The story begins at 00:01:15. One of the finest Sherlock Holmes short stories, from its wonderfully atmospheric opening description of a fog-girt London to the dramatic unmasking of the criminal, 'The Bruce-Partington Plans' is a Holmesian masterclass of deduction and reasoning to uncover a tale of treason, espionage and murder. It also features one of only two appearances of Holmes's brother Mycroft in the original Conan Doyle stories. Fans of Sherlock Holmes are recommended to listen to Greg Wagland's excellent narrations on his channel @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio, where he's recorded the entire Holmes canon, plus some great pastiches as well as many of Conan Doyle's lesser-known works. Note: long-time listeners to the channel may remember this story from 2019, it was one of my very first uploads. This new version was recorded last year but I've only just got around to editing and mastering for TH-cam. Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content): * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on TH-cam, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: th-cam.com/users/BitesizedAudioClassicsjoin
Love listening to your stories in the car. I connect my phone to the radio via Bluetooth. The BBC have given up their impartiality and so lost their listener base. If their head of programming sees this. They should play one of your stories, each morning. They are well narrated and have a broad appeal. It would help ease everyone into their day. Simon, Thank-you, again, for uploading these.
@@inisipisTV- Well done. I was going to mention that...The Bruce Partington Plans (episode No. 25) is the 4th episode of season 4 of the Granada series: Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes), starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson, aired on ITV on 27 april 1988. 😁
A fine addition to your Holmes collection. It was one of the hundred stories Somerset Maugham selected for his 1939 anthology 'Tellers of Tales', the only detective story.
Thanks Andrew. I do like Somerset Maugham's own fine short stories as well, unfortunately they're still under copyright for a few more years so I'm not able to do them for the channel
God blessed you with a perfect voice, tone, enunciation, pressure of speech and all good things required for a spellbinding delivery. I'm so happy to have found this channel and I am blessed to hear these narrations.❤ Oh that everyone in the world could speak so beautifully; our planet would be a much better place! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! ❤
Terrific narration. The work astonishes me. Doyle was trulÿ something ... in an age full of media and knowledge about criminal operations, his work still holds up.
Though the Deerstalker was never specifically written in any Holmes stories, the accompanying illustrations by Sidney Paget in it's first publications features them promenantly, and I'm sure Doyle would surely approve all of Paget's fashion details. So technically, it's Canon. The Meerschaum pipe on the other hand is debatable. The first actor to play Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette on the stage introduced the iconic Calabash pipe (porcelain or meerschaum), since it's a more better theater prop than the usual thin small pipes that Holmes smokes in the books.
@inisipisTV Indeed so, although in the original stories Holmes is described as smoking various different types of pipe, e.g. a long-stemmed cherrywood when in a disputatious mood (The Copper Beeches), although generally it's described as an "old clay pipe" or "old briar-root pipe". Sidney Paget showed him with a simple straight pipe, but as you say Gillette introduced the curved pipe (though I don't think it was actually a Meerschaum) because it was easier to talk with it clenched between his teeth. The deerstalker was Paget's own personal choice of headgear for wearing in the country, as opposed to the ear flapped cap described by Doyle, but it suits the features of Holmes so well (Paget's model was actually his brother Walter) that it's difficult to imagine him without it. One bugbear I have about TV and film adaptations is when they depict Holmes wearing his deerstalker in the wrong context, e.g walking the streets of London. In 'Murder by Decree' he goes to the Royal Opera House in a deerstalker! He would never have done that; top hat with frock coat in town; deerstalker with tweeds etc for the country only. I think the only adaptations I've seen to get that right were the Jeremy Brett series and the early Basil Rathbone films (before they updated him to the 1940s to save money).
Another outstanding performance and reading. Hope to hear any stories from the Blind Detective or the female reporter with her friend who ties knots while reviewing cases. May GOD bless
I love hearing you narrate Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The music 🎶 you chose for this is perfect 💯. My favorite story is The Hound of the Baskervilles. I listen to Greg Wagland. I wanted Sherlock Holmes audios and then your channel was recommended. Yippee! 😁 ❤🎉
Ah yes, 'The Hound' is a real corker. I'd love to tackle it, but it would require setting aside a bit more time than I have at the moment! One day, I hope...
