Life, the Universe, and Everything cover art

Life, the Universe, and Everything

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

By: Douglas Adams
Narrated by: Martin Freeman
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Read by Martin Freeman.

In Life, the Universe and Everything – the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war.

In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.

Escaping the end of the world for a second time, Arthur, Ford, and their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots. Not bad for a man in his dressing gown . . .

Follow Arthur Dent's galactic (mis)adventures in the rest of the trilogy with five parts: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.

©1982 Serious Productions Ltd (P)1982 Macmillan Digital Audio Fantasy Fiction Funny Witty Interstellar Robotics

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Red Dwarf cover art
The Colour of Magic cover art
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase cover art
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet cover art
The Doomsayer Journeys cover art
Shada cover art
Pride and Prejudice cover art
Doctor Who: Tenth Doctor Novels cover art
Kangazang! cover art
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen cover art
The Very First Damned Thing cover art
Will Save the Galaxy for Food cover art
Off to Be the Wizard cover art
Redshirts cover art
The End of the Matter cover art
Agent to the Stars cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
A really fun listen!

Solid plot with the same absurdist humour we know from this series.
Freeman's Narration is excellent yet again.

Better than the Restaurant at the End of the Universe,
Still not quite the original.

A Whimsical Interlude

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
brilliant trilogy, very funny and well read by Martin Freeman! hope he does more books in the future.

brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
a great book only a vogon could dislike it! Good narration as well. A top title.

FREEEEEOOOOW!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
love it. Martin Freeman it brilliant to listen a specially as he was Arthur Dent.

A Brilliant listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great chapter in the series but "wandered off" and "went on a bit" a little too much in places. A good listen though and did make me laugh out loud occasionally 😆 👍

Great fun..!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As with most of his other hitchhiker books this is funny, sarcastic, ridiculous, over-the-top, believable and utter nonsense all at the same time!
The choice of Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) as narrator is perfect for us who do love the film, he is a good narrator that makes you forget that you are listening to a book.
I love Douglas Adams books and this is no exception!

Mr Adams sure did know how to write books!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This installment in the Hitchhiker's Guide series is a return to form, following the slump of the 2nd book. Although the beginning is a bit chaotic, the rest of the book is fantastic- a true continuation of the first. Great narration by Martin Freeman too.

Return to Form

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Martin Freeman defiantly does Life, the Universe, and Everything justice as one of my favorite readers. This book, another Douglas Adams classic, will make you laugh till your jaw hurts with hilarious dialog and a humor lost on many this will keep you entertained on the bus albeit with a few stares from the general public as you chuckle quietly to yourself

Cricket and Sofas

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is extremely funny,interesting and phenomenal.I would recommend this wonderful book to everyone

Life,the universe and everything

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
After being stranded on prehistoric earth for years Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect catch a sofa back to Lord's cricket grounds on current day earth.
They then travel in an Italian restaurant with Slartibartfast through space to save the universe from a horde of horribly be-weaponed killer robots dressed in cricket attire, who are hell bent on reawakening their xenophobic masters.

amazing!!!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews