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Bert Coules is a writer, mainly for the BBC, who has produced many adaptations and original works, most notably the Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 radio series starring Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison is a Wales actor of film, television, stage and radio. He trained at Rose Bruford College....
 as Holmes and Michael Williams
Michael Williams

Michael Leonard Williams was a United Kingdom actor.Although best known as the husband of Dame Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor....
/Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs is a BAFTA-nominated Germany-born United Kingdom acting. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayal of Manuel in Fawlty Towers....
 as Watson. He has also produced adaptations of several of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, starring Philip Madoc
Philip Madoc

Philip Madoc is a Welsh people actor who has had many television and film roles.Perhaps his most famous role was as the title character in the BBC Wales drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George....
 as Cadfael.

He is an avowed Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
 and Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 fan.








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Bert Coules is a writer, mainly for the BBC, who has produced many adaptations and original works, most notably the Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 radio series starring Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison is a Wales actor of film, television, stage and radio. He trained at Rose Bruford College....
 as Holmes and Michael Williams
Michael Williams

Michael Leonard Williams was a United Kingdom actor.Although best known as the husband of Dame Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor....
/Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs is a BAFTA-nominated Germany-born United Kingdom acting. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayal of Manuel in Fawlty Towers....
 as Watson. He has also produced adaptations of several of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, starring Philip Madoc
Philip Madoc

Philip Madoc is a Welsh people actor who has had many television and film roles.Perhaps his most famous role was as the title character in the BBC Wales drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George....
 as Cadfael.

He is an avowed Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
 and Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 fan.

Works


Original pieces include:

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (three series) starring Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison is a Wales actor of film, television, stage and radio. He trained at Rose Bruford College....
 and Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs is a BAFTA-nominated Germany-born United Kingdom acting. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayal of Manuel in Fawlty Towers....


Fear on Four: The Man in Black (three episodes)

A Magician Amongst the Spirits: the deaths and lives of Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini was a Jewish Hungarian-American magic and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer, as well as a skeptic and investigator of spiritualists....


Dramatisations include:

Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960....
: The Radio Play, starring Tom Courteney
Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago ....


A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, is the first of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in the fantasy world archipelago of Earthsea depicting the adventures of a budding young Magician named Ged....
, starring Michael Maloney and Dame Judi Dench

The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-nine Steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Great Britain author John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, first published in 1915 by William Blackwood, Edinburgh....
, starring David Robb
David Robb

David Robb is a United Kingdom actor.Robb has starred in various British movies and television shows, including films such as Swing Kids and Hellbound....
 and Tom Baker
Tom Baker

Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is an England actor and comedian. He is best known for playing the Fourth Doctor of Doctor from 1974 to 1981 in Doctor Who, and for narrating Little Britain....


The Three Hostages, starring David Robb, Haydn Gwynne, Michael Malone and Clive Merrison
Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison is a Wales actor of film, television, stage and radio. He trained at Rose Bruford College....


Mr Standfast, starring David Robb, Clive Merrison, Struan Rodger, Jasmine Hyde and Jon Glover

Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty

The mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurred aboard a Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789, and has been commemorated by several books, films and popular songs....
, starring Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed

Robert Oliver Reed was an England actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include Oliver! , Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers , Tommy , Castaway and Gladiator ....
 and Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....


The BBC's complete Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 - all four novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Valley of Fear and The Hound of the Baskervilles, and twenty-four of the short stories, starring Michael Williams
Michael Williams

Michael Leonard Williams was a United Kingdom actor.Although best known as the husband of Dame Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor....
, Clive Merrison

Rebus
Rebus

A rebus is a kind of word play that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. For example:The term rebus also refers to the use of a pictogram to represent a syllabic sound....
: Resurrection Men

Rebus: The Falls

Brother Cadfael: Monk's Hood

Brother Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice

Brother Cadfael: Dead Man's Ransom

The Guns of Navarone
The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone can refer to:*The Guns of Navarone - 1957 novel set during World War II by writer Alistair MacLean*The Guns of Navarone - a 1961 film starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn, based on the novel...
, starring Toby Stephens
Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens is an England theatre, television and film actor, best known for playing supervillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre ....


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