Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.

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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Doctor and Detective

Sunday
Dec 28

7:00 pm

1 Hour

The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective.
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Doctor and Detective

Tuesday
Dec 30

2:00 pm

1 Hour

The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective.
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Fact and Fiction

Tuesday
Dec 30

3:00 pm

1 Hour

Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story.
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Shadows and Sleuths

Tuesday
Dec 30

4:00 pm

1 Hour

How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen.

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