"THE OLD COURT RADIO THEATRE COMPANY draws on the vocal talents of actors, all experienced in radio work, from the multi-award winning Chelmsford Theatre Workshop. JIM CROZIER and DAVE HAWKES, heard here as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, are very much at home with the characters, having portrayed them in two productions of Roger Johnson's play The Great Detective."
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In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, Dr Watson drops tantalising hints about other cases of the great detective. Here we attempt to reconstruct two of these unpublished exploits.
In "The Long Man", while Holmes investigates an insurance fraud a brilliant police detective pursues a Macedonian gun-runner. Then an inoffensive archaeologist is murdered... Rafe McGregor's story is dramatised by M J Elliott.
"The Grace Chalice" tells how Sherlock Holmes solves the mysterious theft of a priceless mediaeval cup. Roger Johnson has adapted his own story.
JIM CROZIER and DAVE HAWKES return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, with JESSE POWIS, M J ELLIOTT, VINCE WEBB, MARK PRESTON, BRIAN ADRIAN and DANNY SEGETH.
The plays were recorded by David Booth and John Rhodes at Pig Pen Studio for Hosiprog Productions. The producer was Roger Johnson.
While rewriting Conan Doyle's script, the American actor William Gillette famously asked, "May I marry Holmes?" The reply was, "You may marry or murder, or do what you like with him!" The resulting play was first staged in 1899 and has lasted for more than a century. In 1935 Gillette himself recorded an abridged version - long since lost - for the Lux Radio Theater. Three years later Orson Welles adapted the play as an hour-long drama for the Mercury Theater on the Air, in which he took the leading role, giving a remarkable impersonation of Gillette.
Gillette's play wasn't heard in Britain until 1953, when the classic partnership of Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley took the roles of Holmes and Watson in a BBC radio adaptation, with Frederick Valk as Professor Moriarty. More recently there were two good audio productions made in California, each with a distinguished British actor in the lead - Martin Jarvis and David Warner - but the play hasn't been heard on British radio since the 1950s.
In our new radio adaptation the cast is as follows:
Sherlock Holmes - JIM CROZIER Dr Watson - DAVE HAWKES Professor Moriarty - CYRIL BAGSHAW Madge Larrabee - BETH WALTERS James Larrabee - SIMON THOMAS Alice Faulkner - KATHERINE TOKLEY Sidney Prince and Billy - MARK PRESTON John Forman, Thomas Leary and Count von Stalburg - VINCE WEBB Terèse - LINDSAY LLOYD Alfred Bassick - IVOR JEVONS Sir Edward Leighton - JESSE POWIS Parsons - M J ELLIOTT Jim Craigin - BRIAN ADRIAN
The recording was made by David Booth at Pigpen Studios for Hosiprog Productions. Technical presentation was by John Rhodes, and the producer was Roger Johnson.
I found it whilst going through the discussions. I posted 7% Solution recently and found earlier today that it was already here - and before I uploaded it I went through every discussion page as I was sure it was here. I guess I missed it - or Rick's playing games with us.
The error is mine in this instance, not Rick's! For some reason that now escapes me I'd posted it outside the Old Court Radio Theatre topic. Well, I've deleted the separate posting now and retained this one, with the rest of our recordings.
"I grow old, I grow old..."
Roger
mplshowie > MagersfonteinSeptember 12, 2012 at 11:53am
Just got these from Roger from Old Court these are large cover art
My versions of these come from the London Society's rss feed apart from the Hosiprog sourced Great Detective of course. The Great Chalice is new to me. Dowloading now. Thanks.
I actually checked this page as my Society versions' bitrates vary greatly. Looking at the file sizes here I believe these are the same.
This is mainly for Magerfontein - I've noticed you commented elsewhere that bit rates is something you don't understand much about. If you're not putting the mp3s (any not just these) together then you really don't need to know much except if possible go for the highest although anything above 192 for spoken word is overkill really. You also have sample rate (Hz). Generally try to go for 44.100. There's a lot more to it than that though. For example if you get an old mp3 then encoding a new mp3 with higher rates won't magically improve the sound. Changing sample rates doesn't make much difference to file size but for example if you have a 64kbps mp3 and encode it to 128kbps the file size will double.
With that over do you know if higher bit rate versions exist of those which have low rates?
Lastly these plays are really appreciated - the main reason being that you do go for those stories which you don't find usually with other productions.
I was just about to post this and noticed part 1 of the latest on my rss feed. I checked the Society site and then noticed at the bottom that CDs are available. If these have a higher bit rate then forgive my post if the Society would prefer to keep it this way. I was going to delete this whole post but thought you might appreciate the sample / bit rate explanation.
Well that's it. I've got some listening to do.
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Thanks Roger.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, Dr Watson drops tantalising hints about other cases of the great detective. Here we attempt to reconstruct two of these unpublished exploits.
In "The Long Man", while Holmes investigates an insurance fraud a brilliant police detective pursues a Macedonian gun-runner. Then an inoffensive archaeologist is murdered... Rafe McGregor's story is dramatised by M J Elliott.
