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Exclusive to RSD 2020 to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the Hitchhiker’s guide to The Galaxy, a reissue of the two ‘original recordings’ of Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy drama.

When Earthman Arthur Dent learns that first his house and then his planet are about to be bulldozed, it’s the beginning of an interplanetary adventure for him and his friend, Ford fleeing Earth they hitch a lift with hoopy frood Zaphod Beeblebrox, who hurtles from one improbability to another – Trillian and Marvin the Paranoid Android in tow, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is soon revealed: what was the question…?

Following the success of the BBC radio series, Douglas Adams adapted his scripts for these two full-cast albums, with incidental radiophonic music provided by Paddy released by Original Records in 1980, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe star Peter Jones as The Book, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect and Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Produced by Geoffrey Perkins and Tim Souster, the cast also includes Cindy Oswin, Stephen Moore, Richard Vernon, Valentine Dyall, David Tate, Jim Broadbent, Bill Wallis, Roy Hudd, Frank Middlemass, Stephen Greif and onto your towel – it’s going to be the ride of a lifetime.
Pressed on 180g Translucent Vogon Green, Magrathean Blue and Pangalactic Purple vinyl