#bbc radio Holmes

[221bees]

It has long been a dream of mine to make a compilation of the hysterical stylings of Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes. History relates that the BBC actually received letters of complaint regarding this Laugh-with-a-capital-L, and such outbursts of amusement were tragically kept to a minimum after the first series.

The first short interview clip is from ep. 202 of the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast. The following, in airdate order, are from BBC Radio 4's Sherlock Holmes (1989-98) dramatised mainly by Bert Coules, with the exception of the final clip from the last episode of the extracanonical Further Adventures, which aired in 2010.

#sherlock holmes #bbc radio holmes #clive merrison #michael williams #andrew sachs #bert coules #audio drama #you're complaining? the Laugh is perfect and you're complaining??? #the amount of editing involved in this was actually staggering by the way. worth it of course! but staggering.

[emilysidhe]

I’m listening to the Blue Carbuncle radio play right now (BBC, Clive Merrison), and honestly I think my most controversial Sherlock Holmes opinion is that adaptations of this story should just skip the deduction where Holmes decides Henry Baker is an intellectual because the circumference of his head (as measured by his hat) is large and therefore he must be smart.

It’s one of Holmes’s stupider deductions and it comes in the middle of one of the best deduction scenes in the stories. Just leave that one out of the list and that bit is much improved.

#sherlock holmes #the blue carbuncle #bbc radio Holmes #acd holmes

[cackled0g]

He's so hot for this for real

#sherlock holmes #bbc radio holmes #coules holmes

[beastlyanachronism]

I just listened to the Bert Coules BBC radio version of Sherlock Holmes for the first time (the first half of A Study in Scarlet) and it is as good as everyone on here said it would be! Thoughts:

it's really really faithful to the book, which pleases me greatly

oh he is AUTISTIC. I mean I think it's sort of open to interpretation in canon, but with Merrison's version it's like... yep that man is autistic, no question.

Coules has gone some way to improve the frankly awful structure of STUD by interspersing some Drebber scenes with the Holmes and Watson scenes. Curious to see how the second half will be structured, though

Clive Merrison's voice takes a bit of getting used to. I suppose I expected something more Brett-like. It does match canon, though

It's so long since I've read the books that I can't remember whodunnit! But everything is cosily familiar

I miss SH's silent laugh. I do understand that it just wouldn't work for radio, though

not getting strong Holmes/Watson vibes (yet) but I do like the dynamic and anyway STUD never really had a H/W vibe because they've only just met

this episode gave me the impression of Holmes that I think Conan Doyle wanted, i.e. "what an off-putting yet intriguing and somehow not unlikeable man". Whereas my experience of reading the books as a 13-year-old was more along the lines of a duckling imprinting on the first person it sees when it hatches..! SH was the platonic ideal of a man, as far as I was concerned – and maybe he still is, in my heart if not in my mind

#bbc radio holmes #clive merrison #bert coules #sherlock holmes #a study in scarlet

[hell-and-pepsi]

hi so i just looked up the plot of tristan and isolda. the opera which Holmes recites to Watson in BBC Radio's Devil's Foot. i dont think i'll be normal ever again (Bert Coules you... you devil)

#THE FORESHADOWING...... #bbc radio holmes #bert coules holmes #merrison!holmes #sherlock holmes

[inkonice-main]

I need about 7 years to cope with Bert Coules' His Last Bow.

#what do you mean they havent seen each other for 10 years because fucking watson has been waiting for sh to summon him again #what do you mean he never actually believed sh wanted to retire #whar do you mean they dont talk about this separation #what di you mean this is the last thing we know about them #and therefore they could have easily not seen each other ever again #FUCK #i need so much copium jesus christ #bbc radio holmes

[stargazypie]

BOSC is such a shit story really but the bbc radio version actually made it quite fun somehow

#I especially enjoyed holmes commenting on how handsome the young stupid guy was #and then mocking Watson for being impressed by the hashtag girlboss #gay on bisexual violence #bbc radio holmes

[diogenesprintco]

"See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone...of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand.

This print is inspired by the Sherlock Holmes story "The Blue Carbuncle": 'tis the season for wild goose chases, and of course, larceny (if you can bring it off).

#proud of this goose not gonna lie #couldn't have done it without my reference: dead goose and peacock by dutch still life artist jan weenix #sherlock holmes #holmes illustration #the blue carbuncle #BLUE #fanart #linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #1. Peterson Put Down Your Goose #and 2. might listen to the bbc radio adaptation and cry later idk idk 🤪

[mostlyanything19]

do you still have the radio Sherlock Holmes? 🥺

Hello, I am so happy you ask, yes I do! Here they are:

Included are the 60 short stories originally written by Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted for Radio by the BBC, with Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson (in 64 episodes, bc the longer stories are split up into parts), and the 16 Further Adventures, this time with Andrew Sachs taking the role of Watson.

I hope you enjoy them, they're really well done and to this day rank among my favorite Holmes adaptations ever. Also, this is the only adaptation in history so far that has managed to do all 60 original ACD cases!

#radio holmes #sherlock holmes #clive merrison #bert coules #bbc radio #i've been lying in wait for years for someone to ask me to upload these sgjhsfks THEY'RE SO GOOD

[velsim]

if I had a nickel for every time Sherlock Holmes decided not to persecute a heavy-game hunter for avenging someone they cared about, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

#letters from watson #sh #sherlock holmes #EMPT #DEVI #plus both of them were portrayed by the same man - patrick allen as sebastian moran in the granada tv series #and as leon sterndale in the bbc radio adaptation... #to be fair moran gets persecuted for all of his other crimes but not for the attempted murder of holmes #jin posts

[carpooling-the-internet]

Friends!!! Sherlockians!!! To those on an ACD Sherlock Holmes kick rn who haven’t yet thought to explore the radio readings/dramatizations: I recommend!!! I’d been skeptical before but I am admittedly a convert now after only hearing one episode.

