Hello, and welcome to another episode, Nostologic Mystery Radio.

I'm your host, Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

For this episode, I bring you The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, episode titled In Flanders Field, originally aired June 7, 1945.

For Holmes and Watson, helps the British military during World War I by trying to figure

if an English actor visiting the troops is really a traitor.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

As evening approaches, a thick London fog moves quietly across the still waters of the Thames River,

spreading along the cobblestone streets covering the familiar landscape of the city.

In Baker Street,

the lodgings of 221B are empty. For Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have left long ago on another case of murder.

Music Hello, my name is Ben Wright. Welcome to the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

The radio play you are about to hear was originally broadcast on the 7th of June, 1945.

At that time, the war in Europe was almost over.

We were, however, still fighting in the Pacific.

And it was essential during the war years that radio do everything in its power

to keep up the morale of the people, to make them conscious of

the need to give and give freely to the war effort that all men could remain free. It was no

different for the Sherlock Holmes radio series. Unlike the Sherlock Holmes movies of the time,

the radio series was not set during the war, but retained its original time frame of Victorian England.

How then to enlist this popular series to bring across a message in wartime?

Although Holmes and Watson had long retired,

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