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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Hexagonal phase : BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

Maggs, Dirk, (author.). Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 (author.). Colfer, Eoin, (author.). Colfer, Eoin. Dramatization of (work): And another thing. (Added Author).

Summary:

The brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast series based on "And Another Thing...' the sixth book in the famous Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy". Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends return in six brand new episodes, in which they are thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrica Gallumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal. This edition also includes over 50 minutes of unbroadcast bonus material. Listeners are reminded that the relaxed attitude to danger provided by Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses is no substitute for running around, screaming.

Record details

ISBN: 9781785299117
Physical Description: 3 sound discs (3 hours, 35 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
Publisher: London : BBC Worldwide, ℗2018.
Copyright: ©2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Based on the novel by Eoin Colfer, with additional material by Douglas Adams.

Booklet contains programme note written by Dirk Maggs.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 6.30pm, 8 March 2018.

Participant or Performer Note:

Written and directed by Dirk Maggs.

Starring John Lloyd as The Book, with Simon Jones as Arthur, Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson and Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Jim Broadbent as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Jane Horrocks as Fenchurch, the cast also includes Samantha Beart, Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen Hawking.