The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series

Other by Douglas Adams

Released 3 October 2005

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CD 1: Primary Phase: Fits the First and Second
1
This Is the Story
4:48
2
A Strange Coincidence
4:46
3
On This Particular Thursday
3:18
4
People of Earth, Your Attention Please
4:07
5
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3:58
6
The Babel Fish
3:38
7
Vogon Poetry
5:08
8
Far Out in the Uncharted Backwaters
3:22
9
Your Very Lives in Your Hands
3:48
10
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
4:32
11
The Infinite Improbability Drive
3:24
12
The Encyclopædia Galactica
3:11
13
Select Your Own Re-Entry Point
3:04
14
Has the Big Z Finally Flipped?
3:34
15
Glad to Be of Service
4:29
CD 2: Primary Phase: Fits the Third and Fourth
1
Far Back in the Mists
4:23
2
Arthur Dent Had Basically Assumed
3:13
3
The Five Million Year Old Tape Recording
4:40
4
A Sperm Whale Had Suddenly Been Called
4:15
5
This Is Really Spooky
3:50
6
Night Is Falling
4:21
7
An Important and Popular Fact
3:58
8
Forced to Resort to Astonishment
4:30
9
Life, the Universe and Everything
3:43
10
Philosophers
5:09
11
Seven-And-a-Half Million Years Later
3:48
12
So There You Have It
3:31
13
It Is of Course Well-Known
3:24
14
Welcome to Lunch, Earth Creature
3:43
15
We’ve Got You Covered
2:44
CD 3: Primary Phase: Fits the Fifth and Sixth
1
In the Beginning
4:31
2
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
4:06
3
The End of History Itself
4:17
4
Marvin and the Car Park
4:35
5
The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For
2:40
6
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
4:13
7
You Can’t Control It
4:35
8
The History of Every Major Galactic Civilisation
2:01
9
The Admiral’s Flagship
3:35
10
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3:28
11
The Prospect of Death
3:29
12
Far From Its Starting Point
3:24
13
The Place Is Full of Sarcophagi
3:43
14
Our Planet Was Doomed
3:09
15
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3:14
16
We’ve Made a Discovery
3:10
17
Q Scores 10
4:23
CD 4: Douglas Adams's Guide To The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
1
People of Earth, Your Attention Please
2:54
2
Meanwhile, a Freak Worm-Hole Opens Up
3:11
3
What I Need is Some Alien Creature
2:51
4
I've Written This Part, Which is Pretty Well You
2:57
5
This Revered Building Contains the Latest in Sound Technology
3:16
6
We Had to Build Up an Eerie Wind Effect
2:42
7
Take the Occasional Potshot to Relieve the Monotony
2:48
8
As Well as Pushing Back the Frontiers of Casting
3:22
9
I Think There Was a General Air of We Don't Know What the Show Is
2:19
10
The Practical Upshot
3:16
11
I Think Possibly the Single Most Exciting Episode Is
2:59
12
And They Will Persuade You
3:15
13
As Time Went On
2:35
14
There Wasn't Even Time For a Quick Bath
3:10
15
And So As We
2:53
16
And We Rushed Through It
3:27
17
Life, Don't Talk to me About Life
2:57
18
More Than Twenty Years After Douglas
2:27
19
So There You Have It
1:30
CD 5: Secondary Phase: Fits the Seventh and Eighth
1
There Is a Theory
3:40
2
Hitchhiking, What Do They Know?
4:45
3
I’ve Recovered
4:34
4
It Is of Course Perfectly Natural
3:13
5
There Must Be Some Way
3:21
6
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3:50
7
Thanks for the Ride, Guys
4:11
8
Several Hours Later
2:42
9
Trillian Also Effected a Fortuitous Escape
3:53
10
Modern Elevators Are Strange and Complex Entities
4:01
11
The Future I Was So Worried About
4:00
12
The Universe Continued Unabated
3:47
13
No Food
2:46
14
Two Million Years Backwards in Time
3:27
15
Perhaps We Could Wave Your Towel
2:54
16
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
5:05
CD 6: Secondary Phase: Fits the Ninth and Tenth
1
The Most Important Being in the Entire Universe
4:19
2
You All Get It in the Neck
4:04
3
A Vogon Fleet on Our Tail
3:36
4
Share and Enjoy
2:47
5
It Tastes Filthy
4:27
6
Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
3:24
7
Life Is Wasted on the Living
