Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast

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A podcast celebrating the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and Sherlock Holmes.

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03.31.2024
The Pot of Caviare (1908)
Hello and welcome to Episode 49. This month, we look at a classic Conan Doyle short story, one the author felt was “gloomy but of [his] best” - ‘The Pot of Caviare’ from 1908. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Pot_of_Caviare Or...
02.29.2024
The Great Shadow (1892)
This episode, we travel to the Scottish borders at the end of the Napoleonic Wars for Conan Doyle’s 1892 novella The Great Shadow. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Great_Shadow Listen to the podcast below or at the Podcaster of your choice. Read...
01.31.2024
ACD 2023 - The Year in Review
This episode, we break from our usual format to take a look at the last twelve months in the Doylean universe and make some recommendations of adaptations, events, and publications you may have missed. Apologies to anyone we have left out....
12.24.2023
Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange (1883)
This episode, we return to a different incarnation of Goresthorpe Grange in ‘Selecting A Ghost’ from December 1883. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Selecting_a_Ghost And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/12/46-selecting-ghost-ghosts-of.html. Listen to the podcast on your podcaster of choice. The episode will...
11.30.2023
The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe (c.1877)
This episode, we discuss what is believed to be the first story Conan Doyle submitted to a publisher, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’ (c.1877). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Haunted_Grange_of_Goresthorpe This episode will also be released on our Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Closed...
11.15.2023
The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes, with Andrew Lycett
This episode, we welcome to the podcast author, journalist, and biographer Andrew Lycett to talk about his latest book, The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes, released in October 2023. The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes (2023) Questing was Sherlock Holmes’s business. He famously adopted...
10.29.2023
The Adventure of the Empty House (1903)
This episode, we return to Baker Street at the same time as Sherlock Holmes. It’s ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ from September 1903. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House An audiobook version read by Greg Wagland can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Hj_bi9Qto Listen here...
09.27.2023
Something of Themselves, with Sarah LeFanu
This episode, we welcome to the podcast biographer Sarah LeFanu whose wonderful book Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War was released in 2020. About Sarah LeFanu Sarah lives near Bristol in North Somerset and is a biographer...
08.27.2023
Lot No. 249 (1892)
This episode, we get wrapped up in Conan Doyle’s Mummytastic horror classic, ‘Lot No 249’ (1892). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Lot_No._249 An audiobook version read by Greg Wagland can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5A89sKeMGM Read the show notes here: https://bit.ly/DOD41sn You can listen...
07.28.2023
The Brigadier in England (1903)
This episode, we return to Brigadier Etienne Gerard of the Hussars of the Conflans shortly after his escape from Dartmoor Prison for more mishaps and misadventures in ‘The Brigadier in England’ (1903). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Brigadier_in_England Read the show...
06.30.2023
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, with Jonathan Cranfield
This episode, we welcome to the podcast Jonathan Cranfield, Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, in the United Kingdom, and editor of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes for the Edinburgh Edition of the...
05.28.2023
Strange Studies from Life (1901)
This episode, we explore Conan Doyle's life-long fascination with true crime through his 'Strange Studies from Life', dramatic retellings of nineteenth century murder trials, published in the Strand in 1901. You can read the stories here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Holocaust_of_Manor_Place https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Love_Affair_of_George_Vincent_Parker https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Debatable_Case_of_Mrs._Emsley And read the show notes here:...
04.30.2023
The Horror of the Heights (1913)
This episode, we travel above the clouds in the company of hot-headed aeronaut Joyce-Armstrong in ‘The Horror of the Heights', from November 1913. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Horror_of_the_Heights Or hear an audio book version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1mV3iOfUT0 And read the show notes...
03.29.2023
Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock, with Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath
This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath, respectively the author and illustrator of Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock (2023), a new children’s biography of Conan Doyle. You can find out more about the book here: https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/arthur-who-wrote-sherlock/ A...
02.28.2023
A Literary Mosaic (1886)
This episode, we join a cast of Conan Doyle’s literary heroes in his amusing short story, ‘A Literary Mosaic,’ also known as ‘Cyprian Overbeck Wells,’ which first appeared in December 1886. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Cyprian_Overbeck_Wells._A_Literary_Mosaic A closed-caption version of the...
01.29.2023
The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)
This episode, we travel to Switzerland with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for a showdown with the fiendish Professor Moriarty in ‘The Adventure of the Final Problem’ (1893). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Final_Problem You can hear a reading by Greg...
12.21.2022
Conan Doyle and Crime Fiction, with Martin Edwards
This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast multi-award-winning crime novelist and President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, to talk about Conan Doyle and crime fiction. You can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/12/33-conan-doyle-and-crime-fiction-with.html Biography of Martin Edwards Martin Edwards is...
11.29.2022
The Croxley Master (1899)
This episode, we get in training to face Silas Craggs in Conan Doyle’s boxing story ‘The Croxley Master’ from 1899. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Croxley_Master And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/11/32-croxley-master-1899.html For an introduction to Conan Doyle and sport, listen...
10.28.2022
The Curse of Eve (1894)
This episode, we join an expectant father as he pensively awaits the arrival of his first born, in ‘The Curse of Eve’, one of Conan Doyle’s Round the Red Lamp stories. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Curse_of_Eve Or listen to a Librivox recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZevaD0khms (begins...
09.29.2022
Conan Doyle - Memories and Adventures, with Douglas Kerr
This episode, we are delighted to be joined by Professor Douglas Kerr to talk about Conan Doyle’s fascinating and much overlooked autobiography Memories and Adventures, first published in 1924 and revised in 1930. You can read Memories and Adventures here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Memories_and_Adventures And...
08.28.2022
The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1879)
This episode, we travel back to where it all began with Conan Doyle’s first published work, ‘The Mystery of Sasassa Valley’ (1879). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_Sasassa_Valley You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-mystery-of-sasassa-valley-1879.html A closed-caption version of the episode will appear...
07.31.2022
A Foreign Office Romance (1894)
This time, we head to Regency England where a cunning French spy manipulates the outcome of the Peace of Amiens, in ‘A Foreign Office Romance’ (1894). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=A_Foreign_Office_Romance And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/07/28-foreign-office-romance-1894.html Next time on...
06.29.2022
Conan Doyle and Professor Challenger, with Stephen J. Carver
