81 comments for The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - The original radio series »

1. so disappointed these are gone already…thanks anyway!

   Comment by SA — put May 5, 2005 @ 7:41 pm

2. Updated Links!

   Comment by Dr Grey — put May 5, 2005 @ 8:49 pm

3. Seems these links are down, sadly. Is there any way to regain access to the mp3 files?

   Comment by Rich — put June 21, 2005 @ 7:35 pm

4. Can’t seem to get theese links, and I really would like to gain access to theese files. Thanks

   Comment by Josh — put June 26, 2005 @ 10:26 pm

5. There will be updated links later today.

   Comment by Dr Grey — put June 26, 2005 @ 10:35 pm

6. Thanks a bunch for providing these. I’ve been looking for ages since I can’t seem to get my P2P to work…

   Comment by Drew — put July 3, 2005 @ 11:33 am

7. Is there a HHGGTTG, Secundus, or something like that?

   Comment by jerryprism — put July 6, 2005 @ 12:11 am

8. Yes, Secondary Phase. It’s episodes 7-12 of the original series.

   Original Series:
   Primary Phase - Fits 1-6
   Secondary Phase - Fits 7-12

   New Series:
   Tertiary Phase - Fits 13 - 18
   Quandary Phase - Fits 19 - 22
   Quintessential Phase - Fits 23 - 26

   The Quandary and Quintessential Phases will be on GPod shortly.

   Comment by Dr Grey — put July 6, 2005 @ 1:16 am

9. Is it possible to download the new series from some website, or should I try my best in P2P applications?

   Comment by Catmoon — put July 6, 2005 @ 2:40 am

10. The last two phases will be here on GPod sometime later this week. They can also easily be found on most P2P networks.

    Comment by Dr Grey — put July 6, 2005 @ 3:03 am

11. God, I can’t seem to find it on Kazaa… I really hope you’re going to upload it soon though.

    Comment by Catmoon — put July 7, 2005 @ 2:51 am

12. Thanks for your reply about the Secondary Phase, and thanks for putting on the Fourth and Fifth phases. As a long time HH, I’ve always enjoyed the series in all its formats, audio, video, and text. Especially the BBC audio & video, absolutely priceless. Just for that, you deserve a contribution to this site. Is it tax deductible, no matter.

    Comment by jerryprism — put July 9, 2005 @ 12:36 am

13. Very much appreciated. Thank you!

    Comment by Dr Grey — put July 9, 2005 @ 1:03 am

14. THANKS SO MUCH! i first read the books in the 90’s, and found the radio series in ‘98. i thought it was great, but with my old modem, I just was able to get episode 1 before the site went down. I now have all 12. I cant wait to listen, so i’ve got to go! But wanted to you to know how much I appreciated it. Thanks again!

    Comment by Hyper — put July 11, 2005 @ 4:18 am

15. Thanks a lot! but there seem to be a couple of minutes missing from the end of Fit the Tenth.

    Comment by Cat — put July 12, 2005 @ 2:28 am

16. It is? OK try this.

    Comment by Dr Grey — put July 12, 2005 @ 2:34 am

17. Much better. Thanks!

    Comment by Cat — put July 12, 2005 @ 2:48 am

18. I cannot get to the Tertiary phase files. Are they available?

    This is an awesome site, thanks for putting these up!

    Comment by Jim — put July 22, 2005 @ 9:25 am

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20. This is excellent, I have been searching for these for ages and only managed to get a few through using kazaa. Cheers!

    Comment by Rey — put August 30, 2005 @ 4:29 pm

21. Mega - been searching for ages for these!!

    Listened to the originals in 78/79 but on scratchy BBC Long wave radio and although I had audio tapes never got the good recordings from VHF or discs.

    Anybody got the 1978 Xmas special (repeated Xmas 79) on mp3 (again I only have the long wave recording) ?

    Cheers

    Comment by Ken — put September 7, 2005 @ 10:52 am

22. PS the special came between 6 and 7.

    Comment by Ken — put September 7, 2005 @ 10:56 am

23. These books were so awesome the first time I read them. The second time round they were even better. From then on it just got exponentially better…

    Thanks for these files, it’s the first time I have had the chance to hear them and I’m looking forward to it immensely!

