Wikipedia sums it up well:
"The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is a comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre and released in early 1974 by Columbia Records.
"Following a rather disjointed string of solo projects and anthologies, this was
This is taken from the Imagination Theatre newsletter for August, 2012.
Read more…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
I am in the process of uploading quite a large collection of Victoriana, both factual and fictional, to the Victoriana group.
I would respectfully suggest that much of this material may be helpful to those Sherlockians interested in historical accur
Read more…Sherlock Holmes and his fight to the death
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:
SkyDrive Reichenbach 2012 BBC coverage
The other
Read more…From 1939 this Strange as It Seems episode is unique and small to list here.
Read more…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
I have been looking for these for some time. Here's a web site where you can download two episodes.
If the link doe
Read more…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
Read more…I have a collection of over 100 Holmesian e-books, mostly in Kindle format.
You can read them on any PC (or Mac, I believe) with the free Kindle app from Amazon (or on a Kindle, of course).
The quality of the writing varies wildly but, if anyone is
Read more…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
Read more…Ann Widdecombe's Hell Hounds and Night Hags
BBC Radio 4
9 July 2012 at 16:00 - 16:30
From spectral hounds to mysterious graves, Ann Widdecombe explores the supernatural lore and legend of Dartmoor.
There's a clip from the program on the BBC web site
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The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Dr. Watson have been immortalized in numerous films. This documentary, featuring Basil Rathbone and Christopher Lee, use archival film clips to illustrate some of the many faces of the world's
The Hound of the Baskervilles
BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama
Saturday 7 July 2012 at 14:30
60 minutes
Adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original story by Steven Canny & John Nicholson
Directed by Alison Hindell
When Sherlock Holmes hears the strange
Read more…The Summer 1974 issue of Radio Dial Magazine features an article on the Men Who Played Sherlock Holmes on Radio. Here's the link to the magazine issue -
https://www.rapidshare.com/files/3144366114/Radio_Dial_1974_Summer.cbz
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Martin Booth's biography of Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1997. An abridged version in five parts, read by Michael Williams, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 11 to 15 January 1999.
Thanks to Jake for reminding me about this excellent reading
Read more…Sorry I don't have any episodes. Perhaps someone else does. I opened this group as a place to put them. Please contribute if you can. The Ben Wright Sherlocks were broardcast from 09/21/49 to 06/14/50.
Read more…I read yesterday that the second series of Sherlock doesn't come to the US until May. Is it really so long? I don't know much about how TV works in the US. Would the May date be for viewers without any subscriptions to paid services maybe?
Anyway the
Read more…Courtesy of Magersfontein, who writes: "These recordings were never broadcast. They were released on LP by Discourses, a long-since defunct company, in 1970-71"
Read more…There is an interesting phenomenon spawned by the latest installment of the BBC Sherlock series.
You can see more examples at
http://believeinsherlock.tumblr.com/
I am mostly curious about the true genesis of this. I wonder if it's a ploy by the pr
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