This episode, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast Dr Stephen Carver, author, biographer and recipient of one of the ACD Society’s Inaugural Doylean Honours for his excellent Wordsworth Editions blog on the Professor Challenger stories. We talk...
05.30.2022
The Maracot Deep (1929)
This time we travel to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in search of new creatures and encounter ancient ones in The Maracot Deep (1929), Conan Doyle’s last novel. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Maracot_Deep And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/05/26-maracot-deep-1929.html A...
04.30.2022
The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923)
Hello and welcome to Episode 25. We’re back at Baker Street to drop in on Holmes and Watson for one of their more peculiar cases, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ from March 1923. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Creeping_Man Or listen...
03.31.2022
The ACD Society, with Ross Davies
This episode, we're joined by Ross Davies and guests to talk about the new hub of Doylean activity that is the ACD Society. You can find out more about the ACD Society here: www.acdsociety.com The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. And you can read...
02.28.2022
The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885)
This episode, we’re off to a German University town for a comic tale that draws on Conan Doyle’s school days and his early encounters with spiritualism - ‘The Great Keinplatz Experiment’ (1885). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Great_Keinplatz_Experiment The episode...
01.30.2022
The Lord of Chateau Noir (1894)
This episode, we head back into Gothic territory with a tale of cruelty and revenge set during the Franco-Prussian war, ‘The Lord of Chateau Noir’ from 1894. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Lord_of_Ch%C3%A2teau_Noir Or listen to Greg Wagland’s audiobook version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8hubCSDeU The...
12.21.2021
Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies, with Merrick Burrow
This episode, we are joined by Dr Merrick Burrow, Head of English and Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, to talk about The Cottingley Fairies: A Study in Deception, an exhibition Merrick has curated for the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery at the...
11.28.2021
Jelland‘s Voyage (1892)
This episode, we travel to nineteenth century Japan in the footsteps of one of Conan Doyle's childhood friends, and take part in a heist on the high seas in 'Jelland's Voyage' (1892). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Jelland%27s_Voyage Or listen...
10.31.2021
The Silver Mirror (1908)
It’s Hallowe’en, so settle down by the fire, pour yourself a stiff drink, and get ready for a Conan Doyle ghost story, ‘The Silver Mirror,’ from August 1908. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Silver_Mirror And read the show notes here:...
09.27.2021
The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893)
This time we travel from Baker Street to Brook Street in the company of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient' (1893), one of the later Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893). You can read the short...
08.30.2021
Uncle Jeremy's Household (1887)
This episode, we enjoy a slice of Anglo-Indian gothic with Conan Doyle’s early short story Uncle Jeremy’s Household (1887), a tale with connections to a Doyle family mystery and a certain resident of Baker Street. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Uncle_Jeremy%27s_Household Or listen...
07.20.2021
Conan Doyle and George Edalji, with Shrabani Basu
Hello and welcome to episode 16. This episode, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast journalist and author Shrabani Basu to talk about Conan Doyle, George Edalji and her new book The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer...
06.29.2021
How the Brigadier Held the King & How the King Held the Brigadier (1895)
Episode 15 - We finally bring Brigadier Gerard to the podcast, with a discussion of two of his early exploits, 'How the Brigadier Held the King' and 'How the King Held the Brigadier' (1895). You can read the stories here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=How_the_Brigadier_Held_the_King;...
05.30.2021
The Terror of Blue John Gap (1910)
Episode 14 - This time we trek through the caverns of the Peak District in search of a prehistoric monster in Conan Doyle's 1910 short story 'The Terror of Blue John Gap.' A little gem of a tale, it harks...
04.21.2021
The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents
The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents,’Conan Doyle's fourth historical novel, was first published by Harper's Monthly Magazine in the first half of 1893. It explores the events surrounding Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and...
03.13.2021
Conan Doyle and Napoleon with Cliff Goldfarb
This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Clifford S. Goldfarb, author of The Great Shadow (1997), to talk about Conan Doyle and Napoleon. As we mentioned in Episode 10, Conan Doyle had a life-long fascination with the Napoleonic...
02.28.2021
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,’ the third story in the collection His Last Bow, was first published by The Strand Magazine in 1910. A tale of death and diablerie in Cornwall, it harks back to some of Conan Doyle’s...
01.24.2021
A Straggler of '15 and Waterloo
Welcome to Episode 10. This time, we travel back to the 1890s to discuss Conan Doyle's short story 'A Straggler of '15' and its stage play version which came to be known simply as 'Waterloo' (first performed 1894). Plus we...
12.24.2020
An Exciting Christmas Eve, or, My Lecture on Dynamite
Today, we join Otto Von Spee of Heidelberg for 'An Exciting Christmas Eve,' as he is duped into giving a lecture on dynamite... You can read the story here. You can read the show notes here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com Music credit:...
12.04.2020
The Captain Sharkey Quartet
Ahoy mateys! All aboard the Happy Delivery for a voyage to hell and back with Conan Doyle's unscrupulous pirate villain, the damnable Sharkey. You can read the stories here. You can read the show notes here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com Music credit:...
10.29.2020
Conan Doyle and Sport with Mark Alberstat
In this first interview show, we talk to Mark Albertstat, co-editor of Canadian Holmes, the journal of Sherlockian society The Bootmakers of Toronto, about Conan Doyle and his fascination with sport. The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. The show notes can...
04.14.2020
The Case of Lady Sannox
We enter dark waters this episode with The Case of Lady Sannox, Conan Doyle's Gothic masterpiece, written in 1893. A sinister incident leads to a beautiful socialite withdrawing from polite society and a celebrated surgeon losing his mind... You can read the...
03.12.2020
The Man with the Watches & The Lost Special
It's episode five and this time we're looking at The Story of the Man with the Watches and The Story of the Lost Special, two of Conan Doyle's Round the Fire stories written in 1898, and widely considered apocrypha of the Sherlock Holmes...
02.05.2020
Danger!
This month we're talking about Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius (1914), Conan Doyle's prophetic tale of submarine warfare published during the outbreak of the First World War. To read the story, click here. For show notes, visit the website. Acknowledgements Music credit:...
01.08.2020
The Captain of the Pole-star
It's time for another episode. This month we talk about Doyle's classic ghost story, The Captain of the Pole-star (1883). To read the story, click here. For show notes, visit the website. Acknowledgements Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution...
12.04.2019
The Winning Shot
Welcome to the second episode of Doings of Doyle. This episode, we're talking about Doyle's 1883 short story The Winning Shot. To read the story, click here. For show notes, visit the website. Acknowledgements Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative...
11.06.2019
The Doings of Raffles Haw
Welcome to the first episode of Doings of Doyle. This episode, we're talking about Doyle's 1891 novella The Doings of Raffles Haw. To read the story, go to https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Doings_of_Raffles_Haw. For show notes, visit https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2019/10/1-doings-of-raffles-haw.html. Acknowledgements Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By...

