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
Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC Radio production sold as an audio book on two cassette tapes (later, two CDs). The programme was partially broadcast by BBC Radio 4 as a 40-minute feature titled "The Guide to 20 Years' Hitch-Hiking" on 5 March 1998, marking the 20th anniversary of the first radio programme in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series". The first tape runs 55 minutes and is narrated by Peter Jones, who narrated the original radio series. It features comments by