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Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (1924)This episode, Sherlock Holmes contends with a predatory Austrian baron who “collects” women in ‘The Adventure of the Illustrious Client’ (1924). You can read the story here. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD69sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘69’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe. Synopsis It is September 1902. Sherlock Holmes is at the height of his fame and professional standing when he is approached by the noted societ...

2025-11-301h 22

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty (2025), with Nick LaneThis month, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast Nick Lane, the writer and director of Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty for Blackeyed Theatre. You can find out more about Blackeyed Theatre here. You can find the tour dates for Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty here. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD68sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘68’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subs...

2025-10-281h 03

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The End of Devil Hawker (1930)This episode, we look at one of Conan Doyle’s last short stories, ‘The End of Devil Hawker’ (1930) which he completed shortly before his death. You can read the story here. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD67sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘67’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe. Synopsis It seems like just another night at Tom Cribb’s London establishment, the Union Arms at the corner o...

2025-09-291h 01

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Crabbe's Practice (1884/1922)This month, we join a young doctor struggling to recruit patients for his medical practice in ‘Crabbe’s Practice’ from 1884, a story that Conan Doyle rewrote in its entirety in 1922. You can read the two versions of the story here. Or listen to an audiobook version of the 1922 version here. The episode will appear on our YouTube page. Please like and subscribe. You can follow us @doingsofdoyle on BlueSky. Synopsis When they were fellow medical students at Edinburgh University, Robert Hudson had foreseen a successful and rewarding career for...

2025-08-3158 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Story of the Brown Hand (1898)This episode, we travel to Wiltshire where an Indian army surgeon is being hounded by a very unwelcome visitor, in ‘The Story of the Brown Hand’ from 1898. Read the show notes at https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/06/64-story-of-brown-hand-1898.html You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Story_of_the_Brown_Hand Or listen to an audiobook version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-tK9m42tKY The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meant...

2025-06-2958 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Man from Archangel (1885)Hello and welcome to Episode 63. This episode we travel to the very north of mainland Scotland where one man’s solitude is interrupted by two mysterious castaways, in ‘The Man from Archangel’ from 1885. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Man_from_Archangel Or listen to a Librivox reading here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts2yXxclU-c The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.you...

2025-05-301h 01

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (1893)Hello and welcome to Episode 61. Today, we return to Baker Street – or should that be Montague Street? – for another memoir of Sherlock Holmes, ‘The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual’ (1893). Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Musgrave_Ritual The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle And follow us on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/doingsofdoyle.com). We don’t do Twitter no...

2025-03-311h 18

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Lost World (1912) - Part 3Hello and welcome to Episode 60. Today, we conclude our three-part discussion of The Lost World, Conan Doyle's classic novel from 1912. Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World Read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/02/60-lost-world-1912-part-3.html The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle And follow us @doingsofdoyle.com on BlueSky. We don’t do Twitter no mor...

2025-02-281h 01

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Lost World (1912) - Part 2Hello and welcome to Episode 59. Today, we rejoin Professor Challenger and his party of intrepid adventurers as they reach The Lost World, in part two of our three-part discussion of the celebrated novel. Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World Read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/01/59-lost-world-1912-part-2.html The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle A...

2025-01-311h 23

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Selecting a Ghost, On Stage (2024)Hello and welcome to Episode 58. Today, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Phil Cheadle and Edward Bennett, the director and star respectively of ‘Selecting a Ghost’, a stage adaptation of the Conan Doyle short story which was performed in Norwood, South London, in November 2024. Listen to our episode about ‘Selecting a Ghost’ here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/12/46-selecting-ghost-ghosts-of.html Read the Conan Doyle short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Selecting_a_Ghost Listen to the podcast here: The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, wh...

2024-12-2348 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Lost World (1912) - Part 1Hello and welcome to Episode 57. Today, we begin our long-awaited journey into The Lost World, Conan Doyle’s celebrated adventure novel which introduced Professor George Edward Challenger to the reading public. Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle And follow us @doingsofdoyle.com on BlueSky. Synopsis Edward Dunn Malone is a...

2024-11-301h 24

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast John Barrington Cowles (1884)Hello and welcome to Episode 56. Today, we journey to Conan Doyle’s hometown of Edinburgh where a young man falls foul of a mysterious, mesmeric beauty in ‘John Barrington Cowles’ (1884). Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/John_Barrington_Cowles You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2024/10/56-john-barrington-cowles-1884.html The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Synopsis At E...

