On 8 March 1978, Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first broadcast over the airwaves on BBC Radio 4.

The series follows the adventures of hapless Englishman Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, an alien who writes for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. After Earth is destroyed in the first episode, Arthur and Ford find themselves aboard a stolen spaceship piloted by Zaphod Beeblebrox (Ford’s semi-cousin and Galactic President), depressed robot Marvin, and Trillian, the only other human survivor of Earth’s destruction.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series

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