The Engineer's Thumb - Part One
6/23/202638 min
NIGHTMARE ON BAKER STREET - It's fair to say it had been a challenging few months for a certain Dr. John Watson of 221b Baker Street (that's me). Unfortunately may attempt to soften my trauma with very British behaviour of ignoring it entirely eventually allowed the trauma to manifest itself into nightmares. Never been a nightmare guy. Now I'm a nightmare guy. Not a huge fan. But it does at least mean I get to catch up with Sherlock Holmes during his preferred hours.
Part 1 of 3
This episode contains swearing, sexual references, references to abuse both psychological and domesticListener discretion is advised.
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Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Paul Waggott as Dr. John Watson
Harry Attwell as Sherlock Holmes
Marta da Silva as Mariana Ametxazurra
Matt Malthouse as Colin Warburton
Naomi Miller as Mrs Warburton
Shin-Fei Chen as Vicky
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Adam Jarrell
Darcey Ferguson
Written by Joel Emery
Directed by Adam Jarrell
Editing and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio
Produced by Neil Fearn and Jon Gill
Executive Producer Tony Pastor
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First 90 secondsJohn Watson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] For just six pounds a month, you can get early access to ad-free episodes. Now just binge those full adventures immediately, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. There's so much more over at patreon.com/sherlockandco. Just six pounds a month. Six pounds. Yeah, that is cheaper than parking at Heathrow for twenty-nine minutes. Do you know that? Yeah. Twenty-nine minutes in a Heathrow car park or Sherlock and Co members club. [sighs] You decide. Patreon.com/sherlockandco. [upbeat music] Hello. Allow me to introduce you to The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb. Uh, right, this is three parts. Uh, it's an adventure that might contain some distasteful language from time to time, bits of violence, superb editing, charismatic hosting, and, um, oh, nightmares. [sighs] [panting] I just, uh, did the, um, cliché thing of bolting upright in bed, sweating. [sighs] Having the worst dreams