Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast

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A podcast celebrating the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and Sherlock Holmes.

  1. 2D AGO

    Bonus 2 - ACD and Literary Cricket, with Ollie Randall

    In the second of our bonus episodes, Mark talks with historian and author Ollie Randall about his book Writers in Whites: How a group of literary cricketers changed English culture (London: Fairfield Books, 2026) which is released today. Bonus episodes are released early to patrons. If you want to hear these episodes when they are first available, sign up at https://www.patreon.com/doingsofdoyle as a free or paid member. Ollie Randall Ollie Randall is a writer, historian and cartoonist. He completed his doctoral thesis, 'Cricket, Literary Culture and Englishness' in January 2026, which has become the basis for his book Writers in Whites (2026). Ollie has written articles for a variety of publications, including The Sherlock Holmes Journal, and most frequently the Times Literary Supplement. He has worked as the historical researcher for a former leader of the House of Lords, and as a tour manager on cultural tours. His second book, Lord’s and Maharajas – about the political intrigue and imperial crisis that shaped the origins of Indian international cricket – is due out in Autumn 2026. Next time on Doings of Doyle… For our 75th regular episode, we cover one of Conan Doyle’s most important early stories, ‘J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement’ (1884). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/J._Habakuk_Jephson%27s_Statement  Acknowledgements  Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    56 min

  2. 2D AGO ·  BONUS

    Bonus 1 - The Fledkirchian Gazette, with Philipp Schöbi

    Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of the podcast. This time, Mark talks with author and researcher Philipp Schöbi about The Feldkirchian Gazette, the school newspaper edited by Arthur Conan Doyle while a student at the Stella Matutina in Feldkirch in 1875-76. This interview is a taster of the full article on the Gazette that we published on the website in March 2026. You can read the article here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2026/03/httpswww.doingsofdoyle.com202603the-feldkirchian-gazette.html Our thanks to Markus Geisser for translating Philipp's answers. Bonus episodes are released early to patrons. If you want to hear these episodes when they are first available, sign up at https://www.patreon.com/doingsofdoyle as a free or paid member. Acknowledgements  Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    49 min

  3. APR 28

    Science Fiction and Arthur Conan Doyle, with Anastasia Klimchynskaya

    This month, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Dr Anastasia Klimchynskaya to talk all things Arthur Conan Doyle and Science Fiction. Anastasia Klimchynskaya Anastasia is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, particularly science fiction, and is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University in the USA. She has presented widely on Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne, Frankenstein, and science fiction, and contributed to the Rosenbach Museum and Library's Sherlock Monthly webinar series. She is also the author of Science Fiction and the Modern World, a sweeping study of the emergence of science fiction in the nineteenth century, which has just been published by Liverpool University Press. https://www.anaklimchy.com/ Books by Anastasia: Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Science Fiction and the Modern World (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2026) - https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244905  Anastasia Klimchynskaya (ed.), From the Earth to the Moon, Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age (Forthcoming) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553865/from-the-earth-to-the-moon/  Next time on Doings of Doyle… For our 75th episode, we cover one of Conan Doyle’s most important early stories, ‘J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement’ (1884). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/J._Habakuk_Jephson%27s_Statement Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    57 min

  4. MAR 29

    A Regimental Scandal (1892)

    This episode, we attend an army barracks where a card game raises questions of honour in ‘A Regimental Scandal’, published in 1892. You can read the story here. Listen to the episode below or on your podcaster of choice. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD73sn (for all show notes, just replace ‘73’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe! Synopsis Major Errington is one of the most respected and popular officers in the Third Carabiniers, a veteran of numerous campaigns as both a soldier and a war correspondent. He is quiet, self-effacing and wise; he is also rich, but far from ostentatious. He is in fact more notable than the regiment’s nominal commander, Colonel Lovell, who is not unpopular but granted a degree of favour for his widely admired daughter, Violet. Lovell, or the Chief as he is known, is at heart an old-fashioned plunger who loves horses and gambling, but has also taken to playing the stock market and has had his fingers badly burned in American railway speculation. To recoup some of these losses, he takes to high-stakes games of écarté with Major Errington with little success. And then a rumour takes hold that the Major may be cheating… Next time on Doings of Doyle… We welcome to the podcast Anastasia Klimchinskaya to talk about ACD and science fiction. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    1h 12m

