MICHAEL HORDERN (Gandalf): The first – an archangel – who’s guarding a vase?
IAN HOLM (Frodo): The second – spends more than an age at his house?
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK (Shagrat): The third graced our screens in ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!’
ROBERT STEPHENS (Aragorn): The fourth was a Prince on a Veronese set.
OZ CLARKE (Singer): The fifth, though no hobbit, loves victuals and drink,
PAULINE LETTS (Ioreth): The sixth – Walford matriarch allows us – I think!
HUGH DICKSON (Elrond): The seventh played quack to Ross Poldark’s old flame -
JOHN MCANDREW (Pippin): The eighth, (flag the second), definitive Thain! *
LEONARD FENTON (Daddy Twofoot): The ninth, (flag the fourth), a Walfordian quack -
ELIN JENKINS (Eowyn): The tenth – Tucker’s sister? (Once a river flows back).
STEPHEN OLIVER (Music): In eleven, a saint meets a foundling most poor -
WILLIAM NIGHY (Sam): In twelve, it seems Shakespeare’s nearby, but wherefore? **
ANDREW SEEAR (Faramir): Thirteen is a saint, and a visionary too, **
MARION DIAMOND (Galadriel): Fourteen is a maid, and a gemstone most true.
SIMON CADELL (Celeborn): Fifteen: Eighties game, plus a bounder and measure, **
DAVID COLLINGS (Legolas): Sixteen plays the son of an elf who loves treasure.
DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE (Gimli): For seventeen, no spade? Petrified, but not dead!
JENNY LEE (Shelob): Eighteen, (flag the sixth), Attercop! Poison-head!
ELIZABETH PARKER (Radiophonic Sound): The nineteenth, twice queenly, a pen or car-stopper?
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GERARD MURPHY (Narrator): With twenty as glue, the tale won’t come a cropper! **
ANTHONY HYDE (Eomer): Twenty-one is no Jekyll. On horseback he jogs,
RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN (Merry): Twenty-two steers a barge, or plays fair Lewis Boggs!
PETER WOODTHORPE (Gollum): This sibilant genius is our twenty-three - ***
HARRY HOLM (Elanor): Two dozen! - a Potter, and Old English sea!
The whole means a drama, of quality rare,
Where thesps and their ilk show considerable flair!
I left out the ‘sounds likes’ to make it flow better,
So - enjoy the clues! (From Pervinca, your setter).
( * Well, future Thain).
(** Flag the second).
(*** Flag the third).
THEME: THE BBC 'LORD OF THE RINGS' RADIO DRAMATISATION.
But Gollum is.
I didn't see the late, great Peter Woodthorpe in your list at first.
Well done! Over to you.