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The Sherlock Holmes Audio Master Post
Jun. 26th, 2012 09:15 pmThis post is my attempt to catalog and share all of the Sherlock Holmes audio I've collected and where to find it. Anyone may link/copy/share this post.
What This Post Covers: Sherlock Holmes audio set in the original Arthur Conan Doyle universe, including:
-- Unabridged canonical text
-- Radio adaptations of canonical text
-- New adventures of classic Victorian Holmes
What This Post Does Not Cover:
-- Podfic
-- Languages other than English
-- Proprietary software (i.e., nothing from Audible or iTunes, although much of this is available from them)
-- illegal download sites
All changes and updates will be made to this post at this link: http://neadods.livejournal.com/1216185.html
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PODCASTS:
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere (Scott Monty & Burt Wolder)
http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/
The oldest of the Sherlock Holmes podcasts. Covers movie/TV/radio adaptations, Holmes related books (fiction & nonfiction), author interviews, and scion society events from the point of view of two men who have been Holmesians for a long time.
Baker Street Babes (Kristina, Kafers, Ardy, Turk, Jenn, Taylor, Lyndsay, Maria)
http://www.bakerstreetbabes.com/
The newest and fastest-growing of the Sherlock Holmes podcasts. Covers canon (from the perspective of people long familiar with it and reading it for the first time), movie & TV adaptations, interviews with anyone related to movie and TV adaptations, Holmes related books (fiction & nonfiction), interviews with authors and editors, meta about the differences between fannish generations and fans in different countries (The Babes are an international group), and more.
Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/sherlock-holmes/
Adam Graham has collected a variety of old-time radio detective shows and runs a podcast with a different series every day. Thursday is Sherlock Holmes day. These half-hour shows date from the late 30s through the 50s and have variable sound quality. Mixing adaptations of canon with brand-new adventures, the overall setup is the same: a visitor comes and hears a story from the retired Dr. Watson, the both of them stopping to advertise the sponsor's goods. (In one of the 30s podcasts, Dr. Watson explains in very small words how to use instant coffee.) Although these old shows can be found at a variety of free download services, I think Adam brings added value by discussing ratings, actors, sponsors, etc. (I'm going to break the "no iTunes" rule here to point out that it is possible to subscribe to the iTunes feed for the whole show or on a "by detective" basis, and it's a lot faster to subscribe to the Holmes feed and click "get all" than it is to download each episode separately from the website.) NOTE: Original episodes will run out in the spring of 2013 and will not be repeated on the podcast, although they will remain available for download on the website.
Sherlock Holmes Society of London Podcast
http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/podcast.xml
In 2009 and 2010, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London put out slightly over a dozen podcasts recorded by the Old Court Radio Theatre Company, the majority of which were adapted for radio by M.J. Elliot. This included 10 canonical stories, two new adventures, two non-Holmes detective stories written by Doyle and rewritten by M.J. Elliott to include Holmes, and a two-part audio adaptation of William Gillette's Holmes play.
I can't resist throwing in a shoutout to my favorite podcast. Although ostensibly a Doctor Who podcast, this one has covered a fair range of audio, including BBC Sherlock and Big Finish:
Staggering Stories
http://www.staggeringstories.net/audiopodcasts.html
Search this page for "Holmes" to find their podcasts on Big Finish or "Sherlock" for discussion of the BBC series.
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BASIC AND FREE
There are two websites where volunteers read public domain fiction as unabridged audiobooks. The voice quality is what you'd expect from amateurs reading into a headset, but the readings are unabridged and free. NOTE: His Last Bow and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes are still under partial copyright restriction in the United States and thus do not appear in free or inexpensive versions.
Lit2Go
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/authors/170/sir-arthur-conan-doyle/
has: Adventures, Memoirs, and Return of Sherlock Holmes, plus a handful of stories from His Last Bow. Also includes some of Doyle's other words, such as Beyond the City and The Mystery of Cloomber.
Librivox
https://catalog.librivox.org
Parts of Adventures, Memoirs and Return. At the time of this posting, A Study in Scarlet is partially uploaded.
_______________________________________________________
PROFESSIONAL RECORDINGS & NEW ADVENTURES
Big Finish
http://www.bigfinish.com/
CD and direct download (CD purchasers also get a download link) Subscriptions to a CD set are slightly discounted; check Big Finish twitter for occasional sales.
One to two-hour full cast recordings of:
- meta (stories mostly about the stories, such as the one where Holmes meditates on his friendship with Watson)
- canonical adaptations
- original stories
- Unabridged full-cast, full-text productions in which Watson provides the narration linking the dialog by the rest of the cast.
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" is a download only crossover between Sherlock Holmes and their original Confessions of Dorian Gray series. It is not listed under the Holmes range, but can be downloaded at http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/ghosts-of-christmas-past-839
Although there are no firm release dates or titles yet, Big Finish intends to record and release these new Holmes audios in 2013:
- "Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes" - a 4-story box set by Jonathan Barnes collecting a series of interrelated adventures set during various points of Holmes' life.
- 6 more full-text fully produced canonical stories read by Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, and Beth Chalmers.
