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Chosen Companions Sherlock Holmes BBCR4 1970
Well this was fun.
Chosen Companions
Sherlock Holmes
BBC Radio 4
First broadcast August 23, 1970. 22:10 - 22:50
repeated June 1, 1971. 09:35 - 10:15
Richard Usborne. one-time assistant editor of The Strand Magazine, presents his
choice of extracts
Short NBCNews blurb (for completists only)
A two minute filler piece, entitled "The Enduring Appeal of Sherlock Holmes" broadcast recently on NBC
Uploaded to the Holmes folder here on TP
Read more…No Place Like Holmes
A warning - this will NOT be everyone's cuppa. It's certainly not Canonical or even a pastiche. It's farce - well-done, intelligent farce, but if you only like the serious Holmes, stop reading.
Ross K. Foad, the writer, director, producer and star o
Read more…Today's 4 Extra Holmes Service repeats
Sherlock Holmes Returns 3-10
The Solitary Cyclist
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is part of the settled order of Nature that such a girl should have followers,
but not for choice on bicycles in lonely country roads.
Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley
BB
Read more…The Valley of Fear Book at Bedtime Ian McKellen
Well this really was a surprise. I popped into my kitchen to make a cuppa last night. The radio was on, tuned to Radio 4, and I hear the announcer say it's time for Book At Bedtime from the author Arthur Conan Doyle and followed up by revealing it's
Rees/Logan HOUN 1988 all-in-one 4X version 2014
The BBC stitched the 2 episodes of the Rees/Logan HOUN together for a 4 Extra broadcast, November 1st, 2014.
I have uploaded the 4 Extra version to Onedrive.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
dramatis
The Ordeals Of Sherlock Holmes (Season 3 - Big Finish Audio)
Four decades. Four cases. One solution.
From the plains of Afghanistan to the alleyways of Victorian London, from the dark heart of the English countryside to the ruin of Europe after the Great War, join Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in a quart
The Devotees of Sherlock Holmes BBC Radio 1970s?
"Here's "The Devotees of Sherlock Holmes" a fascinating vintage rare BBC Radio Documentary probably circa 1970's about the fan clubs and societies that devote themselves to Sherlock Holmes. The programme includes amongst many fascinating things Discu
Read more…Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet Free Thinking Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking
14 October 2014
Duration: 12:29
Sherlock Holmes is investigated by Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as the Museum of London opens an exhibition.
The exhibition, titled The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Di
Read more…A Study In Scarlet 1974 4Extra broadcast
A Study in Scarlet
BBC Radio 4 FM
First broadcast: 25 December 1974 20.00 pm
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Producer Roger Pine
An American is found dead in an empty house in the Brixton Road. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Y
Read more…LA Theater Works The Hound of the Baskervilles 2014
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright
LA Theater Works
June 15, 2014
"A great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that mortal eye has rested upon!"
In this s
Read more…1916 William Gillette Holmes film found
I got what I think is good news today. If it comes through, this is huge for Holmes's fans.
We've got some big news today!
The 1916 film version of SHERLOCK HOLMES starring William Gillette has been found, and wi
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The 1916 film version of SHERLOCK HOLMES starring William Gillette has been found, and wi
New Russian adaptation to be televised
Those of you who know the original Russian language productions will appreciate this news:
http://rt.com/news/prime-time/sherlock-holmes-russian-adaptation-875/
They won't be available until the fall of NEXT year, so mark your calendars.
Read more…Mitch Cullin on Radio Scotland's The Culture Studio
Mitch Cullin
The Culture Studio with Janice Forsyth
BBC Radio Scotland 20140528
Duration: 12 minutes
Author Mitch Cullin talks to Janice about his novel,
A Slight Trick of the Mind, about a long-retired
Sherlock Holmes in his twilight years.
A pi
Read more…Hound of the Baskervilles - But what version?
I have what appears to be a two-part recording of Hound of the Baskervilles. The two parts run for 34m42s and 33m30s but there is no intro or credits. I was wondering if someone could identify this for me (ie. actors playing Holmes/Watson and (if it
Read more…A Capital Case
2001 BBC play by David Zane Mairowitz in which Holmes (played by Robert Bathurst) meets Karl Marx
Read more…The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca
Others have been able to provide better recordings of this Canadian radio drama. Read on...
The play was written in the mid 1970s for Theatre New Brunswick, by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning. A successful tour of Canada followed, and there have be
Read more…Benedict Cumberbatch and the Sign of Four (or is it Three?)
Sherlock Holmes meets Murray-arty (and the Count von Count)
Read more…How Sherlock Changed the World (PBS/BBC TV)
How Sherlock Changed the World
PBS
December 2013
The fictional Sherlock Holmes was a scientist who used chemistry, bloodstains and minute traces of evidence to catch criminals. In an era when eyewitness reports and “smoking gun” evidence were needed
