The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Douglas Adams' sci-fi comedy following the misadventures of hapless human Arthur Dent.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase: Fit The Sixteenth

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The Tertiary Phase

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Arthur is confronted by all he’s ever eaten or killed.

Arthur is confronted by all he’s ever eaten or killed and gatecrashes the Longest Party Ever Held. Stars Simon Jones. From 2004.

Arthur Dent has been diverted from arriving at the Longest Party Ever Held to find himself in a sinister labyrinth, leading him to a subterranean Cathedral of Hate in which a fifty-foot high statue of himself is depicted causing harm to various creatures. It turns out that the organisms that he has inadvertently been killed - and/or eaten - throughout his life have all been the same person, reincarnated over-and-over again, only to be killed - over and over again - by Arthur. Its last, most desperate incarnation, one it had to fight for, and one which gives it a last chance for revenge against his tormentor, is as a four-foot fruitbat with an orthodontic condition called Agrajag. Can Arthur escape Agrajag’s clutches and get to the party?

The Book …. William Franklyn
Arthur Dent …. Simon Jones
Ford Prefect …. Geoff McGivern
Marvin …. Stephen Moore
Trillian …. Susan Sheridan
Zaphod Beeblebrox …. Mark Wing-Davey
Slartibartfast …. Richard Griffiths
Thor …. Dominic Hawksley
Agrajag …. Douglas Adams
Award Winner …. Bob Golding
Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head …. Joanna Lumley
Party Doorman …. Paul Wickens

Written by Douglas Adams
Music by Philip Pope and Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens
Adapted and Directed by Dirk Maggs
Produced by Helen Chattwell and Bruce Hyman

An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2004.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase

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Cult sci-fi comedy based on Douglas Adams's book, Life, the Universe and Everything.

Third series of the cult science fiction comedy, based on Douglas Adams's book, Life, the Universe and Everything.

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