Get Cumberbatched: It's the Benedict Cumberbatch Appreciation Society - here's your Starter For Ten

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Hope this meets with your approval. It was getting a bit full on the other thread so we've extended and now need to decorate the new space.

For the walls.

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Actually being cumberbatched has been educational for me too - since watching the Rattigan Enigma I have a new-found appreciation for Rattigan plays.

I'm listening to Radio 4 and 5 more. Which I feel raises a couple of IQ points.

My want-to-read booklist has grown:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Milton's Paradise Lost

I want to read Mystery Man by Colin Bateman because BC raved about it in the Mykonos vids and said he 'couldn't recommend it highly enough'.

Um...and I found out what bismarking was because it was joked about

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I have the full set of Sherlock Holmrs stories on my coffee table waiting to be read. They belong to MIL who was presented with them at her school in 1958, so I need to be careful with them!

Just been watching some of the production videos for The Hobbit on YouTube. No sign of MrC, but they're very interesting and it looks like they have a whale of a time. I have a friend who lives in the little town where they did a lot of filming, except that he was in the UK for a gap year when they were there filming LOTR! He was gutted!

If you search YouTube for "Production video The Hobbit", you'll find them. There are 6 and each one is about 10mins long.

Just been catching up on all the links, he def brightens up the early mornings with ds.

I just love the Jag ad, mmm his voice could make chocolate melt.

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Having read and considered your last post, I am now in no state to tackle the housework...

aaaargh...

Fluffy - I too have been listening to Radio4 which I agree is worth a couple of IQ points. I hope to be making a study of Van Gogh shortly utilising BC's performance.

I have a pile of Sherlock books to read and also now have the Mark Gatiss Lucifer Box novels. That Colin Bateman book looks interesting too.

TheAddict - It's all CaveMum's fault for mentioning flat-pack furniture instructions. Just be glad it wasn't floorboards - all that tongue and groove...

Isn't he beautiful here?

This is really funny and sweet. He's trying to ignore fans interrupting the interview, then he talks about it (starting after 55 seconds or so).

Have you ladies seen the 6 clips from the staging of "Rhinoceros". He is so smart, thoughtful and just wonderful on every level.

Prey - what a wonderful thought.... Phoaaaar!

[whimpers @ mention of tongue]

I just...

OK, I promise I'm safe for this thread now!!

Mmmm... tongue...

Love those links Claraschu!

The second new Rumpole episode is now on Youtube:

Fantasizies about the thought of nursing BC through 'flu...

I'm so glad you approve. I keep looking for things that people might not have seen...

Post away claraschu!

TheAddict - I listened to it on iplayer this afternoon and went all mushy when he was cuddling the baby

Hi claraschu - loved the links too - I've seen them before but not sure I'll ever tire of my favourite vids. He does look so lovely in the 'Stuart A Life Backwards' interview.

And the one with him trying not to be distracted by fans shouting his name is adorable - he's more 'polished' these days so it's nice to see him when he was still not really used to the attention.

I need to watch those Rhinoceros clips! Someone has posted a - oh it's the fount-of-all-knowledge, Romangirl88. Not been a big fan of absurdist plays up til now, but it could be another case where I could be persuaded (by him). He talks so animatedly and passionately - BC could probably make the Yellow Pages sound fascinating.

There is also the play . A live theatre performance filmed for SkyArts about a meeting between Guy Burgess (played by BC), and Winston Churchill.

Here is the .

seems to be a few years old but would be a quite perfect evening. Well, that start of one anyway. Me sitting with BC at a Blue Planet Live show - amazing. Then ... the rest of the night together.

The start not that start.

I hadn't notied he had a slight lisp - you can see it in the early clips, it is v v slight.

He is so lovely-and made some amazing films/radio/theatre. I hope he has a career like our great Shakespearean actors-varied and well respected!

It's more pronounced in some of these outtakes from . It's adorable! It's hardly noticable when he's working (even in The Last Enemy actual footage). I think it's great how he's managed to train himself to switch it on/off - quite inspiring.

Cavemum

If you've not read Conan Doyle before, you may well be suprised: the original Holmes had a well developed sense of humour which is missing from many of the TV/radio/film adaptations.

I'm rereading the entire canon: I find that the novels - Study in Scarlet, Valley of Fear, Hound of the Baskervilles - are a bit heavy going when it comes to the back story; but it's quite fun to see how much of 'Sherlock' is based on the original. And to work out the references - why John's blog is stuck at 1895, why Gatiss and Moffat gave Inspector LeStrad the name 'Greg'... and indeed why Mrs Turner next door (the one who has married ones) is called Mrs Turner...

Reverting to the divine Mr C, has anyone else noticed that in the bored/shooting at the wall sequence, his pyjama top is inside out? Bless the child...

Gosh - I'll just have to watch all those clips again just to listen out for a lisp. I'm a right martyr.

TheAddict - I'm only on my first book of the set from the Radio Times offer, but I've already enjoyed spotting the similarities from A Scandal in Bohemia! Not noticed the pyjama top. Yet something else that I shall just have to re-watch.

Such a chore!

And in other news, I have finally got round to connecting my 'phone to the pc and figured out how to get a sound clip from my iTunes on to my 'phone. I am now the proud owner of a text alert that says "right, we'll start with the riding crop ... thwack thwack thwack"!

Sherlock's on BBC HD!!!

My husband mentioned tonight that he wants a sound clip of Irene Adler's "Ah" from SIB as his text alert... I don't know much about this stuff, so does anyone know where to find this?

(I humour him... he'll have to humour me!)