Episode 302: Sherlock Holmes: A Year in Review

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I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, Episode three hundred and two
Sherlock Holmes a year in Review.

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I Head of Sherlocke very well, since you became as
drumming man.

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In a world where it's always eighteen ninety five. It's
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, a podcast for devotees of
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Bert Walder as they talk about what's new in the
world of Sherlock Holmes.

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Time.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I'm Mill Curtis. This is I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere.
Now Here are your hosts, Scott Marty and Bert Walder. Oh,
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Ots where it's always eighteen ninety five. I'm Scott Monty,
I'm Bert Wilder, and Bert are you ready for some review?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm absolutely ready for some review. You know, it's a
good time this time of year. The best thing to
do is to review all your New Year's resolutions, and
I've decided to do my very first one. The first
New Year's resolution that I made last year was to
get more exercise. And so I'm now lifting a five
pound bag of flour and I'm about to make Christmas

(02:35):
go Oh wait, I'm late. I'm late for the Christmas
cookie own draft. Well, I forget it.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, you keep yourself fairly well in shape, anyway. So
I don't know that that's the kind of resolution you need,
you know. For me, the New Year's resolutions I like
are the ones that I'm already doing. So there's really
nothing new to resolve. You just keep doing more of
the same. And I find, you know, when you've got

(03:02):
a habit, stick with it, whether it's good or bad,
because it's a habit.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know, that is a great idea. I never thought
about that. I could. I could tell people, you know,
my news New Year's resolution for nineteen twenty five, for
nineteen twenty five, for twenty twenty five is to wear
clothes every day.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
There you go, you could do it. I have faith
in you.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh I like that sucks, and that did to wear socks.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's a timeless one. It would have worked in nineteen
twenty five as well as twenty twenty five. So good
try for thinking ahead. Yeah yeah, Well, we have a
lovely show scheduled for you today. It's really a look
back at some of the significant items that have happened
in the world of Sherlock Holmes throughout twenty twenty four,
and we have a wonderful guest who knows something about

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all of these things. Because he is tracking them for
the Baker Street Almanac. It's none other than Ross Davies.
He'll be with us momentarily. Should also note that we
don't have news items for you this episode, because it's
really a whole show about news items from throughout the year. However,

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we will be resorting to or returning to our news
updates in twenty twenty five with season nineteen. This will
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community chats and other additional do dads that we come
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it is supposed to represent. And of course we have
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(08:04):
Davies BSI. He was invested into the Baker Street Irregulars
in twenty seventeen as the Temple. He uprates a website
featuring Sherlockean maps and toasts. You can find that at
Rossdavies dot org, and he edits the Baker Street Almanac,
which you may have heard in episode two hundred and nineteen.

(08:25):
It's worth going back and listening to that to get
a sense of the Baker Street Almanac overall. And Ross
is also part of the emeritus leadership at the Copper
Beaches of Philadelphia. Ross, welcome back to eye hear of
Sherlock everywhere.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Hello Scott, Hello Bert, it's a pleasure to be back.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, we wanted to do a review of what happened
in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts
in twenty twenty four. We couldn't think of anyone but you.
You are the man of the hour, the man of
the year, as it were, because if it didn't happen

(09:10):
in twenty twenty four, then it's irrelevant. You know all
about that stuff and are in the best position to
tell us about it. And I think the way we
wanted to structure this discussion is each of us wanted
to contribute to significant items, events, publications, pieces of media, etc.

(09:31):
That we thought were important to Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts in
twenty twenty four and kind of compare notes. So let's
just start with this ross when there is so much
going on, and we do hear of Sherlock everywhere, As
the name implies, how do you ingest all of it,

(09:52):
make sense of it and decide what's worthy of chronicling
and what goes out the window?

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Well, there are places I think that many of us
look during the year, uh as we try to plan
our own crowded calendars and uh plan for our own
limited budgets.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
And there are there are great places right to to
look for you know, what's what's up, what's coming next?
And uh. One of them obviously is Ron Fish's Scherlockian calendar. Another, frankly,
is I hear of Sherlock everywhere. If you listen, you know, yes, yes,
shocking y Uh. If you listen on a routine basis, Uh,

(10:36):
you can you can rely on Scott and Burt to
mention interesting things that are coming up. Uh. And the
same thing applies to some of the other uh uh
solid podcasts.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
What a wonderful thing to have, you know, numerous solid
Sharlockiandillian podcasts. Uh. Those are the places to look for
what's coming. And uh, it's almost it's almost like you
know a whole set of pulses you can keep your
fingertips on and and do it very enjoyably, And much
of it can be done while you're exercising, or choosing

(11:14):
not to exercise but instead to snack or or whatever
it is you do to bring a little joy mental
health into your life. Uh. Seriously, though, there is so
much going on. As you say that, there is, I
think no one place you can look. You just pick
the ones you like.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, and I think you're you know your your right
to acknowledge that. Because there is such a breadth of
material out there in various formats, lots of people have
different views on all of it. It used to be
that Peter Blouse scuttle butt from the Spermaceti Press, which
is still chock full of really interesting and cool stuff,

(11:57):
was the place to go. People used to say, if
Peter doesn't know about it, it's not happening. And God
blessed Peter for still cranking this out every single month
at the ripe oled age of ninety two. I can't
believe that those numbers come from my lips. With respect
to Peter Blau, he's like one of those always eighteen

(12:19):
ninety five fixtures. I just picture him just as an
affixed age and that's it. Yes, yes, there you go,
he wishes. But there's such a plethora of sources out
there now, and of course groups spouting up on Facebook
that keep each other reprized of things, and all sorts

(12:42):
of different ways online to get informed. It's really something
that the age of Sherilockian information is as robust as
it ever was. Yes, absolutely, Well, why don't we start
with some of your picks. I don't know if we
want to go round robin style or just dump it

(13:05):
all on Ross or what.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
But dump it all on Ross. Hey, there's an.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
Idea, be careful, gives alone. We'll be here until midnight. Well,
actually we could, right, because there is so much good
stuff going on. And in fact, if I can forecast
one thing about the future, it's that I hoose will
receive viewer feedback about all the things that we fail

(13:31):
to mention in this episode, because there isn't going to
be enough time to flag even a big fraction.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I think you're right, that's happened, and we should probably
say that upfront. If there is anything that we miss
during this something you think is significant, maybe something that
happened to you personally, or you witnessed, or that you're
proud of. Send a note to comment at I Hear
of Sherlock dot com or just comment in the notes
on the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere dot com website.

