Playing with Fire by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  • @richteahoyle6825
    @richteahoyle6825 6 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Greg Wagland, you are a legend! I've listened to all your Sherlock Homes readings countless times. I just wish there were more. Your tone and intonation are calming and enthralling at the same time. Thank you sir, you are a fine fellow!

  • @KushDaddy333
    @KushDaddy333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Speaking of artists, your ability to paint the perfect Victorian/Edwardian portraits and landscapes, is second to none! It is your intonation and your great accents. You rise and fall, as the narrative dictates, and never become dull or boring. Although admittedly, I have fallen off to sleep while listening to one or two of your many great stories. Lol! But I've also spent far too many nights glued to every word But who can sleep with all this nonsense going on in the world? Peace!

  • @griffini19
    @griffini19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sir Greg Wagland you are so talented!! I am certain that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be proud of your beautiful work. Thank you so very much

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, Greg. Splendid as always. Capital. Keep up the good work.

  • @michaleduard
    @michaleduard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love his voice. I think i have listened to all his Sherlock audiobooks

  • @tgdomnemo5052
    @tgdomnemo5052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How brilliantly read , as allways !
    🙏🏼 Thank you very much Mr.Wagland !

  • @Bambisgf77
    @Bambisgf77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is one I have never heard of! So excited to listen on this rainy Saturday morning 😊Thank you Mr. Wagland! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.

  • @shaancallesen7202
    @shaancallesen7202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you once again for a beautiful reading! Best of luck and a howdy from up here in Scotland!

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    never knew of all these short stories of Sir Arthur’s. they’re so much fun and scary, suspenseful. thanks so much for narrating them in your inimitable way. :) 😋🙀🦄

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nor did I and they're great. There's a never ending heap of these by Edwardian writers, all competing with each other. I like the Benson stories, not just E. F. (is it E. F.), and want to have a go at some of the Kipling, and maybe more M. R. James.

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio
      oh, do. i know M.R. James, but look forward to your interpretation. listening to different readers is the same as experiencing different actors and actresses do the same part.
      i have no idea why i thought about this, but i’d love to hear someone read “the Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. it has some beautiful descriptions. “it raised my hair and fanned my cheeks like a meadow-gale of spring. it mingled strangely with my fears, yet it felt like a welcoming.”
      :) 🌷

    • @jackiewhite4204
      @jackiewhite4204 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fun is right! Versatile chap, A.C.D.

  • @nicholasgerrish6022
    @nicholasgerrish6022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great story!
    As any one who likes Conan Doyle will know, he was very keen on the Occult. This jars with Sherlock Holmes, who wasn’t.
    It was Conan Doyles interest, and takes us forward to Dennis Wheatley, who wrote “ The Devil Rides Out”. That story, is probably as close as we might get to an experience which deals with things beyond our world. We don’t know, but it is an example of what may be outside, and very real, if we wish to look for it, at our peril!

  • @sloanfrakes5918
    @sloanfrakes5918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Greg once again thank you for the story I do enjoy listening to you tell a story have a blessed day

  • @markhughes7927
    @markhughes7927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    30:12
    ‘What a fun - nobody eez ‘urt - only ze door eez broken.......’

  • @Concetta20
    @Concetta20 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wonderful reader!!

  • @lianatheghost9357
    @lianatheghost9357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Listening from Montreal, Canada. 🐻 ❄️

  • @murrij
    @murrij 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So interesting a story given Doyle’s fanaticism about using a medium and the supernatural.

  • @bodegabreath4258
    @bodegabreath4258 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Have never even heard of thus story let alone read it. Very much looking forward to “seeing” it, along with the others.

  • @punkfledermaus
    @punkfledermaus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you very much!

  • @mistyavril6803
    @mistyavril6803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful! Thank you

  • @evelanpatton
    @evelanpatton 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What fun! Thank you! 😊

  • @pesnevim1626
    @pesnevim1626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder if Conan Doyle had such an experience? Lovely reading, as usual, of an interesting story.

  • @OskinsBob
    @OskinsBob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    THANK YOU MISTER
    YOU HAVE SIR ACD PERFECT 💎

  • @nicholasgerrish6022
    @nicholasgerrish6022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It would be, if looking from the front!

