I've added these because the Wilcox Family Archives versions have been taken down by some random publishing company. It is unfortunate but that is the world we live in. The rest of the books will be posted soon! I already have them all, just need to edit and upload.
I was very lucky to first hear of the original radio series when it came out when I was 7 (53 now so you don't have to work it out) and I've been smitten ever since. However, I've never listened to this version....this upload is very much appreciated ;)
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE GETTING TO HEAR WHAT VOGONS ACTUALLY SOUNDED LIKE FROM THE MAN HIMSELF.. AND IT'S HILARIOUS TO ME THAT IT SOUNDED EXACTLY LIKE HOW I ALWAYS HEARD IT IN MY HEAD.. I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW MUCH I ADORE THAT LIL FACT.. LOL
When we were around 10 years old, me and my friend listened to the audiobook version of this. While acting out all the ridiculous scenes assigning each other roles. This brought back those memories, thank you
When I was about 14, a mate of mine recorded all the radio shows on a cassette recorder. We used to sit there for hours laughing hysterically… before the tape even started. This takes me right back to my childhood. Cheers 😀
@@mightyal100 It was a good time when laughing started even before the tape. That's funny, glad that someone could join my nostalgia. Cheers to you too
Listening to this is like hearing a sermon, only it's at a fun church I would actually want to go to. None of the parishioners believe any of it's real but that doesn't stop them enjoying themselves. Also, they don't require you go knocking on anyone's door and annoying the occupants at inopportune moments in service of promulgating their nonsense.
Thank you so much for uploading these!!! I was gifted two CDs by an old friend over 20 years ago with super condensed audio files of these books read by Douglas Adams himself, and can't seem to find any of those files on the hard drives I backed them up to..! I listened to these books dozens if not hundreds of times in school, and was heartbroken when I found out they aren't available for purchase anymore..! (A thousand times thank you...!) :-)
I'm ancient enough that I heard the first radio adaptation broadcast in 1978. I still have that on cassette tape! Utterly brilliant writing. I also still have my typewritten programme from the stage play at the Rainbow. That was beyond mad, still pretty much dress rehearsal, but plenty of opportunities for hilarious audience participation. My only regret was that after the show I didn't have the budget to buy a circuit board badge that occasionally flashed 42.
Ahhh that is incredible! I'm sadly much younger so I didn't get to see any live performances or even meet Douglas himself. Still trying to find the radio recordings to upload here as well but I'm sure they're floating by somewhere. Had no idea about the badges either, lovely trinkets!
@@fordprefectsshoe Google 'Don't Panic' CDs and you may find the six CD box set which is basically the whole radio adaptation plus a really excellent Christmas Special. I'm sure there are still some around for sale.
@@darrenskinner3711 I stand corrected. Never having read the novels I do forget that they came some time after the radio series. Thank you for the prod.
My son has started reading these, literally pouring through a book a day, and it got me wanting to catch up. Thanks for posting this so I can listen while working.
I used to own these on my old iTunes account that I can't access any more 😢. Thank you for uploading. I love this book, and hearing it read by the author is just wonderful
Thank you sooo verrry much ….a begonia and a nice hot cup of tea just floated by and wow…WHERE AM I UH OH HAPPILY LOST IN DOUGLAS ADAMS UNIVERSE AGAIN!
Well the last few posts of these on other channels were taken down by a random company. Even though they don't provide a way to buy the books themselves. So there's that :(
Ironic that a SciFi radio broadcast concerning space & time travel, interplanetary Planning Counncil politics and and mice is difficult to find in the 21st and a third century...
I had this on cassette, and then on cd, but can't find a proper digital copy any more. I can't get used to Stephen fry or Martin freeman reading the more recent versions, it just sounds wrong. This is much better.
I always wanted to read this when i was younger. .for some reason i never got around to it (too busy reading everything else) and then totally forgot.... i cant believe im three minutes in and im laughing my head off . its brilliant oh my god!!!❤just what i need!
