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Narrated by:
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Martin Freeman
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Written by:
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Douglas Adams
About this listen
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.
Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one.
Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dramatised)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Billy Boyd, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.
Written by: Douglas Adams
-
Dirk Gently: Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Olivia Colman, Jan Ravens, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
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A terrific interpretation!
- By KT42 on 2022-11-30
Written by: Douglas Adams
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Written by: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural phenomenon The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - from its beginnings as a UK radio series, to its expansion into a wildly popular book trilogy, and onto incarnations in various media including stage, records, film, computer games, and even, um, tea towels.
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Fascinating
- By Ronstersaurus_Rex on 2023-10-18
Written by: Neil Gaiman
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatized)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The original series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope’s version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh.
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All time favorite.
- By Marlin Brendo on 2019-09-19
Written by: Douglas Adams
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Dirk Gently
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dramatised)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
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Story
Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a frantic client turns up with a ludicrous story about being stalked by a goblin waving a contract accompanied by a hairy, green-eyed, scythe-wielding monster.
Written by: Douglas Adams
What the critics say
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—New York Times Book Review
“It is Mr. Adams’s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful.”—Baltimore Sun
What listeners say about Mostly Harmless
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- Charlene Dokter
- 2021-05-24
A classic. Confusing as hell, but wonderful.
don't let anyone interior you or you'll need the guide to figure things out. 😂.
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- Cassandra
- 2019-10-04
Overall good
To be honest this is an interesting last book but the ending fell short.
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- Artur A.
- 2022-11-04
Great but super sad ending... A bit too sad.
I'm a sucker for happy endings so this one's my least favourite among the 5 books. One of the main characters of the previous book also just completely disappeared without trace, which was annoying... The whole thing was just too sad for a comedy book. But still good. Read it.
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- Aidan Costello
- 2023-06-28
I actually liked that!
Good story, and good performances and I really liked the ending because it is really different from other books
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