Fit The Fourth

Arthur learns the lucrative answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything.

Arthur Dent is one of only two survivors from Earth, demolished to make way for a by-pass. He survived thanks to his friend, Ford Prefect (who hails not from Guildford, but somewhere near Betelgeuse), a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor".

Now paired with fellow Earth survivor Trillian and duplicitous two-headed hustler Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur and Ford are on legendary planet Magrathea - and Arthur in particular is about to understand his demolished home world in a new and startling way.

Douglas Adams' epic adventure in time and space.

The Book …… Peter Jones
Slartibartfast …… Richard Vernon
Arthur Dent …… Simon Jones
Ford Prefect …… Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox …… Mark Wing-Davey
Trillion …… Susan Sheridan
Majikthise …… Jonathan Adams
First Computer Programmer …… Ray Hassett
Second Computer Programmer …… Jeremy Browne
Vroom …… James Broadbent

Other parts played by the cast.

Sound and music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1978.