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
Read more…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
Read more…These were broadcast in the 1980s by Springbok Radio, South Africa
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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…