2024-10-3059 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Blood-Stone Tragedy: A Druidical Story (1884)Hello and welcome to episode 55. This time, we look at a story that was for a long time not included in the works of Conan Doyle - 1884’s ‘The Blood-Stone Tragedy: A Druidical Story.’ Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Blood-Stone_Tragedy:_A_Druidical_Story The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Synopsis Whilst travelling in the English Midlands, the narrator...

2024-09-3053 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Second Stain (1904)Hello and welcome to Episode 54. This time, we step into the world of international politics and diplomatic secrets in the Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Adventure of the Second Stain’ from December 1904. Read the story here: ACD Encyclopaedia – The Adventure of the Second Stain. Listen to an audiobook reading here: Magpie Audio – The Adventure of the Second Stain. Read the show notes here: Episode 54 Show Notes. Check out the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s Scrapbook on The Second Stain The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you...

2024-08-311h 03

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Coming of the Huns (1910)Hello and welcome to Episode 53. Today, we discuss ‘The Coming of the Huns,’ one of Conan Doyle’s Tales of Long Ago, written and published in 1910. You can read the story here: ACD Encyclopaedia – The Coming of the Huns. Or listen to an audiobook reading here: The Coming of the Huns – Magpie Audio. The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Synopsis Weary of the infigh...

2024-07-3054 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Nightmare Room (1921)This episode, we discuss one of Conan Doyle’s little-known post-war stories, ‘The Nightmare Room’ from 1921. Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Nightmare_Room Listen to an audiobook reading by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZwsEE8ua8 The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, subscribe to our YouTube channel for updates here: https://www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Synopsis The air of an ordinary if luxuriant and curiously incomp...

2024-05-3051 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1890)Welcome to Episode 50! This month, we look at a deeply personal work that Conan Doyle suppressed for almost thirty years before reissuing in heavily redacted form, ‘The Surgeon of Gaster Fell’ from 1890. You can the original 1890 version here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Surgeon_of_Gaster_Fell Or listen to a Librivox recording of the 1918 version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PouWLBMO0E (starts at 3:27:50). The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, subscribe to our YouTube chan...

2024-04-291h 12

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Pot of Caviare (1908)Hello and welcome to Episode 49. This month, we look at a classic Conan Doyle short story, one the author felt was “gloomy but of [his] best” - ‘The Pot of Caviare’ from 1908. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Pot_of_Caviare Or listen to an audio recording by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yah89KYMwr8 The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, where you can listen with closed captions. In the meantime, subscribe to our YouTube channel for updates here: ht...

2024-03-3146 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Great Shadow (1892)This episode, we travel to the Scottish borders at the end of the Napoleonic Wars for Conan Doyle’s 1892 novella The Great Shadow. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Great_Shadow Listen to the podcast below or at the Podcaster of your choice. Read the show notes here. The episode will be released on our YouTube channel and available for viewing with closed captions in a day or two. Subscribe to the channel here: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Become a Patron

2024-02-2959 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast ACD 2023 - The Year in ReviewThis episode, we break from our usual format to take a look at the last twelve months in the Doylean universe and make some recommendations of adaptations, events, and publications you may have missed. Apologies to anyone we have left out. So much happened last year, it was hard to keep track! If you know of something we have overlooked, please give it a mention in the comments. You can read the shownotes at www.doingsofdoyle.com The episode will be released on our YouTube channel in the next few hours, with closed c...

2024-01-3155 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange (1883)This episode, we return to a different incarnation of Goresthorpe Grange in ‘Selecting A Ghost’ from December 1883. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Selecting_a_Ghost And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/12/46-selecting-ghost-ghosts-of.html. Listen to the podcast on your podcaster of choice. The episode will be released on our YouTube channel in the next few hours, with closed captions shortly after. And if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a rating or review on your podcaster of choice...

2023-12-2453 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe (c.1877)This episode, we discuss what is believed to be the first story Conan Doyle submitted to a publisher, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’ (c.1877). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Haunted_Grange_of_Goresthorpe This episode will also be released on our Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Closed captions will be available two days after the video is uploaded. Synopsis Following a particularly atrocious multiple murder in the mid-eighteenth century, Goresthorpe Grange in Norfolk has stood empty and uninhabited for a century, especially given...

2023-11-3057 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Empty House (1903)This episode, we return to Baker Street at the same time as Sherlock Holmes. It’s ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ from September 1903. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House An audiobook version read by Greg Wagland can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Hj_bi9Qto Listen here or at our Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Closed captions will be available two days after the video is uploaded. Next time on Doings of Doyle… We ar...

