000 miles
from your birthplace which really isn't very far.

(09:45):
So such signals are two minute to be noticed.
For prefect, was at this moment under great stress and he was
born 600 light-years away in a near Miss in dobel Goose the
barman real for a moment. He'd buy a shocking,
incomprehensible sense of distance.

(10:06):
You don't know that for a momentbut he look the Ford prefect
with new sense of respect, almost all Are you serious sir?
He said a small whisper which hehad a pack of socks in the book.
You think it was going to end? Yes, sad for it.
But this afternoon for had recovered himself.
He was at his flippers to. Yes, he said gaily less than two

(10:29):
minutes. I would estimate.
Barman, couldn't believe that conversation.
He was having, but he couldn't believe the sensation.
He had just had either. Is there anything we can do
about it? That he said, Fitted for stuff
and opinions in his pockets, someone in the harsh debar
suddenly laughs Reyes. Liao stupid ever had become the

(10:52):
messies. Next 24 was a beast was by now,
his eyes wave, they are before it.
I thought it said that in the world was going to end, we were
meant to lie down, or put a paper bag over our head of
something. If you like yes, said for it,
that's what they told us in the Army, said the man and his eyes

(11:13):
began the long Trek, back down his whiskey.
Well, the help that the environment.
No, it's for it and gave him a friendly smile.
Excuse me. He said I'm gonna go with the
wave left, the pub was silent for a moment longer and then
there isn't enough. The man with the rozier's love

(11:34):
did it again. The girl he had dragon On to the
bar with him had grown to love him, dearly over the last hour,
so I would probably have been a great satisfaction her to know
that in a minute and a half or so he was suddenly evaporated
weight of hydrogen, ozone and carbon monoxide.

(11:54):
However, when the moment came she would be too busy,
evaporating herself to notice it.
Environment. Clear his throat.
He heard himself say that's all this place.
Huge yellow. Machines began to sing downward
and move faster. For knew they were there.
This wasn't the way, he had one in it right now.

(12:15):
I'm delaying. After had nearly reached his
house, he didn't notice how quick it had suddenly become, he
didn't notice the wind, you didn't notice the silent
generation Scroll of rain. He didn't notice anything about
them, had a pewter bulldozer. Chrono the rubble that had been
his phone. You barbarians.
He LL soon accounts of every Penny's God, I have your hung

(12:40):
drawn and quartered and whipped and boil until until until you
had enough, For was riding out in very fast, very, very fast
and then I'll do it again yell at her.
And when I finished, I will takeall the little bits.
I will jump on them. Author.
Didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers?

(13:02):
He didn't notice that mr. Prosser was staring his testicle
into the sky. What mr.
Pros had noticed was that huge yellow sun, mix were screaming
through the clouds, possibly huge yellow.
Some things and I will carry on dropping down your other still
running. Until I get blisters, I can
think of anything even more unpleasant to do and then I

(13:24):
thought tripped and fell headlong rolled and landed flat
on his back. This he knows that something's
going on in his finger should have word.
What the hell is that? He shrinked, whatever it was
race across the sky. And monstrous yellowness toward
the sky part with my vagary noise and left off into the

(13:49):
distance, leaving the gaping here to shut behind it with a
bang. Draw your ears six feet into
your skull. Anyone followed and did the same
thing only louder, it's difficult to say exactly what
the people on the surface of thePlaya we're doing now because
the didn't really know what theywere doing themselves.

