Reddit reviews The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase (Original BBC Radio Series)

If you're in the UK, there's a CD box-set for £40.

If you're in the US, the whole set is nearly $87.

But "season one" (Guide and Restaurant) are on CD for about $20.

If you'd like some variety of medium or want the pick-me-up in a situation where reading a physical book isn't so easy, try listening to the original BBC radio series (first broadcast 1978, available on CD, Audible or YouTube). The radio series existed before the books, and the full-cast dramatisation is a pillar of radio comedy and drama.

The Primary and Secondary phases (first and second series, six episodes each) are from the 70s, the third through fifth were adapted from the later books in the early 2000s with the surviving cast.

Pity she didn't have a Kindle instead.. very easy to gift books to people via that just have to send it to their email and it will appear in there library ready to sync to the device.

Perhaps consider getting her the radio series on iTunes Sadly it is only on Amazon.

Oh well I am fresh out of idea save setting up an iTunes server on a NAS for her.

Oh, and Hitchhikers guide. https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Primary-Original/dp/160283511X

Ugh. It frustrates me when people tell others to read the book, when it was written to be a radio play. The books came later.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Original/dp/160283511X

http://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Primary-Original/dp/160283511X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304184101&sr=8-1

Audio Books:

• Shopgirl by Steve Martin Yes the comedian
  
• The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
  
• Full Dark No Stars by Stephen King the production is pretty good
  
• Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
  
  Steve Martin has written some poignant stories and he narrates them himself which is quite soothing.
  
  Podcasts
  
  
• This American Life
  
• TED Talks
  
• Radiolab
  
• Snap judgement
  
  Radio Series
  
  
• Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe
  
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --BBC radio
  
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency --BBC Radio

The original

This is the one I listened to :D
https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Primary-Original/dp/160283511X

Shame on you! How could you mention BBC Radio comedy and fail to mention the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

You are NOT a hoopy frood, and have no clue where your towel is, sir.