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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: NEW! “The Reigate Squires, An Audio Narration in Respectful Imitation of Jeremy Brett”
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No one, going back to the interpretation of William Gillette in the early years of the silent screen cinema, interpreted the Sherlock Holmes character with the authenticity that Jeremy Brett brought to the role in the ITV Granada series on British television (1984-1994). That series went back to the canonical short stories and lovingly adapted them to the screen, clearing away the distortions that past (and future) representations have rained down and continue to rain on the reputation of the detective. This new recording is my latest attempt to interpret the Sherlockian short stories in a twenty-first c...