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The Baker Street Babes
by Baker Street Babes
The Baker Street Babes are an all-female group of Sherlock Holmes fans who talk about everything from canon to Cumberbatch, Charles Augustus Milverton to Jude Law, and dancing men to Jeremy Brett. We love Sherlock Holmes and we love having well informed, but also quite fun discussions about it. We’re all young and we’re all females, but we’re all die hard Sherlockians/Holmesian. It’s a demographic within the Sherlock Holmes fandom that is new and growing and doesn’t yet have a voice. We hope to become that voice and we want to prove that we’re not just going to coo over Robert Downey Jr and Benedict Cumberbatch, as lovely as they are, but that we know the canon and want to have discussions about it as well.
Episodes
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Introducing The Knights of Thorpe
What adaptation of the canon do the Baker Street Babes consider the greatest Sherlockian film of all time? Which movie weaves the best villain and a long-lost member of the Holmes family into a single immaculate tapestry known as "Thorpe"? Is it true that each and every film would be…
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Episode 88: 10 Years of Sherlock Memories
Yes, it's been a decade since the airing of BBC Sherlock's "A Study in Pink." And while time has absolutely no meaning in the age of COVID, it has been an extraordinary ten years of memories thanks to the little British show that surprised the world. So we take some time to talk about our…
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Episode 87: Holmes at Home
The world is a difficult place right now. A place where it's OK to not be OK. However, we do hope you're OK and that maybe some silly talk about "The Solitary Cyclist" and The Diogenes Club as places of social distancing may brighten your spirits. In this episode Maria and Ashley do just that…
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Episode 86: The Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium
Curly chats with Elinor Gray about her new conference: The Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium. The Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium was created in the vacuum of Sherlock Seattle, and molded in the image of Scintillation of Scions, 221B Con, and other Sherlockian events around the United States.…
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Live & Local 7: Michael Sims
Our Live & Local series are our sit down with a fascinating Sherlockian one-on-one in person chats. This go round Lyndsay sits with Edgar Award nominated Michael Sims about his work, Arthur and Sherlock, as well as some other fascinating Sherlockian tidbits and anecdotes.
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Episode 85: Cake Boss & Our Charity Ball
We were on Cake Boss! Yes, they gave us an amazing Sherlock Holmes cake for our annual charity ball for wounded veterans during BSI Weekend. And it was amazing. Lyndsay, Tiffany, and Maria sit down and talk about the process, the cake, the ball, and every delicious morsel in between.
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Episode 84: The Many Faces of Irene Adler
BSB Amy and our good friend Chris Zordan discuss everything Irene Adler with a wonderful audience at 221B Con. Who was Irene Adler? Why is she so important to fans even though she only appears in one story? Taking on this larger than life adventuress that bested Sherlock Holmes is something many...
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Episode 83: Nancy Springer Live at 221B Con
Join us for our live podcast at 221B Con speaking with the one and only Nancy Springer, author of the Enola Holmes series. Where did Enola come from? What was Nancy's favorite book? Why did Florence Nightingale have 56 white Persian cats? We get the details about the film announcement starring...
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Episode 82: Baker Street in LA
It's not every day you find an entire re-creation of 221B Baker Street... it's even rarer when that re-creation is in Los Angeles. Chuck Kovacic is a longtime Sherlockian and utterly devoted to having the most authentic Sherlock Holmes sitting room in the world. The amount of detail and research...
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BSB Live & Local 6: Bonnie MacBird and Unquiet Spirits
Babe Ardy visits Bonnie MacBird for tea, shortbread, and a discussion of Unquiet Spirits, the second of MacBird's trilogy of Holmes pastiches. Join us to hear about what it's like to write and research a Holmes novel, including tales of location-scouting for books, and visiting whisky…
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Episode 81: The Whole Art of Detection - Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
We interview one of our own this go around as Amy, Sarah, and guest extraordinaire Elinor sit down with Lyndsay Faye about her new short story collection: The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes. The Whole Art of Detection is an amazing group of lost Sherlock Holmes tales.…
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Episode 80: Martin Powell Live at 221B Con
We're back! And with a live recorded podcast at 221B Con, our favorite Sherlock Holmes convention. This episode is with Martin Powell, whom you may know from comics or Disney or marvel or children's books or ... y'know... Sherlock Holmes! We chat with him about how Holmes keeps coming back into…
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Episode 79: The Final Problem
Join Lyndsay, Tiffany and Ashley as they break down the nerve wracking, adrenaline filled third and final episode of BBC's Sherlock Series Four 'The Final Problem'. We were left perched at the edge of our seats as we watched Sherlock, John, and Mycroft take on the mysterious Euros. All of the...
