Here is what all us Sherlocks have been waiting for--the Sherlock Holmes dramas staring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley. These are hard to gather because the actors are not named in most episodes. These are easy to gather because only the Doyle sto
Read more…Two days ago BBC 1 broadcast "His Last Vow", the brilliant finale to the third series of "Sherlock". It was followed immediately on BBC 4 by the excellent documentary, "Timeshift: How to Be Sherlock Holmes" - but earlier in the evening "Countryfile
Read more…There was a short (9 minutes) piece that was part of BBC 4 Extra's 4 O'Clock show today which caught my eye.
It seemed to be part of a regular question and answer slot. I don't generally listen to the show unless they have a reading that interests me
How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Timeshift Series 13 Episode 7 of 8
BBC Four
First broadcast: January 12th 2014
Duration: 1 hour
For over 100 years, more than 80 actors have put a varying face to the world's greatest consult
Here's last night's Sherlock. I will upload the other two episodes here as well, once they have aired.
I have uploaded two different resolutions.
832 x 468 - file size of just under 1GB.
1280 x 720 - file size about 1.6GB
Read more…I wasn't expecting any more of these. From the BBC blurb it looks like these will be the final episodes (where have I heard that before). The very final episode (airing tomorrow Tuesday) sounds like a real corker with it's MR James theme and set som
Read more…The BBC has announced that the first episode of the new series will air on January 1, 2014.
Devotees of this modernist pastiche are urged to get their DVRs ready!
Read more…For those of you who don't subscribe to their newsletter, I thought I would provide a copy of this month's edition:
Starting Friday morning November 29th and running unt
Read more…Both of these can be found on Youtube. I extracted just the audio and have uploaded each story as a single mp3 to Skydrive. Here's the folder link.
Skydrive - Ladybird Horror Classics
'Ladybird Horror Classics'
Ladybird Books and Pickwick Tell-A-Tale
I don't know if this is of interest and I'm reluctant to say anymore in case you haven't read the book. I have uploaded a mp3 of the Last Sherlock Holmes Story section of the show. It's about 10 minutes.
Skydrive A Good Read The Last Sherlock Holmes
Read more…I heard about this last year, possibly via Roger in the District Messenger, and duly forgot about it. Recently I came across this avi version. I don't have any type of subscription TV so I don't know if it has aired on UK TV. I do vaguely recall tha
Read more…I've been meaning to put this mp3 together ever since I read in the District Messenger about Ken Ross' Youtube channel. He has uploaded a number of videos featuring London Society events.
Amongst the vi
Read more…The Murdoch Mysteries is a wonderful Canadian television series (now in its sixth season) featuring an Edwardian police detective based in Toronto.
In the fourth episode of season six, Murdoch investigates the robbery of a bank transport wagon where
Read more…The second series of this show started today on Radio 4.
Here's the link to the Times Past page I made for first series from 2011. Mind you don't use the link on this page if you want the files. That's an old 4Shared link. These days I am putting all
Read more…Over on the otrplus forum Mike (Hobart) pointed out that somebody had uploaded the TV movie Masks of Death to Youtube (YT). The film still hasn't received a DVD release.
It was promptly removed by Tyburn (copyright holders I assume), re-uploaded and
The Guardian recently ran a story disclosing that Mitch Cullin's book is in pre-production as a movie, which will star Ian McKellen as Holmes.
It will be set in 1947 when Holmes is 93 years old. If you've read the book (e-book below), you'll know t
Read more…As discussed by Jake and Roger
The Case of Sherlock Holmes was a feature in the BBC's well-respected 40 Minutes strand (despite lasting nearly twice that length) described by its makers as "a documentary entertainment".
It's a detailed look at the
This is a new encode from CD, done with EAC and then converted to 128kbps mono MP3 files. All of the stories are separate and all files are properly tagged.
It's not a small set, so have time and room available for 4+GB :>)
The folder contains 9 RA
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Paul Hayes (right) with Magersfontein
Far From the Fogs - Sherlock Holmes in Norfolk
Paul Hayes explores the links between the character of Sherlock Holmes and the county of Norfolk.
Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast:
