Proms Literary Festival
Presented by Matthew Sweet
Readings by David Warner
7 September 2009
BBC blurb
"Victorian Season: A. N. Wilson, author of The Victorians, and Steven Moffat,
co-creator and Executive Producer of the BBC's new modern-day Sherlo
The Lost Special
Read by David Schofield
BBC Radio 4 Extra
18 February 2012
30 minutes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of the mysterious
disappearance of a train en route from Liverpool.
The Lost Special read by David Schofield
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Read more…This is the soundtrack to a Holmes "mini" adventure, The Four Oaks Mystery, filmed as part of a telethon in 1992.
A 1945 BBC adaptation of The Speckled Band, dramatised by John Dickson Carr
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"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Dancing
A friend sent me this three-part adaptation of SPEC which is purportedly a radio broadcast recording. Holmes and Watson are played by "Moore" and "Sylvester" respectively.
I've found a YouTube version (audio with still pictures) which identifies th
Read more…Okay, all you cheapskates!
MJ Elliott's new book is available as an e-book for the grand sum ninety-nine cents. Yup, less than a buck.
"My first collection, The Legends of Sherlock Holmes, is now on sale at Amazon: "http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005 Read more…
On 27 November I conducted an interview with Anthony Horowitz at the British Library in London. The topic was "Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes", but naturally a good deal of the time was devoted to Mr Horowitz's own Holmes novel, "The House of Silk"
Read more…Request Performance, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce swap roles; Bruce plays Sherlock Holmes and Rathbone plays Watson. Enjoy Rathbone's imitation of Nigel Bruce!
just a short clip (fortunately it is mercilessly short)
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Stories by gifted former Doctor Who writer- turned-inflammatory blogger Lawrence Miles, from his website:
http://holmesbestiary.blogspot.com/
Read more…The Rivals.
I remember hearing about this series when it was announced but the BBC didn't give much info at the time.
It will be interesting to see how it rivals the old TV show The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (couldn't resist adding that!)
I'm making thi
This evening and for the next 2 weeks BBC Radio 4 have started a new Book at Bedtime - the 15 minute slot from 10:45-11:00 pm. I've heard of the book but not read any reviews. It's good to see Derek Jacobi on Radio 4 again at least.
Over the next 2
I'm not sure if admin would prefer to see these incorporated into the existing Second Holmes discussion. Actually it's something I've come up against in the past so I wouldn't mind knowing one way or the other.
So BBC Radio 4 Extra are repeating thi
Read more…Just got this via e-mail from Jim French.
Now there's NO excuse for not supporting them! :>)
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I just read this month's newsletter from our friends at IT.
They now take PayPal for orders, so there is even LESS reason not to order one or more of their CD collections of the stories of The Master. Perhaps the new release of the second collectio
Read more…This blog started yesterday. It has its points of interest. I'm not sure that I agree with the blogger;'s conclusions but it might make for interesting dialog here.
http://barefootonbakerstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/56-stories-in-56-days-a-scandal
Read more…http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8811159.htm
"Within the first 24 hours of asking for participants a dozen major experts have already applied to be on the teams including the editor of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s journal, Roger Jo
This is one of the most enjoyable mystery series I have read in a while and the audiobook, read by Bill Wallis is equally good.
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth
A young artist's model has been murdered, and legendary wit Oscar
Tony Mulholland's play about the case of George Edalji is one of at least three broadcast by BBC Radio 4. Here, Peter Jeffrey plays Conan Doyle - better casting, perhaps, than Carleton Hobbs in Roger Woddis's "Conan Doyle Investigates" (see elsewhere
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