2023-10-291h 07

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Lot No. 249 (1892)This episode, we get wrapped up in Conan Doyle’s Mummytastic horror classic, ‘Lot No 249’ (1892). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Lot_No._249 An audiobook version read by Greg Wagland can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5A89sKeMGM Read the show notes here: https://bit.ly/DOD41sn You can listen to the episode on your podcaster of choice or via our Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Closed captions will be available two days after the video is uploaded. N...

2023-08-271h 04

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Brigadier in England (1903)This episode, we return to Brigadier Etienne Gerard of the Hussars of the Conflans shortly after his escape from Dartmoor Prison for more mishaps and misadventures in ‘The Brigadier in England’ (1903). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Brigadier_in_England Read the show notes. Listen to the episode here: Or at our Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Closed captions will be available two days after the video is uploaded. Next time on Doings of Doyle… Ancient Egypt meets Victorian Englan...

2023-07-2842 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, with Jonathan CranfieldThis episode, we welcome to the podcast Jonathan Cranfield, Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, in the United Kingdom, and editor of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. You can find the book here: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes.html And read more about the Edinburgh Works project here: https://edinburgh-conan-doyle.org/ The shownotes can be found here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/06/39-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes-with.html A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after th...

2023-06-3056 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Strange Studies from Life (1901)This episode, we explore Conan Doyle's life-long fascination with true crime through his 'Strange Studies from Life', dramatic retellings of nineteenth century murder trials, published in the Strand in 1901. You can read the stories here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Holocaust_of_Manor_Place https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Love_Affair_of_George_Vincent_Parker https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Debatable_Case_of_Mrs._Emsley And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/05/38-strange-studies-from-life-1901.html A closed-caption version of t...

2023-05-2857 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Horror of the Heights (1913)This episode, we travel above the clouds in the company of hot-headed aeronaut Joyce-Armstrong in ‘The Horror of the Heights', from November 1913. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Horror_of_the_Heights Or hear an audio book version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1mV3iOfUT0 And read the show notes here: https://bit.ly/DOD37sn A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Become a Pa...

2023-04-3047 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock, with Linda Bailey and Isabelle FollathThis episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath, respectively the author and illustrator of Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock (2023), a new children’s biography of Conan Doyle. You can find out more about the book here: https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/arthur-who-wrote-sherlock/ A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Please note that we had intermittent audio problems during recording and have done what we can to correct this. We hope this does...

2023-03-2944 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast A Literary Mosaic (1886)This episode, we join a cast of Conan Doyle’s literary heroes in his amusing short story, ‘A Literary Mosaic,’ also known as ‘Cyprian Overbeck Wells,’ which first appeared in December 1886. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Cyprian_Overbeck_Wells._A_Literary_Mosaic A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Become a Patron If you are enjoying the podcast and want to become a patron, please visit our Patreon page or donate vi...

2023-02-2859 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)This episode, we travel to Switzerland with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for a showdown with the fiendish Professor Moriarty in ‘The Adventure of the Final Problem’ (1893). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Final_Problem You can hear a reading by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXnEehQkZGg A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle Become a Patron If you are enjo...

2023-01-2952 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Conan Doyle and Crime Fiction, with Martin EdwardsThis episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast multi-award-winning crime novelist and President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, to talk about Conan Doyle and crime fiction. You can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/12/33-conan-doyle-and-crime-fiction-with.html Biography of Martin Edwards Martin Edwards is a multi-award-winning crime novelist, the President of the Detection Club, archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association and series consultant to the British Library’s highly successful series of crime classics, and therefore uniquely qualified to write this book. He has been a widely respected genre comm...

2022-12-2155 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Croxley Master (1899)This episode, we get in training to face Silas Craggs in Conan Doyle’s boxing story ‘The Croxley Master’ from 1899. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Croxley_Master And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/11/32-croxley-master-1899.html For an introduction to Conan Doyle and sport, listen to our interview with Mark Alberstat in Episode 7 - https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/10/7-conan-doyle-and-sport-with-mark.html). A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube...

2022-11-2950 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Curse of Eve (1894)This episode, we join an expectant father as he pensively awaits the arrival of his first born, in ‘The Curse of Eve’, one of Conan Doyle’s Round the Red Lamp stories. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Curse_of_Eve Or listen to a Librivox recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZevaD0khms (begins 2:07:35) And read the show notes here. A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com...