    Comment by Greggles — put September 9, 2005 @ 11:52 am

24. thank you very very very much.
    I love the hitchhikers guide.
    I could not live on this backward tropical island in the carribean without internet and this lovely site.

    Comment by Fiona — put September 11, 2005 @ 2:55 am

25. Anyone know where the audiobook of hitchhikkers read by stephen fry can be found?

    Comment by ben — put September 17, 2005 @ 4:28 am

26. Here

    Comment by Dr Grey — put September 17, 2005 @ 5:37 am

27. I really appreciate that you made these available. ‘ve really had a hard time finding them. I’mjust curious as to why these are not in stereo? My husband says one of the things that makes it funny is all the audio effedts. Can you help? Thanks

    Comment by Terese Goren — put October 2, 2005 @ 8:44 am

28. In fact, Part 7 is the ‘Christmas Episode’, broadcast in Dec. 1978 as a lead-up to the 1980 series (a sort of teaser episode to keep the story ‘open’).

    Thanks for uploading this stuff!

    Comment by Dennis Arleck — put October 11, 2005 @ 7:16 pm

29. Thank you very much,

    Comment by Gemima Fitzgerald — put October 17, 2005 @ 2:17 am

30. I found this site thanks to Mindre Panda, and was delighted to discover that I didn’t have to find a way of converting the old audio casssettes I had, but could download the mp3 files to iTunes! The other series are very much appreciated, although I cannot get the ogg files onto my iPod - any ideas?
    More importantly though, thanks for the opportunity to revisit this marvel of the wireless age, digitally!

    Comment by Adrian Marsh — put November 2, 2005 @ 3:32 am

31. Go here and download the mp3’s.

    Comment by Dr Grey — put November 2, 2005 @ 5:16 am

32. My dad show this to me around my last birthday (i turned 11).this is as good as trhe book down to every word.now i can put this onto CD.

    Comment by Autumn Decant — put November 2, 2005 @ 7:34 am

33. Thank you
    Thank you
    Thank you
    Thank you
    Thank you

    ps. Thank you

    Comment by Richard — put November 29, 2005 @ 10:42 am

34. The link to the non-incomplete verion of Fit the Tenth seems to be broken - i’m just getting a very small file that clearly is not a complete episode. Any idea what happened to it?

    Thanks for these.

    Comment by Andrew — put December 15, 2005 @ 6:09 am

35. Does anyone know where i can download the original BlackAdder radio specials??

    Comment by Gerry S — put December 21, 2005 @ 11:20 am

36. you are my hero, it has taken me months to find all 12 parts, and to find them in 1 place is incredibly fortunate. I’d kiss you if you were here

    Comment by mike snelling — put December 23, 2005 @ 3:26 pm

37. Does anyone know where to find the original version of fit the third? the one contained is missing a very small part where marvin hums a song from Pink Floydd which was removed from later versions…

    Comment by James — put January 7, 2006 @ 4:05 am

38. Dr. Grey,

    I with the rest of the group… THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU. My first exposure to the guide was in 78/79 from the original BBC broadcasts. My nine year old son is now reading the guide for a book report and I wanted him to hear and experience what I did when I first heard the guide 20+ years ago.

    Thanks for making this possible. Warmest regards, Craig

    Comment by Craig L — put January 20, 2006 @ 12:15 pm

39. Thank you so much for these. I haven’t heard this series for years and it’s a nice reclaimed memory.

    Comment by Milo — put January 20, 2006 @ 1:11 pm

40. Thanks for the this, their great. I just finished listening to episode 10 and it was cut off, I see you spotted this already but your replacement link doesn’t work

    Comment by Matt — put February 5, 2006 @ 7:15 pm

41. download the 10′th here

    Comment by Dr Grey — put February 5, 2006 @ 8:38 pm

42. Cheers, much appreciated

    Comment by Matt — put February 6, 2006 @ 11:55 pm

43. YEAH!!!! OH YEAH!!! YEAH BABY, YEAH!!!!
    (this may be interpreted as joyful cheering; thanks a bunch from Holland) (which doesn’t automatically mean that I’m stoned right now)
    (but it could)

    Comment by Koning Robert — put February 13, 2006 @ 12:30 pm

44. Thanks! Delighted to find these again!

    Comment by Slartibartfast — put March 3, 2006 @ 2:46 am

45. Thank you SO much for making the radio version available to everyone!! Really, thanks!

    Comment by SMJ — put March 3, 2006 @ 6:06 pm

46. I keep reading about a lost 13th episode entitled “Sheila’s Ear”. Does it actually exist? And if so, is it possible to get copy.