  • @williamhagen2792
    @williamhagen2792 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    No matter the delusional belief, there are devotees who will support it regardless of fact.

  • @ronin472100
    @ronin472100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yes, Playing With Fire... One must be extremely careful of what "Doors"one opens...I hope that the only Door that I open is the one that JESUS knocks on...

  • @lauradealmeida4173
    @lauradealmeida4173 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love it!

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • @kaf890890
    @kaf890890 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very fine reading

  • @asirimihira
    @asirimihira 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks

  • @ericwinnert
    @ericwinnert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I need to research Doyle's involvement with Spiritualism. It's seems incongruous that the man of science and deduction would be involved in such fantastical stuff.

    • @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio
      @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try this (there are several other ACD spiritualist books) at the brilliant FREE Gutenberg.org site, for all your public domain text requirements:
      gutenberg.org/ebooks/39718

    • @jackiewhite4204
      @jackiewhite4204 ปีที่แล้ว

      Later in life he eschewed all that stuff and exposed Houdini as a fraud.

    • @ryanjohnson3615
      @ryanjohnson3615 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jackiewhite4204 That's good to know. Was truly bothering me here while listening to this story (knowing only the former and not that he eventually eschewed it)

  • @baruchben-david4196
    @baruchben-david4196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never knew that this story existed...

    • @pilgrim....
      @pilgrim.... 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fantastic channel it's a real eye opener for me too. I'm feasting on the tales. I've just enjoyed the ''The Stripped Box'', again !

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i love the pictures you choose - they are all ‘art’ and fit the story. do you know what print this was part of? i’d really like to see it if you do know. thanks much :) 🌼

  • @geritaeckens5702
    @geritaeckens5702 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    😂so glad you’re back in business
    Ever don P G Wodehouse or Fran’s Kafka?

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unusual combination . I've been trying to imagine a Kafka story / novel written in the style of P G Wodehouse ...

  • @OskinsBob
    @OskinsBob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HOPE YOUR WELL..❤

  • @studentoflife2484
    @studentoflife2484 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow

  • @elspethchabbi3097
    @elspethchabbi3097 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Many thanks Arch. Where do you find these files?

    • @gerry5134
      @gerry5134 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who's Arch ?

    • @brucebaker810
      @brucebaker810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gerry5134 My guess: There are two good channels for British audio performances. Arch Stanton and ArchB Stanton. I suspect that, since those channels put out lots of good content...and people often say something like "Thanks Arch" there...
      They figure "this is good Brit audio. Must be Arch's channel."
      Which would, of course, be fallacious.

  • @marybethmcmahon5937
    @marybethmcmahon5937 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If that is supposed to be the unicorn, the horn is not in the middle between the ears.

    • @stewartlancaster6155
      @stewartlancaster6155 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      are you aware it is not a real animal, a mere fantasy or myth. So the horn can be anywhere one choses.

    • @seanmurphy6480
      @seanmurphy6480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ALL THE BEST TO POKE U IN THE EYE. WITH IF U DON'T HAVE SAFTEY GOGGLES 😊

  • @KeithDec25
    @KeithDec25 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT READING...Was it real or a hoax?...As another listener mentioned a topic that was VERY important to SACD-Can the veil be pierced?...

  • @seanmurphy6480
    @seanmurphy6480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    U OK MISTER????

  • @ravenkeefer3143
    @ravenkeefer3143 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Came across the collected writings in old Carnage foundation county library here in US years ago. Never saw it anywhere else or since.
    Terrible thing, digital books. Lost are the pages turned, tactile interaction, and the meandering through libraries seeking the new, the odd, the book that hasn't been opened a decade or more for lack of curiosity or open minds.
    Found, through memory of hand held tomes, that digital copy is not always as once written. Simple and subtle alteration of word from tome to digital copy; less simple the alteration of intent and communicated sense of purpose, morality, or lessons for life.
    A heinous act against the writer and cruelty to the unaware reader, unfamiliar with the original source.
    Today, the question of reading has changed from secondhand experience through texts, to what loss in minor changes of language has been perpetrated on this generation...
    ✌️& Favour ALL
    (Pennsylvania USA, teacher takes pride and feels gratification by getting The Illiad and The Odyssey removed from public school libraries.)