Buy new:
£14.25£14.25
FREE delivery:
Thursday, Dec 29
in the UK
Dispatches from: Amazon Sold by: Amazon
Buy used £4.54
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet or computer - no Kindle device required. Learn more.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Tertiary Phase (BBC Audiobooks) Audio CD – Audiobook, 25 Oct. 2004
| Douglas Adams (Author) See search results for this author |
- Choose from over 20,000 locations across the UK
- FREE unlimited deliveries at no additional cost for all customers
- Find your preferred location and add it to your address book
- Dispatch to this address when you check out
Enhance your purchase
Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s saga continues with a full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams’s famous ‘trilogy in five parts’
‘The pitch here at Lord’s is blackened, lightly smoking down towards square leg – and two men have just materialised on a Chesterfield sofa...’
And so the scene is set for the Tertiary Phase of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the phenomenon which began life as a BBC radio series and went on to spawn a bestselling series of novels. With this full-cast radio dramatisation, the Guide returns to its original medium with its original cast.
Stranded on prehistoric Earth, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect find escape in the form of a time-travelling sofa. But as eleven homicidal, bat-wielding robots proceed to blow up Lord’s Cricket Ground, it seems that Arthur is far from Home and Dry. In fact, he is not even Home and Vigorously Towelling Himself Off. Soon he is on an explosive quest to save the Universe, equipped with only a rabbit bone, a worn dressing gown, and a spaceship which looks remarkably like an Italian bistro.
Simon Jones returns as Arthur, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android. William Franklyn is the Book, the late Douglas Adams himself appears in the role of Agrajag, and guest stars include Richard Griffiths, Chris Langham, Joanna Lumley and Leslie Phillips.
This extended CD edition features 20 minutes of material not heard on BBC Radio 4.
Duration: 3 hrs 10 mins approx.
- Print length3 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBBC Physical Audio
- Publication date25 Oct. 2004
- Dimensions13.97 x 2.29 x 12.7 cm
- ISBN-100563510439
- ISBN-13978-0563510437
Frequently bought together

- +
- +
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Product description
Amazon Review
Many of the cast of the original BBC Radio 4 series have been reunited for superb sequel, which features 20 minutes of material not heard in the broadcast version. The sound is crystal clear and the running time is a massively entertaining 3 hours and 10 minutes. Among the returning cast are Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android. And even the delightful Joanna Lumley pops up unexpectedly. --Paul Eisinger
Review
About the Author
Simon Jones MBE is a former professional cricketer who played for England, Glamorgan, Hampshire and Worcestershire. In 2005 he tore through the Australian batting order, swinging the ball at pace, and inspiring some of England’s greatest ever victories as they regained the Ashes for the first time in almost twenty years. That series he dismissed every single Australian batsman apart from Glenn McGrath, taking 18 wickets at an average of 21. Injury forced him out of the final match at the Oval and prevented him from playing Test cricket again. He subsequently fought for eight years to return to the top level despite a series of further setbacks. Now retired, he lives in Cardiff with his wife Justine and his two young sons.
Product details
- Publisher : BBC Physical Audio; Unabridged edition (25 Oct. 2004)
- Language : English
- Audio CD : 3 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0563510439
- ISBN-13 : 978-0563510437
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.29 x 12.7 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 409,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 18,882 in General Humour
- 22,159 in Humorous Fiction
- 26,664 in Science Fiction (Books)
- Customer reviews:
About the author

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was the much-loved author of the Hitchhiker's Guides, all of which have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.
Photo by michael hughes from berlin, germany (douglas adams Uploaded by Diaa_abdelmoneim) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings, help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from United Kingdom
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
Utilising as many of the main original cast as are still alive, and with a superb and excellently explained replacement for Peter Jones as the Book, this was a real nostalgia trip when I first heard it. The feel and atmosphere is as though the last 24 years had never passed.
Sensibly (not a word usually associated with this series!) the story ignores the events of the secondary phase, and presets an alternative continuation of the primary phase. What follows is an extraordinary quest across space and time for the meaning of Cricket. It's weird, wacky and just as fun as the originals. Full of clever, funny and well formed ideas (bistromathics in particular has me creased) this is a well written set that really captures the old magic.
The actors slip into their old roles with ease, which really helps the feel of the production. Of particular note is a cameo from Douglas Adams, who was already dead by the time the series was recorded, as the wonderfully aggrieved Agrajag (apologies for the spelling!)
6 Episodes are split across 3 discs, held in a double jewel case with a short booklet. There is apparently quite a bit of material not broadcast present, which is a nice touch for us collectors. As you would expect for a modern recording the sound quality is excellent. A very worthy and worthwhile release!
I loved the first 3 books, the last two not as much. I have listened to the original radio series over & over for years & still find them entertaining. I have really enjoyed listening to this for the first tme, as i missed the new series when they were first broadcast. I would agree that it does lack some of the creativity that the original series had, but since i found this as a book, to be the best of them all it has not detracted from my enjoyment. The cathdral of hate & agrajag are a delight to my twisted mind & have brought a smile every time i listen & i have had to listen a few times just to make sure...
Yes its overacted a bit here & there but since the original producer wasnt involved & dirk mags wrote the adaptation due to the sad death of douglas adams it was never going to be the same. Most of the original actors are involved althouh some of the voices have changed since the original series were created. If you are looking for new material broadcast in the same way that the originals were then you will probably be left slightly disappointed. This is more like the sequal trying its hardest to respect the original yet also working hard to be fresh for a new generation. I havnt read this book in years but i would agree with what one of the other reviews states, that its more like an adaptation of the book rather than a radio play.
The story picks up from the end of the secondary phase where Arthur and Ford have been stranded by the Golgafrinchans in earth's pre-history about two million years ago. This story slots in between that part and the next book where Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Trillian are re-united. Most of the original cast are in this. Unfortunately this was made after Peter Jones died and so he does make a couple of brief posthumous appearances, but he is swiftly and expertly taken over from by William Franklin. There are some delightful cameos from Joanna Lumley, Bob Golding (Of Tweenies fame), Newsreader John Marsh, Toby Longworth From Star Wars - The Phantom Menace, Stephen Fry and Leslie Phillips.
I'm not going to give any story away, suffice it to say that this is classic Adams craftsmanship perfectly executed. If you are a fan at all then stop reading this and buy the cd's. You'll never regret it.