Jim French Productions
http://jimfrenchproductions.com/zc137m/
CD and direct download. It's possible to buy 2-or 3-story volumes or 4-volume collections
Full cast recordings of:
- canonical adaptations
- The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (new adventures)
Jim French Productions has not updated the Holmes page for over a year; I believe they are no longer creating new Holmes audios. The ones they have already created are still available for download or CD purchase.
Bafflegab Productions is the new name for Cosmic Hobo
http://www.bafflegab.co.uk/
This is the only venue for purchasing Peter Cushing reading unabridged stories from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Volume 1 is currently available; Volume 2 will be released in March of 2013.
AudioGo
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/
The motherlode of Sherlock Holmes audio. (Note to Americans: click the little icon of the Union Jack; all sorts of extra things pop up) As the BBC's official source for audio, this site provides CD and/or downloads for:
- Benedict Cumberbatch reading The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries (4 new adventures)
- audio versions of pastiche books such as the Young Sherlock Holmes series
- Derek Jacobi reading the entire unabridged short stories (one of the few audios available of His Last Bow and The Casebook of S.H.)
- Carleton Hobbs as Holmes leading full-cast BBC radio adaptations of canonical stories (aired in the 50s and 60s)
- Bert Coules' full-cast BBC radio adaptations of the entire canon (aired in the 90s, Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes)
- Bert Coules' full-cast BBC radio plays The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (not related to the Further Adventures by Jim French). Aired in the 00s, again with Clive Merrison as Holmes. BBC Sherlock fans note: Mark Gatiss is a main voice actor in Volume 2's The Shameful Betrayal of Emily Smith
- Big Finish (see above for details)
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OTHER AUDIO
These versions exist, but are not directly downloadable. Many are CD-only and out of print. (Good hunting!)
OneVoice Recordings
http://www.onevoicerecordings.com/
David Ian Davies reads the entire unabridged canon. Available on Audible.com, iTunes, or CD, but not directly from his site.
David Timson
Published by Naxos audiobooks. Available on iTunes and CD. One man reading the entire unabridged canon.
Edward Hardwicke (yes, Jeremy Brett's Watson) read three 6-story CD collections of unabridged canon. Although titled "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" they are taken from a variety of the short story collections. Fading out of print; may soon be only available secondhand.
A Baker Street Dozen
Sir John Gielgud plays Holmes in 12 radio adaptations of canon. Out of print
The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Six new Holmes adventures written by John Taylor (who also wrote the Rediscovered Railway Mysteries). Out of print audiobook of an out of print book; secondhand copies are still around.
Hugh Laurie once read Hound of the Baskervilles, but I haven't found a place to get it.
This post was last updated December 27 2012
What This Post Covers: Sherlock Holmes audio set in the original Arthur Conan Doyle universe, including:
-- Unabridged canonical text
-- Radio adaptations of canonical text
-- New adventures of classic Victorian Holmes
What This Post Does Not Cover:
-- Podfic
-- Languages other than English
-- Proprietary software (i.e., nothing from Audible or iTunes, although much of this is available from them)
-- illegal download sites
All changes and updates will be made to this post at this link: http://neadods.livejournal.com/1216185.html
______________________________
PODCASTS:
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere (Scott Monty & Burt Wolder)
http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/
The oldest of the Sherlock Holmes podcasts. Covers movie/TV/radio adaptations, Holmes related books (fiction & nonfiction), author interviews, and scion society events from the point of view of two men who have been Holmesians for a long time.
Baker Street Babes (Kristina, Kafers, Ardy, Turk, Jenn, Taylor, Lyndsay, Maria)
http://www.bakerstreetbabes.com/
The newest and fastest-growing of the Sherlock Holmes podcasts. Covers canon (from the perspective of people long familiar with it and reading it for the first time), movie & TV adaptations, interviews with anyone related to movie and TV adaptations, Holmes related books (fiction & nonfiction), interviews with authors and editors, meta about the differences between fannish generations and fans in different countries (The Babes are an international group), and more.
Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/sherlock-holmes/
Adam Graham has collected a variety of old-time radio detective shows and runs a podcast with a different series every day. Thursday is Sherlock Holmes day. These half-hour shows date from the late 30s through the 50s and have variable sound quality. Mixing adaptations of canon with brand-new adventures, the overall setup is the same: a visitor comes and hears a story from the retired Dr. Watson, the both of them stopping to advertise the sponsor's goods. (In one of the 30s podcasts, Dr. Watson explains in very small words how to use instant coffee.) Although these old shows can be found at a variety of free download services, I think Adam brings added value by discussing ratings, actors, sponsors, etc. (I'm going to break the "no iTunes" rule here to point out that it is possible to subscribe to the iTunes feed for the whole show or on a "by detective" basis, and it's a lot faster to subscribe to the Holmes feed and click "get all" than it is to download each episode separately from the website.) NOTE: Original episodes will run out in the spring of 2013 and will not be repeated on the podcast, although they will remain available for download on the website.
