Episode 1: The Lord Of The Rings - Read By Paddington Bear et al.(Read by Michael Hordern, Ian Holm)

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Welcome to episode 1 of The Lord of the Rings series, first broadcast in 1981 on BBC Radio 4.
Gandalf is played by Michael Hordern, better known to those of a certain age as Paddington Bear in the children's TV series. Frodo is played by Ian Holm, better known to many as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's later film version.
Peter Woodthorpe played Gollum and Michael Graham Cox played Boromir; both had previously voiced the same roles in Ralph Bakshi's animated version.
And Bill Nighy as Sam Gamgee before he was famous!
This was originally broadcast as 26 half hour episodes, but every broadcast since was in combined hour long episodes. This version from tape, with its two sides format, is the closest you can get to the original format in which it was broadcast (i.e. 26 separate episodes).
I hope you enjoy it.
All the best.
Doctor Alex.

With thanks to Mindless Entertainment:
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And her own fencing video with the very kind shout-out at: https://youtu.be/kGALR0rycW8
And thanks to the Anti-trekker for his support and encouragement:
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And thanks also to Doomcock for his ongoing encouragement and support:
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And finally, but not leastly to MechaRandom42 for her encouragement and support:
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This video introduction was recorded using a Shure Model PG48 mic plugged into a Lenovo X201 running Linux Mint 18.2 via an Edirol AudioCapture UA-20 interface.
Recording and processing of audio performed using Audacity v2.1.2.
Video editing performed using Openshot v1.4.3.
Intro and outro music performed on an Audition semi-acoustic guitar plugged into a Marlin Reverb 50C guitar amplifier mic-ed up to an Edirol AudioCapture UA-20 interface via a Realistic Audio mic in one channel, and directly mic-ed using a Shure Model PG48 in the other channel.

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