I listen to one story every day. I have repeated yours readings several times. This is how Sherlock speaks when I read his stories in hard bound books. Thank you.
I had to study for a test on this story but had limited time to do so. Listening to this gave more time to do things and prepare while studying simultaneously. Thank you so much!
Oh man. This one. I got the audio cassette, yes cassette, of this from the library when I was a kid. Ever since then, I think of this very story every time I hear the name of “Sherlock Holmes”.
Yes, it's helpful for me as well. Due to neurological problems, I suffer from double vision very often, and on those days, it's impossible to read. I often lay in bed and just listen to these one after another. :) This is really the best recorded version available! I spent $70 on the Audible treasury of the whole Sherlock Holmes Canon a few years ago, and yet I stopped listening to it once I found this channel ❤
This is my favourite, love it when Holmes gets the better of a murdering bully! Like in the pub in “A Solitary Cyclist” when Holmes just happens to know about boxing, Plus his “ little knowledge of Japanese wrestling!” When he fights Morearty at the Rycanbach falls🤣🤣👍
I've been addicted to your channel and listened in religiously while obtaining my nurse practitioners license. I've passed on your channel to students and they absolutely agree, you're amazing. Thank you for the content.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio why do you just take the credit?? You are not the author nor are you the voice actor reading it! You just upload it to RUclips...
I've seen all the Holmes episodes (Brett and Hardwick) and now ive listended to all of your audiobooks. And I shall listen again and again. Your great at narrating. Bravo Greg.
Please!! Could you record the novels, too?! Some day, soon? (A study in scarlet, the sign of four, thevalley of fear, the hound of the baskervilles.) I love your voice. It is a pleasure to listen to your readings. Thank you for your work.
First story I ever read about 30 years ago from the Oxford Classics, which is my favourite story along with The Red Headed League and The Retired Colourman. Top job by Mr Wagland!
I'm glad I stumbled upon this channel. I forgot how addicted I was to Sherlock Holmes. I'm going to relive his adventures again, this time in audiobook form.
Jeremy Brett of course was the best Holmes ever I loved watching it and would picture Holmes just as he portrayed The speckled band was my favourite episode.These audio books are outstanding and the narrator wonderful.Thank you for putting these on radio.
Came after finishing the Great Attorney Video Game series starring Herlock Scholmes, but stayed for the smooth and relaxing narration, as well as the intriguing plot! Great reading! I will gladly return to listen to more stories!
When Holmes mentioned how bad it can be when a physician goes wrong, all I could think of was Crippen; however, Crippen wasn't fictional unfortunately. Thank you for the brilliant job on these! A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
I love Mr. Wagland's work and have great admirstion for his talent. Please please get RUclips to fix the play list so that I can see the stories in order and play them in order. The recent changes have made the play list a chaotic mess with no redeeming features.
This was one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes mysteries as a kid. It actually scared me the first time (didn’t help that I’d been reading at night) and I had nightmares about “the speckled band” but kept reading anyway. 😂 I am trying to get my son to listen to this now and see what he thinks.
Love the way you have Holmes say”this old DOCTOR!Just can tell he holds him in total contemt😁that’s before the visit from him to😉 Just perfect narration ✊
I am nearly 50 years old and still cracks me up when the Sherlock Holmes stories talk about "huge ejaculations." Funniest one so far - where Watson was asleep in a chair by the fire - and Sherlock Holmes' violent ejaculation woke him up with a start. Fnarr fnarr...
Always struck me as funny too. The other expression you get sometimes is "he snorted" but then Holmes was on what are now , but weren't in Holmes' times, illegal substances.
Jeremy Brett plays Sherlock so wonderfully in the scene where the good dr threatens him, with perfectly amused disdain for the threat :D Delightful moment when he straightens the poker so casually
The doctor's voice boomed out very convincingly. (I can just about remember the window up and down leather straps in old train compartments - see illustration.)
As you can probably guess by my profile pic, this is my FAVORITE Sherlock Holmes short story of all time! Big thanks and thumbs up for this amazing reading. You are without a doubt my favorite Sherlock Holmes audiobook channel ever!
Im not a very good reader i easily get distracted and had to read this for a summer assignment obviously i left it last minute but this is explained it so clearly and i really thought this book was gonna suck but i loved it in the end it was so interesting
Superb have been a Holmes fan since the early 60s read them all and watched them all and your reading of them brings them alive in ones mind so thank you sir and keep up the great work that you do 👌👌👌
Conan Doyle was a master story teller with an interesting range of interests. He had a predilection for unusual names, e.g.Hilton Cubitt, a name that always strikes me as comic even ludicrous - and his two famous characters were originally called Sherringford Hope and Ormand Sacker who would no doubt have sunk without trace had he not changed them to Holmes and Watson.
