I was poking around on archive.org looking for some more old radio detective shows, when I stumbled across this set of free audio mysteries: http://archive.org/details/BbcThrillingStoriesOfTheRailway05EpsI was going to go ahead and download them based on the description, which I'll copy below, and then I read the comments and learned that they are ( Read more... )

(crossposted to commonplacebook)

The Sherlock Holmes Society of London has made a number of audio productions available for free on their website, here: http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/world/radio.php

TODS and I listened to several of them on a recent long trip in the car and they were very enjoyable!

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes owes much of his enduring popularity to writer and actress Edith Meiser, who worked tirelessly to bring adaptations of Holmes stories to radio in the 1930s, I've seen this in several places on the Internet, with a longer description explaining how she persuaded broadcasters to run her series by going out and ( Read more... )

We were watching 77 Sunset Strip the other day, the episode "Hong Kong Caper." It was a veritable parade of stars ( Read more... )