(14:00):
We'd be delighted to hear from you and hear what
your experience has been in the year with Sherilockian activities.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, and we can sum loose up and discuss them
in a future episode.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Thanks for making that promise, Bert, I'm going to hold
you to it.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well, it's up to our listeners, you know, to get
involved and to make those suggestions. Well, one of the
nice things in our little preliminary talk about all this
was the notion of categories rather than just going chronologically.
You know, in February there was this, and in March
there was that. And I'd suggest we just start with

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conferences and I'll throw two of them out. Looking back
on twenty twenty four, when was the Dayton Conference which
was held in March of twenty twenty four Holmes, Doyle
and friends. And it was a wonderful gathering in Dayton, Ohio,
led by Dan Andreaco and his team. The Agra treasurers

(15:04):
and it was a lovely gathering. And that was followed
in July with the Sherlock Holmes at fifty conference in Minneapolis,
and that was noted for a number of things Ross
that I know, you know, we can turn to you
to sort of dig into. But one of the things
I remember there's the wonderful talks that we had there.

(15:25):
It was a great setting at the university for part
of the conference, and a wonderful exhibition of some of
their holdings, including an extraordinary number of Beaten's Christmas annuals.
But the talks. The talks included Rebecca Romney talking about collecting,
which I thought was fascinating, and Eric's Caase, who's one

(15:45):
of our listeners. Of course, Eric gave a wonderful talk
about the actual communication of telegraphic messages from far away
up to London. How how long would that actually have taken?
And he went through all of the loops and it
was just a remarkable bit of scholarship. And also Jim

(16:08):
Hawkins talked a bit about John Bennettshaw was a great conference.
But there were some other things too there at Sherlock
and fifty.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Ross.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yes, I must say maybe by way of segue that
Eric's case proved that real history is even cooler than steampunk.
That pneumatic presentation by him was beyond cool in terms

(16:38):
of the gadgetry involved and the timing of things. You
could it's easy to imagine a really, really good Sherlockian
pastiche that revolved around the relative amounts of time it
would take for something to reach someone via pneumatic tube
versus horseback versus runner, and so yes, that was fabulous.

(17:02):
In the same spirit Matt Hall's talk about sulfur, again
presented by a true expert on the subject, is they
were both and they're both resident of a you know,
a Peter Blow of decades past, who's a geologist, you know,

(17:23):
writing authoritatively about the blue carbuncle. There is there are
things like this that are as new and as strong
and as interesting as anything from decades past. And so
it was an inspiring conference in that way. It was
also thrilling because Tim Johnson, it's a long time librarian

(17:46):
of Sherlock Holmes at the Minnesota Libraries, announced two wonderful
commitments by long standing Sherlockians to the libraries. Jerry and
Judy Margolin are donating their art collection to Minnesota. Talk
about sort of a reassuring awareness that our knowledge that

(18:09):
a great Sherilokian treasure will remain available to our community
for the long term. That's an amazing one. And then
the other is on the writing end, the literary end,
where Lorie King's Mary Russell papers are going to Minnesota
as well. So the Minnesota conference was great as a conference,

(18:32):
which means great in terms of both the content and
the sense of community. There are people from all over
the place there. But then also from a sort of
a historical archival standpoint, I hesitate, I think because it
would be impossible to accurately predict how many art shows

(18:54):
Minnesota will be able to put on without ever repeating
an exhibit with the Margolin collection, that's going to be amazing.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
It is.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
And for those of our listeners who don't under KNOWO
or have only heard generally about the Margolin collection, we
have in the Margolin Collection the work of a diligent
collector over decades to create a gathering, a compilation of
every work by every noted or unnoted talented illustrator to

(19:27):
capture the characters of Holmes and Watson in situations on
illustration board and for magazines. It's unbelievable. Everybody from Charles
Schultz to Gohan Wilson. You come up with a list
of the great illustrators of America, if any one of
them touched upon anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, it's

(19:47):
in that collection. So it's remarkable in that aspect.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
And on top of that, Jerry knew or knows a
lot of these people and those who had failed to
illustrate Lock Holmes. He made him do it. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I was just going to mention that when we
agan Wilson to the BSI Weekend, he was one of
our distinguished speakers at the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture, Jerry
was right there. And Jerry's collection of Wilson's is impressive.
And it should be worth noting that Jerry was with

(20:25):
us in season one on episode sixteen. If you'd like
to get a sense of Jerry and his passion and
his collection low these oh what now, almost eighteen years ago,
you get a sense of that Jerry has kept collecting,
has decommissioned his book collection to Auto Pensler, but has

(20:45):
kept collecting art and still doesn't have enough wall space
for it, so it's appropriate that he should land there.
And we should also mention speaking of the library at
the University of Minnesota. We had Tim Johnson with us
in season eight on episodisode sixty seven. That's worth listening
to him talk about the collections there as well. And
you know, it's wonderful. I should just say this as

(21:07):
an aside, it's wonderful that we have this archive that
I hear of Sherlock everywhere. When something happens to come
up in any given episode, we can point back to
a previous episode and say, we'll go through our archives
and hear what we've done on this previously. It's gratifying
to have that in our back pocket. Bert. Before we

(21:28):
get away from the events based stuff, I want to
hear a little bit more about your impressions of Dayton.
This is a smaller conference. It's a Midwest conference happens
annually in March in Dayton, Ohio. It was your first
time there. I've been a couple of times and have
spoken there, but I'd be interested in your perspective as

(21:50):
to what was compelling about it that would make you
call this out of all the other ones in twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Well, I think a couple of things you know about
the Dayton and Conference. One is that it's in March,
and you know, getting the group together from all over
the world. We had we had really an extraordinary number
of participants gathering there. And it's it's extraordinarily accessible, extraordinarily friendly,

(22:22):
extraordinarily varied because the title of the conference is Holmes,
Doyle and Friends, and so we had an opportunity to
talk about the life of Arthur Conan Doyle and an
extraordinary variety of presentations about all kinds of things in
the world of Sherlock Holmes. And so I think the

(22:45):
the spirit, the gathering, the friendliness of it, the fact
that it happens in spring, that it follows the BSI Dinner,
that it keeps the Sherlocke and Cadence going is was
just extraordinarily compel and I've already signed up to come
back in March of twenty twenty five. I just thought
it was wonderful, wonder wonderful highlight for the spring.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
And that idea of accessibility is it's it's a full
day conference and I think if you arrive the night before,
there's very informal gathering, just you know, plates of sandwiches. There,
you grab your back of chips and a can of
soda and water whatever, and sit down and just chat

(23:29):
with people over the tables and similarly throughout the day.
It's not a fancy conference. It's nothing formal, it's extremely affordable,
it's fairly centrally located, whether you're coming from the Midwest
or the East coast or places south. And and to
your point, the the friendliness with which you are greeted,

(23:52):
it's you know that Midwest cheer. Ross, you're an Ohio native.
You know what this is all about. It's rolling out
the red carpet to everyone. And I think it's just
a great example of how Sherlockian conference can be done well,
can be done without too much fuss and expense, and
can be done in a way that makes people want