@@BitesizedAudio Oh, yes! The Hound of the Baskervilles is a long, long novel. I had not heard of The Bruce-Partington Plans before listening to it on your channel. Hurray.
Thank you! You've reminded me that I forgot to mention the piece of music in the video description - it's an extract from 'Duet for Two Violins' by Luigi Boccherini, Op 5 N2 Larghetto. I'll add it in now!
Capital Simon! Here so!! I loved it. As much as I try sleuthing I must admit that I fail, most often. I suppose I lack deductive reasoning powers. Hmm. Se la vie. I will keep trying.. Thanks always.
A good Companion piece to the "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo" by Arthur Morrison, which bore many plot similarities. A story that was narrated here too earlier. Both Author most likely influence each to their respective stories.😊
Noted, thank you Greg. I'd certainly like to do a few Holmes stories every now and then, although there's a lot of versions out there so I'm aware the market is crowded. I have a new version of 'The Problem of Thor Bridge' coming up shortly and a couple of other Holmes adventures in mind for later this year
Hello friends, let me introduce myself - I am a great fan of the Baker Street Tandem (Holmes & Watson), as well, as of maritime and naval matters. It was my great pleasure to translate this story into Polish language. There are some translations already, but I've paid special attention to the technical side of this only Holmes' SCIENCE FICTION story. In 1895 submarines may have still been something far from reality, but NOT the espionage. 'His last bow' is another story of this sort, being far from any scientific fiction: intelligence had been, is and will remain reality... 😊♍
I remember my first and only visit to London, in the tube line, and not anticipating the rush of air that came before the train, and my ticket, in my hand, but not tightly enough, being whisked away and down the line. It was a £50 fine (1999) to be let out of the subway... I should have just jumped off! (kidding)
Oh dear, how unfortunate. Wouldn't happen nowadays, as they've abolished paper tickets! I wonder whether the Oyster card system would have helped or hindered Holmes in this investigation...?
I suppose you know how your name is pronounced, but I would suggest it's Stanhope to rhyme with stirrup. Lovely, deliberate delivery just like Peter Pears. A little affected but quite clear.
Yes indeed, certainly the aristocratic branch of the Stanhope family (not my branch, alas...) would have pronounced it to sound like Stannup, especially in the 19th century or earlier, and actually I have pronounced it "Stannup" myself when the name has cropped up as a character name in Victorian literature. In terms of my own name, I did try using the Stannup pronunciation when first starting out as an actor, but I got rather tired of constantly explaining myself to people unfamiliar with the name, so I ended up just going with the flow... It's a bit like the name Cowper, which traditionally is supposed to be pronounced "Cooper", but many people who have that surname now pronounce it with the "ow" sound instead of "oo". Anyway, thank you for listening and taking the time to comment
Oh dearie me, Dr Watson! Surely you would not have us believe that Mr Holmes would consider such a case as EXTRA ordinary? Tisk, tisk. Mr Holmes would never make such a crude mistake in describing cases which excited the interest of, not only his extraordinary wit and intelligence, but also his extraordinary grasp of the English language. That is a 21st century error, perpetrated by Americans and picked up by the ignorant and impressionable English. No, no, Dr Watson, that one does not pass muster as something Mr Holmes would ever have uttered.
