Since you are interested in The Hobbit [The Original BBC Radio Drama] {nearly four hours on one MP3 CD), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Story Of Classical Music Marin Alsop (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The Story of Classical Music is the sort of project that hardly ever gets reviewed and at which people are likely to turn up their noses." (Julian Lloyd Webber) |
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Way Through the Woods, and other favourite poems Anton Lesser, Anne Harvey, Katinka Wolf, narrators [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] There are complete stories here - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Lady of Shalott - and humor aplenty, whether it is the music hall mischief of Dahn the Plughole or the more sinister touches of Binyon's Hunger. |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
1001 Nights: Sinbad the Sailor and other stories Bernard Cribbins (narrator) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Enrique Batiz [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "...It's an exciting performance, and Batiz elicits a good bit of fire from the Philharmonia. For this re-issue... Naxos has grafted on Mr Cribbins's reading of four episodes from the Tales of the Arabian Nights. While very well read and entertaining... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Prokofiev: Cinderella / Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Children's Classics) Brian Cant (narrator) / National Symphony Orch of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar (conductor) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orch. / Andrew Mogrelia (conductor [ Naxos Children's Classics / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Brian Cant has a nice, light and understated touch in his story-telling, with a bit of the Edith Evans for the Fairy Godmother and a touching wonderment to match Prokofiev's scintillating score." Daily Telegraph |
CHARLES DICKENS
Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (abridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2008 ] A mysterious boatman on the Thames, a drowned heir, a dustman and his wife, and a host of other Dickens characters populate this novel of relationships between the classes, money, greed and love. |
FAWLTY TOWERS
Fawlty Towers: Second Sitting - The Rat / The Builders Fawlty Towers with John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth & Andrew Sachs [ BBC Audio / CD - released 9/Apr/2009 ] John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs star in two BBC TV episodes, "The Rat" and "The Builders". |
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [ BBC Audio Book / 3 CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Secondary Phase [ BBC Audio Books / 3 CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |