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Award Winners: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Winner of the ' best programme or series of programmes for young listeners ' in the 1980 Society of Authors/Pye Airards to Radio. An adventure in time and space including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe for just over 30 Altairian dollars The a third programme of the second series in which our heroes have some close encounters with others and themselves.
ARTHUR: It's not a ques tion of whose habitat it is its just a question of how hard you hit it.
Radiophonic sound and music by PADDY KINGSLAND Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Stephen Moore is a NT player)
12.55Weather; programme news

Contributors

Music By:
Paddy Kingsland
Written By:
Douglas Adams
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins
Unknown:
Stephen Moore
the Book:
Peter Jones
Arthur Dent:
Simon Jones
Ford Prefect:
Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
Mark Wing-Davey
Marvin:
Stephen Moore
Eddie:
David Tate
Bird One:
Ronald Baddiley
Bird Two Footsoldier:
John Baddeley
Lintilla:
Rula Lenska
the Old Bird:
John Le Mesurier

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