The 40 Best Audio books comment: On the day that Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by his friend Ford Prefect - who turns out to be really from the star Betelgeuse - and taken on an increasingly surreal journey round the universe to update the bestselling handbook for hitchhikers. Whether joining them to dine at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe or seeking the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, this original recording from the BBC Radio 4 series will take you on a journey you too will never forget... Read by a full cast, with Peter Jones as the book.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Primary Phase Synopsis
The Earth is unexpectedly destroyed and the great hitch-hike begins as Arthur Dent tries to find the Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe and Everything. Starring Peter Jones as The Book and Simon Jones as Arthur Dent.
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory
manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV,
computer game, stage adaptation, comic book and bath towel. The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy was published thirty years ago......on 12 October 1979 and its phenomenal success sent the
book straight to number one in the UK bestseller list. In 1984 Douglas Adams
became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. His series has sold over
15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a bestseller in
German and many other languages. The feature film starring Martin Freeman and
Zooey Deschanel with Stephen Fry as the Guide was released in 2005 using much of
Douglas’s original script and ideas. Douglas lived with his wife and daughter in
Islington, North London, and briefly in California, where he died in 2001.