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Episode 78: The Lying Detective
Join Sora, Sarah, Amy, Lyndsay, and Maria for an emotional reaction and discussion of the second episode of Series Four of BBC's Sherlock. 'The Lying Detective' has Sherlock estranged from Dr. John Watson and obsessed over media personality, businessman, and philanthropist Culverton Smith.…
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Episode 77: The Six Thatchers
(Please note that the episode contains extensive spoilers for The Six Thatchers.) Ashley, Lyndsay, and Amy react to BBC Sherlock Season 4's opening episode, a complicated international tale with a meta focus and impressive performances. They dissect the complicated plot and put a magnifying glass...
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Episode 76: Sherlock and Shakespeare
In this episode Babes Maria, Lyndsay, Amy, and Tiffany take a look at the connections, overlap, and similarities of our favorite consulting detective and the many characters of Shakespeare's creation. From Jeremy Brett to John Barrymore to Jonathan Pryce to Peter O'Toole and Benedict Cumberbatch,...
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Episode 75: The Hillywood Show
From Pirates of the Caribbean to Supernatural , these ladies have wowed the internet with their incredible parodies. Join us in talking with Hilly and Hannah Hindi, the bloody awesome minds behind The Hillywood Show, in talking about their latest work The Sherlock Parody!
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BSB Live & Local 5: New York Public Library
Welcome all to the latest edition of Baker Street Babes Live and Local: New York Public Library Edition! This June, Babe Lyndsay was honored to be a guest panelist for a fascinating discussion of the Holmes mythos at the Mid-Manhattan Library. Helmed by the erudite and charming hostess of the...
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Episode 74: Behind the Canonical Screen
Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Baker Street Babes Episode #74! Babes Ashley and Lyndsay both were honored to have presented at the Baker Street Irregulars-sponsored UCLA symposium "Sherlock Holmes: Behind the Canonical Screen" in 2012. To boot, they were the editors of the book…
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Episode 73: Paul Cornell
BSB Amy and friend of the podcast Kate chat with author and screenwriter Paul Cornell about his new book Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? and writing for the show Elementary. Read our complete review of the book and join us for thoughts on writing diverse characters, whether or not it really is…
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Special #15: 221B Con Live With David Nellist
Once again we return to 221B Con for a live podcast, this year with BBC Sherlock's David Nellist! Join BSBs Amy, Ashley, Taylor, and Sarah as we learn more about David's way of acting, his headcanons about Stamford (is he SECRETLY MORIARTY?!), what type of dog Stamford has, as well as his…
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Episode 72: A Study in Pink
It's the episode that started it all and launched a fandom and took over Tumblr. BBC Sherlock's A Study in Pink is more that the beginning of the modern journey of Sherlock and John, it was what brought many people into the Sherlock Holmes world. Join BSBs Maria, Amy, Sora, Tiffany, and Tamar for...
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Episode 71: Bert Coules
Live from BSI Weekend! BSBs Curly, Lyndsay, and Maria got to sit down and chat with Bert Coules, head writer and creator of the BBC Sherlock Holmes radio series starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. This radio adaptation of the canon was the first to present all 60 stories (plus more!)…
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Episode 70: The Abominable Bride
!!!THIS PODCAST AND FOLLOWING POSTING CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! If you have not seen the Sherlock special The Abominable Bride, do not read or listen because there is no saving you from all the spoilers. This is your final warning! We mean it! The Abominable Bride is here and she's taking no…
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BSB Live & Local 4: No Place Like Holmes
BSBs Ardy and Maria sit down with Ross K Foad, creator and star of the web series No Place Like Holmes. No Place Like Holmes was founded by Ross K Foad in 2009 and hosts a multitude of video goodness for Sherlock Holmes fans in the form of its episodic Web Drama Comedy Series NPLH. Featuring the...
