I Grok Sherlock

Until you hear us again for Hound of the Baskervilles, Happy Listening, Grokkers! The post The Final Problem Part 3 – Season 2 Finale appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

We pick up where Part 1 left off. Now we dive into pastiches and adaptations (and you all know what a difficult time Mike and Geordie have coming up with anything to say about film and TV!) More great stuff from our guests Peggy Perdue and Matt Burke. With a musical finale! The post The Final Problem Part 2 (Still not so final) appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Here we go! Part 1 of what will surely a very long Reichenbach fall indeed! Thanks to our special guests Peggy Perdue and Matt Burke who bring welcome new voices to this, part one of the final episode of Season 2. Happy listening! The post Ep. 26 – The Final Problem Pt. 1 – with Guests Peggy Perdue and Matt Burke appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Mike presents his awesome “Sherlock Noir” pastiche to the Bootmakers of Toronto at their Feb. 24, 2018 meeting. Hear Holmes as you’ve never heard him before in this wonderful re-imagining complete with stoic self-sacrifice and peppery jive. Play it again, Sarasate. The post Footnote 21: Sherlock Noir – The Big Scandal appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

It’s our first social distancing episode, recorded with Zoom so’s we don’t infect each other with the Tapanuli Fever. Is Percy Phelps worthy of the position he’s been given? Does Holmes believe in God? Geordie and Mike debate these and other burning questions. Quarantine has certainly made us no less prolix. The post Ep. 25 – The Naval Treaty appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

So much Sherlockian lore in such a short story! Mycroft, the Diogenes Club, and more – all get introduced in what must surely rank as the shortest real-time adventure in the Canon (though we’re willing to be wrong about that) clocking in at around six hours from start to finish. Consider yourselves lucky we didn’t […] The post Ep. 24 – The Greek Interpreter appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

This month’s footnote is an early 2019 presentation to the Bootmakers of Toronto by Mimi Okabe, a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, where in 2017 she designed and taught her dream course, “Sherlock Holmes and the Transcultural Imagination.” The full title of Dr. Okabe’s paper is “From Wiggins and Beyond: Representations […] The post Footnote 20 – From Wiggins and Beyond: Mimi Okabe appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Once more the game is a footnote. Hartley Nathan presents his paper – Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper – to the Bootmakers of Toronto at their April 13, 2019 meeting. The talk speaks for itself! Happy Grokking. The post Footnote 19 – Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Whew! That’s a lotta grokking. Mike and Geordie hold forth on The Resident Patient. AND we edited out the parts that seemed to go long. Discussions of: The Who (in 2019), Nosferatu (1922), and Sir William Osler (1849-1919) are entirely optional, but you won’t know they’ve started until after it’s too late. You have been […] The post Ep. 23 – The Resident Patient appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Let the video load. Click the play button. Pause it AS SOON AS the title screen appears. Turn down the YouTube volume. Wait for the “3-2-1-Go” in the podcast file and start the video on “Go!”   The post The Copper Beeches – 1912 Silent Film to Play With Commentary appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Possibly our most diffuse and free-ranging (like chickens) episode yet. Geordie continues down his pet rabbit-hole of origins of everyday objects and industrial materials. Mike champions expanded limits to Victorian scripture knowledge. Nothing says Sherlock like linoleum and the Kings of Judea (We’re not even kidding).   The post Ep. 22 – The Crooked Man appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Mike’s excellent adaptation of Sherlock Holmes as written by Neil Simon (in The Odd Couple vein rather than Same Time Next Year). Voiced by your two co-hosts. Back in August with The Crooked Man. Until then … the game’s a footnote. Wish we were as dapper as Martin and Benedict. The post Footnote 18 – If Sherlock Holmes had been written by Neil Simon appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Michael Robertson, author of the Baker Street Letters series, addressed the Bootmakers of Toronto on March 13, 2019. As always many thanks to Mike for producing this segment. The post Footnote 17- Michael Robertson, “The Baker Street Letters” appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Watson vainly plays nursemaid to Holmes when the Great Detective falls prey to exhaustion following his stunning defeat of Baron Maupertuis. The preceding sentence outlines the more interesting story hidden in the real one. The Reigate Squires is not a favourite of Geordie’s though he does concede that it has some admirable points. As usual, […] The post Ep. 21 – The Reigate Squires appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Mattias Boström, author of the excellent From Holmes to Sherlock, talks to the Bootmakers of Toronto. From Holmes to Sherlock is a wonderful achievement in scholarship – it starts with Conan Doyle’s creation of Holmes, the advent of his immense popularity, and takes us through the cultural impact of Holmes. If you’re listening to this […] The post Footnote 16 – Mattias Boström author of From Holmes to Sherlock appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Hogtown Empire is Geordie’s true crime podcast. In Episode 3 we look past the chummy portrait of Ambrose Small painted in Episode 2. It will emerge that he was NOT a nice man and there were plenty of people who would have nursed grudges against him – with good reason. Hogtown Empire is a true […] The post Crossover – Hogtown Empire Eps. 3 appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Whose is it? It is Mike and Geordie’s discussion of the cinema, radio, and TV adaptations of the Musgrave Ritual with a surprisingly in-depth digression on children’s television that reached Toronto from Buffalo in the 1970s. You have been warned.   The post Ep. 20a – The Musgrave Ritual Pt. 2 appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

We strongly recommend you visit iGrokSherlcok.com to watch the video while you listen. It’ll be fun! Find the blog entry for ‘Musgrave Ritual – 1912 Silent Film Commentary.’ Just wait til you hear us do the countdown – ‘3-2-1- Go!’   The post Musgrave Ritual – 1912 Silent Film Commentary appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

Hogtown Empire is Geordie’s (non-Holmes) true crime podcast (though ACD does tangentially appear a bit later.) In Episode 2 we jump right into Ambrose Small’s last movements on December 1st and 2nd, 1919. Are there any clues to what happened to Ambrose buried in his last movements? He was with someone nearly every minute of […] The post Cross Over – Hogtown Empire Eps. 2 appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.

The Musgrave Ritual has it all – a creaky ancient estate, a mysterious old document, a dual disappearance, and …  a treasure hunt! Mike and Geordie are so excited to be back that his must surely count as our most prolix episode ever, so we’ve split it into two parts. Happy listening!   The post Ep. 20 – The Musgrave Ritual • Part 1 appeared first on I Grok Sherlock.