Doings of Doyle
@doingsofdoyle.com
A podcast celebrating the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and Sherlock Holmes. Find us at www.doingsofdoyle.com and on your favourite podcast app.
ACD Q/A: We'd love your help with our December show - a Question and Answer episode on any (ACD-related!) topic you like. If you've got a burning question about Conan Doyle's life and work, drop us a comment and we'll get through as many as we can this December. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
ACD Q/A: We'd love your help with our December show - a Question and Answer episode on any (ACD-related!) topic you like. If you've got a burning question about Conan Doyle's life and work, drop us a comment and we'll get through as many as we can this December. Thanks!
NOW ON YOUTUBE: Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty (2025), with Nick Lane. Chat about adaptating Gothic classics, Rathbone/Bruce, writing like Conan Doyle, and more...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
NOW ON YOUTUBE: Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty (2025), with Nick Lane. Chat about adaptating Gothic classics, Rathbone/Bruce, writing like Conan Doyle, and more...
youtu.be/zadBVNzH1fs
youtu.be/zadBVNzH1fs
NEW EPISODE - Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty (2025), with writer-director Nick Lane. We talk to Nick about Gothic adaptations, working with Blackeyed Theatre and his latest play, based on some of the short stories, which is touring the UK right now. bit.ly/DOD068sn
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
NEW EPISODE - Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty (2025), with writer-director Nick Lane. We talk to Nick about Gothic adaptations, working with Blackeyed Theatre and his latest play, based on some of the short stories, which is touring the UK right now. bit.ly/DOD068sn
"I cannot conclude without borrowing the account of the fatal quarrel which appeared in the columns of the West Australian Sentinel. The curious will find it in the issue of October 4, 1881..." From #ACD's My Friend the Murderer www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/My...
October 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"I cannot conclude without borrowing the account of the fatal quarrel which appeared in the columns of the West Australian Sentinel. The curious will find it in the issue of October 4, 1881..." From #ACD's My Friend the Murderer www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/My...
"Galway, October 2nd, 7.25 p.m. — The fishing boat Glenmullet has just come in, towing behind her a mass of wreckage, which leaves no doubt as to the fate of the unfortunate Evangeline…" From #ACD's The Fate of the Evangeline www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Th...
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Galway, October 2nd, 7.25 p.m. — The fishing boat Glenmullet has just come in, towing behind her a mass of wreckage, which leaves no doubt as to the fate of the unfortunate Evangeline…" From #ACD's The Fate of the Evangeline www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Th...
OTD in 1897, The Manchester Weekly Times first published #ACD's excellent 'The Fiend of the Cooperage.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
OTD in 1897, The Manchester Weekly Times first published #ACD's excellent 'The Fiend of the Cooperage.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
This month in 1917, The Strand published the war reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, #ACD's 'His Last Bow.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This month in 1917, The Strand published the war reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, #ACD's 'His Last Bow.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
NOW ON YOUTUBE: 'The End of Devil Hawker' (1930) - ACD's tale of a violent Regency fiend who is taken to task for cheating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMrc...
September 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
NOW ON YOUTUBE: 'The End of Devil Hawker' (1930) - ACD's tale of a violent Regency fiend who is taken to task for cheating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMrc...
This month in 1898, The Strand first published #ACD's mysterious tale 'The Story of the Sealed Room,' one of the wonderful Round the Fire Stories. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This month in 1898, The Strand first published #ACD's mysterious tale 'The Story of the Sealed Room,' one of the wonderful Round the Fire Stories. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
NEW EPISODE: The End of Devil Hawker (1930) - a Regency tale written by ACD in his final months. Chat about: House of Temperley, Tom Cribb's pub, Lord Byron, John Doyle, and General Scott, the "toast and water" man... bit.ly/DOD67sn bit.ly/DODoyle
September 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
NEW EPISODE: The End of Devil Hawker (1930) - a Regency tale written by ACD in his final months. Chat about: House of Temperley, Tom Cribb's pub, Lord Byron, John Doyle, and General Scott, the "toast and water" man... bit.ly/DOD67sn bit.ly/DODoyle
September 1898 saw the first US appearance of #ACD's 'Songs of Action.' It contains the poem 'The Old Gray Fox' which was later put to music. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
September 1898 saw the first US appearance of #ACD's 'Songs of Action.' It contains the poem 'The Old Gray Fox' which was later put to music. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
OTD in 1914, John Murray published the collected #ACD's 'Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Long Stories.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
OTD in 1914, John Murray published the collected #ACD's 'Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Long Stories.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
And now I'll take that night, the 13th of September, 1894, and I'll give you just exactly what occurred, and may God's hand strike me down if I go one inch over the truth.' From #ACD's 'B.24.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
And now I'll take that night, the 13th of September, 1894, and I'll give you just exactly what occurred, and may God's hand strike me down if I go one inch over the truth.' From #ACD's 'B.24.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
OTD in 1913, The Daily Mail published a letter from #ACD on the lack of compensation for George Edalji, "a disgrace to the administration of this country." We talked to Shrabani Basu about the Edalji case in Episode 16. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/07/16-c...
