Complete Sherlock Holmes BBC with Clive Merrison as Holmes
Arachne Jericho on Oct 29th 2007
Amazon.co.uk: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Radio Collection)
Original text by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
radio dramatizations by Bert Coules
All. Eighteen. Volumes. Covering. All. The. Short. Stories. In. The. Canon.
Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. Clive Merrison is like the Jeremy Brett of radio!
Bert Coules totally understands Sherlock Holmes…
But what brings them together and what keeps them together is that Watson would love to be Holmes, and Holmes needs to be Watson. Together they make a whole functioning individual. Without Watson, Holmes would probably kill himself, deliberately or otherwise. And without Holmes, Watson would probably die of boredom.
… as well as the fiction around him, and the difference between Holmes and, say, Agatha “Mystery Queen” Christie’s Hercule Poirot:
It doesn’t need to be a good detective story, but it does have to be a very good story about a detective.
Interview with Mr. Coules here.
And he adds wonderful touches like this one here, transcribed by Prof. Pangea.
If I could only get this! I would be in heaven. I’d have to spend a long time ripping, but I would still be in heaven. Thankfully, I can. But… stupid US dollar.
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