Cubitt was a very well known surname in London at the time these stories were written. Thomas Cubitt designed and built large swaths of London; Belgravia, Pimlico, Bloomberry. Eaton Square. Beautiful buildings from a different use and time. Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, They all had character names that seem odd now, like a kind of concentrate of Britishness. And the names usually reflected some
He also likes the last name of Windygate it appears several times, landlord in the blue carbuncle, & stepfather who pretends to be”Hosmer Angel”( another classic name)👍😉
I've just listened to "Black Peter", then this story. It strikes me how so many of the SH stories have either as a main plot or as a sub-plot, or just as a social context taken for granted, that women were so lacking in any way to escape abusive situations. Passed like chattel from the hands of their fathers to the hands of their husbands, they were lucky if they wound up with a man who would not abuse them - and if they were not so lucky, they had no recourse to the law. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were sympathetic toward women who were being abused, but the plots usually involved some kind of plan to steal an inheritance - the abuse itself didn't seem to be seen as a crime.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio It is only fairly recently in English and US history that women had any control over their own assets. In the Old West, about the same time as this story, the only way a woman could gain wealth on her own was through prostitution, especially as management.
Good evening everyone, some months ago, I wrote a comment asking help to find a story, I got some answers but no one can identify it, so I decided to listen to all the stories in order to find it. Here I am, 6 months later and I did not find it!!! I am truly starting to think that I dream this and it doesnt actually exist!!! It starts describing a very cold and foggy day, sherlock its at the basement making a lot of noise and watson is reading something, then at dinner sherlock tells watson something about a very important experiment (something about bullets being fired, i think) and tells him that if he wants to know about this he must promise to stay at home and not talk to anyone, watson accepts this and sherlock goes back to the basement; then in the middle of the nigth a friend of watson arrives at the house and ask him to receive him. Thats the part where I always felt asleep. If anyone can help me with this I will be forever grateful!!! I am sure that im not creative enough to dream the story by myself but I listened to all the stories here, even the pastiches and I CAN NOT FOUND IT, maybe I dont remember correctly or I dont know... help please!!
The general consensus among most Sherlockian scholars is that “The Swamp Adder” was a disguised name for Roylott’s creature on Watson’s part, being as he didn’t want to supply a recipe for murder to the Strand readers. Suspects for “The Swamp Adder” range from The King Cobra which was and still is “The deadliest snake in India.” to the Western Taipan, which is the most venomous snake in the world, although it’s from Australia not India, to even ideas such as Roylott having somehow bred a Skink/Gila Monster hybrid for the lethal amount of venom to kill his daughters.
_"But what in the name of the devil!"_ _The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and a huge man framed himself in the aperture._ Oh my god hahaha. This might be my favorite example of "ejaculation" sounding funny to modern ears.
My friend is blind and I forward this to her. She loves listening to it. She said bless u
Glad to hear it!
Cheers camron
Another reason to be grateful to you.
Wow.. somebody is happyyy👍👍👌👌👌
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@@bilguungantulga8736 thats cool but did i ask
Holmes cheerfully talking about crocuses while mr crankypants bends fire pokers is both damn funny and a flex of considerable proportions
One of my favorite scenes in all of Sherlock Holmes's adventures.
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This story was my first experience with Sherlock. It completly fascinated me, and here I am now, an Aurthur Conan Doyle addict. Thanks Greg
Thanks Glory. Glad you're enjoying them! All the best!
Glory Powers I love your profile picture!
How do you know his name is greg
@@theogplayer9876 the description
I am so sexy?! 😍
I listen to one story every day. I have repeated yours readings several times. This is how Sherlock speaks when I read his stories in hard bound books. Thank you.
Thanks for listening - and best wishes to the Hedgerow!
This is the best and most wholesome compliment I think I’ve ever encountered
These videos are the only reason I’m passing my university literature class while working full time
I had to study for a test on this story but had limited time to do so. Listening to this gave more time to do things and prepare while studying simultaneously. Thank you so much!
Glad it helped. Cheers William.
Oh man. This one. I got the audio cassette, yes cassette, of this from the library when I was a kid. Ever since then, I think of this very story every time I hear the name of “Sherlock Holmes”.
Greg Wagland you are a huge talent. Your delivery is impeccable, a total pro. I hope you are profiting from this generous act, you deserve to.