(24:13):
to keep coming back. Well, why don't we turn to collectibles, Ross,
I think you had a couple of items on your
list here of rare collectible items that made their way
or are making their way to a more public eye.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Oh yes, it was a big year for that, wasn't it.
In addition to the tremendous Margolan and King donations to Minnesota.
There was around the middle of the year there was
an auction at Sotheby's that I think I suspect many
many Sherlockians watched, knowing when they first tuned in that

(24:56):
they were going to be spectating only because uh. Two
of the treasures that were were on the block were
the uh the original autograph manuscript of the Sign of Four,
accompanied by uh the uh the literary agents or the
authors uh a correspondence with the publisher uh and uh

(25:20):
then arguably the greatest Sydney paget illustration of the Canon ever,
The Death of Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Death you know eventually gets scare quotes later, but uh
uh uh those two pieces both sold to someone we
can all be grateful to A for making the investment
and b for being such a wonderful Sherlockian in his
own right, Glenn Moranker, which means that we know they
will be well cared for. We know that sort of

(25:51):
the Sherlockian spirit will travel with them or has traveled
with them to their new home. Uh and uh who
knows when we may get a chance to see them
firsthand in the future. Because Glenn and Kathy Moranker have
a nice history of sharing their treasures with all of us,

(26:14):
something we'll probably talk about a bit more and then.
The other one is a great example of a literary
crossover event. The Folger Library, the greatest, the greatest home
for Shakespeare and particularly shakespeare First Folios in the world.
The Folger Library in Washington, d C. Which is directly

(26:37):
across the street from the Library of Congress, has just
or just recently completed a multi year complete restoration and
redo of both the exterior and the interior in a
variety of ways that make it a beautiful place to
visit just as a general matter. But arguably the biggest
change is the way the library is approaching presenting its treasures,

(27:02):
its literary treasures. There is now a Median Stuart Rose
Exhibition Hall where all of their seventy odd copies of
the First Folio are on permanent display, but there is
also space for more conventional exhibitions, and for the past
couple of months and until January fifth, one of the

(27:24):
initial exhibitions in this new facility is from the Memian
Stuart Rose Collection, from their own the Roses own collection
of literary Treasures, which, by the way, is based. The
Roses collection is based in Dayton, Ohio. But these treasures
have traveled to Washington, d C. And they are amazing things.

(27:49):
You know, everything from you know, you know, Egyptian artifacts
to Winnie the Pooh, right, and in between the Egyptian
artifacts and Winnie the Pooh is of course a Doilian manuscript.
It is the complete autograph manuscript of the Valley of Fear.
And so if you ever want to get a glimpse
of this book, a flight or a train to Washington

(28:11):
sometime soon. But what it boils down to is that
two of the four canonical novels have been in the
public eye and or on view or both in twenty
twenty four exciting times.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Indeed, and you know, if that manuscript makes its way
back to Dayton, we should consider the Roses the friends
of the Doyle Holmes and Friends conference. I would think
I vote yes. Well, and one thing too ross before
we leave this whole kind of larger events category. There

(28:50):
was something in points north north of the Border that
you mentioned that was worth mentioning. What exactly is that?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
All right? The Toronto Public Library, which is one of
the other great homes of of a Doyleyan shirlockean archive
including manuscripts and correspondents and a host of other things,
and by the way, is the base of operations for

(29:23):
several fine Sherlockians, Peggy MacFarlane, Cliff Goldfarb, Hartley, Nathan Jesse
amalo Is is built. The building the Toronto Public Library
is in a space in downtown Toronto that is right

(29:44):
next door to a a byway that is more than
an alley but less than a street. It is, in
other words, the perfect place for someone's let's just call
him Cliff Goldfarb, who is an accomplished lawyer and public

(30:04):
servant and networker, to prevail upon the powers that be
of a major North American city to permit Sherlockian artists
to paint all over the entire side of a street.
And they did the grand unveiling of this incredible street

(30:30):
Art Toronto, which is a city agency that carries out
public art projects. This street Art Toronto multiple panel basically
block long mural of works inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's
works that includes you know, a number of Shrilakian panels
and a number of other Doylian panels, and you can

(30:53):
go online at the Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection slash Toronto Public Library website, and uh see all
of this, uh and uh and read up on the
art and the artists and so on and so forth.
But it is it's just it's just it's beautiful and
it's cool and it's fun.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
And I am sure it would be part of every
walking tour that anyone runs in Toronto henceforth.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
MHM is a remarkable.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Applaud the Friends of the Arthur Conanda Collection for arranging
to make this happen.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, unsung heroes as they are, they don't they don't
do a lot of chest thumping up there. It's that's
that's the Canadian way. Yes, but we should all celebrate them.
And if you do happen to get to Toronto, make
a beeline for the TPL, the Toronto Public Library there
and check out this this really amazing collection of artwork

(31:53):
there and we'll have a link to uh the representations
of the art work in the show notes for you
to check out. Okay, well, we've covered events, you know,
kind of public facing events. Why don't we talk a
little bit about the Sherlockean societies because in so many ways.

(32:14):
The Sherlockean societies are the lifeblood of you know, how
people find out about these things, how they share scholarship,
how they socialize, how we keep the memory of the
Master green. And incidentally, for listeners of Trifles our companion podcast,
the very first episode of season nine and twenty twenty

(32:34):
five is going to be about the origins of the
Baker Street Irregulars, how this all formed, whose brainchild it was,
the personalities behind it, and why we do things the
way we do. So make sure you're signed up to
Trifles to get that episode when it comes out, or
if you're listening to this after January first, it has
already come out, so go get it. So Ross lead

(32:58):
us through some of the highlights that you've picked out
in the Sherlockian Society's category.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Thank you, Scott. First of all, I should say or
disclose that roughly one third of every big fat volume
of the Baker Street Almanac is devoted to short reports
from science societies and independent societies all over the world,
and it's just amazing how many people are involved in
this kind of thing and the diversity of the ways

(33:26):
they approach Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle, the Canon, the
extensions of the Canon by creative people of all sorts.
So there is no way to cover even one percent
of what's going on, but there are at least I
think two ways in which twenty twenty four was I'm

(33:48):
not sure how to put this almost a transitional year
in science societies. The first is that there are a
small number ofties that have one way or another, just
because of their durability and the nature of their membership
and so on and so forth, on luck of course,
that have managed to survive from the early years of

(34:11):
of UH, the organ the Organization of Sherlockians. I don't
know a half dozen, maybe maybe a couple more than that,
of these scattered across the United States UH and.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
UH.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
In twenty twenty four, UH, the guard at the top
changed in a substantial percentage of those. And since he,
like like a good Canadian, is not much for chess thumping,
I will say that one of them is Scott Monty,
who is now a very important amateur mendicant right in Detroit, where.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
I like to think of myself as a professional mendicant. Ross.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Now we don't need to look at his tax records
we know, right, and then the other one. And on
this I must confess that to some sort of insider
pride about this, among other things. These earlier some of
these early Sherlakian societies had a long history of excluding women,
which all of them eventually came to regret and reform.

