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

Eleven classified folders have vanished from a locked vault at a defence plant in California, and the lock shows no sign of force. Three men hold the combination, and the company's own security chief has flown to London to say so. Who among them could have opened it?

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🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.

In the first week of August 1983, a wet grey morning in London, an American security chief named Barrow is shown into the sitting room at Baker Street. He has flown through the night from Calder Avionics, a defence contractor in Culver City, California. Eleven folders of classified guidance material have gone from the company vault, and the lock is untouched: no forced entry, nothing broken. Only three men know the combination, and Barrow is one of them. Holmes agrees to come on one condition: no police, no press, no questions at the gates. With Watson he crosses the Atlantic, and the next morning they stand in the emptied vault, where the shelves show a clean outline of every folder taken. Barrow counts the keys that exist, and the list is short. A radar engineer is summoned, wearing worn cuffs and a defensive manner. Holmes asks for the vault's tally books and the names of every man who holds a key. How does a locked vault give up eleven folders without leaving a mark?

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1980s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1980s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the security men, the engineers, the club staff, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the avionics company and the club named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: London and Los Angeles — August 1983.

Chapters:
0:00 A Caller at Baker Street
2:10 The Emptied Vault at Culver City
3:41 Tally Books and Missing Numbers
5:15 Veranda Above the Tennis Courts
7:13 An Early Visitor at the Hotel
9:06 An Inspector Brings a Folder
10:27 Tea as the Light Fades
12:13 Monday Morning in the Security Office
13:59 Behind the Club Bar
15:14 The Steward's Desk, Late Afternoon
17:40 Morning Report at the Hotel
18:18 Pacing Before the Hotel Window
20:10 Dusk on the Final Saturday
23:01 Empty Courts, Evening Falls
24:34 Home to Baker Street

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

On Whit Monday evening a typist with a bandaged hand brings Sherlock Holmes a letter the police laughed at: an apology from whoever shot a racing driver outside a Hampstead pub. Why would a gunman stop to say sorry to a stranger?

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🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.

On the evening of Whit Monday, 1957, Holmes and Watson are idling at Baker Street over a wager about a passer-by when a woman arrives with a cab waiting at the kerb. Rosalind Ridley, a solicitors' typist, was wounded in the hand by a stray bullet outside the Black Heron in Hampstead, where a racing driver was shot dead the night before. She has since received a typed note of apology, and the police have filed it with the cranks. Holmes is reluctant to take on what looks like legwork for Scotland Yard, but Watson points out that cranks boast and accuse, and never apologise. At Ferndale Rise, Inspector Lestrade shows them the chipped brickwork, the low bullet marks and the grim facts of the shooting. Next morning Watson dresses Mrs Ridley's torn hand and gives her a hard verdict about her trade, while Holmes asks her to relive the minutes before the first shot. The police station register records a revolver found beneath a plane tree across from the pub. The station also holds the note itself. A woman's life's work has been taken by a bullet meant for someone else. Who would be sorry enough to write, yet cold enough to fire?

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1950s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1950s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including a racing driver, a club proprietor, a typist, a barman, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the pub, the club and the newspaper named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: Baker Street and Hampstead — June 1957.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction.

Chapters:
0:00 A Wager at the Window
2:38 Bullet Marks in Ferndale Rise
4:05 A Typist's Bandaged Hand
5:47 The Station Register
7:16 Back on the Pavement
8:51 Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets
10:15 Past Midnight Above Knightsbridge
11:53 The Office Behind the Bar
13:34 A Constable's Book of Empty Houses
15:23 The Club Falls Quiet
16:35 Midnight in Baker Street
17:35 Three Days at the Gunsmith's
18:52 Under the Roped-Off Tree
20:04 Down in the Cells
21:37 A Taxi Through the Lamplight
22:36 An Hour Before Opening
24:13 The Green-Shaded Lamp
25:47 A Fortnight Later

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

A mother flies through the night from New York to Baker Street, leaving her son unburied, to insist that his death in a dark upstairs hall was no mere tragedy. Why does she trust a London detective over the police who have already named it an accident?

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🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.

