Would you care to hazard a guess as to what they were given for breakfast?

[prof_pangaea]

I just listened to the last Sherlock Holmes story on BBC7 -- The Retired Colourman. In print, it hasn't that much to recommend it, but the Coules adaptation was one of the best episodes; funny, interesting, and incredibly poignant. If you care at all about Sherlock Holmes then you must listen to this episode!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/thursday

It seemed as if The Lion's Mane, which aired a few days before, was just as good, but I haven't got the chance to listen to it properly as yet.

Also: I now have ALL 56 short story episodes RECORDED. Oh yes!! Now for the BBC to air the two hour novel adaptations... and of course Coules' own original Further Adventures (oh please do it BBC you know you want to).

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[btvshond.livejournal.com]

Hello prof_pangaea,

If you don't mind, I can send you two novel-length adaptations that I've recorded from BBC 7, if you haven't listened to them before. They are Hound of the Baskervilles and Sign of Four.

Been listening to BBC 7 ever since you introduced it on 221b_bakerst. Thanks very much for informing us about the Burt Coules production and the existence of BBC 7. And yes, The Lion's Mane is terribly good and clever.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

I listened to The Lion's Mane last night and HOLY LORD it was even better than the Retired Colourman. I must say, I so enjoy listening to adaptations of the BAD stories, because Bert Coules always does something so interesting to them and actually makes them good. Like the Mazarin Stone! Not that LION is actually a bad story, but I never thought it was one of the best.

May I ask how you recorded those guys? I really should have made a post about HOW I was recording the regular episodes; I really don't know why I didn't. Agh, how terribly negligent of me -- so many people could have awesome recordings!! Now I feel bad. I downloaded with wonderful programme called WireTap -- it's a programme that can record streaming audio, and it's the most useful thing EVER. I love it. It saves all programmes as .aifc and you can burn them to CD or whatever at your leisure. Wow, why didn't I make a post about it?? I kept meaning to. Damnation. Ah well.

I've actually heard every episode they ever broadcast, now -- but I want them to broadcast the novels and Further Adventures so I can complete my collection. (Muahahaha and all that). Also, I haven't heard Further Adventures vol. II since it was first broadcast last year, and vol. I since the year before that! I am in need of some good Coules action! By the way, isn't SIGN especially good? I loved how they took a bit of that scene from the end where Holmes and Watson are having the fight about love and put it into the beginning of A Scandal in Bohemia.

[btvshond.livejournal.com]

I must say, I so enjoy listening to adaptations of the BAD stories, because Bert Coules always does something so interesting to them and actually makes them good.

You're absolutely right there. As for recording, I use Streambox and the files are saved as .ra. Being a computer dummy, I don't know if they can be used as a CD format or can be converted into a CD format.

I've actually heard every episode they ever broadcast, now

Oh wow. I haven't heard the first series of Further Adventures and some of the stories from His Last Bow, because I was away at the time. Yes, SIGN is wonderful. Actually, Burt Coules doesn't disappoint in any of his episodes, although I was surprised when I first listened to HOUN and found that I didn't like it as much as the others.

Michael Williams is the embodiment of Watson! There're so many reasons to love him, the way he tries to persuade Holmes not to take drugs, the way he flies into a rage in His Last Bow when the audience says they want a war... And Clive Merrison is the embodiment of Holmes! I don't know why, but his Holmes is by far my favourite. Guess I said it too many times before though.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

I entirely agree on HOUN -- the story must be cursed; nobody can seem to make a proper adaptation of it no matter how hard they try. But I will say this; when I heard the first episode, I was disappointed, but when I heard the second my faith in Bert Coules was renewed. There was a stumble but he picked it right back up! I'm trying to remember how they recorded the series; HOUN may actually have been one of the first stories the adapted, although I may just be confusing it with the Roger Rees version.

Streambox, eh...? *makes note* I've got a mac, so iTunes seems to take just about anything it can play and record it in a CD playable version if you want. I apologise for mentioning iTunes, because it is lame, but still, it had to be done.

The first series of Further Adventures has one of my favourite episodes EVER -- Holmes as a very young man before he's definitely decided on detection, back when he is hanging about the Reading Room at the British Museum all the time and reading everything he can -- Tom Baker plays a librarian who is a semi-mentor to him! So good.

If you'd like to do a bit of episode swapping, that would be neat. Tell me which episodes you missed from His Last Bow -- I should have them all.

And yes; Williams and Merrison are the embodiments of goodness. It really can't be said too many times (to me, at least).

[btvshond.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember how they recorded the series

What I remember from The Radio Detectives: The Voice of Sherlock Holmes was that they started with Adventures first. And when the series was broadcast, it became very popular, and so they decided to adapt the whole canon.

Streambox is quite good and user-friendly. One useful features is that if there's a big file to download, say 100 MB, you can stop anytime you want, for example, after 50 MB, switch off the computer and continue later.

Episode swapping! Yes please, and thanks very much. Here are the HOUN episodes.

Part 1: http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G09GIR5B42YN0YD7DFGBZ0NMD

Part 2: http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1YK211M9YKRXI0RMUN569FPXAR

And here's SIGN.

Part 1: http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WCTPWVILH2DF0MNPJUGXBHR8

Part 2: http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WRYNX85CWJGN2MVMOAVOSR0Z5

For me, I don't have BRUC and DYIN.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

Whoo! WireTap is quite awesome for me, but if I find myself in need I shall check out Streambox.

I'm leaving Chicago in about a half hour for St. Louis; then I will have to find some way of getting to a place that has wireless access, because I only have a laptop -- and then the fun shall ensue! I have both BRUC and DYIN, so I can send them to you whatever way you like; I'm not familiar with yousendit -- would that be a good way? I could send them to you via email, but probably only one at a time, and only if you have enough available memory. Or I might try uploading them to my school server... (not sure if that is possible, but it may be if I use the portal). Anyway, SOMEHOW IT SHALL BE DONE. Because you not having heard DYIN? Is a tragedy of immense proportions.

[btvshond.livejournal.com]

I would love to listen to those stories, and thanks so much for taking the trouble, but please, you don't have to rush.

http://www.yousendit.com/

yousendit is a fabulously easy way of uploading files for anyone to download, hence allowing for transfers of huge files without the risk of it flooding anyone's mailbox. You can simply put your own email address in "Recipient's Email Address" and upload the file. After uploading the file, there'll be an address given, much like the ones I've posted. Anyone can click on the address and download the file in the next six days after the file is uploaded. You will be sent an email with the address in it, but not the actual file itself.