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Sep. 12th, 2023 02:45 pmThe Doings of Doyle podcast, hosted by Paul M Chapman and Mark Jones. I was given a hardback omnibus of six short story collections of ACD's at a formative age, and also bought this facsimile edition of non Holmes writings for The Strand Magazine while on holiday in Canada in 1982. So some of this material is as embedded as a Terrance Dicks adaptation in my mind.
One of the joys of the podcast is that it is a genuine conversation by enthusiasts, and one blessing especially is that their voices contrast (Paul M Chapman's tones are precisely what I would expect the possessor of such magnificent Victorian whiskers to sound like). They place the works in the course of ACD's prolific and lucrative career, and look at the works of contemporaries as inspiration and competition. (I did not know that after reading Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan, ACD wrote to his brother to say - and I paraphrase - "I will not be taking Machen to bed with me again.")
One of the joys of the podcast is that it is a genuine conversation by enthusiasts, and one blessing especially is that their voices contrast (Paul M Chapman's tones are precisely what I would expect the possessor of such magnificent Victorian whiskers to sound like). They place the works in the course of ACD's prolific and lucrative career, and look at the works of contemporaries as inspiration and competition. (I did not know that after reading Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan, ACD wrote to his brother to say - and I paraphrase - "I will not be taking Machen to bed with me again.")