Seriously???? In school? I had to try hard to even find this book when I was on school. A bunch of fools decided it would be best to remove from our libraries... and this was the 80s. Fascism is ever present, and must be fought at all costs.
I never saw it in any of the 4 secondary schools I went to, but that's because it extolled the fun of getting drunk and made references to sex. England in the 80's. Or maybe that was the official reason and it was really because if a copy has appeared someone would have promptly nicked it. Also, school libraries did focus on the sort of books school wanted you to read, the fun books they knew you'd read anyway. Things have changed,I know. But reading it FOR school??? Just wrong..And who the hell is too lazy to read a book like this for homework 🤦
I loved Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books as a child and all of Ian M Banks' books as an adult. They are not the same as The Hitchhikers' Guide of course. But you might enjoy them.
I love how Ford got the construction Foreman to lay down in the mud, for no real reason at all as the Earth was about to be destroyed anyway and he knew it. His personality changes so much in the later books it's kind of weird
@@fordprefectsshoe aye, Arthur's change makes a bit more sense, given the adventures he went on: going from unconfident bumbler to confident bumbler by the time his daughter shows up with the new Guide. Then again settling down and starting a new life as a sandwich maker is kind of what you would expect from him... R.i.p. Marvin Adams always did that poor Android dirty, right up to the end. Although I did have to change my shorts from laughing at that final message carved into the Mountainside by the Creator of All. 😂 good times that five book Trilogy was. In spite of his atheism, I hope Mr Douglas Adams was wrong and he's sitting by God's side making him laugh uncontrollably for eternity. Thank you again.
@BurnDoubt Adam's was an atheist because he was rational and a materialist who understood the concepts of critical thinking and reality. He isn't sitting next to any god because gods are a man-made fiction, and he's dead, BUT he will be remembered for centuries to come, at the very least. His literature satirizes socioeconomics (capitalism) and woowoo mystical thinking almost perfectly.
@gwynbleidd1917 literally cannot prove absolutely that there's no God. What you have is an opinion that you feel is more right than everyone else's. Of course, you'll reply with all kinds of factual bullshit, but at the end of the day, your belief is still an opinion.
@jakesmerth1919 ah yes, I can't prove an unfalsifiable and all that. It's very, very, very clever of you to believe in something that there's literally zero evidence of. Also, at the end of the day, my "belief" isn't an option because I don't believe in fairytales.
Any clue as to which random publishing company removed the previous ones? I'd like to visit their complaints department, it should be easy to find...😁 Loved hearing Douglas read the Vogon poetry ❤
Penguin Random House LLC are responsible... I also made a post on the channel you can see in the Community tab describing everything + their email. I sent them messages to no reply of course
It’s like there is some big yellow blob, fuzzy in my vision in the early morning light outside my focus, just menacingly hanging there, almost mockingly so. Just waiting for some sort of legal eagle to land on my porch and fortell the future of the next few minutes… Oh my, I must bid farwell, as that eagle will eat my cat. ❤️
Oh you are right, I can post a black version for you later today if I have the time. (ps I use re vanced to be able to play videos with the screen off)
Where did you even find this recording I’ve been trying to find the Douglas adams narration with no success since they took it off the internet archive
@@PeanutTerror All of his recorded Hitchhiker's Guide books have been uploaded to this channel. Only "And Another Thing" has not been recorded or written by Douglas as he passed away during that time.
@@gwynbleidd1917 imagine trying to judge other people as bizarre while listening to This Book by This Author. I'm sorry you're sad and lonely, but it's no excuse for you to not have self deleted by now.
I bought a Motocycle From Douglas when he lived in Wiscondin it was a German Motocycle & Douglad was a Rat Trainer, He Taught HUGE RATS to Sing and Dance like in Arkansas where I @ Zoo has Chickens that Turns a TELEPHONE On then Asks YOUR name, THE CHICKEN IS JESUS.