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I have ADD and I have trouble reading for a long time because of this, so this is very helpful to me.💜
One of the best atmosphere out of all holmes stories. Simply captivating.
Thank you so much for this. I can’t read properly because I have dyslexia and this is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Craftb!
Yes, it's helpful for me as well. Due to neurological problems, I suffer from double vision very often, and on those days, it's impossible to read. I often lay in bed and just listen to these one after another. :) This is really the best recorded version available! I spent $70 on the Audible treasury of the whole Sherlock Holmes Canon a few years ago, and yet I stopped listening to it once I found this channel ❤
Best audio reader of all time--
Soo ture
FIRST Holmes story I ever read in school and STILL my favorite...Thanks for giving your usual GREAT performance...
This was Doyle's favourite, as well. He called it "the grim snake story". 🐍
@@h.calvert3165 I was so happy it was his favorite as well.
This is my favourite, love it when Holmes gets the better of a murdering bully! Like in the pub in
“A Solitary Cyclist” when Holmes just happens to know about boxing, Plus his “ little knowledge of Japanese wrestling!” When he fights Morearty at the Rycanbach falls🤣🤣👍
I always listen to your readings when I'm upset or on the verge of a mental break down. Your voice is very soothing. Thank you Greg!
Cheers Jumps Angel
Take care
We can also rely on the voice that calms us in a very difficult time
I've been addicted to your channel and listened in religiously while obtaining my nurse practitioners license. I've passed on your channel to students and they absolutely agree, you're amazing. Thank you for the content.
Good luck with the nursing! Informed consent etc
You are doing an incredible work reading these stories. A+
Thank you J Post
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio why do you just take the credit?? You are not the author nor are you the voice actor reading it! You just upload it to RUclips...
I've seen all the Holmes episodes (Brett and Hardwick) and now ive listended to all of your audiobooks. And I shall listen again and again. Your great at narrating. Bravo Greg.
May he be shamed who finds the nerve to dislike this marvellous work.
And pilloried, and possibly birched.
Too harsh perhaps?
>@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Oh but that is simply elementary, my dear watson
or she
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audiomost certainly not
The readings are excellent. A thoroughly good read is half the enjoyment of an audiobook. Thank you - and a Happy 2024.
Same to you!
This site allows me to enjoy my Holmes as I work. Very good at relieving stress! :)
Great to hear it helps! all the best Grendachan.
Please!! Could you record the novels, too?! Some day, soon? (A study in scarlet, the sign of four, thevalley of fear, the hound of the baskervilles.) I love your voice. It is a pleasure to listen to your readings. Thank you for your work.
I have recorded them. They are all on this RUclips channel.
Seek and ye shall find!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I have found them!!!! Thank you!! thank you!!!
Good to hear!
I relish these readings by Greg who has such a sonorous rich deep voice - that is indeed British English at its best.
Thanks EnglishTeacherBerlin. Is it warming up in Berlin yet? Spring in the air?
Clean, smart and sharp...
I love the stories and listening to this reader.
Cheers REBeca
Love your soothing voice Greg....
First story I ever read about 30 years ago from the Oxford Classics, which is my favourite story along with The Red Headed League and The Retired Colourman. Top job by Mr Wagland!
I'm glad I stumbled upon this channel. I forgot how addicted I was to Sherlock Holmes. I'm going to relive his adventures again, this time in audiobook form.
Jeremy Brett of course was the best Holmes ever I loved watching it and would picture Holmes just as he portrayed The speckled band was my favourite episode.These audio books are outstanding and the narrator wonderful.Thank you for putting these on radio.
Came after finishing the Great Attorney Video Game series starring Herlock Scholmes, but stayed for the smooth and relaxing narration, as well as the intriguing plot! Great reading! I will gladly return to listen to more stories!
Funny thing is, the character of Herlock Sholmes also made appearances in the famous novel series, "Arsene Lupin III".
yo dude! had the same thoughts? 😌
This one frightened me as a child. We had a trapdoor in the ceiling at the top of the stairs, and
I feared 'the band' would drop down from it.
Love the voice changes their all just perfect 👌
I had forgotten how much I liked this story. Thank you
When Holmes mentioned how bad it can be when a physician goes wrong, all I could think of was Crippen; however, Crippen wasn't fictional unfortunately. Thank you for the brilliant job on these! A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Dr Buck Ruxton and Dr Harold Shipman too.
One of the best stories so far.
