The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy audiobook
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Douglas AdamsBook 1 of 6 in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series · first published 1979Arthur Dent wakes one morning to find his house about to be bulldozed to make way for a bypass, and his friend Ford Prefect, an alien researcher, whisks him off into space as the planet faces destruction.
The audiobook
Read by Stephen Fry · 5h 51m unabridged, on Audible UK.
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Where it fits in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- After it: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Read by Martin Freeman · 5h 47m
The full The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy listening order, with who reads each book. Douglas Adams: every series on this site.