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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVDnjBC2P0lbj22pGIkDdRkKmEMyKx4bUkX7mcAHCe38wYfgcESDlek8eJB0gDsUIKvk39HQPgLJ0Zgi4S57Dh1_5k_c6oWYlRxCML9xwTC375qAni-bNlN_hxNoKU3pD50IC02SUB9oc/s1600/basil-rathbone-and-nigel-bruce-on-radio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVDnjBC2P0lbj22pGIkDdRkKmEMyKx4bUkX7mcAHCe38wYfgcESDlek8eJB0gDsUIKvk39HQPgLJ0Zgi4S57Dh1_5k_c6oWYlRxCML9xwTC375qAni-bNlN_hxNoKU3pD50IC02SUB9oc/s320/basil-rathbone-and-nigel-bruce-on-radio.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Sherlock Holmes has a long history in the medium of radio, stretching back as far as 1930 and possibly (if certain reports are to believed) <a href="http://www.mwotrc.com/rr2008_06/holmes.htm">even earlier</a>.<br /><br />Among the notable actors who have played Holmes and Watson on the radio are such luminaries as William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Andrew Sachs, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, John Neville, Cartlon Hobbs and Norman Shelley, among many, many, many others. For every screen appearance by Holmes and Watson there are at least three times that number in the medium of sound.<br /><br />Do you have what it takes to join their ranks?<br /><br />This July the Post Meridian Radio Players will be presenting an original live radio adaptation of <i>The Hound</i><br /><i>of the Baskervilles</i> as part of their Summer Mystery Radio Theater. The Hound will close out an evening of other classic radio mysteries, including a recreation of the Burns and Allen classic "Gracie Take Up Crime Solving" and the Suspense classic "Sorry, Wrong Number."<br /><br />For those Baker Street Blog readers of a theatrical bent who are in the Boston area, auditions will be held in<br />Somerville, MA on the evenings of May 21st and 22nd. Further information on the production can be found on the <a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/events_srt12.html">Hub of the Universe website</a>. <a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/index_auditions.html">Check out their site</a> for information on auditions, including sides and sign-up.<br /><br />All are welcome.<br /><br /><br /><i>When you make purchases from the links we share, it provides us with a stream of revenue to help keep this site running. Thank you for your generosity.</i><br />--

"Possible Actors in This Drama" [SECO]

Sherlock Holmes has a long history in the medium of radio, stretching back as far as 1930 and possibly (if certain reports are to believed) ...

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by Scott Monty

"Breaking the News" [HOUN]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4x9aJcxgvvy63NVKXf4-Z04HojeCdE1_h9AOBB-fA72E_qIX3Rj32YtgvePNrqnuOJn0gxiY6WyJMFjSmsDLidjlXAOhU2SbYXx3gB5eCU_jcOXdVD3GF-8Djd68i77ojTRPTLEH4Sro3/s1600/MycroftHolmes_Gatiss.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4x9aJcxgvvy63NVKXf4-Z04HojeCdE1_h9AOBB-fA72E_qIX3Rj32YtgvePNrqnuOJn0gxiY6WyJMFjSmsDLidjlXAOhU2SbYXx3gB5eCU_jcOXdVD3GF-8Djd68i77ojTRPTLEH4Sro3/s320/MycroftHolmes_Gatiss.png" width="320" /></a></div><b>BREAKING NEWS</b><br /><br />We're pleased to announce that you can participate in a live chat with Mark Gatiss, co-creator and star of <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QOB8SO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B004QOB8SO">Sherlock</a></i></b>, right here on The Baker Street Blog at <b>1 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 14</b>. Details are below.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/twitter.html">#SherlockPBS Twitter chats</a> are one thing, and the  <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2012/05/awaiting-return-of-our-colleagues-vall.html">PBS-hosted event in New York</a> was another, but we think this takes things to a much higher level. The <a href="http://pbs.org/sherlock"><b>PBS <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Masterpiece</span> Sherlock</b></a> team are giving you an opportunity to ask questions <i>directly</i> to Mark Gatiss in real-time for all to see! You might consider asking him about the creative process, how he came to realize a Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century, how he collaborates with Steven Moffat, or what he thinks of playing Mycroft Holmes, the much smarter (and usually much heavier) brother of Sherlock Holmes.<br /><br />In our experience with live chats, there will likely be many more questions submitted than the subject can answer, and not all of the questions may be able to be displayed, due to the rather ponderous administrative task of the moderators. But if you ask insightful and appropriate questions, we can all be the beneficiaries of them if Mark can answer.<br /><br />If you'd like to be reminded of the chat, simply enter your email address in the form below and select when you'd like to be notified. And if you miss the opportunity to participate live, we'll have the transcript available in the same embedded chat below, so you can replay it at any time. And bookmark this post so you can come back on Monday to participate.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><center><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="550px" scrolling="no" src="http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=9ea06e3958/height=550/width=470" width="470px">&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=9ea06e3958" &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Online Chat with Sherlock's Mark Gatiss&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</iframe></center><br /><br />We hope you'll have the opportunity to join us on Monday. And as an aside: how appropriate that we found the titular quote above that happens to be from the same story upon which the next episode of <i>Sherlock </i>is based.<br /><br />--<br /><br />

"Breaking the News" [HOUN]

BREAKING NEWS We're pleased to announce that you can participate in a live chat with Mark Gatiss, co-creator and star of Sherlock , righ...

