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Lucy Worsley's Holmes Vs. Doyle

Sunday, December 22 at 8pm on MPT - Shadows and Sleuths

Join Lucy as she investigates the return of Sherlock. Doyle began the Edwardian age delighting in all it had to offer, but as the First World War approached, the darkness of his later stories mirrored the reality of Doyle's life.

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Why did Arthur Conan Doyle hate his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes?

About the program

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 Arthur Conan Doyle came to hate his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.