Very pleased I was able to find this. Thank you for uploading

Hi Gavin. My experience of Hitch-Hikers was much the same as yours only I didn't lose the tapes. Stepen Moore's is the only reading as far as I am concerned. It also puts me in mind of my first walkman (a huge, red Sony with orange foam headphones) and shoe-shopping with my mum - drifting blissfully around the shop (Galaxy) to the melodious sound of Stephen's voice.
I met Moore in a pub in London once. Sadly he turned out to be a bit of a dick. I don't usually speak to famous people when I meet them (which I occasionally do) but in this case I made an exception. I said hello, blah blah blah and that he would always be associated with Hitch-Hikers for me as the definative voice of the book. He started to laugh at me and as I went on he just cackled more manicaly as if I were telling him the worlds funniest joke. I backed off confused, tail between legs. Don't know what I did or said to make him act that way - maybe he just wanted me to piss off.
Anyway - I have Hitch-Hikers and Restaurant and will post them if I can work out how. 
If anyone has Universe and Fish I would be most grateful.


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The first half of the original audiobook of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Moore. I got this for Christmas on a set of audio cassettes in the early 80s and played it to death. I think it's the seminal version, much better than the radio or TV versions - Stephen Moore just has the perfect voice; guess it helps that this was the first version I ever heard after I had read the books, and he just seemed to nail every character perfectly, especially Dentarthurdent. I think  that like many books and scripts, it actually works better with a single reader, rather than a cast - I guess I've never been the greatest fan of radio plays anyway...

I looked for years for it after the tapes got lost in a house move (I think) but with no success - I just kept finding the radio version. Then, in 2011 I was watching a repeat of one of the new Dr Who and one of the (heavily prostheticisesd) aliens spoke in a voice that, even after more than 20 years, I RECOGNISED INSTANTLY AS THE VOICE OF THE GUIDE. I paused and rewound the playback (thank goodness for iPlayer) then the credits, and identified the actor as one Stephen Moore - voice of Marvin from the original radio series, AHAH!! From there it was only a matter of Googling. And here it is in its glory. If anyone has a problem with my posting this for copyright reasons please accept my apologies and contact me to have it removed immediately. I just wanted to share this voice of my childhood.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Audiobook Part 1

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Recorded at "The Universe in Verse: The Astronomy of Walt Whitman," hosted by Maria Popova and Pioneer Works on Governors Island, October 26, 2019. Portraiture by Rowan Renee / Brooklyn Tintype.

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