This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.

Why would four hostages refuse to be rescued from the man who is holding them in a bank vault?

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Stockholm, September 1975. A trunk call reaches Baker Street from the Swedish police: a gunman who speaks nothing but English has taken four bank clerks down into the vault of a city-centre bank, and he has asked for money, a getaway car and a prisoner named Blom. He has not asked for food, a blanket or a doctor for the people he is holding. By Saturday the hostages are telling a Minister of State that it is the police they are afraid of. Holmes and Watson cross the North Sea to a square full of cameras, a command post full of exhausted men and a vault that will not explain itself.

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real 1970s hostage siege reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design.

Loosely inspired by a real 1970s hostage siege in Sweden. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions and motives of every character, including the police, the Minister, the hostages and the gunman, are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. It is not the outcome of the real case, and no character in this story represents or accuses any real person. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution.

Setting: London and Stockholm — September 1975.

Directed Edition: the same story, newly performed line by line with a directing pass for every voice: each actor's delivery is chosen for the moment, from a dry aside to a held breath.

Chapters:
0:00 A Gale at Baker Street
2:54 The Banking Hall
5:46 The Cashier and the Prisoner
8:47 A Voice on the Vault Line
11:30 The Minister Calls
14:03 The Mail Book and the Hole in the Floor
17:15 Four Nights
18:18 Cold Coffee in the Canteen
21:41 Four O'Clock in the Vault
27:51 Dawn on Brunnsplan
29:32 Baker Street, Three Weeks Later

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