‘The Hobbit’ Read in the Same Style As a BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#6MADQ)
The British host of the AbeBooks channel amusingly read The Hobbit in the very same detailed manner and choppy cadence as the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast. Like the forecast, the recitation of J.R.R. Tolkiens fantastic tale gave much detail but betrayed no emotion whatsoever.
Five Hours of the Shipping Forecast For Those UnfamiliarLike so many bookloving Brits, I grew up listening to the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast. ...Not so long ago, I was reading The Hobbit to one of my daughters when the shipping forecast popped into my head as I stared at Tolkien's illustration of Thorin's map.
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