'Microphones in Middle-earth: Music in the BBC Radio Play', Paul Smith - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Renzolicious · 04-23-2011, 10:36 PM

Quite right on the 1968 radio production of the Hobbit - I didn't like it. Although there is another radio version that I've heard of that I would like to check out since I could barely stand the 1968 version.
I actually tracked down that "14th" hour just last week, and it was interesting to hear, but I prefer the longer version without it.

davem · 04-24-2011, 08:47 AM

As I recall Tales from the Perilous Realm was produced by the BBC for the original Radio 5 station, which was aimed at young listeners. It was originally broadcast over 6 episodes with Bombadil & Giles broadcast in two parts & Niggle & Smith as single episodes. They were adapted by Brian Sibley, one of the adaptors of the BBC LotR. They don't work quite as well as the LotR in some cases (Smith particularly doesn't capture the heart & mood of Tolkien's tale - but then, for me Pauline Baynes pictures are so essential a part of the story that the story lacks something in print if they're absent) but the Bombadil episode is a fine piece of work (Its Nigel Planer who plays Frodo, though, not Ian Holm).

04-24-2011, 08:47 AM	#2
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	As I recall Tales from the Perilous Realm was produced by the BBC for the original Radio 5 station, which was aimed at young listeners. It was originally broadcast over 6 episodes with Bombadil & Giles broadcast in two parts & Niggle & Smith as single episodes. They were adapted by Brian Sibley, one of the adaptors of the BBC LotR. They don't work quite as well as the LotR in some cases (Smith particularly doesn't capture the heart & mood of Tolkien's tale - but then, for me Pauline Baynes pictures are so essential a part of the story that the story lacks something in print if they're absent) but the Bombadil episode is a fine piece of work (Its Nigel Planer who plays Frodo, though, not Ian Holm). __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."

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04-23-2011, 10:36 PM	#1
Renzolicious Newly Deceased Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 6	Quite right on the 1968 radio production of the Hobbit - I didn't like it. Although there is another radio version that I've heard of that I would like to check out since I could barely stand the 1968 version. I actually tracked down that "14th" hour just last week, and it was interesting to hear, but I prefer the longer version without it.