Neil Brand's The Hound of the Baskervilles (2023) starring Mark Gatiss and Sanjeev Bhaskar

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Neil Brand has made a steady and impressive contribution to BBC radio over the last twenty or thirty years, including several dramatisations of ghost stories including The Haunting of M.R. James, which starred Mark Gatiss. Brand and Gatiss work together again here, in the latest of what Brand refers to as 'concert dramas' - radio dramas performed live in front of an audience with an orchestral score that does a lot of extra 'work' within the drama (eg providing atmosphere, 'describing' events that are not the subject of a specific monologue by the cast). Brand is also a composer and a historian of film music, so he's well-suited to the task and here he deliberately channels the discordant spirit of Hammer films and puts it to good use. Mark Gatiss stars as Sherlock Holmes (crossing another item off his professional bucket list, I dare say) with Sanjeev Bhaskar on form as Watson.
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[@WolfShadowwhisper]

Ohh, this is a great version of my favourite Sherlock Holmes story. Thank you so much for sharing

[@mysteriousmagpie]

Neil Brand did versions of A Wind in the Willows and A Christmas Carol in the same orchestral style (I'll probably upload ACC soon) but there was also a version of The Kraken Wakes which Brand wasn't involved in, but which had the same approach, using lots of orchestral music to enhance the drama. That's coming up soon...

[@WolfShadowwhisper]

@@mysteriousmagpie Nice, looking forward to that!

[@staceymccook5424]

Hi. Thank you for uploading this. I love Sherlock Holmes radio dramas. I found a drama yesterday on KZbin that I thought you would be interested in. It’s the 1989 radio dramatisation of the hunchback of Notre Dame.

[@mysteriousmagpie]

Interesting, I'm pretty sure I have that version of Hunchback from a BBC7 repeat... I'll have a look...

[@staceymccook5424]

@@mysteriousmagpie there is also a 2008 version dramatised by the BBC and the grey eye charity.

[@stewartmalley4981]

Awsome❤