6) Imagination Theater - The creators of the only American complete
audio canon to feature the same actors as Holmes and Watson - John
Patrick Lowrie and Larry Albert - although their regular broadcasts are
no more, they continue to publish new entries in 'The Further Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes'. The most recent is 'The Adventure of the Silent Sherlockians',
which features the final performance of Rick May as Inspector Lestrade,
recorded two weeks before he sucumbed to Covid-19. Well worth the
$1.99 download price, as are all the other 'Further Adventures'.
5) 'The Great Game', a choose-your-own-adventure-style Alexa skill written to accompany 'The Voice of Treason', a new Sherlock Holmes drama from Audible. Both the skill and the drama are co-written by comic book and audio drama veterans George Mann & Cavan Scott, and star Nicholas Boulton as Holmes and Kobna Holbrook-Smith as Watson. The 'Great Game' lasts an hour from beginning to end, but it can take longer to solve depending on your choices. It's free to play on Alexa whether you're an Audible member or not. Enable the skill to play and then say, "Alexa, start The Great Game." (If you enjoy this, try the audiobook itself - 'The Voice of Treason' on Audible)
To support the Abney Park Trust, the company has recorded an audio version of the play, which is available to download until the end of August, at https://abneyparktrust.bandcamp.com/releases, for a donation in aid of Abney Park Trust.
3) The Crew of the Barque Lone Star - A respository of classic radio Holmes dramatisations, including Basil Rathbone, Carleton Hobbs (above), John Gielgud, Barry Foster, John Stanley, Robert Hardy & Roy Hudd !!
2) BBC Radio 4 Novel Dramatisations - Starting from Monday 3rd August 2020, BBC Radio 4Extra is repeating the Radio 4 dramatisations of the four Sherlock Holmes novels - 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' & 'The Valley of Fear' - starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams, and adapted by Bert Coules (see below). Each episode will be available after broadcast, here, and will remain available for four weeks.
1) 'Watson: The Final Problem' - The most exciting as far as I am concerned, a new Sherlockian play by Bert Coules, Head Writer on the BBC Radio 4 complete Canon starring Clive Merrison and the follow-up 'The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', written in conjunction with its star, Tim Marriott (best known for 'The Brittas Empire'). A one-man Watson-focused piece.
The intention was to perform 'Watson: The Final Problem' on stage this autumn and on tour in 2021, but in the current circumstances instead a radio-style recording was made in isolation to help develop the project and keep the creatives busy in lockdown. In true Sherlock Homes style, ingeniously improvising with home equipment, Tim Marriott recorded the script in a makeshift home studio made with a microphone and laptop under a duvet held up by a kitchen chair; Clive Whitburn created the score in his garden shed; and Bert Coules drew on all his past BBC experience to stitch the piece together using only the electronic equivalent of a razor blade, splicing tape, and a collection of improvised sound effects. The full audio recording is at: www.smokescreenprods.com for free, but with donations requested.
Bert Coules
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