(14:12):
None of it made a lot of sense. Randy house has run out of
houses holding nauseous lini house, all around the world.
See streets exploded with peoplecars student each other as a
noise fell on them. And rolled off like a tidal,
wave Hills and Valleys desert. An ocean seeming to flatten are

(14:34):
fitted on the one man, still, and watch the sky stood, with
terrible sadness, in his eyes and rubber Banks.
His ears. He exactly what was happening.
Had known his ever since his Sabbath asymptomatic has started
drinking in the dead of night because his pillar woken him
with star. It was what he had, waited for

(14:57):
all these years, but when he haddisappeared signal pattern
deciphered, I'm sorry guys. He had decipher just targeting
pattern, sitting alone in his small dark room.
It called his had crippled him and squeeze his heart.
A folder races in all the galaxies would could have come

(15:18):
and said a big hello to bring her.
He thought didn't just have to be the Vogons still he knew.
I had to do as a Vulcan craft screamed through the air.
High above him. He opened his tantrum.
It's real way. Copy of Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat it's real wake-up and gottesfeld.

(15:38):
You will need them where he was going.
Every was really everything was prepared and knew where his
style was a sudden silence either.
If anything, it was worse and noise for a while, nothing
happened. The great ships, hon, Motionless
in the air over every nation on Earth, motionless.

(15:59):
They hung huge heavy, steadinessChi, blossomy against nature.
Maybe people weren't straight into shock as their mind.
Try to Encompass, what they werelooking at the ship's high in
the sky in much the same way that breaks don't and still

(16:20):
nothing happened. Then There was a slight whisper
a sudden spacious Whisper of open and being sound every Hi-Fi
set in the world every radio. Every television, every cassette
recorder every roofer, every Twitter, every mid-range driver
in the world quietly. Turn yourself on everything can

(16:41):
ever does been every window. Every color.
Every one glass every sheet of rusty metal became activated as
an acoustically. Perfect sounding board.
Before the Earth passed away wasgoing to be treated to the very
ultimate in sound reproduction, the greatest public address
system ever built, but there wasno concert no music, no Fanfare,

(17:04):
just a simple message. Hey, Brother.
Your attention please. I've always said, I was
wonderful. Wonderful, perfect quadraphonic
sound of distortion that was so low as to make a brave man.
With this is prosthetic vogon, Jets of the Galati hyperspace
playing console, The Voice continuing as you will, no doubt

(17:28):
be aware. The plans for development of the
outlying regions of the Galaxy required, a building of a hyper
Spurrier. Hyperspatial Express.
Out through star system and regrettably, your plan is one of
those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly
less than two of your Earth minutes.
Thank you. The PA died away.

(17:52):
I comprehend in Terror cell under watching people on Earth.
The terror moves slowly through the gathered crowd of the they
were iron filings on a sheet of board in a magnet was moving
beneath them panics fraud again.Desperate flee in panic but
there was nowhere to flee to seven days Vogons.

(18:13):
Turn on ba get inside there is no poor - all surprise to doubt
it all the plane shots and demolition always have been in
this pain. Your local planning department.
Very good suntory 450 of your ofyears.
They've had enough times a lodging, a formal complaint.
And it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

(18:35):
PA fell silent again and it's toeiko drifted off across the
land, the huge shifts turn slowly in the sky, with easy
power, on the other side of it, which I actually opened an empty
bag space but this time, somebody somewhere must have man
on radio transmitter located a waiver from bro.

(18:56):
Customers back to the workmanship to please me how to
plan. Nobody ever heard what they
said. They only heard the reply the
Piston back into life again and what was annoyed?
It said, what do you mean? You've never been job century
five and six mankind. Something for last year's away,

(19:16):
you know, I'm sorry. But if you can't be bothered to
take an interest in local Affairs, let's show a look at
energized, demolition beams, Light per hour did naturists, I
don't know, said the voice in the be a apathetic blooded
Planet. Other sympathy do it.

(19:37):
Cat off. There was a terrible ghastly
silence. It was a terribly, ghastly
noise. It was a terrible, ghastly
Silas. The vogon Constructor Fleet goes
to a pinky starey boy. Alright guys, this is the end of
chapter 3 next day will be chapter 4.

(20:01):
See you next time. I hope you enjoyed the the book
I hope you are enjoying the book.
Have a good day. Bye.
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