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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Tertiary Phase
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s saga continues with a full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams’s famous ‘trilogy in five parts.’
‘The pitch here at Lord’s is blackened, lightly smoking down towards square leg – and two men have just materialised on a Chesterfield sofa....’
And so the scene is set for the Tertiary Phase of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the phenomenon which began life as a BBC radio series and went on to spawn a best-selling series of novels. With this full-cast radio dramatisation, the Guide returns to its original medium with its original cast.
Stranded on prehistoric Earth, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect find escape in the form of a time-travelling sofa. But as eleven homicidal, bat-wielding robots proceed to blow up Lord’s Cricket Ground, it seems that Arthur is far from Home and Dry. In fact, he is not even Home and Vigorously Towelling Himself.
Off. Soon he is on an explosive quest to save the Universe, equipped with only a rabbit bone, a worn dressing gown, and a spaceship which looks remarkably like an Italian bistro.
Simon Jones returns as Arthur, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android. William Franklyn is the Book, the late Douglas Adams himself appears in the role of Agrajag, and guest stars include Richard Griffiths, Chris Langham, Joanna Lumley and Leslie Phillips.
This extended edition features 20 minutes of material not heard on BBC Radio 4.
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- JohnK
- 03-07-20
Very good book spell bound from the very start of
loved 8t and thought it could be better by being longer and shorter and thinner
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- Lauri Sim
- 25-04-21
An Absolute Essential
This original cast recording of Adams’ Sci Fi classic is simply serotonin him an audiofile. I recommend this to everyone and fulfils it’s brief of preventing panic.
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- Glenribbeen
- 13-04-20
Excellent, for all the right reasons
cracking good story with an abundance of weird and wonderful parts played by weird and wonderful people. Especially the 2 cricket commentators.
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- MR PG GIANNETTO
- 21-09-17
Great all time classic
Love it, all the original radio shows are great, have got the whole collection and enjoy listening to them all.
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- Tim
- 05-03-11
Creative Stimulation
Can't beleve how good Hitchhiker's Guide is an audiobook, (given first impressions of the film)!
Somehow it taps into precisely that opposite sphere of the brain to the one used while driving and gives it loads of interesting titbits to mull over. The production is superb and only 'The Mighty Boosh' is really comparible for sheer imaginative vividness.
This particular episode includes the 'Cricketer' robots (who attack everything in sight), the starship Bistromath (runs on the mathematical principles of a restaurant) and that famous bit where the villain sugests that the, should the universe be explained, it will be replaced by something even more bizarely inexplicable (some say this has happened already).
Furthermore, it stars the inimitable Richard Griffiths and a man who knows the question to the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
Definitely recommended listening!
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- Willp
- 25-10-17
fucking terrific
the best thing to ever come out of ursa minor but you must read the previous books
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- Keithj
- 19-04-15
Timeless
I loved THHDTTG when it was first broadcast and the wonderful is how well the series stands the test of time.
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- Phil Basker
- 11-10-15
Fantastic original bbc performances
Great performances, sound effects, music and plots. Would like to give it 42 stars but that would only raise more questions...
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- David P.
- 15-04-16
It's Douglas Adams
Classic comedy, a joyous production with professional oozing from every pore. And bloody funny too.
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- George D.
- 25-05-09
Was it worth the wait?
Fantastic to hear the whole gang back again, well produced compulsive listening.
Bizarre, funny and frighteningly English.
If you have the first two you need the rest....
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