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Written by Douglas Adams - Performed by Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern and a full cast - Unabridged Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3 hours, 15 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (May 2005)

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Six complete episodes specially extended for CD! Available for the first time in the U.S.! Complete Original Production

Received the coveted AudioFile Magazine's 'Earphones Award' (June/July 2005) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterization, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

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

"The pitch here at Lords is blackened, lightly smoking down towards square leg - and two men have just materialized 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 bestselling series of novels.

With this brand-new full-cast radio dramatization, the Guide now 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-traveling sofa, which returns them to their own time. But as eleven homicidal, bat-wielding robots proceed to blow up Lords 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.

"American readers may not be aware that Adams's sci-fi parody classic started out as a BBC radio production. This audio, which contains a portion of that radio serial, will have listeners glued to their CD players. Never a dull moment passes in this uproarious dramatization, as Arthur Dent-a refugee from Earth, which was destroyed to make way for a galactic freeway-escapes from prehistory, and self-imposed insanity, on a time-traveling sofa along with his alien friend, Ford Prefect, who is a reporter for the eponymous guide. The pair find themselves reunited with old friends (such as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed president of the galaxy) and swept up in an attempt to stop the explosively xenophobic denizens of the planet Cricket from wreaking havoc on all of existence by behaving remarkably like players of the British sport of the same name.

Each CD contains two episodes full of hilariously appropriate sound effects, dramatic music and witty fake advertising, and every performer brings his or her character to life with aplomb, including Adams, who makes his appearance in one scene as Agrajag, an entity that is killed and reincarnated innumerable times. Fully embodying the zany otherworldliness of the series, this audio production is a treat for anyone familiar with the Hitchhiker's books (the first of which will debut as a major motion picture from Touchstone in May)." —Publishers Weekly in its starred and featured review in the April 4 issue.