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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.177 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Indiscretion Of Mr. Edwards

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe. From 1939 to 1946, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes with his friend Nigel Bruce o...

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Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.

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I'm your host Stevie K.

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And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year.

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For this episode, I bring you The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, episode titled, The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards, originally aired February 4th, 1946, where Holmes is called in by the foreign office to investigate a lady

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bearback writer who has captured the heart of an English prince. So sit back and relax, and I hope you

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enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening.

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It was tragic to me, the death of radio.

1:05.9

Radio was sold down the river. It needn't have disappeared. It didn't disappear in England.

1:09.9

It didn't disappear in France. And it needn't have disappeared in the United States. They took the, they, the

1:13.4

networks primarily, took the proceeds of radio advertising, built up their television networks,

1:20.1

and then dumped radio as though it had simply ceased to exist. Radio could have and should have survived. And the fact that there's as much

1:31.6

interest in it as there is now, I think is proof of that. I did a show once on Armed Forces

1:38.4

Radio Service with John Anderson. We did a 13-week series on Lewis and Clark.

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It was an excellently produced and directed show, very well written, historically accurate.

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And I've played those records for my children and other children at times,

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and they're fascinated.

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The idea that they create the scenery,

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they create the action.

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They think this is great,

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and we don't even have to sit down and watch television.

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Petrie Wine brings you

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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

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