Ha... you mean Annika Stranded. I liked that, cos it was fifteen minutes with Nicola Walker. I don't know that the TV adaptation was very successful though. I saw her in a London bookshop once, you know. Didn't say anything, best to leave famous people alone I think...

Interesting - do you think the changes in this case are practical concessions to the audio medium, or something more in the area of artistic judgement?

@mysteriousmagpie A combination of both I think; some of it is all the freedom that audio gives (for example in the play Teddy goes to switch the train onto the siding, here he and Richard both run out and you get to see what happens.) If you have a chance to compare the two scripts, theyre also a lot different, Sterling and Mr Price are combined and the whole terrorist element of the arms smuggling plot are excised.

That's KZbin I'm afraid - the channel isn't monetised so as a general rule there aren't ads, but YT will stick them in if a video contains licenced music, to compensate the licence holder. And, the more popular a video gets, the more ads they put in. This particular video is in the channel's top 20 most watched, so I would think that's why the ads are noticeable here. I can only say that if its a problem you could always try an ad-blocker or something.

So, I've no Chandler on the channel yet - BUT. BBC radio adapted all of the Marlowe novels twice and somewhere I do have both sequences. There's also a really great radio adaptation of The Maltese Falcon, too. It'll be a while before I can get to these though, so in the meantime : 1) I do have adaptations of several noir-style stories on the channel (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Strangers on a Train, and a really great Double Indemnity) and 2) this channel has a nice playlist of Chandler/Marlowe radio plays. It does mix the two cycles, so the first three are the 1970s versions with Ed Bishop whose voice I prefer, and the remainder are from the 2010s - both are good though. Until I can get anything like this on my channel, you might enjoy hearing them here: kzbin.info/aero/PLPhVD5ny8GMIBpdGzhNtS6gs70rh9l_yC

(It seems I do have The Maltese Falcon to hand though so I'll try and put that on my channel in the very near future - not quite Chandler, I know, but near as Hammett (sorry))

really hope some in the near future, really miss some good detective stories

I almost prefer the ambiguity of this to the same author's 'Rebecca'; there is a very good and quite recent film adaptation of My Cousin Rachel which starred Rachel Weisz and was perhaps a little bit more sympathetic to the titular character. Certainly, I myself got to the end thinking that I knew the truth, which I definitely hadn't with this radio version - but the film does add some new ambiguity in respect of another character which winds things a little tighter.

Absolutely NOTHING to do with me. This channel isn't monetized, and I don't get a penny. On the other hand, YT do stick adverts in, especially where a video contains licenced music as this does. The owner of the music gets revenue and the video doesn't get taken down - however, I get the impression that the more popular a video is (and Jaws is one of the most popular on the channel) the more adverts they put in. Unfortunately, as I say, I have ZERO control over it even though people have suggested that it shows how greedy I am.

So sorry about that - I'll see if I can find the original sound file and hopefully the problem will have been in the conversion. Unfortunately I recently lost my main archive drive, so my sound files are scattered in several places now so I probably won't be able to sort the problem out immediately. I'll also have to take the video down shortly - thanks for bringing the problem to my attention.

You might be interested by a couple of other Hitchcock-related plays I have on the channel. 'The Living and the Dead' is based on the French novel that was adapted as 'Vertigo', for example. There's also 'The Blind Man', a radio adaptation of a script written for Hitchcock, but never filmed...

My first guess is that you may be thinking of The Adventure of The Reigate Squire, a later Holmes story in which Holmes is called in to a case where the police inspector, Forrester, is very competent. From memory he was played as an older man in the Jeremy Brett series, but definitely a younger man in the Clive Merrison radio series - played by Peter Davison, in fact. Let me know if this *isn''t* the one and I'll have a bit more of a think. I don't have that on my channel, but needless to say there are many other radio play channels, and this one here has it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6jWmXdol9WMmLM

I do somewhat agree with you as it happens. The play is considered a classic and is well-loved (and one of the most-listened-to on the channel), but personally I feel that it does take a misstep in its later stages. Still very well executed in the main though.

Yes - Margaret Atwood has only written two (with decades inbetween them).

Yes, Margaret Atwood has other works that are just as good but these are the only two in the series, The Testaments is a companion to The Handmaid’s Tale.

@@-Reagan thank you!

From a children's author, would you believe? I've got a couple of other Robert Westall adaptations on the channel - 'Yaxley's Cat' is quite different but just as sinister.