Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 3)
5/23/202638 min
EPISODE 3
Welcome back to the final part of the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
If you thought the first two parts were a rollercoaster, incredibly his life story is about to take even more wild twists and turns!!!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle faces a series of tragic life events, before he finds himself embroiled in multiple controversies and scandals surrounding clairvoyants, fake fossils and counterfeit photographs of fairies.
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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 the final part of the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. If you thought the first two parts were a rollercoaster, incredibly, his life story is about to take even more wild twists and turns. [upbeat music] The final part of Arthur Conan Doyle, Tom. The saddest, but I suppose that is the case with everyone's life, isn't it?
Tom Craine· Guest0:44
Yeah. It comes for us all, Josh.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:46
It does come for us all.
Tom Craine· Guest0:47
[laughs] Yeah, the mortal coil.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:49
People might be listening to us, and we're already dead.
Tom Craine· Guest0:52
Yeah. [laughs] That's, that's true.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:54
But I don't think that will be the case. I don't know whether this podcast will stand the test of time in that sense, but I hope it has. Will podcasts as the medium stand the test of time?
Tom Craine· Guest1:03
That's a big question.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:04
Yeah.
Tom Craine· Guest1:04
Well, I was gonna say, it's been a remarkable life so far for Conan Doyle. Just- It's about to get more remarkable. Really? Okay, fantastic.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:11
So let's start with something sad. His stricken wife finally passes away in 1906. The year after her death, he remarries.
Tom Craine· Guest1:21
Okay. [laughs] Look, we... I'm not one to judge. That's fine.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:26
Well, he remarries a woman who he met at a party