Recently, well - starting October 2017, BBC's 4 Extra have been repeating the 7 series of Hobbs and Shelley episodes in order for the first time. Some of them sound better than what I had. For some of them there's little difference. By October 2017 4Extra had started using 320kbit aac/m4a whereas before that the earlier airings, see next paragraph, were 128kbit.
Before this there had been repeats of Hobbs and Shelley episodes on 4 extra and Radio 7 before the rebranding. There was a series introduced by Nick Utechin. The BBC had also released 2 collections of stories on CD, the first of them also released on cassette.
About a week or two back 4 Extra reached the last episode, His Last Bow, of the last (7th) series.
My plan was to replace all my old versions on Onedrive with these new 4 Extra versions. The thing is I actually missed the first series in October 2017. Obviously I have the actual 1st series shows from other sources, just not from the 4Extra October 2017 repeat. I have series 2 through 7 from 4Extra. I'm hoping that 4Extra repeat all these series and when they do I'll grab the first series.
If you go to the Onedrive Hobbs and Shelley folder now there are 2 subfolders. One has the novels. The other has series 1. There are also 2 text files. One has a list of when the episodes (novels and short stories) were first broadcast, including those that I don't have a recording of. The other text file has URL/links for the 4Extra episodes. I've had to do it this way as I don't have room for the 4Extra versions on my Onedrive. All the links in the text file are below as well. I have uploaded them to my Mediafire account.
OK, time for some links.
Mediafire Hobbs and Shelley series from 4Extra.
Each series is a zip file. Makes downloading easier.
The first link is a folder link showing the zip files. You can download the zips from this page.
Mediafire 4Extra Sherlock Holmes short stories
If you have problems with the above link then here are direct links to the zip files.
Remember, I don't have 4Extra series 1 (yet!). If you want the mp3s of series 1 they are on my Onedrive.
Next is the link to my Onedrive folder of Hobbs and Shelley files.
See the last paragraph above, before the links, to explain what you'll find therein. In short, a folder for the novels, another folder for series 1 and 2 text files.
Onedrive Hobbs & Shelley 1958-69
If you are wondering what this Onedrive thing is. Here's the link to the root folder.
I was going to close here but with all this talk of the 7 series it might help if I put a list here of the episodes. This doesn't include the Children's Hour shows of which no recordings of are known to exist.
BBC Light Programme:
19580406 The Hound of the Baskervilles part 1
19580413 The Hound of the Baskervilles part 2
19580420 The Hound of the Baskervilles part 3
19580428 The Hound of the Baskervilles part 4
19580504 The Hound of the Baskervilles part 5
19580511 The Hound of the Baskervilles part 6
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BBC Light Programme:
Thirty-minute theatre:
Nos. 1-6
19590512 The Man with the Twisted Lip
19590630 The Beryl Coronet
19590804 The Blanched Soldier
19590811 The Copper Beeches
19590818 The Noble Bachelor
19590825 Shoscombe Old Place
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BBC Light Programme:
Thirty-minute theatre:
Nos. 1-7
19600223 The Stockbroker's Clerk
19600322 The Naval Treaty
19600405 The Greek Interpreter
19600419 The Cardboard Box
19600503 Lady Frances Carfax
19600517 The Engineer's Thumb
19600531 The Illustrious Client
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BBC Home Service:
19601231 The Valley of Fear
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BBC Light Programme:
19610305 Black Peter
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BBC Home Service:
19610805 The Hound of the Baskervilles
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BBC Light Programme:
Nos. 1-7:
19611127 The Empty House
19611204 The Reigate Squires
19611211 The Resident Patient
19611218 Charles Augustus Milverton
19611225 The Blue Carbuncle
19620101 Thor Bridge
19620108 The Priory School
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BBC Light Programme:
Sherlock Holmes Nos 1-8:
19620717 The Speckled Band
19620724 Silver Blaze
19620731 The Musgrave Ritual
19620807 The Golden Pince-Nez
19620814 The Missing Three-Quarter
19620821 The Abbey Grange
19620828 The Devil's Foot
19620904 The Mazarin Stone
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BBC Home Service:
Saturday-Night Theatre:
19621222 A Study in Scarlet
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BBC Home Service:
Saturday-Night Theatre:
19630302 The Sign of the Four
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BBC Light Programme:
Sherlock Holmes Returns Nos 1-10:
19640807 The Abbey Grange (repeat of 19620821)
19640814 The Mazarin Stone (repeat of 19620904)
19640821 The Solitary Cyclist
19640828 The Bruce-Partington Plans
19640904 The Three Garridebs
19640911 The Norwood Builder
19640918 The Sussex Vampire
19640925 The Red-Headed League
19641002 The Three Gables
19641009 The Retired Colourman
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BBC Light Programme:
Sherlock Holmes Again Nos. 1-9:
19661121 A Scandal in Bohemia
19661128 The Five Orange Pips
19661205 The Six Napoleons
19661212 The Boscombe Valley Mystery
19661219 The Crooked Man
19661226 Wisteria Lodge
19670102 The Dying Detective
19670109 The Second Stain
19670116 The Final Problem
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BBC Radio 2 (Light Programme):
Sherlock Holmes Nos 1-6:
19690624 The Dancing Men
19690626 A Case of Identity
19690701 Black Peter
19690703 The Red Circle
19690708 The Lion's Mane
19690710 His Last Bow
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Here is a link to the zip file of Series 1 at 320kbit.
Seies 1
Thanks Jake! I really appreciate the upgrade here....I find the 320 kbps files make a huge difference with enjoying these shows, especially with a good pair of headphones!
-Scott
This is simply amazing to have all of these in 320 kbps. You had mentioned in a more recent post in this thread that some of these files sound like they may have well been 64 kbps. The vast majority of these sound fantastic though, and and I thank you for the time and effort in making them available here. I have collected the Hobbs and Shelley shows for years, and I remember most of my files back in the day being inferior quality, at 16 kbps or 32 kbps bit rates. What a difference these BBC audio rips make!
Thanks again,
Scott
BBC Four Extra has started repeating the first season of short stories of the Hobbs & Shelley canon. I do wish they would do the novels, which as far as I can tell, haven't been done.
Yes, I've noticed.
I missed series 1 the first time round in 2017. Once I've downloaded all 6 episodes of series 1 I will upload them, to go with the 320kbit shows of series 2 through 6.
I did ask the BBC last year if they had the one-off Black Peter 1961 and their answer was no.
Do you know if the BBC has versions of the novels?
I haven't asked the BBC.
I can't find it now but in one of the threads in this group I mentioned something that was in a recent issue (last year) of the Sherlock Holmes UK Society's District Messenger pdf. It said that the BBC were looking at airing the novels. But that's about it. I don't know if you caught that.
Yes, I recall seeing that message about the novels. Thanks for the reminder.
Hi Jake
These may be of no use to you as they're only 128 kbps Freeview recordings, but here's my R4xtra series 1 repeats.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnJLLAgWWU_OiBV32cebal0ZUmtA?e=tZuFLc
Cheers
Charlie
Thanks Charles.
I'm downloading them for myself as they will give me an idea of what they are like.
I found that for some of the episodes on 4X they were better quality than what I had and 320kbit made a difference. For others, the 320kbit might as well of been something like 64kbit.
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