Episodes
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Uncle Jeremy's Household (1887)
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
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 visit Baker Street proper with The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893). Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Resident_Patient
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Conan Doyle and George Edalji, with Shrabani Basu
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Hello 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 for the last fifteen years, since a series of anonymous letters appeared in 1888.
Despite the flimsy evidence in the case, George Edalji is convicted of the maimings and is sent to prison. When he is released early, his conviction hangs over him and he is unable to return to his chosen profession. Frustrated, he writes to the one man he believes can help, the great author of detective fiction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Paul and I talk to Shrabani about the details of the Edalji case, the evidence of police corruption Shrabani has unearthed, and the small-town racism that feels as relevant today as it was then.
You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/07/16-conan-doyle-and-george-edalji-with.html
Next time on Doings of Doyle
Conan Doyle’s Anglo-Indian gothic tale, Uncle Jeremy’s Household (1887). Read it here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Uncle_Jeremy%27s_Household
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
How the Brigadier Held the King & How the King Held the Brigadier (1895)
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
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 sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Sunday May 30, 2021
The Terror of Blue John Gap (1910)
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
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-terror-of-blue-john-gap-1910.html
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
The 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://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/04/13-refugees-tale-of-two-continents-1893.html
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Conan Doyle and Napoleon with Cliff Goldfarb
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
This 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 episode can be heard here: https://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/.
And you can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/03/12-conan-doyle-and-napoleon-with-cliff.html
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
‘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 sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.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/
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
A Straggler of '15 and Waterloo
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Welcome to Episode 10. This time, we travel back to the 1890s to discuss Conan Doyle's short story 'A Straggler of '15' and its stage play version which came to be known simply as 'Waterloo' (first performed 1894). Plus we cover a cast of luminaries of the Victorian stage, including Henry Irving, Bram Stoker and George Bernard Shaw.
You can read the story here and the play here.
You can read the show notes 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/
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
An Exciting Christmas Eve, or, My Lecture on Dynamite
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Today, we join Otto Von Spee of Heidelberg for 'An Exciting Christmas Eve,' as he is duped into giving a lecture on dynamite...
You can read the story here.
You can read the show notes 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/
Friday Dec 04, 2020
The Captain Sharkey Quartet
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Ahoy mateys! All aboard the Happy Delivery for a voyage to hell and back with Conan Doyle's unscrupulous pirate villain, the damnable Sharkey.
You can read the stories here.
You can read the show notes 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/
Doings of Doyle on YouTube
We now have a YouTube channel where you can listen to all episodes with closed captions subtitling:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy23ujzPCKpttfaUwceFfA