The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is read by Greg Wagland. Production Copyright (P)Magpie Audio Video copyright Magpie Audio 2015
These stories were written and read over a hundred years ago but only now are we fortunate enough to have Mr Wagland to read them to us now through RU-vid.
No sob story here, just pure delight and gratitude for these downloads and sharing. I'm 75, and radio shows are in my memories, fond memories, and I also love being read to. Thank you and carry on!
Greg Wagland should be licensed to Sherlock Holmes name. No one else should be allowed to record their voice to the books except Greg! He is excellent in his narration.
thank you so much for these audios :-) I am recovering from cancer and these stories keep me company. Sherlock Holmes always makes me smile. Thank you so much, it really means a lot
I find myself turning to these wonderful stories whenever insomnia pays me a visit ( all too often). The stories are so well read that I scarcely remember that all the characters are brought to life by Mr. Wagland....a most talented actor! His interpretation of Mr. Doyle's writings has set the bar for all other audio books. A high one indeed!
I cannot put into comprehension how wonderful these stories are. I can picture these stories in my imagination as you tell the stories so eloquently. Please, please, please, do not stop. These stories are spoken with such veracity they come to life. Thank you so much 😊
"The Professor, it was she". These are the words that summarise the case of the Golden Pince-Nez, they stuck to my mind ever since 1979 when I first read this story on the London Glasgow train.
I'm getting addicted to listening to these at night, i love Sherlock Holmes mysteries & Greg's voice is so sonorous and soothing; I don't mean to be rude when I say these 'bed-time' stories help send me to sleep :) I suffer from anxiety & often have difficulty going to sleep but these relax me so much, thank you! when I finish them I shall re-listen to them.
I quite often have trouble sleeping. This marvellous voice often puts me out like a light. And not because they're _boring_ . Don't ask me why. When I wake up I simply return them to where they were when I went to sleep and carry on listening.
Like many of you I also find listening to these Sherlock Holmes audio stories relaxing and often fall asleep when I listen at night. The sonorous pleasant voice is pleasant. I suspect some of the critics were comparing them to videos, perhaps even modern violent fast-action videos, which they are not. Visual and audio experiences are processed differently. Visual input is processed quickly where as audio input is processed slower and more deliberately. The modern age is predominantly visual. I listen to a LOT of audio books (primarily history) and find that I retain the information much better. Better still, sometimes I get the print book, too, and read along with the audio.
I heard a bbc crowdscience podcast of 24th november today or yesterday discussing whether reading or listening was better. But I fell asleep justvas they started on the conclusion. 😂
You have a great gift here. You illuminate stories that are closer and closer to being distant memories. Your cadence and voice transports me--a relatively young American guy--to a place chronologically and spatially far, wherein the language is just recognizable enough to grasp meaning and acquire words otherwise gone in my present world.
Your brilliant narrations give me joy & peace. Allowing my imagination to bring these wonderful characters & scenes to life, thanks to your incredible acting skills, is sublime.
I thank you, sir, for sharing these great works! The gentleman who reads this series, absolutely, does them honor. What a generous gift you have taken time to pass on to myself and others. Bless you.
Fascinating story. Well done. Never in my years of OTR have I witnessed another reader with constant popularity and extreme appreciation. It leads me to believe Mr. Wagland you must be quite an exceptional man.
I am dealing with a demanding regimen of chemotherapy. Harsh side effects, insomnia and various degrees of pain. These offerings help me so much and I am very grateful to Greg Wagland for them. I was amazed tonight to find one to which I have not listened. What a huge treat. Yay.
This was one of the Holmes stories that I could never wrap my head around, hearing it rather than reading makes all kinds of sense. He must have figured most of it out after he looked at the glasses. Anyway, thank you for the nice reading.
Forty-one people who thumbed down this audiobook - which is a brilliant interpretation of the Golden Pince-Nez story by Conan Doyle - clearly have issues they should all see a therapist over ....
This is great I love all of the Sherlock Holmes audio books your reading is so calming and it's amazing how you can make diffrent voices for each of the characters....Thank you so much😊
Beautiful readings. I’m curious, are these abridged or the complete stories? Also, since I love the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes episodes, it’s fascinating to see the changes made by the TV writers. I think at the end of Brett’s Golden Pince-Nez the revolutionaries find the chain-smoking traitor, and kill him. Once again, Greg Wagland, beautiful work, and thank you.
Yes, a few changes in the TV episode. I believe Edward Hardwicke was filming Shadowlands at the time, so Watson was replaced by Charles Gray as Mycroft Holmes. It was he that used snuff (that he pretended to drop on the floor by accident) to determine the footsteps of someone hiding in the room.
Amazing job by Mr. Wagland, this is my 33rd story I've listened to and i tell you he brings each of these characters to life in such a brilliant way; my imagination thanks you kind sir.
Well, when it ends is 'the end', regardless of whether or not I say 'The End'... So, when the end credits roll, that's the end. Don't be confused - it's not confusing!! :-)
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I guess, she means that the other story immediately starts, if you listening from a playlist f.e., and that could be confusing. It is incredibly tiny inconvenience for such a glorious overall experience)
I absolutely love these stories, but when they reprint them for newer generations I think it advisable to insert the word "exclaim" in replacement of each instance of the word "ejaculate."
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio ahh, I must say I appreciate your varied accents used for the characters. I myself always wanted to speak like Roger Moore, but being from Texas puts a bit of a damper on that. 😉
And thus the world was deprived of one scholar's magnum opus, which had promised to strike at the very foundations of revealed religion. Alas. As Holmes said in another episode (The Naval Treaty), "Well, well, we can't expect to score every time." 🥱
Conan Doyle: Hmm, now I will write about Russians, should I spend time researching their names? No, how silly of me, of course not, I remember whole Russian culture perfectly probably. To explain: Sergey and Alexey would be the right versions, the ones in the story are certainly real eastern European variants of the same names, but totally not Russian.
The general consensus is that Watson’s wife Mary, had died sometime during ‘The Great Hiatus’ (the period between 1891-1894 when Holmes was erroneously thought to be dead after his battle with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbech Falls. Although there are a handful of Sherlockians who that “Watson’s bereavement” could refer to anything from a divorce to Mary having a mental breakdown and being committed to an asylum to her having died in childbirth due to a miscarriage.
Au contraire. The revolutionaries don't come off that bad here - not that they're good, but it's the professor who really sold his soul to the Czarist rulers. The 1905 revolutionaries couldn't have known how murderous the Communists ended up being. Czarist rule was horrible.
