Right! This is a must have. The original BBC Radio production remastered
http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-The-Primary-Phase-Dramatised-Audiobook/B002V5IWMU/ref=a_search_c4_2_1_srTtl?qid=1436671218&sr=2-1
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, with newly recorded announcements by John Marsh.
I remember our family gathered around the radio listening to this, when I was a kid.
I have a 12 cassette tape boxed version of this. I have listened to it many times. I remember watching it on PBS with my grandma when I was very young. LOVE this version!
The radio play was always the best incarnation of the story in my opinion (I think it was also the first). I still haven't watched the film, for fear of it doing irreparable harm to my memories...
Quote from: Huw the Poo on July 12, 2015, 09:12:01 AM
The radio play was always the best incarnation of the story in my opinion (I think it was also the first). I still haven't watched the film, for fear of it doing irreparable harm to my memories...
Don't watch the film if you want to preserve the memory of th books or even the radio series. It's fun but not even close to the real story.