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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4 Tolkien: The Lost Recordings
29 Jul, 2016
2016-7-29 7:34:53 AM UTC
2016-7-29 7:34:53 AM UTC
This will be broadcast at 8pm (GMT+1) on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday the 6th August 2016 
You can listen worldwide.
"Joss Ackland narrates a search through BBC archives for unheard gems from JRR Tolkien, as Oxford Academic, Dr Stuart Lee, discovers the unbroadcast offcuts from an interview given by the author.
Tolkien gave the interview for a BBC film in 1968, but only a tiny part of it was used in the broadcast programme. It was one of only a handful of recorded interviews he gave, and was also to be his last.
Dr Lee's search for the unbroadcast rushes takes him to the depths of the BBC film archives, and back to the making of the original film Tolkien in Oxford.
For the director Lesley Megahey, only 23 at the time, this was his first film, and the one that launched a prestigious career. The programme reunites him with three others - researcher Patrick O'Sullivan, Tolkien fan Michael Hebbert, and critic Valentine Cunningham who describes how he was brought in to be the voice of dissent challenging the burgeoning Tolkien cult spreading from America.
What emerges is a picture of a playful academic, whose fiction was little respected by adults at the time and looked down on as a lesser form of literature. But he is robustly defended by Professor Tom Shippey and remembered fondly by his colleague Dr Roger Highfield.
Stuart Lee presents the results of his search through the archives to Dr Dimitra Fimi who considers any new words from Tolkien's mouth as 'gold'. While, for Dr Lee, the real dragon's hoard is the privilege of hearing Tolkien in relaxed mode reflecting on his life as never before.
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvd5z
You can listen worldwide.
"Joss Ackland narrates a search through BBC archives for unheard gems from JRR Tolkien, as Oxford Academic, Dr Stuart Lee, discovers the unbroadcast offcuts from an interview given by the author.
Tolkien gave the interview for a BBC film in 1968, but only a tiny part of it was used in the broadcast programme. It was one of only a handful of recorded interviews he gave, and was also to be his last.
Dr Lee's search for the unbroadcast rushes takes him to the depths of the BBC film archives, and back to the making of the original film Tolkien in Oxford.
For the director Lesley Megahey, only 23 at the time, this was his first film, and the one that launched a prestigious career. The programme reunites him with three others - researcher Patrick O'Sullivan, Tolkien fan Michael Hebbert, and critic Valentine Cunningham who describes how he was brought in to be the voice of dissent challenging the burgeoning Tolkien cult spreading from America.
What emerges is a picture of a playful academic, whose fiction was little respected by adults at the time and looked down on as a lesser form of literature. But he is robustly defended by Professor Tom Shippey and remembered fondly by his colleague Dr Roger Highfield.
Stuart Lee presents the results of his search through the archives to Dr Dimitra Fimi who considers any new words from Tolkien's mouth as 'gold'. While, for Dr Lee, the real dragon's hoard is the privilege of hearing Tolkien in relaxed mode reflecting on his life as never before.
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvd5z
Joss Ackland was born on the 29th February 1928, and is 88 years old.
I have to assume that he is on medication for his age, but the BBC should not put out a programme where he sounds heavily drugged and I agree with Stu
I have to assume that he is on medication for his age, but the BBC should not put out a programme where he sounds heavily drugged and I agree with Stu
Stu wrote:
Joss Ackland sounds heavily drugged.
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