The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase
Douglas Adams
Full Cast
Geoffrey McGivern
Mark Wing-Davey
Peter Jones
The most useful advice ever given, ‘Don’t panic’, can be found within the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The day aliens decide to demolish the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass is the day when Arthur Dent realises the futility of such advice. The story begins when Arthur, not really your average man-in-the-street, finds that his planet is suddenly destroyed around him, and the great hitch-hike begins… Starring Peter Jones as The Book, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent and Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, this is the first Douglas Adams’ legendary radio series.Also included on this Special Edition is Douglas Adams’s Guide to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast in 1999, which looks at the genesis and phenomenal success of the series.3 CDs. 3 hrs.
Douglas Adams
DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No. 1 bestseller. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age of 49.