Douglas Adams
Continue your journey through the galaxy with other audiobooks from Douglas Adams’ popular sci-fi series: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, The Universe, and Everything (1982), So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (1984), and Mostly Harmless (1992). The sixth book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was written by Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl. And Another Thing... was published in 2009 to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.
Other books by Adams include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988). A compilation of Adams' work is contained in The Salmon of Doubt, a collection of writings, including an unfinished novel, published posthumously in 2002. Adams’ style of comedic science fiction writing made him popular both within the sci-fi reading community and beyond.
Douglas Adams Audiobooks
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There’s just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea. And did anyone actually make a reservation?
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Great story
- By Sarah on 18-10-2017
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.
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Koopl Koopl
- By Аdriк Smiгnоv on 05-10-2020
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It’s not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he’s the only human who’s been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchurch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she’s forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God’s Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it. And in a dramatic break with tradition - actually find it....
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This one is incredible
- By Dan on 04-07-2021
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Mostly Harmless
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There’s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he’s encountered most of them before.… Volume Five in the Trilogy of Five.
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Awesome addition to the series
- By Lincoln on 22-01-2018
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There’s just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea. And did anyone actually make a reservation?
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Great story
- By Sarah on 18-10-2017
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.
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Koopl Koopl
- By Аdriк Smiгnоv on 05-10-2020
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It’s not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he’s the only human who’s been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchurch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she’s forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God’s Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it. And in a dramatic break with tradition - actually find it....
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This one is incredible
- By Dan on 04-07-2021
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Mostly Harmless
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There’s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he’s encountered most of them before.… Volume Five in the Trilogy of Five.
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Awesome addition to the series
- By Lincoln on 22-01-2018
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The original series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope’s version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh.
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Terrible quality
- By Patrick on 03-02-2021
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Secondary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet. Zaphod finds his visit to the offices of the Guide rudely interrupted by Frogstar fighters, who further threaten to feed him to the Total Perspective Vortex. Eventually reunited, the three fetch up on the planet Brontitall and discover the indigenous species in something of a flap. Arthur meets Lintilla (several of her), Marvin gets to be a hero once again, and there is a meeting with the Man in the Shack who apparently runs the Universe....
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Brilliant.
- By Typhus. on 06-04-2022
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Tertiary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'.
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Memories
- By Pheonix on 28-10-2019
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Quandary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s saga returns once again with a full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams’s famous ‘trilogy in five parts’. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and, even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after...well...ages, he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. But Ford Prefect is on to something which might well burst Arthur’s bubble.
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A joy.
- By Typhus. on 10-05-2022
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The original series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope’s version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh.
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Terrible quality
- By Patrick on 03-02-2021
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Secondary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet. Zaphod finds his visit to the offices of the Guide rudely interrupted by Frogstar fighters, who further threaten to feed him to the Total Perspective Vortex. Eventually reunited, the three fetch up on the planet Brontitall and discover the indigenous species in something of a flap. Arthur meets Lintilla (several of her), Marvin gets to be a hero once again, and there is a meeting with the Man in the Shack who apparently runs the Universe....
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Brilliant.
- By Typhus. on 06-04-2022
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Tertiary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'.
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Memories
- By Pheonix on 28-10-2019
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Quandary Phase
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s saga returns once again with a full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams’s famous ‘trilogy in five parts’. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and, even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after...well...ages, he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. But Ford Prefect is on to something which might well burst Arthur’s bubble.
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A joy.
- By Typhus. on 10-05-2022
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dramatised)
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Billy Boyd, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.
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It's a shame it's so short
- By Warren on 22-10-2017
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Shada
- Doctor Who: The Lost Adventure
- By: Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts
- Narrated by: Lalla Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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The Doctor's old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University - where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana, and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs - most of them are harmless. But one of them is extremely dangerous. The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey isn't a book for Time Tots.It must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.
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Exciting Adventure.
- By Clare on 13-08-2014
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Doctor Who: City of Death
- By: Douglas Adams, James Goss
- Narrated by: Lalla Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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An unabridged reading of the brand-new novelisation of a classic Fourth Doctor TV story by Douglas Adams. The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris - a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. But the TARDIS arrives in 1979, a table-wine year, whose vintage is soured by cracks in the very fabric of time itself.
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
- 4th Doctor Novelisation
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Jon Culshaw
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces. With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the wrong planet - Zanak.
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A rattling good yarn!
- By rob506 on 30-09-2020
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Doctor Who: Classic TV Adventures Collection One
- Seven full-cast BBC TV soundtracks
- By: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Malcolm Hulke, and others
- Narrated by: Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker star as the Doctor in these seven narrated full-cast TV soundtracks of classic Doctor Who TV serials. The stories are 'The Tomb of the Cybermen' (narrated by Frazer Hines); 'Doctor Who and the Silurians' (narrated by Caroline John); 'The Sea Devils' (narrated by Katy Manning); 'The Curse of Peladon' (narrated by Katy Manning); 'The Monster of Peladon' (narrated by Elisabeth Sladen); 'The Pirate Planet' (narrated by John Leeson); and 'Destiny of the Daleks' (narrated by Lalla Ward).
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Love, Love, Love
- By Cate on 09-06-2017
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Dirk Gently
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dramatised)
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a frantic client turns up with a ludicrous story about being stalked by a goblin waving a contract accompanied by a hairy, green-eyed, scythe-wielding monster.
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Not the Douglas Adams Narration
- By Christopher on 04-10-2016
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Douglas Adams at the BBC
- A Celebration of the Author's Life and Work
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, presents a look back at the life and work of a writer who has captivated the imagination of millions.
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: AudioGO Ltd
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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A classic TV soundtrack adventure starring Tom Baker. The TARDIS materialises on a planet where the age of prosperity comes often, and precious jewels line the streets like litter. Overseeing the citizens is the bombastic Captain, half human and half machine. Lurking in shadows are the Mentiads, mysterious cowled figures who set their sights on certain individuals and claim them for their own.
Adams supported a number of environmental campaigns to protect endangered species, including the British organisation Save the Rhino International. Adams also joined author and conservationist Mark Carwardine to write and present the BBC radio documentary Last Chance to See. In Last Chance to See the Adams and Carwardine travelled to various parts of the world to highlight the plight of endangered species such as the Komodo dragon in Indonesia and the Amazonian manatee in Brazil. The journey taken by Adams and Carwardine is chronicled in the book Last Chance to See (2001) which Adams describes as his favourite book during a talk he gave at the University of California.
Douglas Adams studied a BA in English at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was born 11 March 1952 in Cambridge, England, and died 11 May 2001 in California, United States. He was 49.