I have been listening to Sherlock Holmes for almost 2 years
I love Mr. Wagland's work and have great admirstion for his talent. Please please get RUclips to fix the play list so that I can see the stories in order and play them in order. The recent changes have made the play list a chaotic mess with no redeeming features.
This was one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes mysteries as a kid. It actually scared me the first time (didn’t help that I’d been reading at night) and I had nightmares about “the speckled band” but kept reading anyway. 😂 I am trying to get my son to listen to this now and see what he thinks.
My favourite Holmes story beautifully read.Thank-you.
My Favourite Sherlock Holmes Story. Followed By "The Hound Of The Baskervilles" & "The Sussex Vampire". GREAT!!
Love the way you have Holmes say”this old DOCTOR!Just can tell he holds him in total contemt😁that’s before the visit from him to😉
Just perfect narration ✊
It is a little cold for the time of the year but I have heard that the crocuses promise well => my new go to phrase 😁
A phrase to be used sparingly perhaps?
The absolute best reader of Sherlock Holmes ever.
Thanks Sandy!
You are a wonderful story teller
I love this book sssoooo mmmmmuuuuuuuccccchhhhh
I listen to it every night and I absolutely recommend it to everyone who likes reading 😊
I am nearly 50 years old and still cracks me up when the Sherlock Holmes stories talk about "huge ejaculations." Funniest one so far - where Watson was asleep in a chair by the fire - and Sherlock Holmes' violent ejaculation woke him up with a start. Fnarr fnarr...
There are some funny ones. Fnarr indeed 😊
Toffos would play havoc and let slip my old mercury fillings, so can’t support your campaign. Soz.
I'm glad it isn't just me haha
Always struck me as funny too. The other expression you get sometimes is "he snorted" but then Holmes was on what are now , but weren't in Holmes' times, illegal substances.
I have an English assignment to do with this and when I read I get distracted so listening to this while reading helped me. Thankyou
Very good narration . I really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Jeremy Brett plays Sherlock so wonderfully in the scene where the good dr threatens him, with perfectly amused disdain for the threat :D Delightful moment when he straightens the poker so casually
Ha! Yes!
Thank you so much for sharing your tremendous talent with us.
Thanks Jayster.
Love these books
Thank you
Glad you like them! Thanks Leo.
Wonderful reading. Thank you
Thanks for the stories ....love to listen ....every night I do ! Hope the list is never ending .....🤗😄
Thank you so much
I have an assignment on this tomorrow and you saved me so much time
I'm so glad!
My craving for articulate writing is satisfied by ACD & Agatha Christie. I feel so fortunate to have access to thee fine readings.
Thanks Gina
THANKyou so much, we need to read this and explain the plot for school
But i am so happy i found an audio version i can just listen instead
Thanks!
Glad I could help, Bröt!
Thanks for making this video because I can not read that good
Glad it helped you.
Cheers.
Perhaps not, but you have excellent taste in literature! 📘
Piña-colada _101 You write pretty well though. Bravo!
an amazing narration for an amazing story!
Hooo my. The Speckled Band is actually quite scary, but that ending really got me shivering.
Beautifully read, as always!
“Roused it’s snakish temper!”Just Brilliant✊
Thank you for your lovely work, Mr. Wagland, and Merry Christmas!! :)
The doctor's voice boomed out very convincingly. (I can just about remember the window up and down leather straps in old train compartments - see illustration.)
Nice work reading this :)
Thanks for listening Agnieszka!
Thank you so much for your effort.🙏
3 years later and he's still hearting
As you can probably guess by my profile pic, this is my FAVORITE Sherlock Holmes short story of all time! Big thanks and thumbs up for this amazing reading. You are without a doubt my favorite Sherlock Holmes audiobook channel ever!
Im not a very good reader i easily get distracted and had to read this for a summer assignment obviously i left it last minute but this is explained it so clearly and i really thought this book was gonna suck but i loved it in the end it was so interesting
I have to read it for school so now I can listen to it THANKS
Love your skills at reading
Superb have been a Holmes fan since the early 60s read them all and watched them all and your reading of them brings them alive in ones mind so thank you sir and keep up the great work that you do 👌👌👌
Cheers brindle.
Conan Doyle was a master story teller with an interesting range of interests. He had a predilection for unusual names, e.g.Hilton Cubitt, a name that always strikes me as comic even ludicrous - and his two famous characters were originally called Sherringford Hope and Ormand Sacker who would no doubt have sunk without trace had he not changed them to Holmes and Watson.
Yes, they are ludicrous, some of them. Maybe he was fearful of getting sued by people with dull names?
Ormand Sacker is a corker though, isn't it?
