Episode Details

In this episode, Scott & Burt interview Steve Doyle and Mark Gagen, who run the very successful Wessex Press. You'll hear us speak with this very dedicated team about their publishing experience and how they go about planning and executing some very successful Sherlockian events. We also have our first audio comment from John Pforr (thanks, John!) and Burt reads a Gas Lamp from an old issue of the Baker Street Journal.

Show Notes:
01:05 Introduction
02:21 Welcome to Mark & Steve
07:17 All about Wessex Press/Gasogene Books
13:12 The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library
20:15 Planning conferences, lessons learned and successes
25:32 From Gillette to Brett
26:38 From Gillette to Brett II
33:12 Listener voicemail
34:37 Gas Lamp: from Volume 2, Number 1 of the Baker Street Journal, 1947


Links mentioned in this show:
Wessex Press
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library
The Annotated Lost World
Videos from the Granada series with Jeremy Brett
A Study in Celluloid: Michael Cox's account of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
The Baker Street Journal

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