#bert coules

[greykolla-art]

The Reigate squire is one of my favourite stories! It has the atmosphere of solving a murder on your summer vacation.🌻

And the bbc radio episode had such good conversations between them! it was very sweet how concerned Watson is about how depressed Holmes is. There’s a lot more talk about Sherlock using cocaine in these episodes, and Watson basically says: “I’m afraid if I leave you on your own right now youre going to do cocaine and you’re going to die!”

(The bbc radio show is so good it’s so good, it’s so INSANE how “forbidden love “ coded they are in it!

I don’t even ship them all the time, but I think making Watson be married so early in this adaptation made the dynamic…DIFFERENT.👀 )

[selcouthself]

in all timelines

in all possibilities

only you

[nessahero]

So... I've just listened to the final episode of the further adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Bert Coules...

Holmes and Watson solved the case and are back at Baker Street. Holmes starts to play the violin.

Watson : You played that for me just after a few days when we had first moved in here

Holmes:Did I?

Watson : I didn't have the least idea what to make of you.

Holmes: Do you now?

Watson : well, I think so, yes... Maybe... You know, I love these moments, the case is solved, everything is over and we are back here in the warmth and comfort.

Holmes : Tell the next client that comes along.

Watson : Ah, and then off you go again. I wish it could always be like this.

Holmes suddenly stops playing.

Holmes : Watson... It will.

Watson : How can it? Nothing lasts forever.

Holmes : It will because of you. Because of your stories. Can't you see? It doesn't matter what happens here, in the real world. We're more than reality. You and I. You, my friend, have made us immortal.

Watson : That's quite a thought.

Holmes : It's the truth. As long as there are mysteries and murders-

Watson : and fog and fear-

Holmes: and terror and injustice -

Watson : then Sherlock Holmes, privat consulting detective

Holmes : and John H. Watson, chronicler, comrade and friend-

Watson : be ready -

Holmes : waiting for the dramatic ring of the doorbell.

They both giggle.

The doorbell rings.

Together : The game's afoot!

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Bert Coules, thank you for this. How am I to live with the knowledge of this and the fact that I am now finished with all the audio books.

Oh, what a wonderful scene!

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

I loooove what they did to Scandal in Bohemia in the BBC radio adaption. Holmes being on Irene's side as soon as he knows the king proposed to her and then left her. He relates to her heavily: "A life outside of societal norms requires intelligence as much as bravery." Also, it's heavily implied that the reason he takes that case it that he fears the king might next try to abduct or even murder her because trying to steal the photograph wasn't possible. Perfection.

[the-guilty-monographer]

Started listening to the Bert Coules radio adaptation and I quite enjoy it. Currently listening to the Lion's Mane and it has everything:

A sassy retired detective. A grumpy old doctor that returns the sass. Bees. Toffee apples. Holmes and Watson teasing each other about their respective writings.

Full quote this is based on under the cut

Holmes: L-A-M-A. One L. You spelt it with two. Watson: I did nothing of the sort! H: Well, if not you, the typesetter of the Strand. W: Oh dear. H: You're familiar with the word? W: Enough to know that it's not exactly appropriate. An animal, isn't it? H: Mhm. A sort of mountain goat, popular for its skin and its milk. I don't believe they have heads. W: Of course they have heads! H: Not in the hierarchical sense, they don't. W: I spent some time with the head mountain goat…oh God.

[jiggerypokeryfiddlesticks]

Watson: There's nothing like a drink when you're down in the dumps.

Holmes: Except for cocaine, Watson. That is the magic potion that gives me glimpses of paradise.

Watson: And brings you down to earth with a bump.

Holmes: Like love, I'm told.

(BBC Radio Sherlock Holmes, The Yellow Face)

[crazycatmilo]

hi! sorry if this is super weird, i dont use this site a lot, but you mentioned being unable to listen to the bert coules' sherlock holmes radio plays and i thought i might be able to help. the episodes are on the internet archive, and there's also a google drive with all of the episodes here, although i don't remember who posted these originally.

WHATTT DONT APOLOGIZE TYSM!!

[221bees]

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It has long been a dream of mine to make a compilation of the hysterical stylings of Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes. History relates that the BBC actually received letters of complaint regarding this Laugh-with-a-capital-L, and such outbursts of amusement were tragically kept to a minimum after the first series.

The first short interview clip is from ep. 202 of the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast. The following, in airdate order, are from BBC Radio 4's Sherlock Holmes (1989-98) dramatised mainly by Bert Coules, with the exception of the final clip from the last episode of the extracanonical Further Adventures, which aired in 2010.