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Saturday Night Theatre: The Seven Per Cent Solution

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The riddle of Holmes's disappearance at the Reichenbach Falls is solved, and the real reason for Professor Moriarty's power is revealed.

Continuing the series of Gold and Silver Dagger Award-winners, a dramatisation of Nicholas Meyer's irreverent hommage to the Great Detective.

Starring Simon Callow as Sherlock Holmes, Ian Hogg as Dr Watson and Karl Johnson as Sigmund Freud.

With David Bannerman, Kate Binchy, Federay Holmes, Jillie Meers and David Sinclair

Dramatised by Denny Martin Flinn Music: David Chiltern and Nicholas Russell-Pavier
Violin played by Steve Bentley Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Nicholas Meyer
Sherlock Holmes:
Simon Callow
Ian Hogg:
Dr Watson
Karl Johnson:
Sigmund Freud
[Actor]:
David Bannerman
[Actress]:
Kate Binchy
[Actor]:
Federay Holmes
[Actress]:
Jillie Meers
[Actor]:
David Sinclair
Dramatist:
Denny Martin Flinn
Music:
David Chiltern
Music:
Nicholas Russell-Pavier
Violinist:
Steve Bentley
Director:
Jane Morga
Professor Moriarty:
David King
Mycroft Holmes:
Philip Voss
Baron von Leinsdorf:
Matthew Morgan
Nancy Osborn Slater:
Melinda Walker
Baroness von Leinsdorf:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Hugo von Hoffmansthal:
Wolf Kahler
Source: Radio Times

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