BBC Radio - Lord Of The Rings - 1981 - iPod Audiobooks (m4b)

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The Ring Goes Ever On by Brian Sibley (Producer) Casting the BBC Radio Production: After three or four months writing, twenty-six scripts were finally finished and Jane, Penny, Michael and I applied our minds to the challenging task of putting voices to the characters. The casting of Ian Holm as Frodo was simply inspired. Ian's thoroughness in preparing for a role and the single-minded dedication that he brings to the creation of any character made him the ideal choice for this complex personality who, though only small, faces a superhuman task and, somehow, survives. It is a performance of unswerving determination, tempered always with humour and vulnerability. As for Gandalf, Michael Hordern - if the truth were told - never entirely understood what was going on! He was, for example, genuinely perplexed by the wizard's seeming demise in Moria during Episode 8, and asked Jane Morgan whether his agent had been wrong about the number of episodes for which he was required! Told that he would be resurrected in Episode 12, he simply grunted: 'Splendid! Splendid!' and shambled away. Nevertheless, by intuition or some other theatrical magic, he became Gandalf: by turn wise, stern and compassionate, a force for good, a constant light in a darkening storm. As for Peter Woodthorpe, he was born to play Gollum, and, indeed, had already done so, having provided the slimy creature's hissing voice in Ralph Bakshi's animated film. Cunning and tricksy, doomed and tragic, Peter captured Gollum's every mood: hateful and pathetic. John Le Mesurier (who had endeared himself to millions as Sergeant Wilson in Dad's Army) played Bilbo with a weary melancholy. Robert Stephens, as Aragorn, gave a mercurial performance, combining nobility and humanity in his portrayal of the returning king whose fate, along with that of all Middle-earth, hangs on the success or failure of Frodo's quest. The cast featured many radio veterans, along with a younger, up-and-coming generation of actors, among them Gerard Murphy, who gave the series its strong narrative voice and Bill Nighy who, in the role of Sam, created a character of such warmth and good-heartedness that - alongside Ian Holm's driven Frodo - provided the story's emotional core. Everyone realised that the music would play an important part in the serialisation and, since we all agreed that it must sound essentially English, a number of distinguished composers - popular and classical - were considered. I had a recording of some music written, some years earlier, for an open-air performance of Alice Through the Looking Glass. I thought it had a pleasing, English-pastoral quality, a view endorsed by Jane Morgan when she heard it. The composer was Stephen Oliver who, by the time he wrote the music for The Lord of the Rings, had received great acclaim for his music for the RSC's epic production of Nicholas Nickleby. Stephen's music was both majestic and magical: the sinuous, relentlessly driving opening-theme becoming, for millions of listeners, a weekly siren-call into another realm. First, however, there were those two months in studio that were to prove a time of mixed emotions: there was excitement - actually, elation! - as, day-by-day, we lived Frodo's journey from the rural peace of the Shire to the grim terrors of Mount Doom. There was the frustration of fighting against the restraints of time and the sheer physical and mental exhaustion of so demanding a schedule. But there was also the thrill at hearing pure magic produced out of thin air - whether through the technical wizardry of Elizabeth Parker and the Radiophonic Workshop or the simple creation of Gollum's flapping footsteps by a technician slapping her bare thighs. All told, there was a lot of laughter, quite a few tears and a number of frazzled tempers before all twenty-six episodes were recorded and edited for transmission. The first episode of The Lord of the Rings was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at lunchtime on Sunday 8 March 1981. Radio Times marked the event with a special cover by that master illustrator, Eric Fraser. The critics were divided, but that scarcely mattered since the dramatisation swiftly established a cult following, epitomised by a postcard which I noticed stuck up in the window of my local newsagents with the plea: 'Will trade copies of any episodes of The Lord of