(35:22):
But it's one thing to let women in, whatever that
may mean. It's another thing for women to be in charge.
And in twenty twenty four Mary al Caro became the
first head Mastiff of the Sons of the Copper Beaches,
something that is sort of well earned and that she

(35:44):
will do a superb job at. And that makes her
the first woman to head one of these what might
one might call grand old, formerly misogynistic science societies. So
applause to marry.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Earned. And look, this really isn't a men versus women
kind of thing. It's by virtue of ability and leadership
qualities and interest in carrying these institutions forward. You mentioned
the original eight or so. We're talking about groups like

(36:21):
the Speckled Band of Boston formed in nineteen forty, the
Hounds of the Baskerville Sick in nineteen forty three, established
by Vincent Starret himself. You've got the Scourers and Molly
McGuire's out in the San Francisco area from nineteen forty four,
Amateur Mendicants forty six, the Six Napoleons of Baltimore also

(36:44):
from forty six, and the Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis from
forty seven, the Norwegian explorers up there in Minnesota from
nineteen forty eight, and the Sons of the Copper Beaches
in nineteen forty eight as well. So all of these
are societies that were founded in that era, and there
were more that were founded back then as well, but
these are the ones that are extant, that are still

(37:06):
in existence today, being kept alive by virtue of interests
of the people who attend, and by virtue of the
leaders who are chosen to decide how to adapt to
the twenty first century and also make a nod toward
the twentieth and even nineteenth centuries in putting our meetings together.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
And then looking to the future of the twenty or
more of the twenty first century. The other potentially big
transitional development in twenty twenty four was the announcement of
an event that's going to happen in twenty twenty five,
and that is a BSI sponsored conclave of Midwestern Scions.

(37:58):
In other words, this is a a meeting that is
structured as a meeting of scions. It's an institutional collection
rather than individuals. Obviously each institution is made up of individuals,
but the focus is on the relations between scions. And
this has been organized by Steve Doyle. It's going to

(38:21):
happen in Indianapolis in April twenty twenty five. But it's
even just the announcement of it this year already has
people talking about and thinking about science societies and how
they interact in ways that we may not have before.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
And that's interesting. This idea of a conclave is I
don't think we've really had this before. And just so
I'm clear, a conclave is really more inward focused and
a conflex is outwardly focused. Is that?

Speaker 5 (39:01):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Nor will bounce off the conflex. They go into the concave,
you know, because it's after all, it's concave, Okay, And
they go into the concave, which is not always a cave. Look,
it's it's not completely dark. I mean a cave would
be completely dark, but a concave can have like an
illumination over it and they go inside, but the conflex

(39:25):
is usually like a trampoline. You might want to get a.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Dictionary, Yeah, I might. I might. Well, this is perfect, Bert,
because speaking of cons, there is one con that you
wanted to talk about, which actually is there's kind of
two aspects to it. There's a May and a September aspect.
And I think you both called this out in our

(39:50):
pre meeting notes.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yes, well I would. I would talk about that, and
then I would after that, I would just talk a
little bit about a couple more societies. But yes, what
we're talking about here is Brett Khan and this is
the work of Gus and Luke. Gus and Luke howarda
whole who've produced a magnificent continuing podcast about the terrific

(40:19):
series the Granada Series of the Cases of Sherlock Holmes
starring Jeremy Brett and back in May, Gus and Luke
Well they joined us in March for a conversation about
this in episode two eighty four Brett Khan when it
was still about to happen, and they took a leap

(40:41):
of faith, and the leap of faith was that there
was enough enthusiasm and passion among their listeners to actually
make a success of a conference around the fortieth anniversary
of the Jeremy Brett series, the Granada series, and it
was hell in England in May, and it was a

(41:02):
fabulous success, a friendly, amazing assembly of a community of people,
many many of the participants, the crew, the actors who
were participating in the Brett Grenada series brought together to
celebrate that work and I think it was just extraordinary.

(41:22):
And then, as you point out, that was followed later
in the year by an opportunity to join a screening
of The Adventure of the Devil's Foot and another event
later in the year. But I think it was remarkable.
And of course one of the dynamics of twenty twenty
four was the fortieth anniversary of Jeremy Brett and Sherlock Holmes.

(41:44):
And to that I would add, in terms of the societies,
the January twenty twenty four meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars,
which was a lovely meeting, was the ninetieth anniversary of
the society, and just looking around the room at that
particular dinner and gathering, I could see Erica Dowell Erica

(42:06):
is the curator of Modern Books at Indiana University's Lily Library,
where we have the archive of the Baker Street Irregulars.
Nick Meyer was there, who during the year produced, of course,
another one of his terrific pastiches, which I'm sure we'll
talk about. And we had wonderful toasts by Ken Ludwig.

(42:27):
Ken Ludwig, the playwright and author of Lend Me a
Tennor and Moriarty gave a great toast to Sherlock Holmes.
Curtis Armstrong, the actor who played in when he was
a younger actor played Tom Cruise's best friend in Risky Business.
Curtis gave a fabulous talk about being a B list
the actually Sherlock Holmes's B list adversaries, including the hapless

(42:51):
spencer John Gang from The Three Gables, but he also
talked about B list actors. It was just funny. But
I love to mention that only because in that room
you can get the spirit of the original Baker Street
Irregulars that somehow, you know, this gathering of creative people
by Christopher Morley, who was very gregarious and friendly, continuing

(43:14):
all these years later, and you can see these different
manifestations too, you know in Bretchon and so on.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
That's wonderful, that's all good stuff. So you mentioned Nicholas Meyer.
That's a great jumping off point for us to talk
about some of the significant publications. And again, there are
always scores, if not hundreds of Sherilockian publications throughout the year,

(43:48):
most of which I think are done by MX Publishing,
our sponsor here, but there are also lots of mainstream
or near mainstream examples, and Ross I think you have
a couple of those that capture your attention.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
Yes, first of all, Yes, at a more general level,
it is great to see sort of the great modern
Schrilockean publishing houses continuing to go gangbusters, right, MX, Blanger, Wessex,
the BSI Press itself, all of them had very productive
twenty twenty fours. Twenty twenty four also gave us a

(44:28):
couple of continuing classics or classics by continuing excellent writers,
and a couple of really nifty new things. In the
continuing classics, i'd put what are arguably the epitomes of
the two branches of Shechrilockean pastiche writing, Luri King and

(44:50):
Nick Meyer Laurie is a pastiche writer who has built
an extension onto the canonical world courtesy of the amazing
and brilliant Mary Russell. And so we got we got
another book, the Lantern Stance in the Mary Russell series,
which everyone should read right and get more of the