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by Scott Monty

"Back Upon the Moor Once Again" [HOUN]

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#SherlockPBS is back for a second week. As you no doubt recall, Season 2 of <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QOB8SO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B004QOB8SO">Sherlock</a></i></b> premiered on PBS's <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Masterpiece</span> on Sunday, and evidently <a href="http://www.pbs.org/about/news/archive/2012/sherlock2-premiere-ratings/">the ratings were quite strong, with over 3,200,000 viewers</a>. That's a figure that more than doubles the average primetime viewership for PBS.<br />
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Even <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Masterpiece</span> Exeuctive Producer Rebecca Eaton was excited to share the news when she said, "Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have taken Sherlock and Watson to a whole new level. We're thrilled that viewers have responded so enthusiastically to this groundbreaking series."<br />
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As you may recall, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/05/for-second-time-abbe_4.html" target="_blank">we participated in the live Twitter chat</a> during the show in which we shared observations, commentary and discussion related to the characters, inspiration and other elements of "A Scandal in Belgravia." [<i>If you missed the episode, you can still <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch/sherlock_belgravia.html">watch it on PBS online until June 15</a>.</i>] There were over 5,000 mentions of the <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23SherlockPBS">#SherlockPBS</a> hashtag on Twitter and <a href="http://getglue.com/tv_shows/sherlock">over 15,000 people checked in via GetGlue</a>, which is an a social TV site that connects viewers via the web (where you can earn stickers such as the image above).<br />
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On Sunday May 13, you'll be treated to Episode 2 of Season 2, titled "The Hounds of Baskerville." For those of you screaming "That should be 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'!" that's not a typo. In this case, Baskerville is a top-secret military compound where it is rumored that there are biological weapons and experimentation on genetically engineered animals, which may or may not account for "the footprints of a gigantic hound!"<br />
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And if you're in the mood on Sunday evening, you may once again join us for the Twitter chat (check out the Tweetgrid we've set up to follow it), along with co-hosts <a href="http://www.lyndsayfaye.com/">Lyndsay Faye</a> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/LyndsayFaye">LyndsayFaye</a>), <a href="http://www.bakerstreetbabes.com/">The Baker Street Babes</a> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/BakerStBabes">BakerStBabes</a>) and for the west coast, <a href="http://www.lesliesklinger.com/">Leslie Klinger</a> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/lklinger">lklinger</a>).<br />
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"Back Upon the Moor Once Again" [HOUN]

#SherlockPBS is back for a second week. As you no doubt recall, Season 2 of Sherlock premiered on PBS's Masterpiece on Sunday, and e...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 42: Sherlock @PBS - Cumberbatch Returns

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Sherlock mania as at its heights. The second series of the BBC's <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QOB8SO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B004QOB8SO">Sherlock</a></i></b> is making its way to the U.S. shores currently, and fandom online and offline is continuing to grow.<br />
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On behalf of the show, Burt made his way to New York City on <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2012/04/hung-about-and-screened-bruc.html">May 2, 2012 for the sneak preview</a> of the new season and question and answer time with some of the cast and crew of <i>Sherlock</i>, including Rebecca Eaton, Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue and of course, Benedict Cumberbatch. About 800 people crowded into a theatre after 10,000 applied for seats, and the reaction - including screams - were reminiscent of <a href="http://www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles/">the Beatles coming to the Ed Sullivan Show</a> in the 1960s. And this is nothing new; Frank Sinatra garnered a similar reaction <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_wus1KL6Q">at the Paramount in New York City</a> back in the 1940s. Thanks to Burt's courageous reporting, we have some clips from the event and the queue, as well as a question and answer session with the cast, in which we're able to hear and feel the excitement of the crowd.<br />
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We've witnessed the <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23believeinsherlock">#believeinsherlock</a> movement that arose from the BBC airing of the series and how the phenomenon has grown. We discuss a bit of that and we sing our own praises to Sherlock Holmes, in a manner of speaking.<br />
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And with such an enthusiastic new group of fans, it's inevitable that we would welcome them to the world of Sherlockians. The Editor's Gas-Lamp from the current issue of the <i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/">Baker Street Journal</a></i>. (Vol 62, No. 1), titled "Consider yourself at home," is the perfect way to do so.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_wus1KL6Q">Frank Sinatra causes a riot at the Paramount</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles/">The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock">Sherlock on PBS Masterpiece</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/twitter.html">#SherlockPBS Twitter events</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QOB8SO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B004QOB8SO">Pre-order your DVD of Sherlock: Season Two</a> (U.S.)</li>
<li>Sherlock Holmes comes to New York</li>
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