Hugh Bonneville: A Sherlockian Conversation
The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast
Gus Holwerda
4.8 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Bonneville, renowned for his roles in Downton Abbey and the Paddington films, speaks to Gus about his new collection of Sherlock Holmes audiobooks as well as an early acting credit as Victor Savage, opposite Jeremy Brett, in Granada's adaptation of The Dying Detective.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, fellow Bretons, Luke here, with an unexpected Sherlockian conversation. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, Gus sits down with actor Hugh Bonneville, inventor of Rugg's skatering Granada's adaptation of the dying detective, |
| 0:15.0 | and Lord Grantham, star of the international hit series, Downton Abbey, to discuss his brand new collection of Sherlock Holmes |
| 0:21.7 | audiobooks, as well as his adventures with Jeremy Brett on the Granada series. Let's listen in. |
| 0:29.6 | So how did the Sherlock Holmes Stories project come about? I mean, how did you get involved? |
| 0:34.8 | This was just a very happy, straightforward call from my agent saying, do you want to |
| 0:39.8 | record some Sherlock Holmes? And I have a very fond. I'm not, by the way, a Sherlock Holmes |
| 0:44.3 | officinado by any means. And I thought, well, this would be a good way of making me read the |
| 0:48.7 | stories. And I'd enjoyed doing, as we'll talk about, I'm sure, the Jeremy Brett episode all those years ago. |
| 0:57.8 | And so I said, yeah, so it was really just a straightforward conversation, really. |
| 1:01.4 | Very nice, very nice. |
| 1:02.4 | So, I mean, in all, Doyle wrote 56 short stories, four novels. |
| 1:07.4 | How do you and the producers decide upon which stories you're going to present in this series? |
| 1:13.1 | I don't know. I was just, originally, I was just suggested that we do seven, which included |
| 1:20.3 | the, you know, the speckled band and a couple of the more well-known lines, the well-known ones, |
| 1:24.4 | the speckled band, and what's the other one? Yeah, the devil's foot. There's the dancing men. You've done quite a few. Yeah, so basically they proposed, the producers proposed seven to start with, and they seem to go down quite well, so he did another seven, and I'm in the middle of doing another seven. So I think, you know, with a fair wind, we'll probably record, it'll be nice thing to record all 56 if we can. |
| 1:45.9 | Oh, great. |
| 1:47.3 | Well, I mean, of the ones you've done so far, do you have a favorite? |
| 1:51.1 | Gosh, I don't know. |
| 1:52.0 | I find each of them so intriguing because obviously with every story you read, |
| 1:56.5 | you're actually getting a hint into the author's mind, you know. |
| 2:00.4 | And while structures seem |
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