(45:10):
Mary Russell Sherlockian world. And then we got Sherlock Holmes
on the Telegram from Hell from Nick Meyer, which puts
you both feet right back into the canonical world in
its entirety. Both great writers, both very productive, and both
neither one has lost a step as they age as

(45:31):
their protagonist's age. It's a sort of a nice sort
of symbiosis there, or what's the plural of symbiosis scottes.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Simbio and we we should note just by by way
of acknowledgment, and for folks that would like a link
to this, Laurie R. King was a guest on My
Hero of Sherlock Everywhere early in the year to talk
about Lantern Stance. That was episode two hundred and eighty one.
So again we'll have links to all of these previous
episodes that we're talking about in the show notes.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
And Nick Meyer on two ninety four for a telegram
from Hell.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Exactly right, thank you.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
For that, So listen and read. There's also on sort
of the what might be called the other side of
the aisle Sherlockian nonfiction. There's the latest in the BSI
Press Annotated manuscript series, Steve Doyle. There's that name again,
Big Year for Steve Doyle, another first rate volume in

(46:37):
that series, and they're all sorts of nice sort of
secondary ramifications of Steve doing the Clutches of a Fiend,
which is the manuscript of the Adventure of the Illustrious Client,
because he is, of course the head of the Illustrious
Clients of Indianapolis and has been a strong leader there

(46:58):
and an innovator in the use of, for example, zoom
as a compliment to conventional in person meetings. Also, I'd
like to highlight one other book that folks may not
have run into, or many folks may not have because
it's published by an academic press, which sort of fair
notice means that it's expensive, so for many folks, borrowing

(47:20):
it from your local public library may be a better choice.
But a Polish literary scholar named Lutsina kratchik Jecko has
put out a book brand new book called Holmes and
the Ripper that and I would like to think I'm
not exaggerating when I say it is the best integration

(47:42):
of conventional scholarship with fans scholarship I have ever read.
It's a beautifully written, beautifully worked out study of the
literary and real world interconnections between Sherlock Holmes and Jack
the Ripper, between the Sherlockian canon and the Riparian canon,

(48:05):
and between conventional and fan scholarship of both of those characters.
It's just a superb book. You should check it out.
On top of all of that, I should add that,
speaking of someone who is a professional academic, even though
it's written by a professional academic, it is also beautifully
readably written. You can actually read it and enjoy it,

(48:29):
and in it you will find you know, yes, citations
to a variety of literary scholars who are introduced to
you in ways that are quite accessible and also leading
sources of fan scholarship, including Less Klinger, William Barring Gould,
and a podcast called I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere?

Speaker 1 (48:49):
WHOA are you well? Amazing? Well, we may need to
check with this scholar if she's using us as a source.
What an honor. That's that's fascinating and and we note
it is available on Amazon and kindle format as well

(49:09):
as a hardcover, and interestingly enough, both editions are almost
similarly priced. It is odd so you may as well
get the hardcover. But that's that's a fascinating one. Ross,
thank you for bringing that to our attention.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Well, and while we're on the on the subject of that,
k you Holi, Yeah, I would just mention a wonderful
seems to me. You know, you get into the world
of Sherlock Holmes and there is this sort of continuing
undercurrent about the legitimacy you know, that's it's sort of

(49:50):
persisted in one way or another faintly over the years
about well Arthur Conan Doyle, you know, Lovely Fellow and
all of that, very popular stories, but is this really
literat And Conan Doyle in his own day was troubled
by that because his aspiration was to equal Sir Walter

(50:12):
Scott and others and having a literary reputation, and to
some degree felt that the cases of Sherlock Holms stood
in the way of achieving that suit of reputation. How
pleased he would be to know that there was an
Edinburgh Conan Doyle project today, the resulting in a scholarly
edition in twenty two volumes of the work of Conan Doyle,

(50:33):
who is now perceived as one of the most the
best known and most important British authors. And in twenty
twenty four we saw the publication, among other things, in
that series of his Memories and Adventures edited and produced
by Edinburgh University. And I just thought that the whole
edition and also those milestones were important to recognize in

(50:59):
the Sherlock world as a real notable milestone and the
reputation of Conan.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
Door and one other milestone. While we're on milestones, this
is the first time in a long time twenty twenty
four when we have a new editor of the Sherlock
Holmes Journal, the flagship publication of the Sherlock Holms Society
of London. This journal, in fact is renowned for the
quality and durability of its editors. We can get from

(51:29):
the nineteen fifties to the present day pretty briefly, the
Marquis of Donegal, then Nicholas Utechan, then Roger Johnson, and
Roger Johnson has just passed the baton to the youthful,
energetic and brilliant Mark Jones. So the journal looks to

(51:52):
be in good hands for the now and into the
distant future. The Guard.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
And my own contribution to the literary side of things here.
You know, it's appropriate that we have Mark Jones, who
pays homage to Doyle, and that the Edinburgh edition is
something that Doyle would be proud of. But midway through

(52:24):
the year we interviewed Glenn Moranker about a new book
from his collection that's a nice companion volume to the
catalog of his exhibition from the Rolier Club and then
at Indiana University. It's called This Work of Storytelling, and
it was from a speech that Conan Doyle gave in

(52:46):
Oh goodness eighteen I'm blanking on the year when he
gave this speech eighteen ninety six June twenty ninth, eighteen
ninety six to the Author's Club of London. Glenn of
course has the actual written speech and presents it in
manuscript form and then has just some wonderful essays to

(53:11):
accompany it and to give us a census to who
Conan Doyle was, what the Author's Club was, and why
this was a significant development and in particular, and this
is how one of the ways that we talk about
Sherlockian scholarship both here and on Trifles is how Sherlockians
and Holmesians collaborate. And Michael Mehr, a great Sherlockian from Switzerland,

(53:38):
kind of came to the rescue here and helped Glenn
solve some of the mystery behind how the an inscription
was made and what the significance was and where the
documents passed in years in between. So it's just a
wonderful confluence of scholarship and collaboration between all of these

(54:02):
wonderful collectors and that really gets to the heart of
what Conan Doyle was trying to convey, you know, how
to tell a good story and how to piece something together.
So that's really worth checking out as well. So that
gets us from publishing. We're kind of rounding the corner

(54:22):
here and wrapping up with other forms of media, moving
pictures and sounds. I think we're into the talkies era now, Ross,
why don't you give us your highlight?

