Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 2)
5/20/202640 min
EPISODE 2
Welcome back to part 2 of the story Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes...
Coming up in this episode - Sherlock Holmes is killed and resurrected by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle… and we discuss other instances where famous celebrities have solved crimes!
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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] Welcome back to part two of the story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Coming up in this episode, Sherlock Holmes is killed, but thankfully he's also resurrected by our friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and we discuss other instances where famous celebrities have solved crimes. No, really, including Courtney Love, kinda. [upbeat music] I thought it might be nice to start this episode, Tom, with authors that hated their own creations.
Tom Craine· Guest0:53
Okay, [laughs] great.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:54
I'm not gonna ask you 'cause it's unfair to say. So Louisa May Alcott, she wrote Little Women. Huge book. She fucking hated it.
Tom Craine· Guest1:02
Huge book about little women.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:04
[laughs] She was already a fairly established writer, right? And her publisher pressed her in the late 1860s, so kind of Conan Doyle's era, but slightly before when he was writing Holmes, for a girl's story.
Tom Craine· Guest1:17
Right.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:17
And her family finances were strained, so she grudgingly took on the job and knocked out Little Women in 10 weeks.
Tom Craine· Guest1:25
Grudgingly took on the book and then [laughs] yeah, wrote one of the most successful books of all time.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:29
I know. It's mad, isn't it?