Brian Sibley's dramatisation of the fantasy epic in 1981 staring Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens, John Le Mesurier and Peter Woodthorpe is an essential listen for any audiobook listener.
Popularised by the wonderful Peter Jackson films this audio version deserves to be just as widely heard!
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...