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Episode 69: Ken Ludwig & Baskerville
BSBs Lyndsay and Ashley chat on the phone with legendary playwright Ken Ludwig about the hilariously ridiculous and exhilarating Baskerville, currently playing in Philadelphia at the Suzanne Roberts Theater. Get your deerstalker cap on—the play’s afoot! From the award-winning mastermind of…
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Episode 68: Unaired Sherlock Pilot Reaction
By popular request we are doing reaction episodes for the first series of BBC's Sherlock! But we couldn't just jump in with "A Study In Pink." Oh no. We have to take a step back and look at the un-aired pilot. From skin tight jeans to leather jackets, Batman, and Hipster!lock, BSBs Amy, Maria…
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BSB Live & Local 3: Bonnie MacBird and Art in the Blood
Our third Live & Local comes to you from Baker Street! Babe Ardy chats to Bonnie MacBird, author of pastiche Art in the Blood, about Holmes, art, and writing pastiche. Bonnie also talks about "coming out" as a Sherlockian, cool things she found out while researching the Victorian period, and, of...
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Episode 67: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
What happens when a 7'2" NBA All-Star with a passion for history and his professional screenwriter partner-in-crime team up to write an early biography of Sherlock's eccentric and beloved elder brother? The result is Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, an authorial dynamic...
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Episode 66: Mr. Holmes Reaction Episode
Mr. Holmes, starring Sir Ian McKellen and based on the book A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullen, has been a subject of tremendous excitement in the Sherlockian world ever since the news of its early planning! In Episode 66, join Babes Sarah, Amy, Melinda, Taylor, and Lyndsay as they…
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Episode 65: Sherlock Prom
In our 65th episode Amy, Ashley and Maria are joined by the initiator and director of the Sherlock Prom, Matthew Sweet. The currently sold out Sherlock Prom will be held on August 16 in London’s Royal Albert Hall – but fear not, 1000 standing tickets will be available on the day of the event and...
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Episode 64: The Lost William Gillette Film
The lost William Gillette film: the stuff of legend for over a hundred years, it was found at the bottom of a box labeled “Sherlock Holmes” by an archivist at Cinematheque Francaise, “one of the holy grails of lost films” preserved in a nitrate duplicate negative. The Sherlockian world exploded...
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Episode 63: Robert Doherty
Elementary creator, executive producer, and writer Robert Doherty joins BSBs Liz and Amy to discuss the upcoming finale of the third season of the hit CBS show about Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson in modern day New York City. Elementary stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson.…
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Special #14: 221B Con Live With Ben Syder
Asylum's Sherlock Holmes is the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation of all time. I mean, what other Holmes film has him battling a mechanical dragon while in a dirigible/hot air balloon with a gatling gun?! NONE! We lucky ladies got to sit down and chat with Ben Syder, who played the amazing Sherlock...
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BSB Live & Local 2: Jeremy Strong
Welcome to Baker Street Babes Live and Local, coming to you from the University of West London! Most Sherlockians have picked up a pastiche or read some fanfic, but the long shadow of Sherlock Holmes reaches so much further than stories that feature him. The relationship of Holmes and Watson, and...
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Episode 62: Parodying Sherlock with Vidar Magnussen
What is the essence of a unibrow? How do you make a comedic hit? You get a director who doesn't understand English, a comedian who looks like Martin Freeman, and Vidar Magnussen who writes three minutes of utter nonsense. That's BBBC's Sherlock by NRK, and it's glorious. The first skit, Oklahomo,...
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Episode 61: Adam Christopher & The Ghost Line
Welcome to the Baker Street Babes Podcast, Episode #61! Join Babes Liz and Lyndsay as they interview Adam Christopher, the author of a new series of Elementary show tie-in novels. A longtime lover of New York and a passionate fan of Elementary, Adam is also an acclaimed comic writer, winner of…
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Episode 60: Mrs. Hudson Appreciation
Ah, the ever patient housekeeper of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Mrs. Hudson has had to deal with these two for many years and its's about time she as appreciate for the superhero she was! From the original canonical Mrs. Hudson to Una Stubbs and Elementary's transgender Mrs. Hudson…
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Episode 59: BSI Weekend 2015
Every year in the cold depths of January, Sherlockians descend on Manhattan for Sherlock Holmes' birthday. This madness is referred to as BSI Weekend and is a series of dinners, galas, balls, and lots of alcohol. BSB Ashley, Kristina, and Maria talk you through this years festivities including…
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BSB Live & Local 1: Laurie R King & Leslie Klinger
Welcome once again to Baker Street Babes Live and Local, this time coming to you from Bouchercon 2014 in Long Beach, California! You're heard the story: Laurie King and Leslie Klinger wanted to create another Sherlockian short story collection featuring some of the most popular fiction writers...