Cubitt was a very well known surname in London at the time these stories were written. Thomas Cubitt designed and built large swaths of London; Belgravia, Pimlico, Bloomberry. Eaton Square. Beautiful buildings from a different use and time.
Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, They all had character names that seem odd now, like a kind of concentrate of Britishness. And the names usually reflected some
He also likes the last name of Windygate it appears several times, landlord in the blue carbuncle, & stepfather who pretends to be”Hosmer Angel”( another classic name)👍😉
Wonderful narrative.
ihave an eng exam tmrow and this has helped me much and saved me alot of time
@Hamza SAME
Same
School work too
same
Raised his snakish temper!🤣🤣Brilliant!!
This was my introduction to S. H. in an adaptation as a kid.
This is a good one.
Yes
Thank you so much this helped me get an A on my project
I had to read this for homework and it was too much for me to take in so instead I listened to it and I helped so thank you so much
Glad it helped, ScopedOut!
Helped me work and read at the same time. Thanks for that.
Nice wolf head.
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Thank you.😊
Thanks this will help me with understanding
That last line is absolutely amazing!
Remind me? What is it?
Deduction and observation.
✌️
Thank you i love it ❤
I've just listened to "Black Peter", then this story.
It strikes me how so many of the SH stories have either as a main plot or as a sub-plot, or just as a social context taken for granted, that women were so lacking in any way to escape abusive situations. Passed like chattel from the hands of their fathers to the hands of their husbands, they were lucky if they wound up with a man who would not abuse them - and if they were not so lucky, they had no recourse to the law.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were sympathetic toward women who were being abused, but the plots usually involved some kind of plan to steal an inheritance - the abuse itself didn't seem to be seen as a crime.
Yup. Different times, but still lots of people being treated like chattels around the world.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio It is only fairly recently in English and US history that women had any control over their own assets. In the Old West, about the same time as this story, the only way a woman could gain wealth on her own was through prostitution, especially as management.
He is so smart 🤓 I would have never figured that 😂 one out.😊.
A. Conan Doyle's #1 favorite from all of his Sherlock Holmes' stories.
It's definitely up there. I also like The Red-Headed League for its light hearted moments.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Definitely a good one.
Thanks for making this audiobook, it is my favourite book.
No worries! Thanks for listening, Norfolk Farmer - keep ploughing!
Hello :) Loved this it was easy for me thanks for helping me in school.
Glad it helped, Christi!
I love this one
It's Doyle's favourite too, I think.
Love from India bro nice to listen you😘😊
You just helped me with my homework😉
Thank you this really helps:)
Glad to hear that, Nea Rojas!
Good evening everyone, some months ago, I wrote a comment asking help to find a story, I got some answers but no one can identify it, so I decided to listen to all the stories in order to find it. Here I am, 6 months later and I did not find it!!! I am truly starting to think that I dream this and it doesnt actually exist!!! It starts describing a very cold and foggy day, sherlock its at the basement making a lot of noise and watson is reading something, then at dinner sherlock tells watson something about a very important experiment (something about bullets being fired, i think) and tells him that if he wants to know about this he must promise to stay at home and not talk to anyone, watson accepts this and sherlock goes back to the basement; then in the middle of the nigth a friend of watson arrives at the house and ask him to receive him. Thats the part where I always felt asleep. If anyone can help me with this I will be forever grateful!!! I am sure that im not creative enough to dream the story by myself but I listened to all the stories here, even the pastiches and I CAN NOT FOUND IT, maybe I dont remember correctly or I dont know... help please!!
The general consensus among most Sherlockian scholars is that “The Swamp Adder” was a disguised name for Roylott’s creature on Watson’s part, being as he didn’t want to supply a recipe for murder to the Strand readers. Suspects for “The Swamp Adder” range from The King Cobra which was and still is “The deadliest snake in India.” to the Western Taipan, which is the most venomous snake in the world, although it’s from Australia not India, to even ideas such as Roylott having somehow bred
a Skink/Gila Monster hybrid for the lethal amount of venom to kill his daughters.
👍🏼
Big old man bends metal
Sherlock oh come on good sir that was my favorite metal. **fixes it to its original state**
Poker face 🤔
Thank you very much.
You are welcome, Susan!
Thanks so much
Thank you!
thank a lot
_"But what in the name of the devil!"_
_The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and a huge man framed himself in the aperture._
Oh my god hahaha. This might be my favorite example of "ejaculation" sounding funny to modern ears.
Yes. Framing oneself in the aperture! Really?
thanks for this
You're welcome