    Also, is there a place to download the recordings that Hannibal Records did of Hitchhiker’s - including the revised version of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe with Disaster Area?

    Comment by Jorgan — put March 21, 2006 @ 9:56 am

47. hi there, these audio files are fantastic. however, i am having trouble with episode 1 (only 7 mins long) episode 3 (5.41 mins) and episode 9 (only 0.13mins!)

    Comment by loralee — put April 16, 2006 @ 5:16 pm

48. Try downloading them from here.

    Comment by Dr Grey — put April 17, 2006 @ 1:22 am

49. I can’t seem to download anything after the secondary phase. Is there a new link for them? Thanks a million!

    Comment by Traci — put April 18, 2006 @ 8:17 am

50. http://www.sadena.com/hh/

    Comment by Dr Grey — put April 18, 2006 @ 8:28 am

51. Many Thanks for making these available.
    My scratchy old tapes were worn out. It’ll be great to be able to have these on my iPod.

    Comment by Skyrunner — put June 5, 2006 @ 6:08 am

52. Thank you a bunch! After I saw the movie and read the book, I wanted to find the radio series also to hear what it originally had been like. (I’m only 14 you know…I didn’t know about it until the newer movie came out in theaters. My mom had told me some about it, but she had forgotten the name of the book so I couldn’t find it.) Of course, I have a 56k modem, so it takes almost 2 hours to download half an hour of MP3…ohh well I guess. They’re worth it.

    Comment by Biospark — put June 6, 2006 @ 9:19 am

53. Thanx dude
    a friend of mine had give me the radioplays but the 11 and 12th fit were incomplete.U just made my day

    Comment by wolvi — put June 28, 2006 @ 6:54 am

54. Awesome I remeber we had it on vynl when I was a kid, I’m now 32.

    Comment by Croupier — put August 17, 2006 @ 1:28 am

55. Thanks for making me a VERY happy person tonight!
    Good to hear the sound of Peter Jones voice again.
    I have tried the other phases, but the links are not working hope it is only temporary!
    Cheers!

    Comment by Scousejohn — put September 25, 2006 @ 12:36 pm

56. I am so delighted to find this. I heard this in college in 1982 and fell in love with them. Now my 13 year old really wants to hear them. We turned her on to radio theater last Christmas with The Shaddow set of tapes and now she wants to hear the Guide the same way. She doesn’t want to see the movie, she wants to listen to the tapes. So refreshing today.

    Comment by Carol — put September 26, 2006 @ 1:07 pm

57. I listened to the dutch radio broadcasts in 1980 and was immediately hooked. There the story went only as far as episode 6.

    Episode 12 here seems to be damaged. At least it won’t play.
    I found an even better download at
    http://sharky.electricmonk.nl/
    He has the complete hitchhiker radio play from the primary to the quintessential phase.

    Comment by Femme — put October 20, 2006 @ 4:45 pm

58. THANK YOU!!!!!

    They are great, I fell in love with them when I was 11, and I really enjoyed listening again, all these years later.

    Comment by The Unknown — put January 11, 2007 @ 4:08 am

59. hell all, i am wondering having heard the 12 episodes (which are great) - are their anymore episodes of the series???
    if anyone knows anything i would appreciate letting me know - email me

    Comment by Andrew — put January 19, 2007 @ 6:16 am

60. Goto this page
    http://www.electricmonk.nl/index.php?page=DouglasAdams
    Scroll down to the story about the radio broadcasts. Click on the contact me link.
    He’ll tell you where to download them as mp3.

    Hint the link is already on this page. But it is more polite to ask him for it, and thank him for making a beautiful post mortem on Douglas Adams.
    There are 28 files including the announcement of the series.

