The six hour radio show is available on CD, but are quite hard get nowadays
The CD-collection's productnumber is: BBCCD 6001 (ie. productnumber on my 10+ year old version)

Excerpt from "MFAQ 1.5a" by Greg Pacek (Latest version):

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The Radio Series is getting notoriously hard to get ahold of, and the TV Series is approaching that point. Or maybe vice-versa. In the UK you can still get these (as far as I know) from BBC mail-order. Info from Australia suggests the ABC shops are a good source for the radio series. Info from the US suggests Media Play for the tv series and possibly even the making-of video. I saw US-edition videos recently at amazon.com. (Remember you have to be careful with video because the North American format is different from most other places in the world including Europe and Australia. Japan is the same as the US, though.)
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This quote from a post by Peter Seem seems (sorry) to indicate the BBC is flexible on where they ship (this is for the radio series): "It's a part of the www.bbcshop.com thing, whatever branch of the BBC runs that. You need to call the number they give (under "shop assistant", "general ?'s", "is this all the products") It's 0181 576 2000. I called that number, and the person there had to bounce me over to the CD specific number. Then you have to get it as the two separate phases. I just asked for catalog numbers ZBBC1499, and ZBBC1500." Very cool, thanks Peter. ..
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Audio Samples

Audio samples were recording in 1995 with a SB 8.bit, but who's counting ? Audio was later converted to RealAudio format. I have samples as streamline audio, ie. you listen to the files as you download it.

The answer to the Ultimate question

Deep thought's" answer to the ultimate question, about life..the universe, and everything . . .

Redefine problem and it vanish

Arthur and Ford are stranded on the pre-historic earth. Their only way to live with this fact, is to get blind drunk.  The problem now is that they may possibly see a potential spaceship.  The potential spaceship will be quite physical, if they will be a able to send a rescue request forward in time..  (This is the easy part, then add a bottle and see what you get)

Radio intro of Zaphod

The radioman introduces Zaphod, before he announces Zaphod's theft of the spaceship Heart of Gold

Arthur having a nervous breakdown

Arthur gets really confused when his house has been demolished, Ford says he's from Beetlejuice and  Vogon's are going to destroy earth in order to build a galactic highway.  Wonder why ?

Mr Prosser using caveman logic

Mr Prosser is trying to convince Arthur that it's no idea laying in front of progress. Progress is this time the same as: Demolish Arthur's house, to make way for a new expressway.

Can one be confused to death ?

Very deep

Arthur comments Ford's time definition in the pub, just before the Vogon's arrive.  Ford and Arthur makes the most of their time left, they order six pints.

Heroes approaching the planet Magrethea

Ford's comment about the legendary planet Margrethea.

A stiff drink does the trick

Zaphod is getting annoyed on the consequences of the indefinitely improbability drive  and that pestering ape-human Arthur Dent. So he pours himself a stiff drink.

Next bottle

Arthur and Ford find themselves yet another time stranded on Earth.  Their solution is to get utterly drunk.

Nice tea...

Arthur is slightly sarcastic towards the  Sirius Cybernetics Nutri-matic-machine.

Drinks for everyone

Aperitif's at The_Restuarant@The_End_of_the.Universe

Does a glas of water like to be drunk ?

Ford's comment about the entry into hyper-space drive.

Sing along in the corner

Ford can't take it, when he finds out that he is in a virtual universe.

Bill Gates' Windows 2001

Eddie the shipboardcomputer introduces himself.

Eddie continues to get on everybody's nerves

The ultimate "shrink"

Eddie confirms that they just are in orbit around the legendary planet Margrethea.  Ford is a bit sceptic.

We want to absence of solid facts !

Philosopher's demand of the absence of solid facts, that would make their profession easier.

Zaphod's drivers

Zaphod's goals for most things.

The proof of the non-existance of god

The proof of the non-existence of god. Theory: God is based on faith, if proof on gods existence exists, the faith is no longer required.  Without faith god no longer exists.  The proof: Since the bablefish is such a neat construction,  it couldn't evolve by random, god must have created it,  and therefore since god proved his existence god doesn't exist.

Great pick-up line !

Zaphod's favourite phrase on earth.

Attention earthlings !

Vogon cmd. Prostnetic Vogon Jeltz calls for attention, before he will destroy earth to make way for a new hyperspace-expressway.