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Episode 58: Curtis Armstrong
You may know him as Booger or Metatron, but we know Curtis Armstrong as a Sherlockian. Curly and Lyndsay sit down with the actor, writer, producer, and avid book collector to talk about Holmes, Watson, and that time Curtis pretended to play the violin to impress a girl. Curtis Armstrong is known...
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Special 13: From House To Psych
This is a recording of the From House to Psych panel at 221BCon 2014. Panelists Lindsay D. Colwell (@overeducatedgrl), Deirdre (patrick-jane.tumblr.com, @pensive1), Mixie (m6i.tumblr.com) and our very own Amy Thomas discuss TV shows that use characters who are (more or less) based on Sherlock...
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Episode 57: Sherlock Series 4 Predictions
Sherlock Series 4 is coming and we have lots of theories, thoughts, and one hell of a wishlist. From basting turkeys at Christmas to John Watson dying in Sherlock Holmes' arms, our predictions for Series 4 will be, as Moffat says, "devastating." Join BSBs Curly, Lyndsay, Ashley, Maria, & Ardy for...
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Special 12: Emma Grant
When the Baker Street Babes went to Dashcon, little did we know what was in store! We are honored to have been asked, and we would like to thank our amazing fans for being a part of the podcast and quiz, and our special guest, emmagrant01, for being a brilliant addition to our live podcast...
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Episode 56: A Slight Trick of the Mind with Mitch Cullin
We sit down with Mitch Cullin, author of A Slight Trick of the Mind, which tells the story of a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes' battle with his diminishing mind. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He...
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Special #11: From Baker Street to the Holodeck
Spanning centuries of storytelling, the connections between 221B Baker Street as imagined by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the universe of Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry cannot be ignored! Trekkies and Sherlockians own a very great deal in common, and in this special panelist episode that…
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Special #10: 221B Con Live with Ashley Polasek
The Baker Street Babes want to thank everyone who was so very kind to us at 221B Con and introduce our newest Babe at the same time we give you our second annual live episode:Ashley Polasek and Sherlockian Film Through the AgesIn this podcast, we discuss Watson's progression from absentee to…
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Episode 55: Tony Lee
Kafers and Taylor traveled to Birmingham to attend Starfury's Elementary Con and interview New York Times Best Selling author Tony Lee on one of the panels. The girls and Tony discuss Sherlock Holmes, Tony's deep and unabiding love for Professor Moriarty, and talk everything writing from ideas to...
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Episode 54: The Detective, The Woman and The Silent Hive
BSB Amy has a new book! Silent Hive is a new story about Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler that ties into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original story “The Five Orange Pips." We chat to her about what it's like having three pastiches out, a LOT about The Five Orange Pips, and how to start writing your…
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Episode 53: Lars Mikkelsen, Jonathan Aris, Arwel Wyn Jones
Kafers and Taylor traveled to Birmingham to attend Starfury's Elementary Con and got to have a brief chat with Sherlock's Lars Mikkelsen (Charles Augustus Magnussen), Jonathan Aris (Anderson), and Arwel Wyn Jones (set designer), as well as some cosplayers. What were their favorite scenes? How…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Baker Street Babes are an all-female group of Sherlock Holmes fans who talk about everything from canon to Cumberbatch, Charles Augustus Milverton to Jude Law, and dancing men to Jeremy Brett. We love Sherlock Holmes and we love having well informed, but also quite fun discussions about it. We’re all young and we’re all females, but we’re all die hard Sherlockians/Holmesian. It’s a demographic within the Sherlock Holmes fandom that is new and growing and doesn’t yet have a voice. We hope to become that voice and we want to prove that we’re not just going to coo over Robert Downey Jr and Benedict Cumberbatch, as lovely as they are, but that we know the canon and want to have discussions about it as well.
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