00:01Vintage recordings of The Hobbit have been discovered beside a railway line in Newcastle.
00:06The cassette tapes, featuring a BBC radio drama, were found buried at the base of an overhead line mast on
00:13the Tynanwy metro
00:14during a routine inspection between Chillingham Road and Walkergate.
00:19Nexus Head of Infrastructure Works Delivery Rob Cochrane said he spotted the gold cover out of the corner of his
00:25eye
00:26and called it an incredible find.
00:28Communications Officer David Puntin described the discovery as baffling and urged the public not to enter railway lines or hide
00:36items there.
00:37The 1968 Radio 4 adaptation was later released on cassettes and is still sold online.
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