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The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: A BBC Radioseries by Bert Coules

Ah yesB Baker Street.
It has been home to many a mystery in its time: The case of Silver Blaze, The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure Of The Dancing Men and The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons just to name a few from Doctor Watsons illustrious archives.
But there are many more of which the general public remains unaware, Perhaps the principals were men and women of high import to the standing of society, perhaps Watson simply never put pen to foolscap or perhaps Holmes forbade him to tell the tale Whatever the reason some of the tales have now been told through the writing of Mr Bert Coules.


Mr Bert Coules is a wellknown name in radio dramatisation, having worked on many projects ranging from dramatisations of the Rebus novel Resurrection Men, the Brother Cadfael series and The Guns of Navarone to what he is most known for and what is most pertinent to

this article: The complete Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson.
As a matter of fact Merrison is the first actor to have played Holmes in every story written by Doyle on radio.
Sadly Mr Williams passed away inshortly after the release of the adaptation of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.
However it was eventually decided to produce some original Holmes stories for Radio, Coules wasnt quite finished with the detective,

The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes is apart series of audio dramas split across four volumes when released physically A note to readers: Volumesandseem inordinately difficult to obtain compared to Volumesandwith Clive Merrison returning to the role of Holmes and Andrew Sachs as Watson produced in,,/andrespectively.
Each story in the further adventures is based on a reference made by Watson in the original Conan Doyle stories.
These references are expertly woven into a tale all their own, Be it the return of the famous cat burglar The Ghost after years of retirement, Lady Addleton who hired Holmess services to save the family name, one of those rare cases of Holmess early career of which we know or the only twopart tale in the series involving the lighthouse, the politician and the trained cormorant.


The writing is very well done with a clear effort made to keep the stories in the same spirit as the originals.
If you didnt know better I could easily imagine these stories being woven in seamlessly between the Conan Doyle originals without any obvious clues they had been written by someone else.
The Abergavenny Murder and The Star Of The Adelphi are personal favourites and I will congratulate Mr Coules on achieving his goal so successfully.
It genuinely does make me smile sometimes and tickle that part of my mind that loves a good mystery story.


The performances are especially notable with Merrison and Sachs Manuel from Fawlty Towers throwing their all into it.
You truly get the sense they are really enjoying themselves, There have been many performers playing the consulting detective and his chronicler over the years but these performances should be up there with the best.
The guest cast is also varied and their performances are very entertaining, Examples include Stephen Thorne as Inspector Lestrade, Tom Baker He of the scarf and Scratchman link here for the interested /sitelinktheorkneynews.
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You never know who is going to appear next and I often find myself lost in the stories and wanting to rush to the next when they end! If that isnt an endorsement of both the writing and the casts I dont know what is!

In conclusion I highly recommend this series.
The complete run is available on Audible digitally and for the curious Volumeon CD and the download version both come with an interview with Bert Coules about the series.
Some of my readers may be sticklers for the Doyle originals and nothing else but I feel if anything was to come close in spirit and intention to the originals it would be this series.
The mysteries are definitely worthwhile and more than a few have surprises all their own, I hope I can persuade some of you to join me in giving them a listen, My next article will be the long delayed due to Halloween and Holmes promised review of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett.


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Nephrite Really enjoyed this dramatization, great voice actors and it made the whole listening experience even more enjoyable!! definitely recommend ant of the BBC radio productions.
I actually liked this series better than the first one I listened too, The BBC radio broadcast makes a great theater of the story and way it is presented, With this one a lot of interesting stories, like one with Sherlock solving the crime with only a man falling dead in his study to go on.
Highly recommend/'The Madness of Colonel Warburton'/ The Star of the Adelphi' / 'The Saviour of Cripplegate Square' / 'The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Watson'.


In the fiftysix short stories and four novels Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his great detective, there are many passing references to successful cases that are never actually written about.


These four stories, written by the main dramatist on the complete BBC RadioSherlock Holmes canon, imaginatively flesh out the cases behind those references to wonderful effect.
As in the complete dramatised canon, Clive Merrison plays the great sleuth with the role of Doctor Watson played by Andrew Sachs.
Cast includes Tom Baker, Eleanor Bron, Jane Asher, Tim West, Toyah Willcox,

'A joy from beginning to end, . . ingenious extensions of the Conan Doyle originals' Daily Telegraph,.for voice talent amp sound effects in BBC Radioaudiobook pretty great set of stories, I enjoy most of the sherlock remakes, but the origional is so great, I reconized a good number of the first few stories from modern adaptions, but the last/ths of the series was all new and really exciting.
Holmes is so easy to hate, but Watson makes it impossible, He's a great superhero with a flawed personality, . .

Although holy shit this was long, definitely the longest i've spent on one "book" where I actively read every day.
thought it was for sure about to finish up and my progress was at, . . Bert Coules is an English writer, and dramatist, who has produced a number of adaptations and original works.
He works mainly in radio drama but also writes for TV and the stage, Coules specializes in mystery and science fiction audio and radio drama, and has written a number of adaptations, most notably as the head writer of the Sherlock Holmes radio seriesstarring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson the first time the entire canon had been adapted with the same two lead actors throughout.
He also wrote original Sherlock Holmes scripts for the following BBC radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, each based on a reference from the original stories.
These were first broadcast betweenan Bert Coules is an English writer, and dramatist, who has produced a number of adaptations and original works.
He works mainly in radio drama but also writes for TV and the stage, Coules specializes in mystery and science fiction audio and radio drama, and has written a number of adaptations, most notably as the head writer of the Sherlock Holmes radio seriesstarring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson the first time the entire canon had been adapted with the same two lead actors throughout.
He also wrote original Sherlock Holmes scripts for the following BBC radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, each based on a reference from the original stories.
These were first broadcast betweenand, and starred Merrison and Andrew Sachs as Watson, following Michael Williams' death in.
He has also written adaptations of several of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, and of works by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Isaac Asimov and other best selling genre authors.
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