2022-10-2844 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Conan Doyle - Memories and Adventures, with Douglas KerrThis episode, we are delighted to be joined by Professor Douglas Kerr to talk about Conan Doyle’s fascinating and much overlooked autobiography Memories and Adventures, first published in 1924 and revised in 1930. You can read Memories and Adventures here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Memories_and_Adventures And listen to the podcast here: www.doingsofdoyle.com Access the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/09/30-conan-doyle-memories-and-adventures.html A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy2...

2022-09-2951 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1879)This episode, we travel back to where it all began with Conan Doyle’s first published work, ‘The Mystery of Sasassa Valley’ (1879). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_Sasassa_Valley You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-mystery-of-sasassa-valley-1879.html A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy23ujzPCKpttfaUwceFfA Next time on Doings of Doyle We are joined by Professor Douglas Ke...

2022-08-2847 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast A Foreign Office Romance (1894)This time, we head to Regency England where a cunning French spy manipulates the outcome of the Peace of Amiens, in ‘A Foreign Office Romance’ (1894). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=A_Foreign_Office_Romance And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/07/28-foreign-office-romance-1894.html Next time on Doings of Doyle We take a look at Conan Doyle's first published story, 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley' (1879). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery...

2022-07-3145 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Maracot Deep (1929)This time we travel to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in search of new creatures and encounter ancient ones in The Maracot Deep (1929), Conan Doyle’s last novel. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Maracot_Deep And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/05/26-maracot-deep-1929.html A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy23ujzPCKpttfaUwceFfA Next time on Doings of Doyle We wel...

2022-05-3052 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923)Hello and welcome to Episode 25. We’re back at Baker Street to drop in on Holmes and Watson for one of their more peculiar cases, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ from March 1923. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Creeping_Man Or listen to Greg Wagland’s reading here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctAFqZclNOQ You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/04/25-adventure-of-creeping-man-1923.html A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode...

2022-04-3049 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The ACD Society, with Ross DaviesThis episode, we're joined by Ross Davies and guests to talk about the new hub of Doylean activity that is the ACD Society. You can find out more about the ACD Society here: www.acdsociety.com The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. And you can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/03/24-acd-society-with-ross-davies.html A version of the episode, with closed captions, will shortly appear on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy23ujzPCKpttfaUwceFfA. Please like and subscribe so we can get a memora...

2022-03-3146 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885)This episode, we’re off to a German University town for a comic tale that draws on Conan Doyle’s school days and his early encounters with spiritualism - ‘The Great Keinplatz Experiment’ (1885). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Great_Keinplatz_Experiment The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. And you can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/02/23-great-keinplatz-experiment-1885.html A version of the episode, with closed captions, will shortly appear on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube...

2022-02-2847 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Lord of Chateau Noir (1894)This episode, we head back into Gothic territory with a tale of cruelty and revenge set during the Franco-Prussian war, ‘The Lord of Chateau Noir’ from 1894. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Lord_of_Ch%C3%A2teau_Noir Or listen to Greg Wagland’s audiobook version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8hubCSDeU The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. And you can read the show n...

2022-01-3043 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies, with Merrick BurrowThis episode, we are joined by Dr Merrick Burrow, Head of English and Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, to talk about The Cottingley Fairies: A Study in Deception, an exhibition Merrick has curated for the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery at the University of Leeds. You can visit the exhibition online here: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1900/galleries/375/the-cottingley-fairies-a-study-in-deception You can read Conan Doyle's The Coming of the Fairies here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Coming_of_the_Fairies The episode can be heard here: http://doingsof...

2021-12-211h 01

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Jelland‘s Voyage (1892)This episode, we travel to nineteenth century Japan in the footsteps of one of Conan Doyle's childhood friends, and take part in a heist on the high seas in 'Jelland's Voyage' (1892). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Jelland%27s_Voyage Or listen to Greg Wagland's excellent reading of the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEATwp0Q2o And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/11/20-jellands-voyage-1892.html A version of the episode, with closed captions, will shortly appear on...

