The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part One
4/26/202649 min
An unexplained death… a vast inheritance… and a horrifying legend about a beast that stalks the moors at night. For the next nine episodes, we set aside the short stories to bring you Holmes’ most celebrated case. A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Produced by Duncan Barrett Sound Design and Audio Editing: Mirianna Pitman-Latham Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink Compositions: Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines Mix & Mastering: Josh Latham Series Consultant: Dan Smith Executive Producer: Katrina Hughes For ad-free listening and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Just click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsHugh Bonneville0:00
[mysterious music] I'm Hugh Bonneville, and welcome to The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part One. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem, he believed that he and his readers had seen the last of the great detective. Doyle was looking forward to working on other projects, but his most devoted fans had difficulty letting Holmes go. Furious letters soon began arriving on the author's desk, calling him a brute for murdering his own creation. 20,000 dedicated readers canceled their subscription to the Strand Magazine. Some even took to wearing black armbands in an extraordinary act of public mourning. After almost a decade, Doyle finally bowed to public pressure, penning a new Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles. He didn't quite go so far as to resurrect his hero, not yet at least, choosing instead to offer an extra novel-length adventure that would fit neatly somewhere within the existing canon. It was released in monthly installments spread across nine issues of the Strand, and it was the huge success of this new tale, perhaps the most beloved detective story in all literature even more than a century later, that ensured Holmes would inevitably return to the world of the living, appearing in another 30-odd