4:24
8
An Unearthly Voice Came
3:13
9
A Remarkable Effect on the Universe
4:18
10
Some Kind of Cave
3:45
11
The Problems of Real Life
4:36
12
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
4:34
13
The Wise Old Bird
3:27
14
The Statue
3:33
15
Distastefully Explicit
3:29
16
Arthur Is in the Thick of It
2:39
CD 7: Secondary Phase: Fits the Eleventh and Twelfth
1
Some Form of Explanation
3:29
2
The Major Problem
3:44
3
Just Follow the Force of Gravity
3:40
4
The 578,000,000,000 Lintilla Clones
3:20
5
Hig Hurtenflurst
3:37
6
The Terrifying Truth
3:49
7
The Shoe Event Horizon
4:11
8
The Excitement Is Mounting
4:28
9
You’d Better Keep Your Head Screwed On
3:47
10
Where Are We Going?
3:36
11
Where Did You Nutters Come From?
2:08
12
Lintilla's Getting Married
4:06
13
Switching Tracks
3:51
14
One Big Side Order of Why
3:36
15
I Think They Ask Me Questions
3:25
16
What Does the Future Hold?
4:04
CD 8: Douglas Adams Interview
1
To Mark the Twentieth Anniversary Of ...
2:48
2
And Anyway, This One Was Run By Simon Jones
3:25
3
Not Telling Tails Out of School
2:48
4
This Sounds Like An Over Literal Rationalization
3:18
5
He Subsequently Figures Out Why She's Familiar
3:00
6
Only Figures It Out Afterwards
2:34
7
Even If There Were Around
3:23
8
This Is Me and This Is Also Arthur
3:50
9
I Think I Am Quite Good At ...
3:14
10
Bridle Against In the X Files
2:38
11
No Other Way of Doing It
2:48
12
Well Numbers Are Kind of Neutral
2:30
13
He's Sitting There Adding A Column of Figures
2:38
14
Firmly Say I Am An Athiest
2:29
15
Exhaustively Rich Universe
3:24
16
I Wasted A Lot of Time
3:13
17
So That Is An Enormously Fascinating Field
3:07
CD 9: Tertiary Phase: Fits the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
1
An Updated Guide
2:24
2
The Two Earth Survivors
2:25
3
A Frustrating Encounter
1:32
4
Wowbagger
4:04
5
Reunion
3:11
6
Chasing the Sofa
2:30
7
Starships of Legend
4:44
8
Marvin Rotating
1:33
9
The Ratchet Screwdriver Fruit
3:23
10
Goodbye Trillian
3:58
11
Time Travel
3:24
12
Lords Cricket Ground
3:03
13
A Cup of Tea and a Newspaper
3:45
14
Somebody Else’s Problem
2:24
15
The Krikkit Robots Attack
3:37
16
Aftermath
3:22
17
Robot Restaurant
2:22
18
The Bistromathic Drive
1:51
19
Mattress Globbering
2:46
20
Marvin’s Depressing Tale
4:24
CD 10: Tertiary Phase: Fits the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
1
Lallafa and the Leaves
3:23
2
A Souvenir Offer
1:49
3
An Informational Visit
3:29
4
The Krikkit Men Awake
4:19
5
Brockian Ultra-Cricket
2:38
6
Zaphod’s Sneaky Visitors
4:36
7
The Krikkit War Crimes Trial
3:25
8
Judiciary Pag Rules
3:00
9
The Campaign for Real Time
3:27
10
Arthur Diverted
5:29
11
Inside the Labyrinth
4:47
12
The Cathedral of Hate
2:53
13
Agrajag
4:13
14
Flying Lessons
3:22
15
Lost Property
1:49
16
The Longest Party
2:50
17
Bring a Bottle
3:05
18
Disco Fever
2:38
19
Gatecrashers
1:34
20
Arthur Gets Tough
3:50
CD 11: Tertiary Phase: Fits the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
1
Silastic Armorfiends
2:13
2
Hactar
2:53
3
Trillian’s Homework
2:37
4
The Wikkit Gate
2:26
5
Philadeeleya Soundscapers
3:54
6
Zaphod Bales Out
2:33
7
Fast and Faster
3:29
8
Pan Galactic Crisis
1:22
9
The Planet Krikkit
3:19
10
Zaphod the Intrepid
5:28
11
Everything to Play For
3:48
12
The Brains of the Outfit
3:50
13
Trillian Puts a Case
3:43
14
Teamwork
2:12
15
Hactar in Particular
5:10
16
Dissolution
2:48
17
Prak
2:33
18
The Ultimate Question
2:40
19
Dr Dan’s Opus
2:24
20
Return to Lords
5:26
CD 12: Quandary Phase: Fits the Nineteenth and Twentieth
1
A Planet in the Way
4:01
2
Now Wash Your Hands Please
3:42
3
Alien Teaser
4:17
4
The Old Pink Dog
3:59
5
The Taunton Road
2:13
6
Rain Type 232
3:42
7
Wealth Counselling
1:54
8
Another Updated Guide
2:53
9
Love at First Groan
3:07
10
Ford’s New Responsibilities
2:54
11
Arthur’s Cottage
4:56
12
Putting the Universe to Rights
4:26
13
When Do Hedgehogs Stop Hibernating?
2:35
14
Fenchurch
2:14
15
Ticket Number 37
5:05
16
A Fracture in Time
3:04
17
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
