The series is available for download via the BBC at a very reasonable price (along with some other Tolkien stuff here
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/catalogsea...ult/?q=tolkien £6.99/$10.99. Brian Sibley's Audio Portrait is very good (just wish his other Radio 4 doc, Fired by the Ring was also available.
Some of you might also be interested to hear that the soundtrack to the BBC Jackanory adaptation of TH will also be available in October
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hobbit-J...ckanory+hobbit so we can listen again even if we can't watch.