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Don't Panic: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe: The Original Albums

Contributor(s): Adams, Douglas (Author), Jones, Peter (Read by), Jones, Simon (Read by), McGivern, Geoffrey (Read by), Wing-Davey, Mark (Read by), Moore, Stephen (Read by), Full Cast (Read by)

ISBN: 9781529126570

Publisher: BBC Physical Audio

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Pub Date: March 1, 2021

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Price on Product, Unabridged

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 5.60" L x 5.00" W ( 0.40 lbs) pages

BISAC Categories:

Performing Arts | Radio | General

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Description:

Don't Panic! Reissued for the first time in 40 years, two unique recordings of Douglas Adams's sci-fi comedy drama.

When Earthman Arthur Dent learns that first his house and then his planet are about to be bulldozed, it's the beginning of an interplanetary adventure for him and his friend, Ford Prefect. After fleeing Earth they hitch a lift with hoopy frood Zaphod Beeblebrox, who hurtles from one improbability to another--literally. With Trillian and Marvin the Paranoid Android in tow, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is soon revealed: 42. But what was the question...?

Following the success of the BBC radio series, Douglas Adams adapted his scripts for these two full-cast albums, with incidental radiophonic music provided by Paddy Kingsland. First released by Original Records in 1980, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe star Peter Jones as The Book, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, and Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Produced by Geoffrey Perkins and Tim Souster, the cast also includes Cindy Oswin, Stephen Moore, Richard Vernon, Valentine Dyall, David Tate, Jim Broadbent, Bill Wallis, Roy Hudd, Frank Middlemass, Stephen Greif, and others.

Hang onto your towel--it's going to be the ride of a lifetime.

Brief description:
Peter is a life member of ANA, NENA, and USMEXNA, and a member of ANS, IBSS, C4 and MCA, and president of his local coin club, the Mansfield Numismatic Society.

He has also authored Notable Notes, Colonial History In Your Hands, Dow Jones by Peter Jones, Commemorative Coin Tales, The First Medals of America, The First Coins of the Americas, TREASURE, Beautiful Banknotes of France, Stock Certificates Art and History, Greek Coin Art, and with Prof. Cynthia Adams, Therapeutic Communication, now in its third edition.

A graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge, and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, Peter moved from England with his wife and three daughters to rural Connecticut in 1977, where he practiced internal medicine for 39 years.

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