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ELEMENTARY HOLMES

Program 05-09-25-A

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Forget the deerstalker cap and the calabash pipe. The real Sherlock Holmes is much hipper than that. One scholar suggests that with his violin, creative spirit, cocaine and costumes, Holmes was the rock star of his day. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll investigate the elementary Sherlock Holmes, from the new annotated edition - to his wife!

SEGMENT 1:

Novelist Mitch Cullen is the author of "A Slight Trick of the Mind." He tells Jim Fleming about his book which imagines a 93 year old bee-keeping Holmes who gets embroiled with the son of a former client in Japan, and forges a relationship with his new housekeeper's son. Also, Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Holmes' partner and later his wife. King tells Anne Strainchamps about Mary Russell and how she differs from her husband.

SEGMENT 2:

Leslie Klinger is the editor of the "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes." Volume Three is just coming out. Klinger tells Jim Fleming about his edition, and we hear clips from the classic Basil Rathbone "Hound of the Baskervillles" and the definitive Jeremy Brett/Edward Hardwicke portrayals of Holmes and Watson.

SEGMENT 3:

P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography." James discusses why women make good detective writers and how she looks back at her life of crime writing. Also, Anne Strainchamps talks with Victoria Laurie who is a practicing psychic. She's also written a series of mystery novels beginning with "Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye." She says she writes the books to set the record straight and doesn't care about the skeptics.

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Books:

• Mitch Cullin, A Slight Trick of the Mind (Nan A. Talese)
• P.D. James, Time To Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography (Knopf)
  
• Laurie R. King, Locked Rooms (Bantam)
  
• Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: the Short Stories (Norton)
  
• Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: the Novels (Norton)
• Victoria Laurie, Better Read Than Dead: a Psychic Eye Mystery (Penguin)

Music:

• Button after Cullen: The Flight of the Bumblebee/Rimsky- Korsakov/ Philharmonia Orchstra/Vladimir Ashkenazy; London 417 301-2
• Button/Option after King: The Flight of the Tuba Bee/Rimsky- Korsakov/The Canadian Brass/ The Essential Canadian Brass Phillips 432 571-2
• Button/Option after Klinger: Theme music to Sherlock Holmes from Masterpiece Theatre;
• Button after James: “Walkin’ in Tall Cotton” Bob Dawson Breaking the Rules Audio Alternatives P.O. Box 405 Chappaqua NY 10514 www.audioalt.com
• Music after Laurie: “All I Ask of You” Bob Dawson Breaking the Rules (as above)

Distribution dates:

week of 03/01/2009 - hour 2 week of 09/17/2006 - hour 2 week of 09/25/2005 - hour 1

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