"The Grace Chalice" tells how Sherlock Holmes solves the mysterious theft of a priceless mediaeval cup. Roger Johnson has adapted his own story.
JIM CROZIER and DAVE HAWKES return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, with JESSE POWIS, M J ELLIOTT, VINCE WEBB, MARK PRESTON, BRIAN ADRIAN and DANNY SEGETH.
The plays were recorded by David Booth and John Rhodes at Pig Pen Studio for Hosiprog Productions. The producer was Roger Johnson.
"The Long Man" is copyright © 2011 by Rafe McGregor & M J Elliott. "The Grace Chalice" is copyright © 2011 by Roger Johnson. The recorded production is copyright © 2011 by the Old Court Radio Theatre Company.14 The Long Man.mp3
15 The Grace Chalice.mp3
While rewriting Conan Doyle's script, the American actor William Gillette famously asked, "May I marry Holmes?" The reply was, "You may marry or murder, or do what you like with him!" The resulting play was first staged in 1899 and has lasted for more than a century. In 1935 Gillette himself recorded an abridged version - long since lost - for the Lux Radio Theater. Three years later Orson Welles adapted the play as an hour-long drama for the Mercury Theater on the Air, in which he took the leading role, giving a remarkable impersonation of Gillette.
Gillette's play wasn't heard in Britain until 1953, when the classic partnership of Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley took the roles of Holmes and Watson in a BBC radio adaptation, with Frederick Valk as Professor Moriarty. More recently there were two good audio productions made in California, each with a distinguished British actor in the lead - Martin Jarvis and David Warner - but the play hasn't been heard on British radio since the 1950s.
In our new radio adaptation the cast is as follows:
Sherlock Holmes - JIM CROZIER
Dr Watson - DAVE HAWKES
Professor Moriarty - CYRIL BAGSHAW
Madge Larrabee - BETH WALTERS
James Larrabee - SIMON THOMAS
Alice Faulkner - KATHERINE TOKLEY
Sidney Prince and Billy - MARK PRESTON
John Forman, Thomas Leary and Count von Stalburg - VINCE WEBB
Terèse - LINDSAY LLOYD
Alfred Bassick - IVOR JEVONS
Sir Edward Leighton - JESSE POWIS
Parsons - M J ELLIOTT
Jim Craigin - BRIAN ADRIAN
The recording was made by David Booth at Pigpen Studios for Hosiprog Productions. Technical presentation was by John Rhodes, and the producer was Roger Johnson.
The script is copyright © 2010 by Roger Johnson. The recorded production is copyright © 2010 by the Old Court Radio Theatre Company.
https://timespast.ning.com/group/hosiprog/forum/topics/sherlock-holm...
Our most ambitious project to date! (And, you know, I was sure I'd already posted it here...)
Roger
You did
https://timespast.ning.com/group/thedefinitivesherlockholmes/forum/t...
I found it whilst going through the discussions. I posted 7% Solution recently and found earlier today that it was already here - and before I uploaded it I went through every discussion page as I was sure it was here. I guess I missed it - or Rick's playing games with us.
Thanks, Jake.
The error is mine in this instance, not Rick's! For some reason that now escapes me I'd posted it outside the Old Court Radio Theatre topic. Well, I've deleted the separate posting now and retained this one, with the rest of our recordings.
"I grow old, I grow old..."
Roger
Just got these from Roger from Old Court these are large cover art
Howie
Sherlock Holmes - Shoscombe Old Place.jpg
Sherlock Holmes - The Gloria Scott.jpg
Sherlock Holmes - The Beryl Coronet.jpg
more
Sherlock Holmes - The Man with the Watches.jpg
Sherlock Holmes - The Mazarin Stone.jpg
Sherlock Holmes - The Yellow Face.jpg
and the last one
Sherlock Holmes, or The Strange Case of Miss Alice Faulkner.jpg
Very nice, Howie!
I actually checked this page as my Society versions' bitrates vary greatly. Looking at the file sizes here I believe these are the same.
This is mainly for Magerfontein - I've noticed you commented elsewhere that bit rates is something you don't understand much about. If you're not putting the mp3s (any not just these) together then you really don't need to know much except if possible go for the highest although anything above 192 for spoken word is overkill really. You also have sample rate (Hz). Generally try to go for 44.100. There's a lot more to it than that though. For example if you get an old mp3 then encoding a new mp3 with higher rates won't magically improve the sound. Changing sample rates doesn't make much difference to file size but for example if you have a 64kbps mp3 and encode it to 128kbps the file size will double.
With that over do you know if higher bit rate versions exist of those which have low rates?
Lastly these plays are really appreciated - the main reason being that you do go for those stories which you don't find usually with other productions.
I was just about to post this and noticed part 1 of the latest on my rss feed. I checked the Society site and then noticed at the bottom that CDs are available. If these have a higher bit rate then forgive my post if the Society would prefer to keep it this way. I was going to delete this whole post but thought you might appreciate the sample / bit rate explanation.
Well that's it. I've got some listening to do.
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