2021-11-2848 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Silver Mirror (1908)It’s Hallowe’en, so settle down by the fire, pour yourself a stiff drink, and get ready for a Conan Doyle ghost story, ‘The Silver Mirror,’ from August 1908. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Silver_Mirror And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/10/19-silver-mirror-1908.html Next time on the Doings of Doyle… We head to nineteenth century Japan for ‘Jelland’s Voyage’ (1892). You can read it here:

2021-10-3147 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893)This time we travel from Baker Street to Brook Street in the company of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient' (1893), one of the later Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Resident_Patient Or listen to an audio narration by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGi_BCaTYMo And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/09/18-adventure-of-resident-patient-1893.html Next time on the Doings of Doyle… ...

2021-09-2745 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Uncle Jeremy's Household (1887)This episode, we enjoy a slice of Anglo-Indian gothic with Conan Doyle’s early short story Uncle Jeremy’s Household (1887), a tale with connections to a Doyle family mystery and a certain resident of Baker Street. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Uncle_Jeremy%27s_Household Or listen to an audio narration by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj_PRyDhFgU And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/08/17-uncle-jeremys-household-1887.html Next time on the Doings of Doyle… We v...

2021-08-3057 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Conan Doyle and George Edalji, with Shrabani BasuHello and welcome to episode 16. This episode, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast journalist and author Shrabani Basu to talk about Conan Doyle, George Edalji and her new book The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer (Bloomsbury, 2021). In 1903, the quiet village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham is shocked by a spate of horrific horse maiming. Suspicion improbably falls on George Edalji, a quiet, socially awkward, brown-skinned young lawyer, the son of Shapurji Edalji, the first Indian to become vicar of an English parish. The Edaljis have been subject to prolonged persecution and racial abuse...

2021-07-2055 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast How the Brigadier Held the King & How the King Held the Brigadier (1895)Episode 15 - We finally bring Brigadier Gerard to the podcast, with a discussion of two of his early exploits, 'How the Brigadier Held the King' and 'How the King Held the Brigadier' (1895). You can read the stories here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=How_the_Brigadier_Held_the_King; https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=How_the_King_Held_the_Brigadier The episode can be heard here: https://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. You can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/06/15-how-brigadier-held-king-how-king.html Acknowledgements Thanks to our s...

2021-06-2951 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Terror of Blue John Gap (1910)Episode 14 - This time we trek through the caverns of the Peak District in search of a prehistoric monster in Conan Doyle's 1910 short story 'The Terror of Blue John Gap.' A little gem of a tale, it harks back to Conan Doyle's early gothic fiction while being a precursor to The Lost World (1912). You can read the novel here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Terror_of_Blue_John_Gap The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. You can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/05/14-t...

2021-05-3048 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Refugees: A Tale of Two ContinentsThe Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents,’Conan Doyle's fourth historical novel, was first published by Harper's Monthly Magazine in the first half of 1893. It explores the events surrounding Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and how this impacts on a small group of Huguenots who are sent, as Conan Doyle put it, “flying like leaves before a hurricane.” You can read the novel here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Refugees The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. You can read the shownotes here: https...

2021-04-2143 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Conan Doyle and Napoleon with Cliff GoldfarbThis episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Clifford S. Goldfarb, author of The Great Shadow (1997), to talk about Conan Doyle and Napoleon. As we mentioned in Episode 10, Conan Doyle had a life-long fascination with the Napoleonic era which began at his mother's knee, with tales of family members at Waterloo, and found its release in some of his finest historical works. We talk to Cliff about his interest in Conan Doyle's Napoleonic works, including the Brigadier Gerard stories, his collection of books, documents and notebooks and his many projects. The ep...

2021-03-1347 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Adventure of the Devil's Foot‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,’ the third story in the collection His Last Bow, was first published by The Strand Magazine in 1910. A tale of death and diablerie in Cornwall, it harks back to some of Conan Doyle’s earlier works... You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Devil%27s_Foot The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. And you can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/02/11-adventure-of-devils-foot.html Acknowledgements Thanks to our sp...

2021-02-2845 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast Conan Doyle and Sport with Mark AlberstatIn this first interview show, we talk to Mark Albertstat, co-editor of Canadian Holmes, the journal of Sherlockian society The Bootmakers of Toronto, about Conan Doyle and his fascination with sport. The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. The show notes can be read here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

2020-10-2941 min

Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast The Doings of Raffles HawWelcome to the first episode of Doings of Doyle. This episode, we're talking about Doyle's 1891 novella The Doings of Raffles Haw. To read the story, go to https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Doings_of_Raffles_Haw. For show notes, visit https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2019/10/1-doings-of-raffles-haw.html. Acknowledgements Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

2019-11-0643 min