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I've added these because the Wilcox Family Archives versions have been taken down by some random publishing company. It is unfortunate but that is the world we live in. The rest of the books will be posted soon! I already have them all, just need to edit and upload.
Thx bro I rly didn’t feel like reading the book
Tremendous #2024 #UA-cam #Google
Thank you!
Thank you so so much, the versions read by Douglas himself are by far the best 🎉
Hey friend! I've been looking for you. My feet are cold. Don't panic
I'm happy beyond words, thanks so much for this!!
I was very lucky to first hear of the original radio series when it came out when I was 7 (53 now so you don't have to work it out) and I've been smitten ever since.
However, I've never listened to this version....this upload is very much appreciated ;)
Sass you hoopy frood! I must thank you for preserving this amazing book read by the author. You must really know where your towel is.
The pleasure is all mine! And yes of course, my nutrient soaked towel is always by my side. It could use some of that Greek olive oil though...
You said it
It's been almost 2 decades since I first read this and it still makes me laugh like an idiot constantly. Ever joke is certified platinum.
This is priceless. I remember listening to it many years ago and being so happy I learned how Zaphod was pronounced 😂
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE GETTING TO HEAR WHAT VOGONS ACTUALLY SOUNDED LIKE FROM THE MAN HIMSELF.. AND IT'S HILARIOUS TO ME THAT IT SOUNDED EXACTLY LIKE HOW I ALWAYS HEARD IT IN MY HEAD.. I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW MUCH I ADORE THAT LIL FACT.. LOL
When we were around 10 years old, me and my friend listened to the audiobook version of this. While acting out all the ridiculous scenes assigning each other roles. This brought back those memories, thank you
That sounds so wholesome, must be a wonderful memory
When I was about 14, a mate of mine recorded all the radio shows on a cassette recorder. We used to sit there for hours laughing hysterically… before the tape even started. This takes me right back to my childhood. Cheers 😀
@@fordprefectsshoe
It truly is, thank you. Glad that sharing it brought happiness to others too
@@mightyal100
It was a good time when laughing started even before the tape. That's funny, glad that someone could join my nostalgia. Cheers to you too
CHAPTER LIST:
0:00 Prologue
3:57 Chapter 1
27:02 Chapter 2
32:53 Chapter 3
50:26 Chapter 4
1:05:33 Chapter 5
1:23:57 Chapter 6
1:33:00 Chapter 7
1:50:37 Chapter 8
1:53:49 Chapter 9
2:03:03 Chapter 10
2:05:30 Chapter 11
2:18:39 Chapter 12
2:26:34 Chapter 13
2:34:06 Chapter 14
2:39:53 Chapter 15
2:42:39 Chapter 16
2:50:17 Chapter 17
3:02:03 Chapter 18
3:07:20 Chapter 19
3:11:18 Chapter 20
3:22:55 Chapter 21
3:27:48 Chapter 22
3:35:41 Chapter 23
3:37:18 Chapter 24
3:49:02 Chapter 25
4:02:06 Chapter 26
4:03:11 Chapter 27
4:11:19 Chapter 28
4:15:42 Chapter 29
4:24:13 Chapter 30
4:28:14 Chapter 31
4:40:41 Chapter 32
4:47:42 Chapter 33
4:51:20 Chapter 34
4:55:43 Chapter 35
Thank you
Thanks for all the fish!! 🎉🎉🎉
Listening to this is like hearing a sermon, only it's at a fun church I would actually want to go to. None of the parishioners believe any of it's real but that doesn't stop them enjoying themselves. Also, they don't require you go knocking on anyone's door and annoying the occupants at inopportune moments in service of promulgating their nonsense.