Sherlock Holmes Society of London Podcast
http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/podcast.xml
In 2009 and 2010, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London put out slightly over a dozen podcasts recorded by the Old Court Radio Theatre Company, the majority of which were adapted for radio by M.J. Elliot. This included 10 canonical stories, two new adventures, two non-Holmes detective stories written by Doyle and rewritten by M.J. Elliott to include Holmes, and a two-part audio adaptation of William Gillette's Holmes play.
I can't resist throwing in a shoutout to my favorite podcast. Although ostensibly a Doctor Who podcast, this one has covered a fair range of audio, including BBC Sherlock and Big Finish:
Staggering Stories
http://www.staggeringstories.net/audiopodcasts.html
Search this page for "Holmes" to find their podcasts on Big Finish or "Sherlock" for discussion of the BBC series.
______________________________________________________
BASIC AND FREE
There are two websites where volunteers read public domain fiction as unabridged audiobooks. The voice quality is what you'd expect from amateurs reading into a headset, but the readings are unabridged and free. NOTE: His Last Bow and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes are still under partial copyright restriction in the United States and thus do not appear in free or inexpensive versions.
Lit2Go
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/authors/170/sir-arthur-conan-doyle/
has: Adventures, Memoirs, and Return of Sherlock Holmes, plus a handful of stories from His Last Bow. Also includes some of Doyle's other words, such as Beyond the City and The Mystery of Cloomber.
Librivox
https://catalog.librivox.org
Parts of Adventures, Memoirs and Return. At the time of this posting, A Study in Scarlet is partially uploaded.
_______________________________________________________
PROFESSIONAL RECORDINGS & NEW ADVENTURES
Big Finish
http://www.bigfinish.com/
CD and direct download (CD purchasers also get a download link) Subscriptions to a CD set are slightly discounted; check Big Finish twitter for occasional sales.
One to two-hour full cast recordings of:
- meta (stories mostly about the stories, such as the one where Holmes meditates on his friendship with Watson)
- canonical adaptations
- original stories
- Unabridged full-cast, full-text productions in which Watson provides the narration linking the dialog by the rest of the cast.
"Ghosts of Christmas Past" is a download only crossover between Sherlock Holmes and their original Confessions of Dorian Gray series. It is not listed under the Holmes range, but can be downloaded at http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/ghosts-of-christmas-past-839
Although there are no firm release dates or titles yet, Big Finish intends to record and release these new Holmes audios in 2013:
- "Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes" - a 4-story box set by Jonathan Barnes collecting a series of interrelated adventures set during various points of Holmes' life.
- 6 more full-text fully produced canonical stories read by Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, and Beth Chalmers.
Jim French Productions
http://jimfrenchproductions.com/zc137m/
CD and direct download. It's possible to buy 2-or 3-story volumes or 4-volume collections
Full cast recordings of:
- canonical adaptations
- The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (new adventures)
Jim French Productions has not updated the Holmes page for over a year; I believe they are no longer creating new Holmes audios. The ones they have already created are still available for download or CD purchase.
Bafflegab Productions is the new name for Cosmic Hobo
http://www.bafflegab.co.uk/
This is the only venue for purchasing Peter Cushing reading unabridged stories from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Volume 1 is currently available; Volume 2 will be released in March of 2013.
AudioGo
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/
The motherlode of Sherlock Holmes audio. (Note to Americans: click the little icon of the Union Jack; all sorts of extra things pop up) As the BBC's official source for audio, this site provides CD and/or downloads for:
- Benedict Cumberbatch reading The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries (4 new adventures)
- audio versions of pastiche books such as the Young Sherlock Holmes series
- Derek Jacobi reading the entire unabridged short stories (one of the few audios available of His Last Bow and The Casebook of S.H.)
- Carleton Hobbs as Holmes leading full-cast BBC radio adaptations of canonical stories (aired in the 50s and 60s)
- Bert Coules' full-cast BBC radio adaptations of the entire canon (aired in the 90s, Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes)
- Bert Coules' full-cast BBC radio plays The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (not related to the Further Adventures by Jim French). Aired in the 00s, again with Clive Merrison as Holmes. BBC Sherlock fans note: Mark Gatiss is a main voice actor in Volume 2's The Shameful Betrayal of Emily Smith
- Big Finish (see above for details)
______________________________________________________________
OTHER AUDIO
These versions exist, but are not directly downloadable. Many are CD-only and out of print. (Good hunting!)
OneVoice Recordings
http://www.onevoicerecordings.com/
David Ian Davies reads the entire unabridged canon. Available on Audible.com, iTunes, or CD, but not directly from his site.
David Timson
Published by Naxos audiobooks. Available on iTunes and CD. One man reading the entire unabridged canon.
Edward Hardwicke (yes, Jeremy Brett's Watson) read three 6-story CD collections of unabridged canon. Although titled "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" they are taken from a variety of the short story collections. Fading out of print; may soon be only available secondhand.
A Baker Street Dozen
Sir John Gielgud plays Holmes in 12 radio adaptations of canon. Out of print
The Unopened Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Six new Holmes adventures written by John Taylor (who also wrote the Rediscovered Railway Mysteries). Out of print audiobook of an out of print book; secondhand copies are still around.
Hugh Laurie once read Hound of the Baskervilles, but I haven't found a place to get it.
This post was last updated December 27 2012
