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GREAT LIVES SERIES 30 - 5. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th February 2025
Broadcaster and writer Gyles Brandreth nominates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as his "Great Life".
Matthew Parris chairs, assisted by biographer Andrew Lycett.
Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of the pipe smoking, deerstalker wearing, Sherlock Holmes.
Yet this irritated him, and he tried to kill off the great detective, only to bring him back by popular demand.
But Conan Doyle was a footballer, cricketer, skier, a campaigner against the Belgian atrocities in the Congo, and most startlingly, a practising spiritualist who also believed in fairies.
The paradox of Conan Doyle's life was that, having invented the most rational, cerebral fictional character of all time, he himself embraced superstition and behaved in ways that caused even his allies to despair of his credulity.
Producer Jolyon Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - THE LOST WORLD (320kbs-m4a/354mb/2hrs34mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd, 10th & 17th August 2024
**** This series was suggested by Hadrian Jeffs as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's All Request Weekend ****
Professor Challenger is leading an expedition - determined to prove that dinosaurs are not extinct.
Starring Francis de Wolff, Kevin McHugh, Gerald Harper and Carleton Hobbs.
A three-part dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure, first published in 1912.
Adapted by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell.
Producer: Betty Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1975.
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THE LOST WORLD - 1. THE MONSTER OF ENMORE PARK (320kbs-m4a/122mb/53mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd August 2024
It's 1907. Having claimed to have found living dinosaurs in South America, Professor Challenger leads an expedition to prove the doubters wrong.
Professor Challenger .... Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone .... Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton .... Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee .... Carleton Hobbs
Gladys .... Carole Boyd
McArdle .... Henry Stamper
Austin .... Paul Gaymon
Mrs Challenger .... Norma Ronald
Policeman .... Alan Dudley
Chairman .... Denis McCarthy
THE LOST WORLD - 2. THE EDGE OF TERROR (320kbs-m4a/114mb/49mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 10th August 2024
Having reached the mysterious plateau in Brazil, he and his party now must tackle the perilous climb.
What awaits them at the summit?
Professor Challenger .... Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone .... Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton .... Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee .... Carleton Hobbs
Gomez .... Ronald Faulkener
Zembo .... Tommy Eytle
THE LOST WORLD - 3. OUR EYES HAVE SEEN GREAT WONDERS (320kbs-m4a/118mb/51mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th August 2024
Around a campfire, surrounded by a thin hedge of thorns, the petrified group can hear something out of the black prehistoric darkness, coming ever closer and closer to their flimsy defences...
Professor Challenger .... Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone .... Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton .... Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee .... Carleton Hobbs
Chairman .... Denis McCarthy
Doctor Illingworth .... Hector Ross
Gladys .... Carole Boyd
Williams Potts .... John Bull
