Nicholas Briggs

The second of four adventures of The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes from Big Finish, starring Nicholas Briggs as Sherlock Holmes and Richard Earl as Dr Watson, is a more traditional Sherlock Holmes adventure that spends the first third of its duration in Holmes’ rooms with the client telling Holmes & Watson of his troubles. The […]

3.02 The Gamekeeper’s Folly

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Continuing The Guttering Candle from The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes with Nicholas Briggs as Sherlock Holmes, Richard Earl as Dr Watson, and John Banks as Inspector Lestrade, Holmes uses his flair with disguises to infiltrate a circus troupe as a ringmaster.  He ingratiates himself with a friend of the dead man, and […]

3.01 The Guttering Candle, cont’d

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According to the Big Finish blurb, The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes, the third “volume” in their Sherlock Holmes range, is described as “Four decades. Four cases. One solution.”.  On beginning my journey into this box-set, I cannot as yet either confirm or deny that summary.  What I can confirm is […]

3.01 The Guttering Candle

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The second episode of Masters of War is a full 90-minutes long, and you’d think that was too long for the second half of a story.  However, that’s not the case here.  The duration helps to ensure that each key character – the Doctor (David Warner), the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), […]

Masters of War, episode 2

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The eighth story in Big Finish‘s Doctor Who Unbound range is a sequel to Sympathy for the Devil which saw an alternative version of the third Doctor (David Warner) teaming up with a retired Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) during a time of crisis exasperated by the machinations of […]

Masters of War, episode 1

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The Prophet in the Rain continues with Holmes and Watson leaving the funeral and heading towards Holmes’ secret HQ when they notice a car following them.  They meet, in the interminable rain, an enemy they’ve run into before – a Mrs Edgar Curbishley (Tracey Childs).  I’m not familiar with this […]

5.01 The Prophet in the Rain, cont’d

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The Prophet in the Rain by Jonathan Barnes is a Sherlock Holmes story set post-war, in 1921, starring Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl from the Big Finish audio adventures range.  It’s offered as a free download to get a taster for the Big Finish box-set of The Sacrifice of Sherlock […]

5.01 The Prophet in the Rain

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The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner ends well, with Holmes “solving” the mystery of the haunting woman.  It’s an adventure whereby the journey is arguably better than the destination, because there isn’t really much of a mystery to solve. The story ends with a link to Holmes’ final Conan Doyle […]

The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner, cont’d

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From 2012, The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner by Jonathan Barnes sees Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Briggs) and Dr Watson (Richard Earl) in the aftermath of the Titantic disaster. It’s 1912, and Sherlock Holmes has been retired for many years.  He’s busy keeping bees and has no interest in revisiting his […]

The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner

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Due to early nights caused by the run-up and aftermath of the London Marathon, it’s taken me several evenings to finish this 2-hour adventure from Big Finish. The first half of The Tangled Skein plays like a traditional Sherlock Holmes adventure stepping into a mystery with a bizarre explanation – […]

2.04 The Tangled Skein, cont’d

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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

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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

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