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Abby Holden hat die Hölle auf Erden erlebt: Das sadistische Ehepaar Wall hatte sie entführt, eingesperrt und gefoltert, bis es selbst einem geheimnisvollen Mörder zum Opfer fiel. Zurück in Freiheit versucht Abby die Schrecken der Vergangenheit abzuschütteln, aber ein solches Rätsel kann Professor van Dusen natürlich nicht ungelöst lassen.

Großbritannien im Sommer 1880: Der aufstrebende Sherlock Holmes, der Pläne schmiedet, sich eine Existenz als beratender Detektiv aufzubauen, bekommt Besuch von Reginald Musgrave, einem wohlhabenden Bekannten von der Universität. Musgrave hegt einen Verdacht gegen seinen Diener Brunton. Offenbar wühlt Brunton heimlich in den Dokumenten der Familie Musgrave herum. Holmes begleitet Musgrave nach Schloss Hurlestone, um der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen.

Nach den blutigen Ereignissen in Afghanistan wird der junge Militärarzt Dr. John Watson nach Hause auf einen Genesungsurlaub geschickt. Auf der Suche nach einer Wohnung lernt er in London den eigenwilligen beratenden Detektiv Sherlock Holmes kennen und mietet sich mit ihm gemeinsam in der Baker Street 221b ein. Schon bald begleitet Watson seinen neuen Bekannten bei Nachforschungen. In einem verlassenen Haus wurde die Leiche eines Enoch Drebber gefunden.

Kelly Oxford (author of Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar and When You Find Out the World Is Against You) is a Canadian expat who now lives and works in LA, but the first time she visited the City of Angels was on a very specific quest.

Horatio Sanz is an important figure in the Chicago comedy scene. The Chicago neighborhood that teenage Horatio would frequent with his friends also happened to be home to a few unsavory characters, one of whom may have improvised a little vigilante justice and a lot of arson.

[Contains explicit content] Anna Sale helms an award winning podcast called Death, Sex & Money. Anna tells them about her visit to a trendy NYC lunch spot, where the employees seem to call all the customers “dude”, and Gwynne and Brianna try to imagine that world.

[Contains explicit content] Secret identities don't just cause problems for superheroes - they make trouble for normal people too. In this episode of Hot Mic, two storytellers - one of them is Dan Savage himself - describe what it's like to hide, and then reveal, sexual or gender orientation. This episode features the stories "Trans on Ice" by Elana Lancaster for The Story Collider, and "Watch and Learn" by your host Dan Savage for Bawdy Storytelling.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarried to the murderer, his uncle. This is widely regarded as the definitive performance of Hamlet, starring Sir John Gielgud and Pamela Brown.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

Jon Glaser (Parks and Recreation, Girls, Delocated) is a pretty cool guy, but even cool guys make mistakes. On this airborne episode of Hold On, Jon revisits the time he mistook a fellow passenger in first class for someone else and the awkward flight that ensued. Host Eugene Mirman is on board for the awkwardness, to ask some questions, and land a few jokes.

[Contains explicit content] When it comes to sex, nothing is harder than talking about sexually transmitted infections. Get it?! And STIs are even more difficult to make funny—look how hard we just tried! But on this episode of Hot Mic with Dan Savage, a bunch of brave souls break the stigma with hilarious STI stories and scenarios. Rob Penty shares a story from RISK! about genital warts, and members of the famous improv troupe The Groundlings conjure up ridiculous STI-ridden, fully-improvised scenes.

[Contains explicit content] High school sucks for a lot of people, especially young queer kids trying to survive the blinding storm of pubescent hormones while getting bullied or beat up for things they’re just learning to like. Things like musical theater, or in Dan Bucatinsky's case, the leader of his high school's marching band. On this episode of Hot Mic with Dan Savage, guest Dan Bucatinsky talks with Dan Savage about his not-so-glorious days as an awkward, closeted clarinet player.

[Contains explicit content] They say that cats have nine lives. Well, comedian Chris Fairbanks was lucky enough to share several of those lives with a stray he took in. Chris told a few memorable anecdotes about his feline friend for The Narrators in Denver. On this episode of Hold On, Eugene Mirman breaks out the catnip to learn more about the indelible origin story of Chris' fiery furball companion.

Un-Cabaret assembled the entire Emmy-winning writing staff of Sex and the City, each reading their own work for this special sold-out edition of Say the Word at The Knitting Factory in New York. Meet the writers behind the hit show and hear the individual voices that came together to create a cultural landmark.

[Contains explicit content] Journey with us to California to hear a story about a journey to South Africa in a special live episode of Hold On! The ever-hilarious Greg Behrendt (She’s Just Not That Into You) jumped on stage with Eugene Mirman to regale a San Francisco audience with a delightful tale of international tourism, highlighted by some amorous animals.

Jürgen Thorwald dokumentiert mit seinem 1966 für den Edgar Allan Poe Award nominierten Buch "Das Jahrhundert der Detektive" wahre Kriminalfälle, die für die Entwicklung der Kriminaltechnik von besonderer Bedeutung sind. Fünf Kapitel des dreibändigen Werkes haben verschiedene Autoren (unter ihnen Stefan Murr, Anke Beckert oder Bernd Grashoff) für das Hörspiel aufgearbeitet. Der Bayerische Rundfunk ließ diese von ebenfalls fünf verschiedenen Regisseuren unabhängig voneinander inszenieren.

Drawing upon his childhood memories of West Texas, artist, musician, and writer Terry Allen has created this magical, multi-layered evening in the tradition of Southern story-telling. As Allen explains, “Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented."

[Contains explicit content] Sam Richardson is an actor, writer, and comedian, best-known for his roles on the HBO series VEEP and Detroiters on Comedy Central. While discussing Sam’s red carpet coverage at the SAG Awards, Sam recalls a moment where he accidentally overheard an entertainment reporter utter a rude comment. This spawns a sketch that revolves around the reporter’s life.

[Contains explicit content] Colin Mochrie appearances on both the British and US versions of the TV show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, have made him a household name. Briana and Gwynne have a candid chat with Colin about his life as a Canadian comedian, his activism, and a mysterious tale about family secrets he overheard at the airport. The resulting sketch takes place at a hospital...where a man’s dying words uncover much more than his family anticipated.

[Contains explicit content] Singer and songwriter Rachel Lark joins Dan to talk (and sing) about heartbreak, love lost, hope found. Featured stories include "Searching for the Rainbow" by Michael Zhuang for Story District, and "Janine Gets Her Groove Back" by Janine Brito for RISK!