Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoThere's classic movies, classic plays, and classic tv shows. But are there classic radio dramas?message-squaremessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareThere's classic movies, classic plays, and classic tv shows. But are there classic radio dramas?Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareDontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-212 hours agoCan’t believe no one has said the dramatized version of LOTR broadcast by BBC in 1981! 12 hours plus of pure magic. Fun fact: Ian Holm gave the voice for Frodo in the radio version, the same guy who plays Bilbo in the movie trilogy. Looks like it is on internet archive already: https://archive.org/details/lord-of-the-rings-10_202401 though I first downloaded it on high seas many years ago.
Can’t believe no one has said the dramatized version of LOTR broadcast by BBC in 1981! 12 hours plus of pure magic. Fun fact: Ian Holm gave the voice for Frodo in the radio version, the same guy who plays Bilbo in the movie trilogy.
Looks like it is on internet archive already: https://archive.org/details/lord-of-the-rings-10_202401 though I first downloaded it on high seas many years ago.