Courtesy of Magersfontein. Presented by the Priory Scholars on June 28 1970 over WFUV-FM, Fordham University Radio. Robert Vierengel is Holmes, Chris Steinbrunner (who also served as producer) is Watson.
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The James Bond wrapper is a little dumb, but the two Canonical stories are spot on. The sound quality is a bit amateurish.
The file includes two espionage-based tales - The Bruce-Partington Plans and The Second Stain.
Magersfontein > Anson (Bob) RobertsApril 26, 2009 at 3:16pm
Apart from one or two of the performers, you're the only person I've come across who was there at the time! The sound quality of these copies almost certainly doesn't match that of vthe original recordings. They're copies of copies that I was given about thirty years ago - by Peter Blau, I think. I've cleaned them up as well as possible, and they are at least listenable!
At the time I was there, the Priory Scholars used to do live broadcasts of the Canon on the University radio station (WFUV)..This is the only recorded broadcast that I know to exist.
The Priory Scholars have since moved to Manhattan and fragmented into three scion societies.
Magersfontein > Anson (Bob) RobertsApril 27, 2009 at 3:54am
I'm not particularly well up on individual American scions, though I know several of the NYC Sherlockians. My old friend Joe Moran, I think, is the contact for the Priory Scholars now. (My introduction to the Sherlockian world came from an American, Luther L Norris, and I was invested into the Baker Street Irregulars eighteen years ago. I am an English Holmesian married to an American Sherlockian.)
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The James Bond wrapper is a little dumb, but the two Canonical stories are spot on. The sound quality is a bit amateurish.
The file includes two espionage-based tales - The Bruce-Partington Plans and The Second Stain.
Roger
The Priory Scholars have since moved to Manhattan and fragmented into three scion societies.
Roger