On the last Monday of December 1957, a woman in a travelling coat climbs the stairs at Baker Street. Rosamund Ferris has flown through the night from New York, leaving her son Maddox unburied at his house in Cedar Cove, Long Island. He was shot dead in the upstairs hall by his wife, Lorna, who says she fired at a prowler she had feared for months. Holmes calls it grief and refuses to cross an ocean for a cold trail, until Watson reminds him what the journey has cost her. At the house, the shutters are drawn against a crowd of newsmen, and the sleepless widow, in black, tells the detectives to look wherever they like. Upstairs, an inspector of the county police reads out her signed statement: a noise on the roof, a shotgun by the bed, a tall figure in the dark hall, both barrels. Holmes notes where the shot struck the doorframe. Across the yard, the family chauffeur, dismissed after twenty years by a note left on the car seat, is packing his trunk and says he will not wear black for his employer. Holmes has taken the case, but what exactly is he meant to find?

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1950s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1950s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the wealthy family, their household staff, the villagers, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the village, the estate and its telephone exchange named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: London and Cedar Cove, Long Island — December 1957.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction.

Chapters:
0:00 Rain on Baker Street
2:32 Past the Newsmen's Cameras
3:52 The Hall Between Two Doors
5:46 The Chauffeur's Rooms Above
7:06 One Lamp After Midnight
8:47 The Inspector's Private Theory
10:02 Up the Ladder to the Slates
11:23 The Dead Man's Room
12:37 A Cold Pipe at the Harbour Inn
13:39 The Widow Receives Callers
15:10 Hosing Down the Packard
16:33 Past Eleven at the Switchboard
17:55 Foghorn Before Dawn
19:10 First Light at the Cells
20:56 Gathering on the Upper Landing
23:12 Newsmen at the Gate
24:35 A Cable to Baker Street

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

Was the Kincaid heir kidnapped — or did he stage it?

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London, September 1977. A telephone call drags Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson out of a sweltering Baker Street and across the Atlantic to an estate in Purchase, New York, where the son and heir of a great American fortune has vanished, a ransom tape in his own voice demands that his father pay, and the house is full of troopers, bankers and suspicion.

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real 1970s crime 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 New York kidnapping. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the missing son, his family, the suspects and the police — are invented for drama. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or agency.

Setting: London, and Purchase and White Plains, New York — September 1977.

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.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced.

Chapters:
0:00 A Long Hot Summer at Baker Street
2:43 The Gates at Purchase
4:17 The Stable Yard
5:43 Kincaid's Study
7:07 The State Police Command Van
8:25 The Ransom Tape in the Drawing Room
9:50 Gavin's Bedroom
11:16 Two Canvas Bags
13:03 A Trooper's Car at Three in the Morning
14:59 The Guest Room in the Dark
16:02 Morning at the Paddock Rail
17:41 The Drawing Room Again
19:05 A Bare Green Room in Westchester
20:33 Thursday Night in White Plains
21:52 Past Midnight at the Paddock
23:03 First Light at Purchase
24:48 Sunlight and Coffee in the Kitchen
26:59 Home to Baker Street

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

A village doctor and his housekeeper lie dead in a Bavarian villa on Good Friday, and the police have called it a shooting followed by a suicide. Why does the doctor's son fly to Baker Street, begging Holmes to come before the funeral?

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🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.

On Good Friday evening, April 3, 1962, London drizzles outside Baker Street when a young engineer arrives straight from the airport, refusing a chair and refusing a brandy. His father, a country doctor at Lindenau in Bavaria, is dead, and he wants Sherlock Holmes there before the burial. Holmes first declines, having no standing with a foreign police force, but Watson reminds him that an engineer trusts measurements, not feelings, and the son has already kept seats for both men on the morning flight. At the doctor's villa, Inspector Kraft of the Bavarian police explains what he found: the housekeeper, Gerda, lying in the study doorway, and the doctor in his chair with his own licensed pistol in his hand. The file, he says, is closed. Holmes reads a scorched lamp shade and places the death after dark on Thursday, yet the inspector will not share the surgeon's findings with the son. Downstairs, the doctor's nurse still answers the door to patients, and his longtime companion writes funeral cards, while the son insists that the housekeeper who carried him as a child was never harmed by his father. What has this grieving household not yet said?

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1960s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1960s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the doctor's household, the villagers, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the village, the villa and the post office named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: London and Lindenau — April 1962.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction.

