Behind me, the huge speaker-stacks rise like a sheer cliff face, and high above me the sun is shining away and doesn't know what's gonna hit it.

8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:05:59.493 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

Quote context

[...]

- You said you wanted excitement and adventure and really wild things.

- This is awful!

- That's what I said.

- Hi there, galactic rock fans. Fine weather for the concert this afternoon.

- I'm standing here in the middle of the stage in the Kakrafoon Desert.

- And, with the aid of hyperbinoptic glasses, I can just about make out the huge audience cowering there on the horizon all around us.

- Behind me, the huge speaker-stacks rise like a sheer cliff face, and high above me the sun is shining away and doesn't know what's gonna hit it.

- The environmentalists' lobby, however, do know what's going to hit it, and claim the concert will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, irreparable damage to the atmosphere, and all the usual things environmentalists usually go on about.

- But I've just had a report that a representative of Disaster Area met with the environmentalists this morning and had them all shot.

- So, now nothing stands in the way of the concert going ahead this afternoon on this beautiful sunny day.

- You know what I'm thinking?

- I think so.

- Tell me what you think I'm thinking.

[...]

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