The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase: And Another Thing… Audiobook (Free)

The brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast series based on And Another Thing… the sixth reserve in the famous Hitchhiker’s Guideline “trilogy”.

Forty years about from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guidebook towards the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends come back in six completely new episodes, where they are thrown back to 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 short but memorable about The Hitchhiker’s Instruction to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Stage: And ONE MORE THING… 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 Google 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 about BBC Radio 4 in 2018, the series is definitely written and directed by Dirk Maggs and based on And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer with additional unpublished materials by Douglas Adams. This model also includes over 50 minutes of unbroadcast reward material.

Listeners are reminded which the relaxed attitude to danger supplied by Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Private Sunglasses is no substitute for playing around, screaming.

Music by Philip Pope

Production study by Kevin Jon Davies

Written and directed simply by Dirk Maggs

Based on the novel And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer, with additional materials by Douglas Adams

Recorded on the Soundhouse Ltd. by Gerry O’Riordan

Sound Style by Dirk Maggs

Produced by Dirk Maggs, Helen Chattwell and David Morley

A Perfectly Normal Creation for BBC Radio 4