Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Episode 19

Hitchhiker's Guide To The GalaxyThe 19th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, commencing Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, featuring the entire surviving cast of the original 1970s radio series. Jane Horrocks (Absolutely Fabulous) guest stars. Read more


Something unusual comes to the attention of three parties. To Arthur Dent, it means he can go home again. To Ford Prefect, it means something strange has happened in Earth’s solar system. To Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, it means that business he was once quite sure was finished has mysteriously become unfinished again. Arthur hitches a ride across the galaxy just to be sure, and Ford is attempting to do the same. And when Arthur arrives at his destination, he can hardly believe it: the Earth has returned, as if it had never been destroyed by the Vogons. And in an even more unlikely turn of events, Arthur meets a woman with whom, despite her being rather out of it, he thinks he’s in love.

Order this CDwritten by Douglas Adams
adapted by Dirk Maggs from the novel “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish”
directed by Dirk Maggs
music by Paul “Wix” Wickens

Cast: William Franklyn (The Voice of the Book), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Bill Paterson (Rob McKenna), Jane Horrocks (Fenchurch), Arthur Smith (Barman), Rupert Degas (Russell), Bob Golding (Vogon Guard), Alison Pettitt (Stewardess), Fiona Carew (Hooker), Michael Cule (Vogon Helmsman), Chris Emmett (Evil-Looking Bird), Toby Longworth (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz)

LogBook entry by Earl Green