Speaker 5 (54:39):
All righty? Well one, and this show is is produced
in America, and so I'm going to going to be
American fromonte here and say that that that over here
in the colonies we didn't have well, we didn't have

(54:59):
law full access to Lucy Worsley's sort of is it
Sherlock Versus Arthur or Doyle Versus Holmes her series, Holmes
Versus Doyle, Her Homes Versus Doyle series that came out
almost exactly a year ago, so technically twenty twenty three

(55:21):
on the BBC, but it is now available on public
television in the United States of America and has been
viewed many times. And my understanding is has been a
success for the public broadcasting system, and it is sort

(55:42):
of coming from a different, slightly different angle. It has
some of the same spirit as the krotcheck Book, which
is that she presents some pretty sophisticated views about Conan
Doyle in his work in ways that are quite accessible
to a novice, and we need that in our world.

(56:09):
We need to provide friendly points of entry for people
who are interested in who are charmed, charmed by a
taste of Conan Doyle and would like to swim in
those waters without necessarily being tossed into the middle of
the ocean to swim in the writings on the Writings
from Day one and Worsley does a very nice job

(56:31):
of that in a I think it's a three part
series right that includes, among other things, a wonderful interview
with an occasional star on this show. I have guest
star in the show, I believe Dance Dash Hour. So
in terms of of the talkies, I think Worsley is

(56:55):
well welcomed to our country in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
We would love to welcome her to the program here.
We've reached out to her a number of times and
her representatives, but haven't heard back yet. So if there's
anyone out there listening who has a direct conduit or
the ear of Lucy Warsley, maybe I'll talk with Dan Stassour,
my fellow two thousand and one classmate from Investitureity Regulars,

(57:25):
and see if we can get Dan to pull a
few strings for us to get Lucy on the show. Because,
as you say, Ross, this is an important program for
those of us who are died in the world that
we probably haven't learned anything new from the program, but
that's okay. These vignettes come along, whether it's the exhibition

(57:45):
of nineteen fifty one that showcased so much of what
was supposed to be in Baker Street or part of
Sherlock Holmes's Cases, or a program I remember from when
I was young and impressionable hosted by Christopher The Many
Faces of Sherlock Holmes. It was a great overview of
Sherlock Holmes on screens. These are the things we need

(58:09):
that kind of hook people and get them more interested
and get them connected with what's going on here, because
I'll tell you I spent a lot of time in
the Sherlock Holmes subreddit for those of you who know
reddit dot com, and there are plenty of people that
don't even know that this whole world of Sherlockians exists,
and they're enjoying the heck out of the stories on

(58:31):
their own. Imagine what it would be if we could
open up this world to them, and if we could
enjoy things the way they enjoy and have new perspectives
presented to us. I think that's what keeps us all
continually interested.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
And if I may, Scott in the same spirit that
you're talking about, don't underestimate, worseley, how many people who
viewed it and rolled their eyes the lack of new
information for their sophisticated Sherlockie eyes noticed what kind of
dinosaurs were in the background. When she interviewed Dan stash out,

(59:09):
there are easter eggs in that show. For people in
the know.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
That's really worth pointing out. Ross. I'm glad you said that, Bert.
You had a multimedia selection, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Well. The notable thing too in films of Sherlock Holmes
is that early on you have to remember our listeners
need to remember that we're talking about cases of course
that began to be written in the eighteen nineties, beyond
even the earliest days of cinema. And Conan Doyle, without

(59:46):
giving much thought to it, had sold the film rights
for Sherlock Holmes to an organization, and he eventually, as
cinema became a big thing, movies became a big thing,
had to spend more than he had sold it for.
I back the rights and then sold those rights to
a company called Stole and Stole in England produced a

(01:00:07):
series of forty five Sherlock Holmes film starring Island Norwood
in the nineteen twenties. And these had been of course
originally shot on very unstable now nitrite stock and had
preserved in the ninth been preserved in the nineteen fifties
by more Unstable Nitride Stock. Well. The good news is

(01:00:28):
that the British Film Institute has been restoring them and
in October they showed three of those films that had
been seen in the UK for the first time since
nineteen twenty two. And Island. Norwood was an actor who
portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a way that had the imprimiture

(01:00:50):
of Conan Doyle himself. When Norwood appeared on stage as
Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was there. Love and every minute
of it. And the idea that these films now maybe
the entire series in the years ahead, will be available.
We've seen some of them at various conferences, but the
idea that these would now be available.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Is just terrific, really is and so so grateful. And yeah,
I mentioned we were in the talkies pace. Those those
are silent films, so not talkies.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Muttering. I'll go to the muttering. It was close to
the silent era.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Muttering, and I heard the shuffling of de feet. I think, well,
I'll flip it on its head and remove the moving
images and go straight to audio, because that's why everyone's here.
This was an interesting year. I thought for the Sherlockian world.
In terms of podcasting, we mentioned Gus and Luke there

(01:01:49):
of course part of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast,
which does a wonderful job of reminding everyone why that
series was so impactful and touches on not only the production,
the production crew and staff which are part of some
of their events, but also has got into ephemera and

(01:02:10):
produced some of the replicas of some of the props
there that they use, which to sherlockans that's part of
what we eat up right. We love the things that
physically remind us of Sherlock Holmes. But I should also
mention that Sherlock and Co. It has really come into

(01:02:30):
its hone. We of course spoke with Joel Emery, the
head writer on episode two seventy five, back in October
of twenty twenty three in season seventeen, but this year
actually just a few episodes ago, on episode three hundred,
we talked to Harry Atwell, who portrays Sherlock Holmes on

(01:02:52):
that series. And this is a series that in many ways,
and I think I've said this before, rifles the first
print appearance of Sherlock Holmes in serial formation in the
Strand magazine. It's difficult to extract that which is real
versus that which is not real. It's written in such

(01:03:14):
a way that it seems like it's a real true
crime podcast and Sherlock and John are simply characters in
this who are producing this every week, when in fact
it's a really really well scripted show, well produced show
by the folks at Goalhanger, which because of their prominence

(01:03:38):
in the podcasting world, have really given it some heft.
So hats off to Sherlock and co. And I suppose
I mean, I just mentioned it in passing there, that
three hundredth episode that marks a milestone for I hear
of Sherlock everywhere. We're on episode three hundred and two here.

