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This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations that span various settings, time periods, and character dynamics, each echoing the spirit of classic detective fiction. Listeners are encouraged to uncover new tales with every episode, diving into the rich tapestry of suspense and intrigue that has captivated audiences for generations. 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Listeners are encouraged to uncover new tales with every episode, diving into the rich tapestry of suspense and intrigue that has captivated audiences for generations. 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Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74495667</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:08:30 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74495667/within_and_without_a_dramatic_poem_george_macdonald.mp3" length="128125605" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>16000</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe-Edgar Allan Poe</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/complete-poetical-works-of-edgar-allan-poe-edgar-allan-poe--74455956</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74455956</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:07:35 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74455956/complete_poetical_works_of_edgar_allan_poe_edgar_allan_poe.mp3" length="223065507" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>27855</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Life and Death of King John-William Shakespeare</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-and-death-of-king-john-william-shakespeare--74423584</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74423584</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:08:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74423584/life_and_death_of_king_john_william_shakespeare.mp3" length="71419592" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8918</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Just So Stories (version 6 Dramatic Reading)-Rudyard Kipling</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-so-stories-version-6-dramatic-reading-rudyard-kipling--74377186</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74377186</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:50:39 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74377186/just_so_stories_version_6_dramatic_reading_rudyard_kipling.mp3" length="88737794" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>11081</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>King of Alsander (Dramatic Reading)-James Elroy Flecker</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/king-of-alsander-dramatic-reading-james-elroy-flecker--74337360</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74337360</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:20:40 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74337360/king_of_alsander_dramatic_reading_james_elroy_flecker.mp3" length="222787707" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>27820</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Peer Gynt-Henrik Ibsen</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/peer-gynt-henrik-ibsen--74194994</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74194994</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:08:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74194994/peer_gynt_henrik_ibsen.mp3" length="153073234" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>19115</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Princess and the Butterfly-Arthur Wing Pinero</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/princess-and-the-butterfly-arthur-wing-pinero--74148309</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74148309</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:08:52 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74148309/princess_and_the_butterfly_arthur_wing_pinero.mp3" length="123685419" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>15445</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>New Chronicles of Rebecca (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)-Kate Douglas Wiggin</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/new-chronicles-of-rebecca-version-2-dramatic-reading-kate-douglas-wiggin--74108942</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74108942</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:08:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74108942/new_chronicles_of_rebecca_version_2_dramatic_reading_kate_douglas_wiggin.mp3" length="180544491" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>22546</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading)-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/study-in-scarlet-version-7-dramatic-reading-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--73389109</link><description><![CDATA["Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a classic detective novel that introduces readers to the brilliant yet enigmatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his steadfast companion, Dr. John Watson. This dramatic reading brings to life the intricate plot and the thrilling unraveling of a mysterious murder case that spans both England and America. The themes of justice, deduction, and the battle between good and evil resonate strongly today, reminding us of the timeless quest for truth in a complex world. With its rich narrative and compelling characters, this version of "Study in Scarlet" offers an engaging experience that showcases the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes and the art of detective storytelling.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73389109</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:22:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73389109/study_in_scarlet_version_7_dramatic_reading_sir_arthur_conan_doyle.mp3" length="138659020" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>"Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a classic detective novel that introduces readers to the brilliant yet enigmatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his steadfast companion, Dr. John Watson. This dramatic reading brings to life the intricate...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a classic detective novel that introduces readers to the brilliant yet enigmatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his steadfast companion, Dr. John Watson. This dramatic reading brings to life the intricate plot and the thrilling unraveling of a mysterious murder case that spans both England and America. The themes of justice, deduction, and the battle between good and evil resonate strongly today, reminding us of the timeless quest for truth in a complex world. With its rich narrative and compelling characters, this version of "Study in Scarlet" offers an engaging experience that showcases the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes and the art of detective storytelling.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>17315</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/511cc60beb7f258dcab78b0727c05f30.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Study in Scarlet Version 7 Dramatic Reading - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/study-in-scarlet-version-7-dramatic-reading-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--72690229</link><description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. Hedrick Stamford: KevinS John Rance: jbcampo Sawyer: WendyKatzHiller Madame Charpentier: Lynette Caulkins Arthur Charpentier: Adrian Stephens Alice Charpentier: Michelle Purdy Cowper: Tomas Peter Elder Stangerson: chuckconvr Police inspector: Algy Pug Commissionaire: Alan Dove Journalist: Lily Kuntz Driver/Boots: Pelham Flowerdew Mormon 1: Donald Gilmore Mormon 2: Jake Malizia Mormon 3: Wayne Cooke Narrator: Michele Eaton]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72690229</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72690229/study_in_scarlet_version_7_dramatic_reading_sir_arthur_conan_doyle.mp3" length="138514012" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. The first two film adaptations, one British and one American, were released in 1914 and both are now considered lost films; in 2010, the British Film Institute named the British film one of the 75 most wanted films for their National Archive. The novel’s enduring legacy is also discernable in the widespread use of magnifying glasses in detective fiction, a trope initiated by A Study in Scarlet. - Summary by David Purdy Cast List: Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. Watson: David Purdy Lestrade: Rafe Ball Tobias Gregson: Cavaet Jefferson Hope: Mike Manolakes John Ferrier: Greg Giordano Lucy Ferrier: Annie Mars Enoch Drebber: Tad Davis Joseph Stangerson: Andrew Kennedy Brigham Young: Mark Stockbridge Wiggins: James R. 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