Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle

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S01E03 - "Shadows and Sleuths"

Diffusé le Dec 10, 2023, 6:00 AM

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Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous fictional detective and features in more than 60 original stories, as well as countless adaptions. For over a century, he has intrigued and excited his fans with his intellect and powers of deduction, and he made his creator Ă˘â‚¬â€ś the author Arthur Conan Doyle - rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character.Over the course of three episodes, historian and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan Lucy Worsley investigates the extraordinary love-hate relationship between Holmes and Doyle, detective and author, in a unique parallel biography of Sherlock Holmes and the complex man who created him.

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Langue: English
Durée: 59 min
Première diffusion: December 10, 2023

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Épisodes (1 Saison · 3 Épisodes)

Doctor and Detective

In the first episode, Lucy discovers Sherlock's origins in Arthur's early life as a medical student. She unpicks the early stories, revealing the dark underbelly of late Victorian Britain, from drug use to true crime, and traces Doyle's growing disenchantment with his detective, heading to Switzerland to visit the site of one of the most famous deaths in literature.

Dec 10, 2023

59 min

Fact and Fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle had managed to finally rid himself of Sherlock Holmes. But who was Arthur without Sherlock, and could he become the hero of his own story?

Dec 10, 2023

59 min

Shadows and Sleuths

Lucy Worsley explores the extraordinary love-hate relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes.

Dec 10, 2023

59 min