(01:04:00):
We continue to do this twice a month on the
fifteenth and thirtieth. I don't see any end in sight
because of so many interesting people and occurrences and productions
and publications in the Sherlockian world. So we're grateful to
having you as our audience continue to support us in
that way. And we also celebrated episode four hundred of Trifles,

(01:04:25):
our companion show, and I think episode four hundred was
a look back at some of our favorite episodes of Trifles,
just like we're looking back at some famous favorite items
from twenty twenty four with all of you here on
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere. And I should conclude this
media portion of our selections by mentioning Madeline Kenyonez. Madeline

(01:04:51):
has been a recent addition to the family of I
Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, and it was thanks to her
presentation in Dayton where she did chronology of Sherlockian podcasts
and Bert came back and reported on this, and we
thought this would be an interesting project if Madlin can
take some of that and maybe do a little bit

(01:05:14):
of a deeper dive. And as she scratched the surface,
she found even more Sherlockian podcast that she wasn't aware
of at the time of her presentation. But if she
could introduce these podcasts in a three to five minute
vignette in each episode, it would help expand the world
of Sherlockian podcasts for all of our listeners. So we're

(01:05:35):
about halfway through her project right now. She has about
thirteen or so more podcasts to review for us. That'll
be a grand total of I think twenty six if
my count is correct, and Madeline is just charming and
passionate and well informed, and we are so glad that

(01:05:56):
she is part of the I here of Sherlock Everywhere family.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
And on behalf of your listeners. I agree, Encore Madeline.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Yeah, and when she's done with all of those podcasts,
we need to give her another topic. I'm sure she
has another topic. We need Madeline to continue. Continued Madeline,
there we go, and then well, Scott, we can pass
off the whole podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Madeline. Well, that's the idea, isn't it as we talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
But don't tell me well, you'll scare her off. Oh
she I shouldn't have said anything.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Nobody now, Well, our seven listeners will. Well, I'm sure
get the word out trapped so well, Uh, I think
that kind of wraps up we wanted to cover her.
Are there any last minute additions that either of you
wish to share?

Speaker 5 (01:06:47):
No, I think I think one other book that might
or might might make the list here in terms of
sort of the range, because we've we've done mainland Europe,
we've done the United States, on Canada, a book from
the UK again that some folks may not have seen
by Elizabeth Ashby, se curator at the Royal Collection Trust

(01:07:11):
at Windsor Castle, has a book out about the library
of the famous Queen's Dolls House that is one of
the major attractions at Windsor Castle, and that library contains
a number of miniature books handwritten by prominent British writers

(01:07:38):
of the day when the Dolls House was made, which
was in nineteen twenty three twenty four, and one of
the contributors was Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the shortest
of the Sherlock Holmes stories how Watson learned the trick
in one of these little books, And that little book
is one of the featured items in Elizabeth's new book

(01:08:00):
about the library. So some very very nice pictures in
very good scholarly context.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Interestingly and interestingly enough, if you count that book, you
wind up with sixty one cases of Sherlock Holm.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
And the only I think that's a great addition. The
only other thing I would add would be in looking Back.
You know, with IHOS we do twenty four episodes a
year looking back, there are probably four I would just
like to call out people might want to check in on.
One was episode two eighty two, with Bev Waloff, who
talked about the woman and in addition to writing a

(01:08:40):
magnificent poem which expresses a lot of the emotion associated
with being married to someone who is part of the
Sherilockian world. It was just a lovely conversation and I'm
sure aspects of that will echo to our listeners who
are married to or who themselves find themselves married to

(01:09:05):
people who are perhaps more passionate about Sherlock Holmes than
they are.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Also, Chris Chan, maybe you're stuck in a car listening
to this show right now and you haven't tuned out yet.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Yes, so go and dial up. Bevoalav in episode two
eighty two is a wonderful program. Chris Chan and Patricia
Maya Chan joined us for The Autistic Sleuth in April
in two eighty six, which I thought was just a
fascinating and thoughtful conversation about autism and people with autism

(01:09:38):
and the world of Sherlock Holmes. Jeff Hatcher joined us
in two ninety five to discuss his new play Holmes
Puaro Act one, a case of Sherlock Holmes Act two,
the implications of that case in the world of equ
Puaro wonderfully creative and Stephen Channe Lee in two ninety
nine interrogating Sherlock just shows us Ross. I know you

(01:10:02):
will be astonished, but apparently people in the legal profession
apparently have something involved to contribute to the world of
Sherlock Holmes. As amazing as.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
That sounds wonderful to see at least one lawyer who
can do quick work in this area.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
That's fantastic. And you know, as long as we're going
through the archives of this year, and I don't want
this to just be a recap of all of our episodes,
but we did a couple of episodes that were part
of a series on the Legends of the Baker Street Journal,
and this year we looked at Edgar Smith and James Montgomery,

(01:10:39):
two essential figures in terms of furthering this scholarship for everyone.
So that's worth checking out. I don't know that there
will be more in the BSJ series, but we may
do a legends series more broadly from the BSI people
that we think are wor noting and you know, worth

(01:11:02):
remembering and perhaps in some cases introducing you to these people.
A lot of these personalities and these stories are bound
up in the Baker Street Irregular's history series, which is
not widely available anymore. They sold out long ago, so
it's worth continuing with an oral tradition here. Both o

(01:11:24):
Arl as well as AU are al oral and oral
for those of you following along with the homophonic type.
So that being said, Ross, thank you for sharing your
perspectives on what's the most significant throughout twenty twenty five,
and I would imagine you'll continue to chronicle these things

(01:11:48):
going into twenty twenty five. That is the plan twenty
five I said twenty twenty five if I meant twenty
twenty four and going into twenty twenty five, So I.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
Figured you were talking about twenty twenty five into twenty
twenty six, and that is the plan too, So.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
That too excellent. Well, we can't keep a good man down.
You are a publishing dynamo and it's great to see
it applied to the things that we love in terms
of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle and literature. If folks
would like to get more information about the Baker Street Almanac,
will certainly have a link in the show notes. But

(01:12:21):
why don't you tell people, just in case.

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
Scott Bert, what this book is, and I know you
both have seen it is. It is, or at least
it aspires to be basically a time capsule of a
year in the Sherlockean Doulian world. And so it's a big,
fat book, three hundred and four hundred, five hundred pages long,
full of reports from science societies and other Schrlockean groups.
We reproduce in facsimile the entire year's run of Peter

(01:12:48):
Blouse scuttle Butt. We publish various other contributions that have
come to our attention in the preceding year, and we
put it out in print, in part for people who
love print, and in part to make sure it ends
up on important library shelves for posterity for researchers and
scholars in the future. And then every year we put

(01:13:08):
the whole darn thing on our website as a searchable
PDF for free. So the idea is to preserve and
share each year of our community's history.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
Excellent. Well, if you haven't ordered your copy of The
Baker's Treat Almanac or looked at back issues of previous
Almanac entries, feel free to check it out at The
Baker's treet Almanac website. In our show notes, Ross Davies,
as always, it's a pleasure conversing with you, and we'll
see you in just a few short weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:13:43):
Yes, indeed in New York. Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
Guys, it's a chance of listening with your correspondent, Madeline Kimonas.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
Hello everyone, I'm Madeline Kenyanis and today I am here
to talk about the other podcast focused on the Granada series.
I am, of course speaking of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock
Holmes podcast. Sidebar, this is the moment to say that
Scott and Bird have interviewed Gus and Luke HOLWERDA twice

(01:14:28):
and if you haven't listened to those episodes, you absolutely should.
The episode numbers are two hundred and three and two
hundred and eighty four. The funny thing is that two
podcasts about Grenada came out within months of each other,
and apparently without either ever being aware of each other.

