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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase (Dramatised)
- And Another Thing...
- Narrated by: Jane Horrocks, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing-Davey, Geoffrey McGivern, Simon Jones, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase (Dramatised)
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Publisher's 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'.
Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Science Fiction.
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.
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 Béart, Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen Hawking.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018, the series is written and directed by Dirk Maggs and based on And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams. 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.
Cast:
The Voice Of The Book…John Lloyd
Arthur Dent…Simon Jones
Ford Prefect…Geoff McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox…Mark Wing-Davey
Trillian/Tricia McMillan…Sandra Dickinson
Trillian…Susan Sheridan
Random…Samantha Béart
Jeltz/Wowbagger…Toby Longworth
Constant Mown…Andy Secombe
Left Brain/Thor…Mitch Benn
Fenchurch…Jane Horrocks
Hillman Hunter…Ed Byrne
Cthulu…Jon Culshaw
Marvin…Jim Broadbent
The Guide MkII…Professor Stephen Hawking
The Consultant…Lenny Henry
Heimdall/Barzoo/Buckeye Brown/Eccentrica /Gunner Vogon…Tom Alexander
Aseed Preflux/Sub-Etha Voice/HOG Door …Philip Pope
Modgud/The Viking…Theo Maggs Baldur… Phillipe Bosher
Announcer…John Marsh
Music by Philip Pope
Production research by Kevin Jon Davies.
Written and directed by Dirk Maggs.
Based on the novel And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer, with additional material by Douglas Adams.
Recorded at The Soundhouse Ltd. by Gerry O'Riordan.
Sound Design by Dirk Maggs.
Produced by Dirk Maggs, Helen Chattwell and David Morley.
A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Collette
- 28-10-2024
Feels a lazy transfer
Really annoyed this hasn't been split into chapters. One long audio. very frustrating.
Story is fun, but this makes finishing and picking up frustrating.
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- Ray from Ryde
- 27-05-2021
No matter what shape
Some of the voices changed but the result was still equally entertaining and fun. Do yourself a favour and just listen to the lot.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-03-2020
What a journey since 1977
So long and thanks for the fish. Dingos Kidneys this was a great chapter and recommend the journey as if you enjoyed the rest of the audio books since their radio broadcast in 1977 then it's a great time to go on one more adventure. You might enjoy this with one of your brains in a jar and plenty of frozen sandwiches. Praise Thor.
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- Rob in Nelson NZ
- 01-07-2018
I'm glad they did this. Better than nothing......
Hitch-Hikers material by Douglas Adams draws intense fan loyalty. I'm pretty die hard, and have been listening to the first two series for 30+ years and would have lost count how many times I've heard them. I loved the first 3 books, really liked the 4th book, and was disappointed by the 5th book. Eion Colfer's efforts to continue to the story with a 6th was OK, but I think telling that he didn't try again. Dirk Maggs does a wonderful job of continuing the radio series legacy, and has turned the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th books into radio adaptions. Much like the books, the story-lines have steadily declined. That's not a reflection on Dirk Maggs or the others involved - the performances and adaption quality are excellent I thoroughly enjoyed. It's just that everything seems to be running out of steam.
I was really glad they made the movie, but it didn't take off. Similarly, I'm really glad they have made this radio series.
Sadly, Douglas Adams died in the early 2000s. I'm still incredibly sad about that. My attitude to these examples of 'new' material fall into the category of "better than nothing". If you are young, and have recently heard of the "Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" don't start with this. Start with the the earliest versions. It just makes sense regardless, and I can't recommend them highly enough. But if you're a fan, and are wondering "Should I bother?" I recommend you do.... just not strongly........
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-11-2019
An Unsatisfying End
Sadly just a money spinning tack-on to the series... I'd recommend avoiding and preserve wonder at the side-splitting first five books.
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