NEW! “The Reigate Squires, An Audio Narration in Respectful Imitation of Jeremy Brett”

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This episode features an audio narration of 'The Reigate Squires' in the style of Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.

Twitter Facebook No one, going back to the interpretation of William Gillette in the early years of the silent screen cinema, interpreted the Sherlock Holmes character with the authenticity that Jeremy Brett brought to the role in the ITV Granada series on British television (1984-1994). That series went back to the canonical short stories and lovingly adapted them to the screen, clearing away the distortions that past (and future) representations have rained down and continue to rain on the reputation of the detective. This new recording is my latest attempt to interpret the Sherlockian short stories in a twenty-first century podcast adaptation, with respect to the great interpreters of the past, going back to Doyle, the originator himself, and moving forward to Brett. With apologies to Jeremy Brett, here is my acting effort to portray the style of Jeremy Brett in a Holmesian short story that Brett was not to portray in the TV Series (that series failing to film ALL of the short stories). One of the best of the stories that it left out was “The Reigate Squires,” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes . And so, here is an attempted corrective to that omission, in the…

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Host: Rick Reiman

Topics covered

• Sherlock Holmes
• audio narration
• pastiche
• literary adaptation
• Jeremy Brett
• detective fiction

Keywords

• Sherlock Holmes
• Jeremy Brett
• The Reigate Squires
• audio narration
• pastiche
• detective stories
• Arthur Conan Doyle

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Books & works: The Reigate Squires, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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