Interesting points, thank you. I'm always fascinated by the pronunciation of words and how they've changed over time, accents and dialects. In this particular case, I'm not so sure that extra-ordinary is an American influence though, and it's certainly not a 21st century error: H. W. Fowler mentions both pronunciations in his 1924 classic on English usage, which indicates that both were familiar on this side of the pond long before the influence of Hollywood etc began to be felt. It's not standard and usually reserved for theatrical or dramatic effect - as in this case; admittedly it's not the way I'd normally pronounce it in most contexts. I believe it's also more commonly heard in Scotland, and over the years I'm aware there have been numerous attempts amongst devoted Holmesians to argue that the great detective, like his creator, was of Scottish heritage; maybe that was in the back of my mind too. Anyway, an interesting debate. Thank you for listening and taking the time to comment
The story begins at 00:01:15. One of the finest Sherlock Holmes short stories, from its wonderfully atmospheric opening description of a fog-girt London to the dramatic unmasking of the criminal, 'The Bruce-Partington Plans' is a Holmesian masterclass of deduction and reasoning to uncover a tale of treason, espionage and murder. It also features one of only two appearances of Holmes's brother Mycroft in the original Conan Doyle stories.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes are recommended to listen to Greg Wagland's excellent narrations on his channel @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio, where he's recorded the entire Holmes canon, plus some great pastiches as well as many of Conan Doyle's lesser-known works.
Note: long-time listeners to the channel may remember this story from 2019, it was one of my very first uploads. This new version was recorded last year but I've only just got around to editing and mastering for TH-cam.
Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content):
* Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio
* Monthly support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio
* Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/
* Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on TH-cam, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month:
th-cam.com/users/BitesizedAudioClassicsjoin
Could you add "updated" or something of that sort to the thumbnail or title for situations such as these?
Love listening to your stories in the car. I connect my phone to the radio via Bluetooth.
The BBC have given up their impartiality and so lost their listener base.
If their head of programming sees this. They should play one of your stories, each morning.
They are well narrated and have a broad appeal.
It would help ease everyone into their day.
Simon, Thank-you, again, for uploading these.
One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes cases.
Mine too, probably my favourite of the short stories. Thanks Mike
Well played, Mr.Stanhope. Top notch!
Another top notch reading Mr Stanhope. You always bring these stories to life so vividly.
Thank you!
This is one of Conan Doyle's best short works; this plot could easily be a movie today.
Have you watched the 1986 Granada TV adaptation starring Jeremy Brett. It's quite fateful to the story.
@@inisipisTV- Well done. I was going to mention that...The Bruce Partington Plans (episode No. 25) is the 4th episode of season 4 of the Granada series: Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes), starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson, aired on ITV on 27 april 1988. 😁
Thank you, Mr. S.Excellent episode, as always.
Perfection to the ear! Thank you Simon. I love this one! ❤
Glad you like it! Thanks Susan
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Dear Mr. Stanhope,
You are the absolute best Sherlock…Watson, AND Mycroft yet! Many thanks for all you do! ❤
That's extremely kind of you to say, thank you!
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Top hole Mr Stanhope. Many thanks. 😊
I always listen to your stories while I'm working and thoroughly enjoy every one of them, thank you so much.
These stories make my commute something to look forward to every day!
Thank you so much Simon, as always a real pleasure to hear your performance of such a classic tale, thoroughly enjoyed your author's notes too!
Glad to know that, thank you Kay
Your stories are always so absorbing ❤
I just love it. Thank you✨🇺🇸✨😊✨
Simply said, I so enjoy you and your narration of the wonderful stories you provide for us. You are very much appreciated. Listening to you in Texas
A fine addition to your Holmes collection. It was one of the hundred stories Somerset Maugham selected for his 1939 anthology 'Tellers of Tales', the only detective story.
Thanks Andrew. I do like Somerset Maugham's own fine short stories as well, unfortunately they're still under copyright for a few more years so I'm not able to do them for the channel
I understand. I just wanted to call attention to an agreement of tastes.
God blessed you with a perfect voice, tone, enunciation, pressure of speech and all good things required for a spellbinding delivery. I'm so happy to have found this channel and I am blessed to hear these narrations.❤ Oh that everyone in the world could speak so beautifully; our planet would be a much better place! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! ❤
Terrific narration.
The work astonishes me. Doyle was trulÿ something ... in an age full of media and knowledge about criminal operations, his work still holds up.
Excellent relaxing story
Superb reading of a Holmes adventure against crime, Thank You Simon, looking forward to your next offering 😊
the thud of the fall in the fog ! very pleasing wordplay .
I can just visualise you sat at the microphone with meerschaum and deer-stalker. ❤
I do like to get into character...