Job satisfaction

Marvin, the android with a brain capability of a planet, gets another stimulating mission.

Ever been in an illegal state of mind ?

Arthur asks Ford if he ever has seen anything like it. Ford answers "Not in a legal state of mind".

Life in the beginning of the universe.

Life was wild and and on whole the tax-free.

Listen to mom !

Arthur complains about how he should have listen to his mother, what use is that, now when he's about to be thrown out in space by bad-tempered poetry-readers ?

So you got lucky too !

Arthur's towel just saved Zaphod from a faith worse than the faith of death,  all due to a chain of extremely unlikely events, during a period of 2 million years.

Fluid lunch

Last lunch before the vogon's arrive to demolish earth.

Out of brain experince

Zaphod is a bit annoyed on the personnel officer of the Frogstar.

Marvin the paranoid android

Zaphod sighs: "Oh Marvin the paranoid android"

Marvin,the happy android

Marvin likes to inform about his state of mind, to get everybody else in the same state

Marvin,the rusty android

Marvin the mano-depressive android with one of his more typical questions.

Marvin,I love you

This is a tribute to Marvin. The song isn't actually from the orginal radioshow, but it's just to catchy to leave out. Thanks to Lynn Knight for kindly providing it to me.

An infinitite number in infinitity, does miracles

Life is very improbable during flight with improbability-drive.

Call in the backup-presonality

The second personality of the computer Eddie.

Bang the rocks together, guys !

Intro from the radioman, before he announces Zaphod's theft of the Heart of Gold.

The up to the minute chock-news

Another newsflash to all creatures less evolved than a demented bee.

Just "Oh god"

The indefinitely improbability-drive

The indefinitely improbability-drive is going towards normality (P(X)=1)

Pan Galactic Gurgelblaster

Intro of the infamous "Pan Galactic GurgelBlaster" (PGGB)

Worse than the Pan Galactic Gurgelblaster

The full perspective vortex awaits Zaphod, who himself is of course thrilled.  Zaphod need some reference to compare it with, the PGGB.

We may or may not be philosophers

Philosopher's protest that the computer "Deep thought" will get the answer to everything.

Some Vogon poetry ?

A faith worse then the faith of death awaits Ford and Arthur. The vogon captain Jeltz is in a terribly bad mode, so ...

Quick summary of the very worst poetry (116 kb)

Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.

Triggerhappy cops

The raving mad policeofficers, hunting Zaphod.

The soft & humane cops

"Fire away"

If force doesn't help, use more force

Zaphod's promise to the computer, if it not will open the hatch-door.

The Universe in the good old days

The world where no poverty existed, almost !?

Zaphod is believed to quite dead

Zaphod is believed to be quite dead. After all he had recently been eaten by a carbon-copy of the Ravenous Buggbladder of Traal. Imagine the pilot's face, when Zaphod hijacks his spaceship.

Statistically you don't exist.

Sirius Cybernetics Marketing Division

Sirius Cybernetics, the biggest and the most hated corporation in the galaxy.  Sirius Cybernetics constructs the friendly coffemachines, obeying doors and mano-depressive androids.

Philosophers on strike, scary..

The philosophers threatens to go on strike, if Deep Thought is allowed to think about the answer to the ultimate question.

Life, Liberty and persuit of happieness

Arthur is avoiding to answer any question.

This is terrific

Zaphod is delighted when he discovers that he just, most improbably, have picked up his semi-cousin Ford and that ape-thing from certain-death in space.

Has it already happened ?

The theory about what will happen when all is resolved.

Too highly trained minds, for thinking

Deep Thought shows an opportunity to earn easy money to the philosophers. They are astonished.

Bad idea

Zaphod is furious over that Trillian picked up hitchhikers, just after they stole the spaceship The Heart of Gold.

A 5 million old defense system is activated

A 5 million old defence system is activated, when our heroes closes in on the mythical planet Margharetha.

Zaphod shows how to tie a knot

Zaphod has developed a pure hatred to the Frogstar's personnel officer.

The hitchhiker's old revision on the Vogon personality. (92 kb)

Make the best of it.

Ford orders 6 pints just before the end of the world, the bartender is enthusiastic.

Liked this ?, here's how to order

Order form to obtain the "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. How to order in Real Life

Want to download the samples in wave-format ?
Zip-list hhguide1.zip hhguide2.zip hhguide3.zip hhguide4.zip

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