The file "42" is a WAV file.
It's 11.025kHz, mono, mu-law.
It was digitally read from the CD Audio recording of the radio series The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


From The Original Radio Scripts of
THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
by Douglas Adams

(Fit the Fourth)

ONE: Seventy-five thousand generations ago our ancestors set this programme in motion.

THREE: An awesome prospect.

F/X: DEEP THOUGHT CLEARS HIS THROAT

TWO: Deep Thought prepares to speak.

DEEP THOUGHT: Good Evening.

ONE: Good Evening ... Oh Deep Thought ... do you have ...

DEEP THOUGHT: An answer for you? Yes, I have.

THREE: There really is one?

DEEP THOUGHT: There really is one.

ONE: To Everything? To the great question of Life, the Universe and Everything?

DEEP THOUGHT: Yes.

TWO: And are you ready to give it to us?

DEEP THOUGHT: I am.

ONE: Now?

DEEP THOUGHT: Now.

ONE: Wow.

(Pause)

DEEP THOUGHT: Though I don't think you're going to like it.

TWO: Doesn't matter! We must know it!

DEEP THOUGHT: Now?

TWO: Yes! Now!

DEEP THOUGHT: All right

(Pause)

ONE: Well?

DEEP THOUGHT: You're really not going to like it.

TWO: Tell us!!!

DEEP THOUGHT: All right. The Answer to Everything ...

TWO: Yes ... !

DEEP THOUGHT: Life, The Universe and Everything ...

ONE: Yes ... !

DEEP THOUGHT: Is ...

THREE: Yes ... !

DEEP THOUGHT: IS ...

ONE/TWO: Yes ... !!!

DEEP THOUGHT: Forty-two.



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