Though the Deerstalker was never specifically written in any Holmes stories, the accompanying illustrations by Sidney Paget in it's first publications features them promenantly, and I'm sure Doyle would surely approve all of Paget's fashion details. So technically, it's Canon.
The Meerschaum pipe on the other hand is debatable. The first actor to play Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette on the stage introduced the iconic Calabash pipe (porcelain or meerschaum), since it's a more better theater prop than the usual thin small pipes that Holmes smokes in the books.
@inisipisTV Indeed so, although in the original stories Holmes is described as smoking various different types of pipe, e.g. a long-stemmed cherrywood when in a disputatious mood (The Copper Beeches), although generally it's described as an "old clay pipe" or "old briar-root pipe". Sidney Paget showed him with a simple straight pipe, but as you say Gillette introduced the curved pipe (though I don't think it was actually a Meerschaum) because it was easier to talk with it clenched between his teeth. The deerstalker was Paget's own personal choice of headgear for wearing in the country, as opposed to the ear flapped cap described by Doyle, but it suits the features of Holmes so well (Paget's model was actually his brother Walter) that it's difficult to imagine him without it. One bugbear I have about TV and film adaptations is when they depict Holmes wearing his deerstalker in the wrong context, e.g walking the streets of London. In 'Murder by Decree' he goes to the Royal Opera House in a deerstalker! He would never have done that; top hat with frock coat in town; deerstalker with tweeds etc for the country only. I think the only adaptations I've seen to get that right were the Jeremy Brett series and the early Basil Rathbone films (before they updated him to the 1940s to save money).
Yes indeed, a meerschaum on his head and smoking a deer-stalker [ear-flaps down, of course.]
Thank you, Simon. Well done.
More Holmes read beautifully by our favourite reader.
One of the best Sherlock stories, thanks for this :-D
Another outstanding performance and reading.
Hope to hear any stories from the Blind Detective or the female reporter with her friend who ties knots while reviewing cases.
May GOD bless
Stanhope us an artist. Great narration.
I love hearing you narrate Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The music 🎶 you chose for this is perfect 💯.
My favorite story is The Hound of the Baskervilles.
I listen to Greg Wagland. I wanted Sherlock Holmes audios and then your channel was recommended. Yippee! 😁 ❤🎉
Ah yes, 'The Hound' is a real corker. I'd love to tackle it, but it would require setting aside a bit more time than I have at the moment! One day, I hope...
@@BitesizedAudio Oh, yes! The Hound of the Baskervilles is a long, long novel. I had not heard of The Bruce-Partington Plans before listening to it on your channel. Hurray.
Stanhope is excellent.
Excellent as always ..and your choice of music is very effective 💕😊
Thank you! You've reminded me that I forgot to mention the piece of music in the video description - it's an extract from 'Duet for Two Violins' by Luigi Boccherini, Op 5 N2 Larghetto. I'll add it in now!
@@BitesizedAudio Many thanks again 💕😊
This was also very pleasant listening.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Thank you very much for theses stories! I really enjoy your narration!
Narration most excellent, as usual ...Thank You *Simon* ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Well done... Many thanks!
I just saw this. I did not get a notification for some reason. This will be good I know it. Thank you, Simon.
Interesting, I think the notifications do seem to go astray sometimes. Glad you found it anyway!
Wonderful story and brilliantly performed. Great to see a Holmes story on the channel, even if there are many readings already out there.
Thank you. Another Holmes coming up soon...
Very good Simon, thank-you xx
Capital Simon! Here so!! I loved it.
As much as I try sleuthing I must admit that I fail, most often. I suppose I lack deductive reasoning powers. Hmm. Se la vie. I will keep trying.. Thanks always.
Just about to turn in and here’s is your lovely face and voice ♥️
I say, steady,The Buffs! 😅
😊 Thanks Annette. I hope you slept well!
@@BitesizedAudio so well I will be tuning in again 😀❤️
Just arrived . I live abroad. Time diff. yea:) mr Stanhope and his narration and his great choice of audio books.
surely everyone lives abroad ?
