Hobbit, The

The BBC adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's timeless tale, THE HOBBIT, for radio in 1968. It aired Sundays on BBC Radio 4 from 8:30 to 9:00 PM, in eight 30-minute episodes. Each episode was repeated Tuesdays at 3:00 PM. The serial was adapted by Michael Kilgarriff and produced by John Powell. Bilbo Baggins is the hobbit, who lives in his cozy hole in the Shire, until the wizard Gandalf drags him away on a treasure hunt with a troop of rowdy dwarves, encountering orcs, spiders, trolls and wolves, leading up to the final confrontation with the fearful dragon Smaug.