Thank you so much for uploading these!!! I was gifted two CDs by an old friend over 20 years ago with super condensed audio files of these books read by Douglas Adams himself, and can't seem to find any of those files on the hard drives I backed them up to..! I listened to these books dozens if not hundreds of times in school, and was heartbroken when I found out they aren't available for purchase anymore..! (A thousand times thank you...!) :-)
I'm ancient enough that I heard the first radio adaptation broadcast in 1978. I still have that on cassette tape! Utterly brilliant writing. I also still have my typewritten programme from the stage play at the Rainbow. That was beyond mad, still pretty much dress rehearsal, but plenty of opportunities for hilarious audience participation. My only regret was that after the show I didn't have the budget to buy a circuit board badge that occasionally flashed 42.
Ahhh that is incredible! I'm sadly much younger so I didn't get to see any live performances or even meet Douglas himself. Still trying to find the radio recordings to upload here as well but I'm sure they're floating by somewhere.
Had no idea about the badges either, lovely trinkets!
@@fordprefectsshoe Google 'Don't Panic' CDs and you may find the six CD box set which is basically the whole radio adaptation plus a really excellent Christmas Special. I'm sure there are still some around for sale.
Me too 😅, I used to put my new transistor radio under my pillow and listen quietly, I was 11yrs old ❤😊
The 1978 radio broadcast wasn’t an ’adaptation’
@@darrenskinner3711 I stand corrected. Never having read the novels I do forget that they came some time after the radio series. Thank you for the prod.
I'm checking in from 2024, and I am pleased to announce that we here on Earth have evolved to thinking Smart Watches are a neat idea.
My son has started reading these, literally pouring through a book a day, and it got me wanting to catch up. Thanks for posting this so I can listen while working.
Awesome! I wish I was able to get into these as a kid, yours will grow up to be super cool guaranteed :)
Brilliant opening lines - right down to the rhythm and dry wit.
I used to own these on my old iTunes account that I can't access any more 😢. Thank you for uploading. I love this book, and hearing it read by the author is just wonderful
Thank you sooo verrry much ….a begonia and a nice hot cup of tea just floated by and wow…WHERE AM I UH OH HAPPILY LOST IN DOUGLAS ADAMS UNIVERSE AGAIN!
I'll never understand why this has become so hard to find digitally. thanks for posting!
Well the last few posts of these on other channels were taken down by a random company. Even though they don't provide a way to buy the books themselves. So there's that :(
Ironic that a SciFi radio broadcast concerning space & time travel, interplanetary Planning Counncil politics and and mice is difficult to find in the 21st and a third century...
I had this on cassette, and then on cd, but can't find a proper digital copy any more. I can't get used to Stephen fry or Martin freeman reading the more recent versions, it just sounds wrong. This is much better.
I always wanted to read this when i was younger. .for some reason i never got around to it (too busy reading everything else) and then totally forgot.... i cant believe im three minutes in and im laughing my head off . its brilliant oh my god!!!❤just what i need!
unfortunately this means your life has had no meaning for many years 42
Ideal hangover listening😂
Amazing! Thank you so much! ❤
Thank you very much
8:14 "Mongaloid" not being included in the subtitles has me rolling
Thank you 🙏
Thank you doe uploading kind sir! May your pillow stay cold on both sides 🙌
OMGosh, that’s the voice I heard in my head when I read it!
Brilliant!🎉
lol school starts next week and I still have to read this thanks 🙏
Seriously???? In school? I had to try hard to even find this book when I was on school. A bunch of fools decided it would be best to remove from our libraries... and this was the 80s. Fascism is ever present, and must be fought at all costs.
Where the hell were you living that removed hhgtg from school libraries?!?!?
I never saw it in any of the 4 secondary schools I went to, but that's because it extolled the fun of getting drunk and made references to sex. England in the 80's. Or maybe that was the official reason and it was really because if a copy has appeared someone would have promptly nicked it. Also, school libraries did focus on the sort of books school wanted you to read, the fun books they knew you'd read anyway. Things have changed,I know. But reading it FOR school??? Just wrong..And who the hell is too lazy to read a book like this for homework 🤦
@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts North Carolina, in a very small town. The rednecks out there did way worse than just remove all the good books.
