The Adventure of the Three Students: Part Two
3/26/202627 min
The three students are called in for a tutorial, with none other than Mr Sherlock Holmes… but which of them will face rustication when his cheating is discovered?
A Noiser podcast production.
Narrated by Hugh Bonneville
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by Duncan Barrett
Script Supervisor: Chris McDonald
Sound Design and Audio Editing by Tony Onuchukwu
Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink
Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines
Mix & Mastering: Josh Latham
Series Consultant: Dan Smith
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
UnitedHealth Group is simplifying health care by investing in tools to help patients know more and pay less. These tools help patients find providers and compare costs and save hundreds of dollars annually. Learn more at unitedhealthgroup.com/commitment [music] Welcome to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories.
Hugh Bonneville0:20
I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser Podcast Network, this is The Adventure of the Three Students, Part 2. Last time, Holmes and Watson were called to investigate a case of cheating at one of the nation's top universities. Professor Soames was appalled when he learned that the next day's Greek examination had been copied in his rooms while he was having tea with a colleague. Three young men immediately fell under suspicion. All of them live on the same staircase as their tutor. There's young Gilchrist, an impoverished athlete whose father lost a fortune on the horse races. An Indian man called Dowlat Ras, works hard, but he's no Greek scholar. And Miles McLaren, a bright but dissolute young fellow who has barely done any work all term and is expected to fare poorly in the exam. But which of the three has already had a look at the exam paper? As Holmes began his investigation, he uncovered a number of clues, pencil shavings, a clump of dirt, and the snapped tip of a lead pencil. He's already interrogated Soames'