Meh.

Obviously, I prefer listening to the actual recordings than reading the radio scripts, but I think the novels are the best, even though the radio broadcasts were the original medium. Douglas Adams was notorious for his procrastination and missing deadlines (he loved the whooshing noise as they flew past) and the novels have that extra bit of polish. That said, well worth a read for any Hitchhiker fan

This is one of my ultimate favorite! I heard it several times and it still makes me laugh. I actually think it is better than the books. just put it in and enjoy. oh, and the creature was green.

always a favorite. I highly recommend the BBC Radio Recordings.

It is a great ride as it is a snapshot into the full book series. It is also entertaining to read the notes after each show!

i was there from the beginning and all i can say is curses to god for taking one of the most imaginative peeps ever much too soon.

Really fun in any form.

A pleasant read. The usual amusing style of writing. And I have enjoyed the notes at the end of each chapter.

I believe this is the one I own, assuming this is dramatised by Dirk Maggs.

I shall never forget sitting on the school coach home one day, with my friend Becky telling me about this absolutely brilliant new radio programme on BBC Radio 4. So, although I’d missed the first episode, I caught the second, and immediately became completely and utterly hooked. I hadn’t been much of a radio listener before that, but here was a series that had everything: the well-paced plot was imaginative yet believable, well-acted, very funny, and the sound effects were absolutely fantastic. Prior to HHGTTG the only space fiction I’d read much of came from the pens of HG Wells and Arthur C Clarke; both of whom now seemed so terribly serious!

Though I later bought and read all of the HHGTTG books, I eventually gave them away; because it’s the radio scripts which I like to return to. Like Shakespeare, HHGTTG entered my stream of consciousness; quoting in everyday conversation such gems as “The Milliard Gargantuabrain? A mere abacus, mention it not” when (for example)talking about Fourier-Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy! Another of my favourites, when problem solving was “We just have to sidle up to the problem sideways when it’s not looking and … pounce!” Even when I use that line today, very often someone will smile at me knowingly and say “Ford Prefect!”

The advantage of radio over television lies in, of course, the imagination of the listener. Reading and re-reading the HHGTTG scripts is almost as good as listening to a recording of the radio programmes again; better in some ways because the reader can pause on the page, and simply enjoy the sheer craftsmanship of it all.

I voraciously read anything pertaining to Hitchhiker's Guide, so it was interesting to see the different versions of the same story. The books, the radio scripts, the miniseries, the video game, the movie...

fab