So today I did my first marathon and (possibly my only) London Marathon. I want to thank lots of people for sending me messages during the run, so I apologise if I miss anyone.  All of you helped.  The text messages were coming through a little late, but that made […]

London Marathon 2017

From 2012, Big Finish‘s audio adventure The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies (adapted by Richard Dinnick) sees Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) and Dr Watson (Richard Earl) face off against Count Dracula (Giles Watling). Taking the verisimilitude of Sherlock Holmes to its limits and encroaching on the world of fantasy […]

2.04 The Tangled Skein

The rather lengthy-entitled The Avengers – Steed and Mrs Peel : The Comic Strip Adaptations – The Miser (Excerpt) is a free 15-minute excerpt from the start of story two, The Miser, which is part of a four-story box-set The Avengers – Steed and Mrs Peel : The Comic Strip […]

The Miser (Excerpt)

Big Finish‘s The Reification of Hans Gerber proved to be a good listen over several nights.  It’s written in a Conan Doyle style, although the outcome probably won’t surprise anyone.  You’ll probably be weighing up two possible outcomes throughout the majority of the story, but that’s no downside really as […]

The Reification of Hans Gerber, cont’d

I must be enjoying the Big Finish range of Sherlock Holmes adventures, because I’ve moved straight on to The Reification of Hans Gerber. This is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes adventure, written by George Mann and starring, as usual, Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl. I’ve only listened to the opening segment […]

2.02 The Reification of Hans Gerber

For those who aren’t already aware, The Final Problem and The Empty House are two Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes short stories that feature the death of Holmes, followed by his subsequent resurrection some three years later. The Final Problem was Conan Doyle’s way off killing of his most famous character […]

2.01 The Final Problem / The Empty House

Holmes and the Ripper continues much the same as it began.  There’s enough intrigue to keep the interest up, but it does seem to go out of its way to make things more convoluted than they need to be.  Conan Doyle’s original stories were more about Holmes deducing startling facts […]

Holmes and the Ripper, cont’d

I listened to a bit more of Holmes and the Ripper last night.  After the “ripper” scene-setting, we’re in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Holmes is given a mysterious and vague warning by a psychic before returning to Baker Street and receiving a visit from a bandaged man […]

1.03 Holmes and the Ripper, cont’d

Holmes and the Ripper is the third adventure in the first season of Big Finish‘s Sherlock Holmes range, and the first to feature Nicholas Briggs as Holmes and Richard Earl as Dr Watson following from a couple of Roger Llewellyn one-hand adventures. Apparently, Nicholas Briggs played Sherlock Holmes on stage […]

1.03 Holmes and the Ripper

I finished Big Finish‘s adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, plus the interview extras, last night. It’s pretty clear that Sherlock Holmes is a labour of love for these guys, particularly Nicholas Briggs.  Being producer, director, and title star could plunge the series into a “god complex” scenario but, […]

2.03 The Hound of the Baskervilles, cont’d

I am sure that everyone must know, by now, of the dreadful curse of The Hound of the Baskervilles that is said to blight the family of the Baskervilles. Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) is consulted when the last surviving member of the Baskerville family arrives in England to take up […]

2.03 The Hound of the Baskervilles

The documentary/interviews from the Big Finish Blake’s 7 adventure Warship is well worth a listen.  There’s a little bit too much of “we don’t often meet each other, but everyone’s wonderful” and “the script was wonderful”.  In fact, everything was “wonderful”. However, between all of that, there’s some fun input […]

Blake’s 7 : Warship, cont’d