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The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Read by David Timson, Glen McCready, Crawford Logan, et al.

The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The audio production is clear and compelling. The narrators, all British, do an excellent job of conveying the drama of Conan Doyle’s well-paced prose.

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The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Read by David Timson, Glen McCready, Crawford Logan, et al.

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The audio production is clear and compelling. The narrators, all British, do an excellent job of conveying the drama of Conan Doyle’s well-paced prose.

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The rich life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is featured here: his work as a doctor, his novels and journalistic writings, his support of Spiritualism and his defence of fairies. This is a unique set for the 150th anniversary of his birth. After his early years in medicine, the writing talents of Arthur Conan Doyle took over. Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger were among his successes. David Timson, an actor and director who has read the complete Sherlock Holmes collection for Naxos AudioBooks, has compiled this commemorative collection showing the range of Conan Doyle’s life and work. It includes the 2-CD biography by Hesketh Pearson, The Speckled Band, an excerpt from The Lost World and his defence of the Cottingley Fairies.

  • Release date: 30th Mar 2009
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA695512
  • Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Hesketh Pearson: A Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
Work length2:37:51
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length1:04
A British Celt
Track length6:56
At the age of nine…
Track length7:18
Some odd jobs
Track length8:29
Meanwhile, those sixpences had to be earned…
Track length6:37
During the last year of his study at Edinburgh…
Track length7:34
Doctor Budd
Track length7:43
Budd's carriage pulled up on the Hoe…
Track length10:26
Doctor Doyle
Track length10:58
While waiting
Track length4:37
Doyle never made a penny more than 25 Pounds…
Track length7:33
To Berlin and Austria
Track length3:07
Sherlock Holmes
Track length7:19
The notion of writing a series of short stories…
Track length9:46
Friends and Fame
Track length9:52
The Brigadier
Track length4:38
The Man of Action
Track length4:30
On to Cairo
Track length4:23
In South Africa, the Boer War…
Track length4:24
Titanic
Track length8:26
The Man in the Street
Track length6:47
The Last Phase
Track length7:44
Doyle's home life was exceptionally happy…
Track length7:40
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Speckled Band
Work length1:06:04
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction
Track length1:45
Early morning in Baker Street
Track length3:57
'It is not cold which makes me shiver…'
Track length3:54
'My name is Helen Stoner…'
Track length8:19
'I could not sleep that night…'
Track length7:15
'This is very deep business,' he said at last…
Track length3:05
A huge man and an iron bar
Track length3:41
A will, and a journey to Stoke Moran
Track length12:26
I had never seen my friend's face so grim…
Track length6:13
A night visit to Manor House
Track length3:15
A dreadful vigil
Track length5:37
Such are the true facts…
Track length4:39
Recording of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle part 1
Track length1:58
Arthur Conan Doyle: Lot No. 249
Work length51:13
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:28
Lot No. 249
Track length7:48
Bellingham's Room
Track length10:08
The strange habit
Track length7:34
One afternoon…
Track length8:06
The next evening…
Track length9:37
The next day…
Track length7:32
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sealed Room
Work length24:17
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The Sealed Room
Track length7:03
At the end of the passage
Track length8:36
Some days later…
Track length8:38
Arthur Conan Doyle: How the Brigadier Slew the Fox
Work length38:39
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:33
In all the great hosts of France…
Track length7:58
Ah, how my heart swelled…
Track length5:50
I had never known it…
Track length7:38
Presently an officer, in a blue uniform…
Track length5:56
Such a crowd…
Track length4:54
In front of us were the dogs…
Track length5:50
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World (unabridged)
Work length27:58
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:17
The most wonderful things have happened…
Track length6:40
It was midday…
Track length5:48
'Wealden!' cried Challenger, in an ecstasy…
Track length6:40
I had the same feeling of mystery…
Track length8:33
Arthur Conan Doyle: The White Company
Work length12:18
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction
Track length1:01
The company stood peering…
Track length6:22
Sir Nigel, meanwhile, had found a foeman…
Track length4:55
Arthur Conan Doyle: Beliefs and Causes
Work length0:54
Beliefs and Causes: Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:54
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Vital Message
Work length19:36
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The Dawning of the Light
Track length6:28
At first it was only physical…
Track length5:59
None the less, it was greeted…
Track length7:09
Arthur Conan Doyle: Danger
Work length27:28
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:26
Being the log of Captain John Sirius
Track length7:15
On she came…
Track length6:42
On the round-the-corner page…
Track length5:42
I had no time to read our papers…
Track length7:23
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Cottingley Fairies
Work length21:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:39
Should the incidents here narrated…
Track length7:26
The matter being in this state…
Track length6:58
I may add as a footnote…
Track length6:23
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Inner Room
Work length9:04
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Introduction by David Timson
Track length0:22
It is mine – the little chamber…
Track length2:52
Recording of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle part 2
Track length5:50

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The audio production is clear and compelling. The narrators, all British, do an excellent job of conveying the drama of Conan Doyle’s well-paced prose.
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