    Comment by Femme — put January 20, 2007 @ 5:46 am

61. Thank you so much!

    I would have paid for these but the BBC doesn’t seem to sell the .mp3’s electronically and shipping costs to US are pretty high.

    Comment by Lasthenia — put April 27, 2007 @ 1:45 am

62. Hi just wanted too say thank you for this i love the book and the film and this is the first time i ve heard the radio version, equally as good. Fantastic stuff while working late

    Comment by OLL — put June 21, 2007 @ 9:37 pm

63. Great stuff. thanks for uploading this

    Comment by Trajectum — put July 19, 2007 @ 12:39 pm

64. Thanks very much, brilliant stuff!!

    Comment by Sy — put September 26, 2007 @ 1:51 am

65. How could I feel complete till now without having listened to the BBC-version of HHGTU.
    Are the other parts also available as mp3 somwhere in the galaxy?

    Thanks!

    Comment by Heschi — put September 30, 2007 @ 1:18 pm

66. Thank you a million times over for making these files available.

    Comment by Allo — put October 24, 2007 @ 8:35 am

67. Thank you so much for posting these, I’m SO excited to start listening to these tomorrow morning - it will certainly make my rush-hour Underground journey to work infinitely more bearable.

    Thanks again,

    Alice

    Comment by Alice — put November 28, 2007 @ 7:28 am

68. The Fits Were amazing.
    The book was Marvelous.
    THe original movie was good.
    But the new movie was horrible…. nothing was in order i was dissappointed in it…

    Comment by Ginger — put December 30, 2007 @ 9:44 am

69. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an awesome read. Thanks so much for spreading the insanity!

    Comment by Brooke — put January 4, 2008 @ 10:53 am

70. The links are dead again.

    Comment by Dan G — put February 4, 2008 @ 10:50 am

71. Any chance of making these files available again, can’t seem to finde tehem anywhere, I will gladly make a donation )

    Comment by Simon Elder — put February 7, 2008 @ 7:16 am

72. thanks to anyone responsible for this. i got them some time ago, but unfortunately lost the files. it´s beautiful to hear peter jone´s voice again xD. eerily soothing xD.

    Comment by kid entropia — put February 15, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

73. Hello. it seems I can only get the primary and secondary phases to load, any help would appreciated
    thanks

    Comment by random trout — put February 23, 2008 @ 1:38 am

74. […] Link zum Hörspiel als MP3 Link zum spielbaren Infocom Text-Adventure (via) Link zu High-Res-Scans des Game-Packagings Link zur 20th-Anniversary-Edition des Adventures Link zum H2G2-Projekt der BBC Link zu ein paar Theorien zur Antwort 42 Link zu einem Vortrag Adams an der Universität von Kalifornien (90 Min.) Link zum letzten Interview mit Adams Link zu einer Show von Richard Dawkins mit Douglas Adams […]

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75. I can not get any of the phases to load except the original 12. Do you plan to update these some time? Will keep checking back!

    Comment by Chris — put March 10, 2008 @ 4:26 am

76. New Source (all phases): h2g2.the-brain

    Comment by Dr Grey — put March 10, 2008 @ 5:03 am

77. Wow…great responce time and thanks…only thing missing in the list was episode 21 of the quandary phase!!! Thank you so much…been looking for this stuff a long time!

    Comment by Chris — put March 10, 2008 @ 6:09 am

78. I suppose most people that come here live in the UK but I ran into this fascinating website in the USA and it may be of great interest to some of Douglas Adams fans: http://my.opera.com/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy/blog/

    Comment by Hitchhiker's Guide Fan Art — put March 15, 2008 @ 9:09 pm

79. you are AWESOME been lookin everywhere for this series, however where is 21 of quandary phase??

    Comment by Glen Fields — put March 22, 2008 @ 4:08 am

80. thank you very much… but where is episode 04 ???

    Comment by Pjenkava — put March 29, 2008 @ 3:34 am

81. A big, heartfelt thanks from me too: Great stuff to hear during my “long jogs” (3-4 episodes per run)

    Comment by Dirk — put March 26, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

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