Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation's households had radios.

Sherlock Holmes

Broadcast History: 20 October 1930 to 4 September 1956
Theme Tune: ‘March of the Ancestors’ – based on a theme from Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan

The famous Sherlock Holmes detective stories appeared on radio for more than 25 years, with a long list of performers playing the parts of Holmes and Dr Watson. The stories were written by Edith Meiser, a self-confessed Holmes addict. At first she used Arthur Conan Doyles’ original stories, but, after the series outlived the original material, she created her own new stories. These were so well written that she was warmly praised by Arthur Conan Doyle’s widow and son.

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Sherlock Holmes 400311 The Retired Colourman
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Sherlock Holmes 401006 Copper Beeches
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Sherlock Holmes 411207 Mystery of Mrs Warren's Key
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Sherlock Holmes 440515 The Adventure of the Missing Bloodsta
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Sherlock Holmes 441106 Murder Under the Big Top
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Sherlock Holmes 450326 Book of Tobit
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Sherlock Holmes 450402 Amateur Mendicant Society
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Sherlock Holmes 450409 Viennese Strangler
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Sherlock Holmes 450423 The Notorious Canary Trainer
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Sherlock Holmes 450430 The Unfortunate Tobacconist
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Sherlock Holmes 450507 The Purloined Ruby
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Sherlock Holmes 450514 In Flanders Field
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Sherlock Holmes 450521 Paradol Chamber
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Sherlock Holmes 450910 Colonel Warburton's Madness
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Sherlock Holmes 450924 Eyes of Mr Leyton
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Sherlock Holmes 451001 Thor Bridge
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Sherlock Holmes 451008 The Vanishing White Elephant
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Sherlock Holmes 451015 The Manor House Case
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Sherlock Holmes 451022 The Great Gandolf
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Sherlock Holmes 451029 Murder In The Moonlight
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Sherlock Holmes 451105 The Gunpowder Plot
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Sherlock Holmes 451112 The Speckled Band
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Sherlock Holmes 451119 The Double Zero
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Sherlock Holmes 451126 Accidental Murderess
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Sherlock Holmes 451203 Murder In The Casbah
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Sherlock Holmes 451210 A Scandal in Bohemia
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Sherlock Holmes 451217 The Second Generation
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Sherlock Holmes 451224 The Night Before Christmas
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