the Rings for episode 10 which I missed!' The Tolkien Society graciously forgave me for whatever shortcomings the series contained and awarded me their silver badge. Fans eagerly snapped up such giveaways as buttons with the slogan 'Radio is Hobbit 4-ming' and bought posters reproducing the Radio Times cover, while I managed to annoy most senior BBC management by buying the original artwork from Eric Fraser before they thought of trying to do so! One dedicated fan of the series, Ian Smith , compiled and privately printed a dossier on the series with reviews of all the episodes and interviews with the cast, writers and directors. It was called Microphones in Middle-earth and cost the princely sum of ú2.90! Its value today, as a collector's item, is inestimable! Ian became and has remained one of my closest friends and, as an enduringly dedicated fan (not just of the radio series, but also the book and films), has written about, and photographed, many Rings events for his lively, sometimes provocative, web site. The year following the first broadcast, the series was repeated, this time in thirteen one-hour episodes and then issued first on audiocassette and then, later (with various tinkerings and remasterings) on compact disc. Twenty-three years on, several of our original travelling companions from that first radio journey have, inevitably, passed beyond the Sundering Sea, but others of us remain and, from time to time, retrace our steps through Middle-earth. Take Frodo for example: he eventually went off to New Zealand and turned into Bilbo! I, too, went South, to follow the making of the movies and, in doing so, became friends with many of those working on the film trilogy (on both sides of the camera) as well as with fellow Tolkien writer (and superb fantasy novelist) Jude Fisher . As for Bilbo, in 2001 he found his old self once more and came back home to Bag End - as Frodo. Let me explain: to coincide with the release of the first of Peter Jackson's films, the radio series was restructured, as far as possible, in line with Tolkien's original three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Since the series was never designed to exist in such stand-alone chunks, it was decided that we would record newly-written prologues and epilogues in which Ian Holm would play Frodo during his last days on Middle-earth as he settled to the task of recording the history of the War of the Ring. Listening to him at the microphone, it truly seemed as if the intervening years had vanished away and that here was proof indeed that the Ring - like the road in the song - does go ever on and on. Chapters: Episode 1 - The Shadow Of The Past 56:23 Episode 2 - The Black Riders 55:45 Episode 3 - The Knife In The Dark 57:01 Episode 4 - The Ring Goes South 54:46 Episode 5 - The Mirror Of Galadriel 55:34 Episode 6 - The Breaking Of The Fellowship 56:36 Episode 7 - The King Of The Golden Hall 55:25 Episode 8 - The Voice Of Sauron 56:42 Episode 9 - The Two Towers 58:55 Episode 10 - The Choices Of Master Samwise 59:07 Episode 11 - The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields 57:13 Episode 12 - Mount Doom 58:03 Episode 13 The Grey Havens 58:43 Cast and Credits: Narrator: Gerard Murphy Frodo Baggins: Ian Holm Gandalf the Grey/Gandalf the White: Michael Hordern Aragorn (Strider): Robert Stephens Sam Gamgee: William Nighy Farmer Maggot: John Bott Barliman Butterbur: James Grout Galadriel: Marian Diamond Celeborn: Simon Cadell Boromir: Michael Graham Cox Arwen Evenstar: Sonia Fraser Gimli: Douglas Livingstone Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry): Richard O'Callaghan Peregrin Took (Pippin): John McAndrew Legolas: David Collings Saruman the White: Peter Howell Elrond: Hugh Dickson Bilbo Baggins: John Le Mesurier Gollum/Sm��agol: Peter Woodthorpe Th��oden: Jack May Grøma Wormtongue: Paul Brooke ╔owyn: Elin Jenkins ╔omer: Anthony Hyde Faramir: Andrew Seear Treebeard: Stephen Thorne Denethor: Peter Vaughan Glorfindel: John Webb Gamling: Patrick Barr C��orl: Michael McStay Hama: Michael Spice Lord of the Nazg√l: Philip Voss The Mouth of Sauron: John Rye Shelob: BBC Radiophonic Workshop Dramatisation: Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell Music: Stephen Oliver Radiophonic sound: Elizabeth Parker Produced and directed by Jane Morgan and Penny Leicester Please seed once you have downloaded. Regards, Andrew MAIDSTONE, Kent 25.11.06

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