(01:14:50):
There was also no spark in the Srilokian zeitgeist that
led to either podcast creation, But by twenty eighteen and
twenty nineteen BBC Sherlock had aired its final season, the
third Robert Danny Junior movie was already feeling less and
less possible. CBS Elementary was wrapping up it's run, and

(01:15:11):
there were no other major Sherlockian adaptations on the horizon.
There was more room to talk and obsess about other
things and older things. So when two brothers started a
podcast taking a detailed look at the Granada series, Sherlockiana
was more than ready for it. Gus and lukekarn't just fanboys,

(01:15:31):
they're also independent filmmakers. That factor is one of the
things that made the show so special from the beginning,
because they could analyze the show not only from a
fan's perspective, but also from a technical perspective. And then
they started interviewing cast and crew. What began as a
super detailed look at the show became a tremendous oral

(01:15:54):
history of it. From the beginning, Gus would give bios
of the guest stars, writers and directors, and he would
dig into the published accounts of the series. But with
the addition of the interviews, the show becomes something tremendously special,
to the point where now the brothers and their producer
David Yule are hosting events where fans can gather together

(01:16:17):
and listen to Kanston Krue talking about the Granada series
in person. It's gone from being a fun and super
nerdy show to being an important body of work that
is still fun and super nerdy. So with that in mind,
let's get to some recommendations. As far as normal episodes go,
I would say that if you're already a Granada fan,

(01:16:39):
just dive into an episode that covers one of your
favorite Granada episodes. If you're not a Granada fan but
you're curious, same basic idea, go for one of your
favorite canon stories. But as far as interviews go, well,
that's an embarrassment of virtues. They're all wonderful, but to
single out of hand Prim Hardwick, wife of the late

(01:17:02):
Edward Hardwick in season two twenty twenty, David Burke in
season four twenty twenty two, and June Wyndham Davies in
season five, twenty twenty three. I could keep on gushing
about this show, so I will just shut up now
and let you get on with your New Year's festivities.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Tears Madaline's enthusiasm and her approach and her content are
so great to hear as part of IHOS. And I
know we've mentioned that, you know, particularly in you Know
our discussion with Ross, but I just had to point

(01:17:42):
out that as I've gone to Sherlocking events in the
last couple of months, a number of people have come
up to me to tell me, particularly how much they
enjoy hearing Madeline, and I just thought that, you know,
she should really be properly recognized for that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Well done, and thank you, Madeline for continuing to grace
our airwaves with your voice and your lovely summations. Okay,

(01:18:20):
it's everyone's be for its segment of the show. That's right.
It's canonical couplet where we give you two lines of
poetry and ask you to come up with which Sherlock
home story it is that we're talking about. The last
time we were around here, we gave you this clue

(01:18:42):
the words were said and help came rather late. And
listen to that Preacher's Billingsgate. Okay, Bert, this is where
we take a risk every episode and ask you to
identify story it is. What do you have to say
for yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Oh, this is a great case and this is the
perfect time of year. It's the great case. A bowler
hat arrives in Baker Street, Christmas Goose arrives, and a
handyman is arrested. He is the wrong guy, and unfortunately
he freezes to death. This is the case Watson called
the Blue Carpenter.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Oh boy, I really don't know where to go with
this at this point, but I'm glad that you continue
to entertained. Our friend Eric Decker's has come to our
rescue once again, he says, I think I've solved this one,
but I had a little help. It's amazing what slipping

(01:19:51):
Burt twenty bucks can do. You know, Eric, you take
your life into your own hands if you want to
get advice from Bert. On the canonical couplet, however, he writes,
it's the story of a mentally deranged serial killer who
lives all alone in the country to avoid interacting with
people at all costs, even foregoing his favorite sinister pastime.

(01:20:16):
It's the story Watson called the Solitary Psycho, except now
I'm worried about Bert's own track record, so I think
it's more likely to be the adventure of the solitary Cyclist. Yes,
that is correct, Eric, and showing good judgment once again,
it's why we keep you around here. Well done, well,

(01:20:39):
we had a number of wonderful entries again, this time around,
So we're going to give the prize wheel a big
spear and see what we get. Going around and landing
on number forty one. Bruce mcintogh I congratualations. We will

(01:21:06):
have what do we have for our winter this time? Vaultedem?
I think it's what we said?

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Is that correct? I want to check my records and
make sure this was episode three? Why do I always
get myself into this jam? Where? Oh the episode was
Sherlock Holmes Leviathan. Of course we have from the Kickstarter

(01:21:36):
project with Mike Barron, so we have a copy of
Sherlock Holmes Leviathan available for you, so that will be
on its way once it is produced. Well, we have
another canonical couple of this time around, so put your
minds to it and we'll have something from our vault

(01:22:00):
from twenty twenty four available to you. And here's the clue.
Enough for him to kiss her garments, hems and cheer
while millions tumbled in the Thames. If you know the
answer to this canonical couplet, put in an email addressed

(01:22:20):
to comment and I hear of Sherlock dot com with
canonical couplet in the subject line. If you are among
all of the correct answers submitted, and we choose your
name at random. You'll win. Good luck. Oh Bert, I
can't believe it. It's the end of season eighteen, the

(01:22:41):
end of twenty twenty four. Woo we made it. Woo
we did.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
I wonder in the world of ihos are there solstices?
You know? The longest show, the shortest show?

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
Oh? Probably interesting, you know there was. I think it
was episode one hundred, maybe that I chronicled how many
hours we had produced up until then, and what our
shortest show, our longest show, etc.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
Was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
I still think Nicholas Meyer holds the record for longest show,
episode eighty five. I believe that was. Let me see
it was back in season Oh goodness, yes, season nine,
Nicholas Meyer. I think it was a two hour long episode.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Well it's worth it, I mean Nick talking to Nick,
he's got such great stories.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Yeah, he really did, he really did well. I'm sure
there are many more stories of fascinating Sherlockians lined up
for twenty twenty five. When I hear of Sherlock everywhere
continues into the new year. Until then, this is the
completely spent and exhausted Scott Monty.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
I'm the seriously overdrawn bertwolder.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
Oh, I think you look just fine. You're you're a
caricature of yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Yeah, how about that. You know, I'm sort of like
a cartoon of an individual with the ink not quite dry.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
And that's all, folks. And then this is the time
when we say the games foot, the games of the foot.

(01:24:41):
You know, I'm afraid that in the pleasure to this conversation,
I'm neglecting business of importance which awaits me.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
Thank you for listening. Please be sure to join us
again for the next episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere,
the first podcast dedicated to Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Goodbye and good luck, and believe me to be my
dear mama.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
That is sincerely yours, Sherlock Holmes.

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