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A good Companion piece to the "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo" by Arthur Morrison, which bore many plot similarities. A story that was narrated here too earlier. Both Author most likely influence each to their respective stories.😊
More Sherlock please.
Noted, thank you Greg. I'd certainly like to do a few Holmes stories every now and then, although there's a lot of versions out there so I'm aware the market is crowded. I have a new version of 'The Problem of Thor Bridge' coming up shortly and a couple of other Holmes adventures in mind for later this year
Thanks!
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Tanks you so much ❤
Thank you so much ❤ Definitely worth hearing it again read by your good self! Blessings in abundance!🙏💙🌍✨🦋
Thanks Maria. Same to you!
Hello friends, let me introduce myself - I am a great fan of the Baker Street Tandem (Holmes & Watson), as well, as of maritime and naval matters. It was my great pleasure to translate this story into Polish language. There are some translations already, but I've paid special attention to the technical side of this only Holmes' SCIENCE FICTION story. In 1895 submarines may have still been something far from reality, but NOT the espionage. 'His last bow' is another story of this sort, being far from any scientific fiction: intelligence had been, is and will remain reality... 😊♍
More stories please. Maybe even a subscription plan.
1895 submarine. Just how technical could it be ? For the time, very. But funny nevertheless. Good story. Smooth prose. Excellent narration
Love your amazing voice ,just perfect.
Thank you so much
Thank you
❤ 📚 📖 📙 📘 classics thank you!
Wonderful
Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
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It Feels Great!
To Be 1st.🥇🏆
You were! 🏆 Thanks for listening Chrissy!
I remember my first and only visit to London, in the tube line, and not anticipating the rush of air that came before the train, and my ticket, in my hand, but not tightly enough, being whisked away and down the line. It was a £50 fine (1999) to be let out of the subway... I should have just jumped off! (kidding)
Oh dear, how unfortunate. Wouldn't happen nowadays, as they've abolished paper tickets! I wonder whether the Oyster card system would have helped or hindered Holmes in this investigation...?
I suppose you know how your name is pronounced, but I would suggest it's Stanhope to rhyme with stirrup. Lovely, deliberate delivery just like Peter Pears. A little affected but quite clear.
Yes indeed, certainly the aristocratic branch of the Stanhope family (not my branch, alas...) would have pronounced it to sound like Stannup, especially in the 19th century or earlier, and actually I have pronounced it "Stannup" myself when the name has cropped up as a character name in Victorian literature. In terms of my own name, I did try using the Stannup pronunciation when first starting out as an actor, but I got rather tired of constantly explaining myself to people unfamiliar with the name, so I ended up just going with the flow... It's a bit like the name Cowper, which traditionally is supposed to be pronounced "Cooper", but many people who have that surname now pronounce it with the "ow" sound instead of "oo". Anyway, thank you for listening and taking the time to comment
Oh dearie me, Dr Watson! Surely you would not have us believe that Mr Holmes would consider such a case as EXTRA ordinary? Tisk, tisk. Mr Holmes would never make such a crude mistake in describing cases which excited the interest of, not only his extraordinary wit and intelligence, but also his extraordinary grasp of the English language.
That is a 21st century error, perpetrated by Americans and picked up by the ignorant and impressionable English. No, no, Dr Watson, that one does not pass muster as something Mr Holmes would ever have uttered.
Interesting points, thank you. I'm always fascinated by the pronunciation of words and how they've changed over time, accents and dialects. In this particular case, I'm not so sure that extra-ordinary is an American influence though, and it's certainly not a 21st century error: H. W. Fowler mentions both pronunciations in his 1924 classic on English usage, which indicates that both were familiar on this side of the pond long before the influence of Hollywood etc began to be felt. It's not standard and usually reserved for theatrical or dramatic effect - as in this case; admittedly it's not the way I'd normally pronounce it in most contexts. I believe it's also more commonly heard in Scotland, and over the years I'm aware there have been numerous attempts amongst devoted Holmesians to argue that the great detective, like his creator, was of Scottish heritage; maybe that was in the back of my mind too. Anyway, an interesting debate. Thank you for listening and taking the time to comment
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