Sherlock Holmes: The Carleton Hobbs Collection - Arthur Conan Doyle

Category: Detective, Full Cast, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: BBC Classics Full Cast Radio 4

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Carleton Hobbs, Norman Shelley, full cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Dramatization

Sherlock Holmes: The Carleton Hobbs Collection
55 Full-Cast BBC Dramatisations
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Carleton Hobbs, Norman Shelley, full cast
Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 02-02-2023
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

A comprehensive collection of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley - plus bonus documentary.

Legendary actor Carleton Hobbs played the great Baker Street detective for over 17 years between 1952 and 1969, alongside Norman Shelley as Holmes’s friend and companion Dr Watson. Their superb incarnations of the crime-fighting duo were exceptionally popular and are now wonderfully nostalgic.

This unique collection contains the existing Sherlock Holmes dramas in chronological order of publication, each a faithful, standalone adaptation of the original tale. Of the 56 short stories in the canon, 51 are included here (’The Adventure of the Yellow Face’, ‘The Adventure of the Gloria Scott’, ‘The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger’ and ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ were never made, and ‘The Adventure of the Three Students’ is missing from the BBC archives). Also featured are dramatisations of the four novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. Among the star casts are Grizelda Hervey, Humphrey Morton, Gudrun Ure, Sylvia Coleridge and Rolf Lefebvre.

Concluding our collection is a fascinating 40-minute programme, Chosen Companions: Sherlock Holmes, in which Richard Usborne, one-time assistant editor of The Strand Magazine, selects his favourite extracts from the books (read by Carleton Hobbs) to weave together the story of Sherlock Holmes’ development.

NB: Due to the age and nature of some of the recordings, the sound quality may vary.

Credits

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle

Dramatised by Michael Hardwick and Felix Felton

Produced by Norman Wright, Val Gielgud, Martyn C Webster, Graham Gauld, Frederick Bradnum and Robin Midgley

With thanks to Keith Wickham.

First broadcast on BBC Light Programme/BBC Radio 2 12 May 1959 - 10 July 1969

Audio files updated as of 13th February 2023

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