The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy States and Canada with Hannibal Records and Simon and Schuster were later negotiated by Douglas Adams and his agent, Ed Victor, after gaining full rights to the recordings from Original Records, which went bankrupt. There have been three audiobook recordings of the novel. The first was an abridged edition (), recorded in the mid-1980s for the EMI label Music For Pleasure by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio series and in the TV series. In 1990, Adams himself recorded an unabridged edition for Dove Audiobooks (), later re-released by New
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases The Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase, Quintessential Phase and Hexagonal Phase are respectively the third, fourth, fifth and sixth series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" radio series. Produced in 2003, 2004 and 2018 by Above the Title Productions and Perfectly Normal Productions for BBC Radio 4, they are radio adaptations of the third, fourth, fifth books and sixth books in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series: "Life, the Universe and Everything"; "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish"; "Mostly Harmless" and "And Another Thing...". These