This was my first ever book on tape.
Great man! I had to read this in one day and this saved me
Glad I could help! Expect the next few books published soon!
I met Douglas Adams in the late 80's at University of MD, when he came to lecture and read his book. What an amazing experience!
Thank you.
Thanks for this!
Greatest scifi book of all time, if anyone knows smth like this pleasr recommend
I loved Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books as a child and all of Ian M Banks' books as an adult. They are not the same as The Hitchhikers' Guide of course. But you might enjoy them.
Thank you!
I love how Ford got the construction Foreman to lay down in the mud, for no real reason at all as the Earth was about to be destroyed anyway and he knew it. His personality changes so much in the later books it's kind of weird
He really goes from confident psychopath to confusing psychopath
@@fordprefectsshoe aye, Arthur's change makes a bit more sense, given the adventures he went on: going from unconfident bumbler to confident bumbler by the time his daughter shows up with the new Guide. Then again settling down and starting a new life as a sandwich maker is kind of what you would expect from him...
R.i.p. Marvin
Adams always did that poor Android dirty, right up to the end. Although I did have to change my shorts from laughing at that final message carved into the Mountainside by the Creator of All.
😂 good times that five book Trilogy was. In spite of his atheism, I hope Mr Douglas Adams was wrong and he's sitting by God's side making him laugh uncontrollably for eternity.
Thank you again.
@BurnDoubt Adam's was an atheist because he was rational and a materialist who understood the concepts of critical thinking and reality. He isn't sitting next to any god because gods are a man-made fiction, and he's dead, BUT he will be remembered for centuries to come, at the very least. His literature satirizes socioeconomics (capitalism) and woowoo mystical thinking almost perfectly.
@gwynbleidd1917 literally cannot prove absolutely that there's no God. What you have is an opinion that you feel is more right than everyone else's. Of course, you'll reply with all kinds of factual bullshit, but at the end of the day, your belief is still an opinion.
@jakesmerth1919 ah yes, I can't prove an unfalsifiable and all that. It's very, very, very clever of you to believe in something that there's literally zero evidence of. Also, at the end of the day, my "belief" isn't an option because I don't believe in fairytales.
Thanks
A great fellow and very obliging to fans.
Any clue as to which random publishing company removed the previous ones? I'd like to visit their complaints department, it should be easy to find...😁
Loved hearing Douglas read the Vogon poetry ❤
Penguin Random House LLC are responsible...
I also made a post on the channel you can see in the Community tab describing everything + their email. I sent them messages to no reply of course
I heard they relocated to Titan(Saturn I). Large lakes of alcohol is probably the main reason.
@rhoddryice5412 That would explain the note on the door saying they were permanently out to lunch...
0:00 Prologue
3:57 Chapter One
Edit: I’ll keep adding timestamps as I go
27:02 Chapter 2
32:53 Chapter 3
50:26 Chapter 4
1:05:33 Chapter 5
1:23:57 Chapter 6
1:33:00 Chapter 7
1:50:37 Chapter 8
1:53:49 Chapter 9
2:03:03 Chapter 10
2:05:30 Chapter 11
2:18:39 Chapter 12
2:26:34 Chapter 13
2:34:06 Chapter 14
2:39:53 Chapter 15
2:42:39 Chapter 16
2:50:17 Chapter 17
3:02:03 Chapter 18
3:07:20 Chapter 19
3:11:18 Chapter 20
3:22:55 Chapter 21
3:27:48 Chapter 22
3:35:41 Chapter 23
3:37:18 Chapter 24
3:49:02 Chapter 25
4:02:06 Chapter 26
4:03:11 Chapter 27
4:11:19 Chapter 28
4:15:42 Chapter 29
4:24:13 Chapter 30
4:28:14 Chapter 31
4:40:41 Chapter 32
4:47:42 Chapter 33
4:51:20 Chapter 34
4:55:43 Chapter 35
@@fordprefectsshoeplease add them on the video, so you can see them if possible
@@Comiconner Ah sadly that is not possible. I need to have special verification for it or have the account for more than 2 months
@@fordprefectsshoe❤
@@fordprefectsshoecan you do it yet?
