Recently the BBC have made a new site - World Service Radio Archive Prototype (WSRAP). I heard of it Sunday last when it was opened up to the general public. Before this it was at a beta stage for a limited few. It includes about 700 Plays of the Wee
I find there's something quite compelling in Nimoy as Holmes. It seems I'm not the only one: "Nimoy has wanted to play him ever since 1968, when a writer in the Baker Street Journal noted the cerebral sim
Thanks to Roger, who mentioned the program in the latest District Messenger, I watched the episode of BBC TV's Great Continental Railway Journeys episode 4 in which presenter Michael Portillo tours Switzerland. He stays at the Parkhotel du Sauvage
The Afternoon Play
BBC Radio 4
Monday 27 April 2009
Two Pipe Problems (Part 01)
Michael Chaplin's drama returns to The Old Beeches retirement home for elderly thespians and the company of William and Sandy, two actors who still nurse a certain a
This is taken from the Imagination Theatre newsletter for August, 2012.
M. J. Elliott tells us that our Sherlock Holmes series are now mentioned in a new book titled "Sherlock Holmes Miscellany" by Roger Johnson and Jean Upton. Roger and Jean have b
The link above is for a BBC news web page which includes a short (2:21) video. I've knocked up a 25MB mp4 version of the video. Here's a link to the folder:
"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 mu
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Kenneth Kendall, Reginald Marsh and Michael Sheard.
Whilst searching 'MJ Trow' for a recent book release of the author I came across this on Youtube. It's on a few other sites. After a bit of detective work and I found the source - a podcast (actu
Thanks to the work of Thomas Kelly (the original poster) and Rick, I've acquired a full set of the Gaslight Grimoire audiobook. I've added the ID3 tags and created one RAR file which includes both the audiobook and the e-book in epub and mobi formats
Abridged Hugh Burden reading of The Hound. 1977 Double Cassette pack on Listen For Pleasure (which UK Timespast people will remember - along with it's more famous brother "Music For Pleasure" - as being a budget label that regularly used to make it's