I’ve been working my way through the canon (via audiobook so I have something to look forward to when I do chores and walk the dog) and listened to every free audiobook I could find on Spotify by now except for a handful of stories in the Casebook. There are a few audiobooks of Casebook but I couldn’t find one with an English accent and for some reason it just doesn’t sound right if the accents are wrong?

But then today I stumbled on a recording of the BBC radio version on Libby (my local library app). And the Lions Mane episode did NOT disappoint! Sound effects! So many immersive sound effects and seemingly improvised lines/ vocalizations serve to make it seem like you’re standing right next to them as a fly on the wall rather than listening to Watson read his copy of the strand to you. It was the 1989 radio series by Bert Coules with Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist hat has all the episodes. I can’t speak for all of them ofc bc I’ve only just listened to lions mane so far, but I was just so excited to share my little discovery that I wanted to post this anyway!

Has anyone else got any recommendations for radio dramatizations of the books? Let me know!

#Sherlock Holmes #radio dramatizations #bbc radio #the casebook of Sherlock Holmes #acd #acd holmes #acd johnlock

[angryducktimemachine]

#Burke and Hardwicke are the Granada Holmes Watsons #Michael Williams is the BBC Radio Adaptation Watson and Andrew Sachs is the Watson in The Further Adventures Episodes #i like to think Andrew Sachs but that's because I'm very biased because i think his voice sounds so cute #Sherlock Holmes

[cantsayidont]

For anyone who's keen on the Peter Jackson LORD OF THE RINGS movies and has had difficulty getting into the book, I really highly recommend Phil Dragash's Soundscape LOTR project, an unofficial, unabridged audiobook with music and sound effects from the film soundtracks. (Because it's unauthorized, you can't buy it, but it's around if you look on the interwebs.)

Dragash is a very good voice actor — so good that the retention of "he said" type dialogue markers is sometimes jarring — and captures the characters very well (although he mostly recites rather than sings the songs). Every so often he stumbles on the pronunciation of a word (curiously, more often real ones than Tolkien's constructed ones — for instance, in Bilbo's song of Earendil, "mariner" becomes "mareener"), but that's also true of the authorized audiobook readers. The Dragash version is clearly superior to both the 1990 audiobook by Robert Inglis (Inglis sings, but his performance of the characters is often stuffy) and the recent 2021 Andy Serkis version (Serkis is a wonderful actor, but some of the characters are beyond his range, and he sometimes seems daunted by Tolkien's poetic constructions). The main downside is that because the Soundscape project is a labor of love done without benefit of professional audio mixing tools, the music can occasionally drown out the narration; Dragash has redone several of the chapters over the years to address this.

Dragash's audio version is a good bridge for people coming from the films, since it's informed by them (in the performance of the characters as well as in the music), but as an unabridged adaptation, it restores excised subplots and flattened characterization, while capturing the sweep of Tolkien's language.

I now prefer it to the two modern audio dramatizations of LOTR: The 1979 Mind's Eye version, adapted by James Arrington (who also plays Gandalf), is essentially an abridged audiobook with multiple voice actors; Arrington is excellent as Gandalf, but the rest of the cast, drawn from local community theater, is not, making it a very mixed bag. The 1981/1982 BBC radio version, adapted by Brian Sibbery and Michael Bakewell (initially as 26 half-hour episodes, later reedited to 13 hour-long installments), is generally very good, with Ian Holm and Bill Nighy outstanding as Frodo and Sam and Michael Hordern a fine Gandalf (although I think Arrington better captured Gandalf's prickliness). However, not all the actors are of the same caliber (Jack May as Théoden isn't a patch on Bernard Hill); the clever idea of presenting the Battle of the Pelénnor Fields as a medieval ballad (by Oz Clarke and the Ambrosian Singers) ends up being hard to decipher; the transformation of narrative exposition to dialogue works in some spots and not others; and the inevitable abridgements are painful if you're familiar with the full text. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from the BBC version, and at 12½ hours, it's not much longer than the extended versions of the films, but it's no longer the gold standard for Tolkien audio.

#lord of the rings #lotr #jrr tolkien #audiobook #radio drama #bbc lotr #phil dragash #brian sibbery #michael bakewell #james arrington #ian holm #bill nighy #andy serkis

[topsyturvy-turtely]

Fluffbruary with turtely

Day 15

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prompts: vague | radio | tent by @fluffbruary <3

fandom: BBC Sherlock (not necessarily)

will be uploaded to "That Stuff Called Fluff" on Ao3!

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He turns on the radio,

he stands up, offers me his hand.

He turns around and oh,

he says, 'let me be your gentleman'.

We dance, we sway,

we dance until it is far past midnight.

We dance, we lay

next to each other, holding on so tight.

He whispers tiny 'I love you's

and I whisper them right back to him,

knowing that they are the greatest truth,

and that this - us - is a hymn.

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[okapiandpaste]

was this scene never adapted by anyone bc it’s too homosexual or bc no one could figure out whether holmes was joking or in actual distress

#it personally reads as him under distress to me #if that last line didn’t exist maybe I’d think otherwise #Sherlock Holmes #me posting crud #I’m actually shocked that bbc radio 4 didn’t do this scene #since coules intentionally added gay shit to things #unless I sleep through that part 😳 valley of fear mid #image

[cackled0g-writes]

Calling all trans!Holmes girlies

#sherlock holmes #granada holmes #coules holmes #radio bbc holmes #fanfic #writeblr