Douglas Adams

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels.

In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction.

In The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Dirk Gently has fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a frantic client turns up with a ludicrous story about being stalked by a goblin waving a contract accompanied by a hairy green-eyed scythe-wielding monster.

Dirk Gently is the sole investigator of a detective agency that exploits the interconnectedness of everything to solve a case, and he is staggeringly successful at finding the truth. Here he travels the universe to find a cat, to solve a murder and to save the human race.

Arthur Dent and his friend, Ford Prefect, are taken on a terrifying tour of the Galaxy after the Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial express route. First in the series.

Douglas Adams was a passionate technology enthusiast. His bestselling The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is full of futuristic tech, and in 1990 he predicted something very like the World Wide Web. So in 1999, he was the natural choice to present Radio 4's The Internet: The Last 20th Century Battleground. In it, he looked at the explosion in online communication, the evolution of cyberspace, and the risks and opportunities of the new virtual world.

A year later, he hosted The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future, in which he and his guests discussed how music, publishing, broadcasting, and society in general would be transformed in the 21st century. Sadly, his death in 2001 meant he would never see if his visions came true. However, in 2015, Mitch Benn revisited Adams' predictions to discover how prescient (or otherwise) they turned out to be...

Don't Panic! Reissued for the first time in 40 years, two unique recordings of Douglas Adams's sci-fi comedy drama. When Earthman Arthur Dent learns that first his house and then his planet are about to be bulldozed, it's the beginning of an interplanetary adventure for him and his friend, Ford Prefect. After fleeing Earth they hitch a lift with hoopy frood Zaphod Beeblebrox, who hurtles from one improbability to another - literally. With Trillian and Marvin the Paranoid Android in tow, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is soon revealed: 42. But what was the question…? 

Join Douglas Adams, bestselling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an adventure in search of the world's most endangered and exotic creatures. In this book, the pair encounter animals in imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the lovable kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean and the alien-like aye-aye of Madagascar.

Inimitably witty and poignant, Last Chance to See is both a celebration of our most extraordinary creatures and a warning about what we have to lose if we do not act soon. 

Third book of series. Sequel to 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' (2039). Arthur Dent finds himself hurtling back to Lords Cricket Ground, after several million years in a time eddy. He again meets Marvin the Paranoid Android, and the infuriating Ford Prefect with his unassailable philosophy on Life, the Universe and Everything.

When a passenger check-in desk at Heathrow Airport was blown up, no rational cause could be found - it was simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo?

Volume five of the series. Sequel to 'So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish' (6696). All gods came into existence three millionths of a second after the start of the Universe, rather than the week before, so they have some explaining to do!

Humourous adventures in space; Sequel to:`The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (1678) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience for Arthur Dent and his friends.

This last Hitch-hike through the Galaxy is the third novel about holistic detective Dirk Gently. The book also contains several non-fiction pieces by Douglas Adams.

Book 4 of The Hitch-Hiker's series. Sequel to: 'Life, The Universe and Everything' (1474). When Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he meets the girl of his dreams.