1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Link to 'Marie' by H. Rider Haggard at 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age: https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001storiesfromthegildedage/marie-by-h-rider-haggard-chap-1/
In Chapter 1 of "The Great Boer War", titled "The Boer Nations," Arthur Conan Doyle explores the historical and cultural origins of the Boer people to explain why they became such formidable opponents for the British Empire. 

Key Summary Points 
The Ancestry of the Boer: Doyle describes the Boers as a "rugged, virile, unconquerable" race. He attributes their character to a mix of Dutch settlers (who famously resisted Spain) and French Huguenots (who fled religious persecution).
Environmental Conditioning: For seven generations, these settlers lived in a harsh African landscape, fighting "savage men and ferocious beasts". This lifestyle developed their world-class skills in horsemanship and marksmanship, which later became critical military advantages.
Religious and Patriotic Zeal: Their identity was further solidified by a "dour fatalistic Old Testament religion" and an intense, consuming patriotism.

Historical Friction with Britain: Doyle identifies early tensions starting with the British takeover of the Cape Colony in 1814. A primary source of conflict was the British government's role as a "protector of the native servants," which clashed with the Boers' slaveholding practices.
The Slachter's Nek Incident: He highlights the 1815 execution of five Dutch farmers after a rebellion triggered by the arrest of a farmer for maltreating a slave. Doyle notes that while a race can forget the victims of a battlefield, they never forget the "victims of the scaffold".

The Great Trek: Discontent with British rule and the abolition of slavery led to the "Great Trek". Thousands of Boers moved inland to the "bare pastures of the upland veldt" to establish their own republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, away from British "civilised rule". 
Historical Context for Your Episode
Doyle wrote this work in 1900 while serving as a volunteer doctor during the conflict. His goal was to provide a "thorough account" of the war's causes and early battles based on eyewitness accounts from his patients.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a nobleman which is tied in to a mysterious ghost who haunts an English castle.
This is one of the hard to find episodes of 'The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ' from John Stanley and Ian Martin (1948)

Tonight we step back to Jan 18, 1986 for a unique production that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, The Mystery of the Reluctant Storyteller, written by Derek Wilson and directed by Brian Miller.In this drama, Holmes and Watson discuss their creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, exploring his accomplishments,his misses, and the time when Doyle wanteed to kill off his famous detective so he could get to more serious work.  This is a well acted, well written that you'lll want to enjoy again and again.  This was aired by BBC4 Radio in 1986.
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Jon Hagadorn narrates this adventure in which Holmes and Watson solve the case of a mysterious tenant who is frightening an older landlady who comes to Holmes for help. In the process of finding out who the tenant is, Holmes joins forces with Scotland Yard and The Pinkerton Detective Agency,

Continuing the 1946 season of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, here are the summaries for the next two episodes you mentioned. Both featured Tom Conway as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson.
The Singular Affair of the Coptic Compass
Original Air Date: December 7, 1946
Summary: Sherlock Holmes returns to his lodgings to find a bizarre collection of items: a railway ticket, a Coptic compass, a half-eaten apple, and a naked corpse.
The Mystery: The crime appears designed to frame Holmes or at least cause him extreme professional embarrassment and lead to his arrest by Scotland Yard.
The Villain: The episode serves as a battle of wits against his ultimate nemesis, Professor Moriarty, who planted the murder specifically to distract Holmes while he attempted to steal a priceless jewel.
The Adventure of the Grand Old Man
Original Air Date: December 21, 1946
Summary: Holmes is hired to protect an elderly, dying playwright—the "Grand Old Man" of the title.
The Mystery: The playwright is in danger of being murdered before he can fulfill a final wish: finding the living relatives of a man from whom he had stolen a play years earlier.
Note: Although an original radio script, the story was loosely inspired by elements from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Sig