  5. FEB 28

    A Pastoral Horror (1890)

    This episode, we return to the Feldkirch plateau in Austria where a small village is terrorised by a serial killer in ‘A Pastoral Horror’, first published in 1890. You can read the story here. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD72sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘72’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe. Synopsis Following the collapse of a city firm and the loss of his capital, John Hudson is forced to find an affordable place to live while he waits for legal restitution. He fixes upon the Austrian Tyrolean village of Laden where he settles into a contented if somewhat dull existence, enlivened to some extent by the presence of the intellectual village priest Father Verhagen. This placid atmosphere however is shattered by the gruesome murder of one of the villagers. At first, the killing is blamed on an itinerant Italian pedlar with whom the victim had quarrelled, but the police have to release their suspect when a second and more prominent villager is also murdered and a reign of terror begins…   Next time on Doings of Doyle… We head back into military life where a game of cards erupts into ‘A Regimental Scandal’ (1892). Read it here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    1h 3m

  6. JAN 31

    The Three Correspondents (1896)

    This episode, we travel to Sudan in the 1890s where a naïve reporter learns a thing or two from his more experienced rivals in ‘The Three Correspondents’, first published in 1896. You can read the story here. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD71sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘71’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe. Synopsis During the opening stages of General Sir Herbert Kitchener’s reconquest of the Sudan in the 1890s, a trio of British correspondents has become detached from the main body of Kitchener’s force. The group prepare to bed down for the night in a palm grove when they encounter a lone British railway engineer in a heightened state of agitation. Naturally, they scent a story in the air. Shortly afterwards, they encounter the engineer again. Shots ring out, accompanied by a small party of Mahdist warriors. The correspondents are armed but nevertheless this is real danger. It is also copy, and what is danger when each man here owes a level of duty to his editor and, of course, his readers… Next time on Doings of Doyle… We return to Feldkirch for ‘A Pastoral Horror’ (1890). You can read the story here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    1h 5m

  7. 12/27/2025

    ACDQ&A

    This episode, we answer your questions on many aspects of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and work. Thanks to everyone who sent in questions to test us! We couldn't quite get through all of them, so a bonus episode is freely available at our Patreon: www.patreon.com/doingsofdoyle. Simply sign up for a free membership (or, if you like, a paid one!) to get access. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD70sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘70’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe. And there’s a special bonus episode for subscribers on Patreon, which you can access at www.patreon.com/doingsofdoyle. You don’t need to be a paid member – there is a free membership – but you will need to be a Patreon subscriber as the bonus will not be posted here or on YouTube.

    1h 26m

  8. 11/30/2025

    The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (1924)

    This episode, Sherlock Holmes contends with a predatory Austrian baron who “collects” women in ‘The Adventure of the Illustrious Client’ (1924). You can read the story here. The show notes will be available at https://bit.ly/DOD69sn (for all shownotes, just replace ‘69’ with the episode number in question). The episode will shortly be posted to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Please like and subscribe. Synopsis It is September 1902. Sherlock Holmes is at the height of his fame and professional standing when he is approached by the noted society fixer, Colonel Sir James Damery, who wishes to employ Holmes’s knowledge, influence and powers of detection to help prevent the impending marriage of the sinister Baron Adelbert Gruner to Miss Violet de Merville. Damery, however, is not the principal but simply an agent acting on behalf of a highly placed client who has his own reasons for wanting to prevent the misalliance. Holmes at first demurs in the face of such muddied waters – to have mystery at both ends of a case is too confusing – but his desire to bring down the Austrian murderer, as he terms Gruner, and to prevent a potentially infamous and tragic society scandal proves too strong and he embarks upon one of the most dangerous cases of his career… Next time on Doings of Doyle… We answer your questions on ACD, his life and times in our very first Q/A episode. Submit your questions by 8 December via BlueSky, Facebook or email mark@doingsofdoyle.com. And we’ll have a bonus extended edition on the making of the podcast for our patrons. To hear that episode, just sign up now – for free or for a small monthly fee – at www.patreon.com/doingsofdoyle. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books (www.belangerbooks.com), and our supporters on Patreon and Paypal. Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ YouTube video created by @headlinerapp.

    1h 22m
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