2:25
18
Xaxisian Robot Ship
4:02
19
Arthur’s Good Deed
3:11
20
A Cave in Islington
2:36
CD 13: Quandary Phase: Fits the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second
1
Rich Tea
3:34
2
Fenchurch’s Story
3:02
3
Arthur’s Guide
3:30
4
Vogon Court of Inquiry
2:51
5
An Inch Taller
7:32
6
Flying on the Flight Path
1:46
7
East River Nightmare
3:18
8
Murray Bost Henson
3:06
9
Another Flight
5:20
10
Wonko the Sane
6:54
11
Return of the Rain God
3:26
12
An American Trillian
1:47
13
Ford Prefect Unbound
3:21
14
The World at One
3:59
15
Novelties
2:36
16
Hitching a Lift on a Robot Ship
3:09
17
Multidimensional Infinity
2:15
18
Two for the Message
3:16
19
Marvin’s Last Journey
8:17
20
Hyperspace Jump
3:10
CD 14: Quintessential Phase: Fits the Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth
1
Who Are You?
4:07
2
The Terminal
6:46
3
Tricia McMillion Billion Trillian
3:47
4
Rupert Rises
3:02
5
Astrology in Alpha
3:48
6
Zaphod Delivers a Pizza
2:38
7
Vann Harl
1:34
8
Prophets and Losses
4:01
9
The Hitchhiker’s Building
3:22
10
A Happy Robot
4:11
11
Smelly Photocopier Woman
5:53
12
Aliens on the Lawn
3:57
13
Zarniwoop
3:40
14
Spread a Little Happiness
2:39
15
The Grebulon Mission
3:25
16
Old Man Up the Pole
4:02
17
InfiniDim Enterprises
3:41
18
Total Perspective Vortex
2:34
19
Hoping for a Miracle
2:19
20
Taking a Leap
3:20
CD 15: Quintessential Phase: Fits the Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth
1
The Sandwichmaker
3:35
2
Old Thrashbarg Propitiates
2:44
3
Stuck on a Ledge
2:53
4
Trillian’s Little Surprise
5:58
5
Tricia Dines on Rupert
3:19
6
Bonding
3:23
7
A Parcel Arrives
2:05
8
That Which Survives
1:59
9
Reverse Temporal Engineering
3:10
10
RW6
4:19
11
Ford’s Theory
6:56
12
In Post-Production
4:48
13
A Perfectly Normal Ride
2:36
14
Regent’s Park
1:17
15
Stampede
2:01
16
In The Domain of the King
3:03
17
The Threads Draw Together
3:37
18
Number 42
3:17
19
The Probability Arc
2:35
20
Advanced Bistromathics
9:11
CD 16: Hexagonal Phase: Episodes One and Two
1
Nice One, God, Nice One
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:11
2
The Story So Far
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:13
3
The Planet of the Dolphins
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:43
4
Fertle
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:31
5
Barzoo
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:48
6
The Shack
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:44
7
Baggy the Runch
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:55
8
A Room Made of Sky
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:30
9
The Guide Mark II
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:52
10
Back in Club Beta
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
6:43
11
The Heart of Gold
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:22
12
Natural Forces
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:41
13
Left Brain
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:26
14
The Teleportation Blues
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
1:39
15
Improbabilities
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:48
16
Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
5:29
17
Constant Mown
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
5:32
18
Interviewing for a God
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:27
19
Not Fenchurch
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:51
20
Zaphod's Mission
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
5:10
CD 17: Hexagonal Phase: Episodes Three and Four
1
Heimdall's Offer
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:41
2
Zaphod's Last Words
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:20
3
Not the Last Humans
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:47
4
A Task From Odin
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:32
5
Hel and Modgud
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:46
6
Bent Stick
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:27
7