September 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
OTD in 1913, The Daily Mail published a letter from #ACD on the lack of compensation for George Edalji, "a disgrace to the administration of this country." We talked to Shrabani Basu about the Edalji case in Episode 16. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/07/16-c...
September 11th.—Lat. 81 degrees 40’ N.; long. 2 degrees E.' The opening line of #ACD's 'The Captain of the Pole-Star,' as featured in Episode 3 of the podcast. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/01/3-ca...
September 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
September 11th.—Lat. 81 degrees 40’ N.; long. 2 degrees E.' The opening line of #ACD's 'The Captain of the Pole-Star,' as featured in Episode 3 of the podcast. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/01/3-ca...
This month in 1892, Harper's Monthly Magazine first published #ACD's terrifying short story 'Lot No. 249' as featured in Episode 41 www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/08/41-l...
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This month in 1892, Harper's Monthly Magazine first published #ACD's terrifying short story 'Lot No. 249' as featured in Episode 41 www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/08/41-l...
This month in 1914, The Strand began serialising #ACD's final Sherlock Holmes novel, the wonderful and often overlooked 'The Valley of Fear.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This month in 1914, The Strand began serialising #ACD's final Sherlock Holmes novel, the wonderful and often overlooked 'The Valley of Fear.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
This month in 1913, The Pall Mall Magazine published #ACD's 'Borrow-ed Scenes,' an odd work about a fan of the British author, George Borrow. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This month in 1913, The Pall Mall Magazine published #ACD's 'Borrow-ed Scenes,' an odd work about a fan of the British author, George Borrow. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
OTD in 1879, #ACD first appeared in print, with 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley' in Chamber's Journal and the Leeds Mercury. #ACD was 20 and the work was anonymous until 1893. We discussed the story in Episode 29. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-m...
September 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
OTD in 1879, #ACD first appeared in print, with 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley' in Chamber's Journal and the Leeds Mercury. #ACD was 20 and the work was anonymous until 1893. We discussed the story in Episode 29. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-m...
OTD in 1910, a stage adaptation of #ACD's 'A Pot of Caviare,' performed by Arthur Hardy's company, premiered at the New Theatre, Cardiff. We covered the story in Episode 46. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2024/03/49-p...
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
OTD in 1910, a stage adaptation of #ACD's 'A Pot of Caviare,' performed by Arthur Hardy's company, premiered at the New Theatre, Cardiff. We covered the story in Episode 46. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2024/03/49-p...
This month in 1890, #ACD's finally breached the "stout Scottish barrier" of Blackwood's Magazine with his story 'A Physiologist's Wife.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This month in 1890, #ACD's finally breached the "stout Scottish barrier" of Blackwood's Magazine with his story 'A Physiologist's Wife.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins.' From #ACD's 'The Illustrious Client.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins.' From #ACD's 'The Illustrious Client.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
OTD in 1882, All The Year Round first published #ACD's short story 'That Veteran.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
September 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
OTD in 1882, All The Year Round first published #ACD's short story 'That Veteran.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...
In September 1908, Smith, Elder & Co first published the collected 'Round the Fire Stories,' a cracking set of tales including 'The Brown Hand' as recently featured in Episode 64 www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/06/64-s...
September 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In September 1908, Smith, Elder & Co first published the collected 'Round the Fire Stories,' a cracking set of tales including 'The Brown Hand' as recently featured in Episode 64 www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/06/64-s...