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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In July 1891 the first Sherlock Holmes adventure, 'A Scandal in Bohemia', was published in The Strand Magazine. To commemorate the 120 year anniversary of this event James Hodder examines the origin of the world's first consulting detective a
Read more…Just a heads-up here about a new show.
The Wireless Theatre Company have a show available for download from their site. It's about 50MB.
A recent change now means that you have to give an email address if you want to download any of their content.
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The Verdict Of Us All - New Stories From The Detection Club
with a foreword by Dick Francis
edited by Peter Lovesy
read by Ric Jerrom and Sheila Mitchell
A nice little find in the cassette audio book section of my local library earlier this week.
Read more…Dream Realm Enterprises
4077th Production
"Based on characters creaded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In fact, everything in this series was created by Sir Arthur. We've stolen everthing, including the furntiure. And we helped ourselves to the drink
Read more…I was about to make a post in the existing discussion but I can't find it.
I think Bob started the discussion which was for the first show by Misfits audio productions. It was titled 'Hampered Hydraulics' based on The Engineer's Thumb.
A search for '
Read more…John Moffatt (a splendid Watson to both Roy Marsden and Dinsdale Landen - does anybody have a copy of Sherlock's Last Case?) plays Holmes opposite Timothy West's Watson in this play from the late 70s/early 80s
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