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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability, and desperately in search of a place to eat.

Life, the Universe, and Everything: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads, so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatised)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others

A Special Edition of the original radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and recently voted the Nation's Favourite Audiobook in a Guardian poll. Starring Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Moore, these six episodes (Fit the First to Fit the Sixth) have been remastered to modern-day standards by Dirk Maggs, and for the first time feature Philip Pope's arrangement of the familiar theme tune.

Mostly Harmless

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

It's not just a trilogy any more. In the fifth book of this popular series, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, and immediately all hell breaks loose. In short, it's up to him to save the world from total multi-dimensional obliteration, the Guide from a hostile alien takeover, and the daughter he never knew he had, from herself. A tall order, to say the least. And one he's really not up to, thank you very much.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Douglas Adams
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Kate Schechter would like to know why everyone she meets knows her name - and why Thor, the Norse god of thunder, keeps showing up on her doorstep. Dirk Gently, detective and refrigerator wrestler, can uncover the mystery, and only the absurdist wit of Douglas Adams can recount them with such relentless humor.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 1 min)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Douglas Adams

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Tertiary Phase (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast

Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Harry Enfield, Billy Boyd, Andrew Sachs, and others

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.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Secondary Phase (Dramatised)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others

A Special Edition of the original radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and recently voted the Nation's Favourite Audiobook in a Guardian poll.

Starring Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Moore, these six episodes (Fit the First to Fit the Sixth) have been remastered to modern-day standards by Dirk Maggs, and for the first time feature Philip Pope's arrangement of the familiar theme tune.

Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dramatised)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Harry Enfield

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.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.

Shada: Doctor Who: The Lost Adventure

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts
• Narrated By Lalla Ward
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Doctor's old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University - where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana, and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs - most of them are harmless. But one of them is extremely dangerous. The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey isn't a book for Time Tots.It must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Simon Jones, Christopher Cerf, Richard Dawkins, and others

Rescued from his beloved Macintosh, The Salmon of Doubt provides us with the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time in the uniquely entertaining and richly informative mind of Douglas Adams. For the millions of readers who expressed their grief and shock at his untimely death, this is a treasure; his final book and our last chance to see new work from an acknowledged comic genius.

Doctor Who: Classic TV Adventures Collection One: Seven full-cast BBC TV soundtracks

• ORIGINAL (16 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Malcolm Hulke, and others
• Narrated By Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and others

Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker star as the Doctor in these seven narrated full-cast TV soundtracks of classic Doctor Who TV serials. The stories are 'The Tomb of the Cybermen' (narrated by Frazer Hines); 'Doctor Who and the Silurians' (narrated by Caroline John); 'The Sea Devils' (narrated by Katy Manning); 'The Curse of Peladon' (narrated by Katy Manning); 'The Monster of Peladon' (narrated by Elisabeth Sladen); 'The Pirate Planet' (narrated by John Leeson); and 'Destiny of the Daleks' (narrated by Lalla Ward).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Quandary Phase (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast

Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga returns once again with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and, even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after...well...ages, he falls in love with the girl of his dreams.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Live in Concert

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 13 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Douglas Adams

Author Douglas Adams kidnapped an audience and held them hostage for 90 minutes at London's Almeida Theatre. The audience members were subjected to extremely hot August temperatures and Adams's dramatic solo performances of excerpts and scenes from his wildly funny Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Quintessential Phase (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast

Panic! It's the last ever instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'. While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker's Guide HQ.