BRETTCON: "Blue Carbuncle" Panel w/ David Carson
The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast
Gus Holwerda
4.8 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For the final panel of the 2024 Brettcon event, Gus and Luke sit down with director David Carson to discuss The Blue Carbuncle and are joined by fellow cast and crew members from the episode including Ros Simmons (Catharine Cusack), Amelda Brown (Jennie Horner), Esther Dean (Wardrobe), David Eve (Sound), Stuart Doughty (Assoc Prod).
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(Recorded on May 25, 2024 in Guildford, England.)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello again and welcome everyone to the last of our Brett Con panels from the |
| 0:11.1 | 2024 event. |
| 0:12.9 | We made it to the end. |
| 0:14.2 | We're back. |
| 0:14.8 | We're here and it's ending now. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.7 | David. |
| 0:18.6 | We'll never mention it again. |
| 0:21.6 | So listening back over these conversations, you know, after a year has passed, what sticks out to you guys? |
| 0:28.3 | What would have you been thinking about as you've been hearing these in the most recent days? |
| 0:31.3 | Well, I actually listened to this one before we started recording. |
| 0:34.5 | So the thing that stuck out the most, David Carson basically says |
| 0:37.6 | it at the beginning of the discussion. But the neat thing was that the entire event, the entire |
| 0:43.0 | day at Brett Con, was basically meeting all the different departments and kind of learning what each |
| 0:48.0 | piece of the team does at Granada. And then the screening of the Blue Carbuncle, which is, |
| 0:53.1 | it's almost like a culmination of all those departments. |
| 0:55.8 | And you're getting to watch all their efforts and all their expertise distilled into what is commonly held as one of the best loved episodes of the series. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | David? |
| 1:04.4 | I think for me, twofold. |
| 1:06.1 | You've got A, how happy and enthusiastic all of our guests were to speak about this piece of work they were all involved in. |
| 1:15.0 | That's whether you've got directors or, you know, the crew that worked on it for months or even an actor that just came in for one episode and then back out again. |
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