Pormwranglers
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:46
8
A Constant Revelation
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:49
9
Two Confidence Tricksters
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:37
10
Dine-O-Charge
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:40
11
Asgard
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:23
12
The Well of Urd
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:26
13
Ford Hits a Snag
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:41
14
The History of Nano
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
1:56
15
The Cong Militia
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:15
16
The Ultra-Warm Beast
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
1:48
17
A Visit From Eccentrica
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:54
18
The Great Cheese
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:58
19
The Consultant
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:40
20
A Last Word on God
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:09
CD 18: Hexagonal Phase: Episodes Five and Six
1
The Dentrassi
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:47
2
Arrival at Nano
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
1:39
3
Thor's Manager
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:09
4
Those Cows
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:54
5
Zaphod & Trillian
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:44
6
Ford's Plan
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:44
7
Jeltz's Pep Talk
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:41
8
A Special Delivery
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:15
9
The Big Fight, Round One
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
5:01
10
The Big Fight, Round Two
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
8:53
11
Mugging Beauty in a Dark Alley
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:56
12
The Spectre at the Feast
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:00
13
A Job for Thor
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
3:03
14
A Holy Relic
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:25
15
By the Book
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
4:24
16
Zaphod's Farewell
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
1:53
17
A Final Call
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:54
18
Random's Interview
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
1:48
19
Avenues of Pleasure
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
2:12
20
The Opposite End of the Curve
Douglas Adams & Eoin Colfer
7:33
CD 19: Bonus CD
1
Hello, and Welcome to Bookclub ...
4:32
2
And I Said "Yes, It Is Funny" ...
4:27
3
Because, Inference By Inference, Everything Makes Sense ...
3:37
4
Douglas Adams, Welcome to Bookclub ...
3:37
5
Fascinated Me, But Also Left Me Wanting More ...
3:49
6
A Problem That Is Terribly Improbable ...
3:17
7
The Ending of the Original Radio Series ...
4:23
8
How Did You Actually Develop ...
3:59
9
When I Moved From Australia ...
3:18
10
What Appears to Be the Case ...
4:32
11
The Narrator Who Popped Out of the Guide ...
3:42
12
We Are Going to Get Lynched ...
4:08
13
She's Not Asking You to Enjoy It ...
3:37
14
On the Surface of Magrathea ...
3:04
15
Appetite and Propensity ...
4:15

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Release credits

Bruce Hyman
producer [10.1-20, 11.1-20, 9.1-20]
Dirk Maggs
audio director [11.1-20, 10.1-20, 9.1-20], co [10.1-20, 11.1-20, 9.1-20]
Helen Chattwell
producer [10.1-20, 11.1-20, 9.1-20]

Issues

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(Combined release view)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series
14x CD
3 October 2005
T
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series
14x CD
4 November 2008
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series
13x CD
2012
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series
19x CD
27 June 2019