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World Service Radio Archive Prototype - Sherlock Holmes search
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
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary of Sherlock
I do not think this is a repeat. I have found it on a new, world service beta resource.
Parts 1 & 2 @
Thu 16 Jul 1987 | Arts and Drama
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Part 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1987 is the centenary of the first Sherlock Holmes publication
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The Seven Per-Cent Solution
Simon Callow and Ian Hogg were Holmes and Watson in this 1993 adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's novel.
Read more…Thinking like Sherlock Holmes - BBC Radio 3 Night Waves 22 Jan 2013
This was one of the items on a recent BBC Radio 3 Night Waves edition.
Thinking like Sherlock Holmes SkyDrive folder
SkyDrive seemed to of changed things since I last uploaded a file. I would appreciate it if somebody could download this just to conf
Read more…The Universe & I presents The Interior Motive - Leonard Nimoy 1975.
The Universe & I presents The Interior Motive
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
"There is a strong family resemblance"
New entries in the Holmes Family Album posted in the e-books group.
Read more…Great Continental Railway Journeys episode 4 Switzerland
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
Read more…Two Pipe Problems (William and Sandy)
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
Read more…The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
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
News about two of our members
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
Victoriana uploads
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…BBC coverage of SH London Society Reichenbach 2012
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…Strange as It Seems
From 1939 this Strange as It Seems episode is unique and small to list here.
Read more…Old Court Radio Theater
MJ Trow's Exit Centre Stage - A Yarn of the Yard (Lestrade) 1995 radio pilot
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
Sherlock Holmes Radio Stories from Hofstra University
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…Gaslight Grimoire audio and e-book
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…Sherlock Holmes E-book collection.
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
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