As a long time avid fan of HHGTTG I stumbled across a website which had the audio files for the original radio show. In the interests of archiving I have downloaded them to TOP for hosting.I will be adding the links shortly.
HitchHikersGuide-01.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-02.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-03.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-04.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-05.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-06.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-07.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-08.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-09.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-10.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-11.mp3
HitchHikersGuide-12.mp3
54 Comments
cool stash.
thanks for hosting them!
Thank you so much for hosting this!!I’ve been thinking about this program for a long time. I first heard it on my local pbs station ♥️
Thanks for the upload.
are you really Jesus
Alas no, I’m the Messiah or a very naughty boy.
Wow…thanks so much! Thought i had no chance of finding them!
Hi, do these files cover entire book, all the chapters?
These files cover the complete radio show.
Wow! Thank you, Sir!
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!! What a find! You are good, vgood.
Hitchhikers is a gem, what a shame Douglas died so young.
I will join your site, please email me anytime,
RU in eu?or usa
Cheers K
Glad you found them, agreed real shame about Adams. I’m in the UK where are you from?
Plague times call for old memories-thanks for the collection-my old copies on cassettes are dispersed-best wishes
A great discovery. Thanks for hosting.
Hi Gerry no problem, enjoy!
Thanks a million for uploading and sharing the collection!
Hi Riley, no problem, enjoy!
This is great! I had cassette tapes recorded off the radio, but now no cassette player!
Thank you very much! I no longer have a cassette player to play my originals on so this is perfect
You are my hero. I bow to your greatness.
Ah you are too kind, hope it makes lockdown a little more bearable for you.
Thanks so much for sharing. I’m making a big tediously detailed painting and it kept me going. Is there a second series on MP3?
Cheers,
Michelle in Glasgow
Hi Michelle glad they are helping you, what are you painting? The one on here is the original radio series but I think there were other audio ones as well. I will have a look.
Many thanks for sharing these. I recall listening to these as a kid (big brothers are useful tipsters!) I will relisten and enjoy again with thanks to you.
Andrew
Hi Andrew no problem at all, enjoy!
Happy Towel Day 2020!
Thank you for this. Happy towel day!
Wow, I remember listening to these as a kid (and reading the books too many times to count!) Thank you so much for posting these!
Hi, does this cover all the books, volume 1 to 5?
I turn 42 this weekend. I plan to listen to this as part of my birthday celebration. Thanks for posting these for so long. 🙂
You have performed a great service to humanity in these dark days. Hopefully we will get through these times just as Arthur Dent does.
O wow, I thought I’d never be able to hear these, thank you so much!
Best find ever. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much, what a gem of a series!
THANKS SOOO MUCH! I also had cassettes recorded from other cassettes recorded from NPR. Long since misplaced my copies and have been looking to hear these again. FWIW it sounds to me like your copies are running a little sped-up. To me they sound more like I remember slowed down about 6 or 7%. I don’t have any objective reference though. I made copies for myself slowed down 6% if you’d like to compare. Also have a version with some dynamic compression that I think helps a bit. I’d be happy to pass them back to you if you like. Meanwhile I’ll share and enjoy them over a cup of something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.
Hi Peter glad your liking them. Interesting about it being sped up as not had anyone else mention it but yes if I could have a copy of your edited versions that would be great to compare.
Thanks so much for this, I had my mp3s on my old phone and they are gone forever now.
Great links! This is a favourite series of mine that I used to listen to as a fanatic when I was younger. The radio series was the best version, British TV not quite so good and the Hollywood film was awful! It shows that throwing more money at a story doesn’t always make it better.
Many thanks.
John (UK).
Thanks so much. RIP Adams.
I had these on cassette for so many years, but now have nothing to play the old tapes on! One day, it occurs to me to google the show, and here you are! Thank you so much for restoring beloved old memories to me! <3
Thank you I’ve looking for these for a long time.
Very happy to have found this! I stumbled onto the middle of episode 1 as a student back in the 1970s as I was fiddling with my radio. I was just telling a neighbor about the show this morning. He’s my age, but amazingly had never heard of it. I’ll now send him the link!
Hi Barry glad you managed to find them and than you for your kind comment it’s much appreciated, hope you and your neighbour enjoy them.
Wow, thank yo so much my friend! My brother, Dad and I listened to our cassette tape recording of this series obsessively on every road trip we took. I have been looking for a cope of this for so many years! I’d like to download the series and give them each a copy so we can all listen to it together / apart over Christmas. Any tips for how I copy for them? Thank you so much for sharing this treasure 🙂
I lost the “originals” ages ago. Lockdown inspires a relisten and amazon wanted £109. Like for others right now, cash is hard to come by. Cheers
You are a HERO!
Thanks, I am looking forward to listening to the original Radio programmes for the first time. I loved the books. One of my happiest memories is laughing out loud about the Ravening Bugblatter Beast of Trall in a group of friends and us all having an explosion of laughter together!
Thanks so much. I remember turning on my tranny (that’s what we used to call transistor radios in the old days in England – to distinguish them from the old-fashioned radios) on day in my youth and hearing the very first broadcast of this on the BBC – so now I am able to relive the experience. Many, many thanks!
The world applauds you for this. Does anyone know how to find the original MAC version of H2G2 as a text game? I literally fell to the floor laughing. And he also made a Windows 95 game called something like ultimate Starship.
And I know there are addition radio-like episodes produced years later. I have them somewhere I think.
Unfortunately, these are not from the original 1978 broadcast on BBC Radio 4. These are from the 1981 rebroadcast on NPR which were edited to fit within the allotted time and thus are missing a couple of minutes from each fit. Bummer. I guess I’ll keep looking for the original broadcasts.
Thank you for providing these. However they do not sound like the original play. Sped up I think. But about the only source left.
It is hard to tell. There are so many remixes and fan remakes etc.
One wonders just how much money the BBC made by killing off all the available recordings of this. Bugger all I would say. And in the process killed one of the best things they have every produced.
Like everyone above, my cassettes are long gone. Many many thanks for posting. A great listen to accompany my second jab day of downtime.
Dude! I listened once,15yrs ago. Never thought I’d hear them again. Your a legend, nice one
Glad you found them mate, enjoy!
can you add the 2nd and 3rd series?