Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 1)
5/16/202644 min
Joining me to discuss the incredible life and work of perhaps my favourite author - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - and his most famous creation - Sherlock Holmes, is comedian and friend Tom Craine.
EPISODE 1
To the world, he was the architect of logic.
The man who brought us the deerstalker, the magnifying glass,
and the brilliance of 221B Baker Street.
But Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a man of startling contradictions...
A medical doctor and surgeon whose globe trotting career took him from the rugged whaling ships of the Arctic,
to the bloody battlefields of the Boer War.
His life was an odyssey of high-stakes adventure, where his interests and experiences were to converge into his defining creation - Sherlock Holmes
But as the character became the global icon of reason, he bristled against the success of his literary masterpieces,
and after killing off Holmes, Doyle himself plunged into the occult.
In an amazing life story full of unbelievable twists and turns,
He risked his reputation to prove the existence of spirits, and swore to the world that photographs of garden fairies were real.
This is the incredible true story of the creator who couldn't escape his own shadow… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.
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First 90 secondsJosh Widdicombe· Host0:00
[tape rolling] Hello and welcome. I am Josh Widdicombe. For today, I'm the curator of a place of incredible artifacts and exhibitions, a place that stores the greatest thing on Earth. This is my Archive of Pop Culture. [upbeat music] As a self-confessed pop culture obsessive, I love the geniuses, the scam artists, and dare I say, the absolute madmen that made the records, shows, and films that we love. In each series, I will tell you a story of unlikely triumph and usually an enjoyably crushing failure, featuring celebrated stars that in any other industry would probably be politely sacked. It's a show for people more interested in David Hasselhoff than David Lammy, Elizabeth Taylor than Queen Elizabeth I, which let's be honest, is all of us. Joining me to discuss the maddest life we've ever covered, and perhaps the greatest work, because it's my favorite author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the peerless Sherlock Holmes. It is a man of logic himself, comedian and friend, Tom Crane. [upbeat music] To the world, he was the architect of logic, the man who brought us the deerstalker, the magnifying glass, and the brilliance of 221B