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Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast episodes:

The Pot of Caviare (1908)

The Great Shadow (1892)

ACD 2023 - The Year in Review

Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange (1883)

The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe (c.1877)

The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes, with Andrew Lycett

The Adventure of the Empty House (1903)

Something of Themselves, with Sarah LeFanu

Lot No. 249 (1892)

The Brigadier in England (1903)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, with Jonathan Cranfield

Strange Studies from Life (1901)

The Horror of the Heights (1913)

Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock, with Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath

A Literary Mosaic (1886)

The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)

Conan Doyle and Crime Fiction, with Martin Edwards

The Croxley Master (1899)

The Curse of Eve (1894)

Conan Doyle - Memories and Adventures, with Douglas Kerr

The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1879)

A Foreign Office Romance (1894)

Conan Doyle and Professor Challenger, with Stephen J. Carver

The Maracot Deep (1929)

The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923)

The ACD Society, with Ross Davies

The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885)

The Lord of Chateau Noir (1894)

Conan Doyle and the Cottingley Fairies, with Merrick Burrow

Jelland‘s Voyage (1892)

The Silver Mirror (1908)

The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893)

Uncle Jeremy's Household (1887)

Conan Doyle and George Edalji, with Shrabani Basu

How the Brigadier Held the King & How the King Held the Brigadier (1895)

The Terror of Blue John Gap (1910)

The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents

Conan Doyle and Napoleon with Cliff Goldfarb

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

A Straggler of '15 and Waterloo

An Exciting Christmas Eve, or, My Lecture on Dynamite

The Captain Sharkey Quartet

Conan Doyle and Sport with Mark Alberstat

The Case of Lady Sannox

The Man with the Watches & The Lost Special

Danger!

The Captain of the Pole-star

The Winning Shot

The Doings of Raffles Haw

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