Chapters:
0:00 Good Friday in Baker Street
2:33 The Doctor's Study at Lindenau
4:29 Lilies and Wet Ink
6:11 A Message Under the Door
8:03 Pipe Smoke Above the Garage
9:37 Instruments Laid Out in Silence
10:54 Questions in the Surgery
12:34 A Night at the Inn
13:48 Easter Morning, Eight O'Clock
15:12 Dusk on the Terrace
16:16 Funeral Cards by Lamplight
17:26 Papers Boxed on the Floor
19:00 Back to the Surgery
20:36 Two Kinds of Paper
22:14 Past Midnight at the Window
23:41 The Last Envelopes
25:34 Baker Street by the Fire

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

On a wet June evening in 1949, Inspector Lestrade climbs to Baker Street clutching a sodden parcel he will not set down, hours after a passer-by was shot dead in Marlow Street. Why has Scotland Yard come to Holmes for something other than a name?

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🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction.

London, the last days of June 1949. Dr Watson is rehearsing a best man's speech by the fire at Baker Street when Inspector Lestrade arrives, rain-soaked and carrying a parcel he refuses to put down. A passer-by was shot dead in Marlow Street that afternoon, and Lestrade has come not for a name, since the Yard has been offered plenty of those, but for Holmes. At Dunmore's, a jeweller's shop, a young cashier describes three masked men with scarves to the eyes, one laying a revolver across her counter, and an old shopman who hurled his stool at them. The till was ignored. The men went straight for a safe the manager swears is never opened by day, yet it stood open when they walked in. Nearby, in Hallam House on the corner of Tottenham Court Road, the hall porter tells of a brave motorcyclist who laid his machine across the raiders' path, and of the masked man who fired and then ran into the building. Lestrade asks Holmes and Watson to keep silent about what was found there. Holmes begins to wonder who knew when that safe would stand open, and who has been left out of the story so far.

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real crime of the 1940s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1940s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including shop workers, a hall porter, passers-by, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the jeweller's shop, the office building and the streets named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: Baker Street and Marlow Street — June 1949.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction.

Chapters:
0:00 Rain on Baker Street
2:28 Broken Glass in Marlow Street
4:26 The Corner of Tottenham Court Road
6:13 A Landing Under a Weak Bulb
7:27 A Promise of Silence
8:50 Darkness on the Front Steps
10:14 Three Puzzles on a Wet Morning
11:17 Boards Across the Window
13:05 Back Through the Iron Gate
14:26 A Journey Through Wet Streets
16:11 Lestrade Meets Us Below
17:49 Smoke, Talk and Thirsty Men
19:10 An Inspector's Early Vigil
20:45 An Unwelcome Early Call
22:34 Questions Without Comfortable Answers
24:17 Tea by the Baker Street Fire

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

Who emptied the embassy's code room while smoke filled the upper floors?

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London, October 1979. On a wet Tuesday night a cipher clerk from the American Embassy in Moscow pushes her way up to Baker Street. In August a fire swept the embassy's upper floors; when the smoke cleared, a code cabinet she had left open was found empty, and a State Department board sitting in London on Monday means to send her home in disgrace. The officer who had the watch that night has a suspect of his own in mind, and the only clue is a single black kid glove from a Bond Street maker, found beside the cabinet.

From the series Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases: a real Cold War case of the 1970s reimagined as a classic Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast, with sound design and a light score that stays under the story.

Loosely inspired by real events. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the embassy staff, the diplomats, the Soviet officials and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual or organisation is accused of any act shown here.

Setting: London — autumn 1979.

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.

Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced.

Chapters:
0:00 A Final Demand at Baker Street
2:54 The Door on the Chain
4:29 Four Flights of Back Stairs
5:52 A Creased Yellow Sheet
7:30 The Green Safe
9:18 A Fresh Ribbon on the List
10:46 The Interpreter's Answer
12:25 Fogged Windows on the Hill
13:43 A Hand of Patience
14:40 News Off the Moscow Plane
16:28 A Coat Worn Indoors
18:07 Friday's Aerovost
19:17 The Interview Room
20:52 The Late Yes
22:23 The Station Yard at Five
23:16 First Light, Engine Running
24:44 Rain in Her Hair
26:02 A Gas Fire Without a Quarrel

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