Jan 5th 1981,
Simon Jones and David Dixon BBC
good laughs 😂
hell fucking YEEEEAAAAAAAH
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
appreciate this, thanks
Actually i DO think digital watches are a Neat idea... 🇵🇹
The writing is genius
Love you ❤
Alternate Book Title: "Intergalactic Idiocracy"
The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with.
It’s like there is some big yellow blob, fuzzy in my vision in the early morning light outside my focus, just menacingly hanging there, almost mockingly so.
Just waiting for some sort of legal eagle to land on my porch and fortell the future of the next few minutes…
Oh my,
I must bid farwell, as that eagle will eat my cat.
❤️
Douglas, was indeed, A Hitcher… and how lucky were those who knew him well and held him in their lives for a time ?
❤️
happy memories I know its the book , but Radio 4 (?) 8pm Sunday
I'm enjoying this story very much. I wish it was black screen. I'm worried about the image burning into my screen by the time I'm done with it.
Oh you are right, I can post a black version for you later today if I have the time. (ps I use re vanced to be able to play videos with the screen off)
Done! All the books in black screen format have been uploaded. Thanks for the request and enjoy the books!
Thank you 👍
It's awesome to have the Adams versions but "The restaurant at the end of the universe isn't in the playlist?
1:23:59 chapter 6
All the chapter timestamps are in the description!
Pls make this dark screen as i listen when i sleep..
There's a playlist of dark screen versions on the channel my guy.
_YAAAY_
I was always under the impression that point B would be between point A and point C. Not C between A and B...
Where did you even find this recording I’ve been trying to find the Douglas adams narration with no success since they took it off the internet archive
A kind Redditor sent me their incomplete collection, which I completed with some Arrrrr sources
@@fordprefectsshoedid Adams record all the books?
@@PeanutTerror All of his recorded Hitchhiker's Guide books have been uploaded to this channel. Only "And Another Thing" has not been recorded or written by Douglas as he passed away during that time.
@@fordprefectsshoe you're the man
Please add chapter timestamps if possible!
Ah! I totally forgot to do those, thanks!
As it was meant to sound.
I feel like Ford falls on a Spectrum somewhere between the Doctor and the Master...
@jakesmerth1919 you're absolutely bizarre lmao.
@@gwynbleidd1917 G.F.Y.S.
@@jakesmerth1919 lmao. Cry harder
@@jakesmerth1919 apparently you do since your feelings got hurt so badly to react like a crybaby
@@gwynbleidd1917 imagine trying to judge other people as bizarre while listening to This Book by This Author. I'm sorry you're sad and lonely, but it's no excuse for you to not have self deleted by now.
3:39:00
I bought a Motocycle From Douglas when he lived in Wiscondin it was a German Motocycle & Douglad was a Rat Trainer, He Taught HUGE RATS to Sing and Dance like in Arkansas where I @ Zoo has Chickens that Turns a TELEPHONE On then Asks YOUR name, THE CHICKEN IS JESUS.
What
4:60:00
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😊
19:00
48:00
There’s No such thing as Hitchhikers Anymore.
That really doesn't sound like Douglas Adams bud. He had a much deeper, booming voice 🤨
Unfortunately it really is.
You're thinking of Brian Blessed.
Or possibly Darth Vader.
I got "no sound".
Lies
He can write .. but cant read out.
It's awesome to have the Adams versions but "The restaurant at the end of the universe isn't in the playlist?
3:39:00
1:05:33
1:36:15
3:39:00
4:57:00
3:40:56
4:57:00
1:39:58
1:11:43
4:49:00
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