Anyway, inspird by a follow-up to my initial post, I had a
look at the
Beeb's site.
Here's a snippet of what I found:
> R A D I O H I G H L I G H T S
>
> The Doctor, The Detective And Arthur Conan
Doyle
> 9.45-10.00am Radio 4
> Michael Williams takes time off from playing the role
of Dr Watson in this
> week's Classic Serial - The Hound Of The
Baskervilles, to begin a
> five-part reading from Martin Booth's recent
biography, The Doctor, The
> Detective And Arthur Conan Doyle.
[SNIP]
> Elementary My Dear Rankin
> 3.30-3.45pm Radio 4
> Ian Rankin, who won the Crime Writers' Association
Gold Dagger award
> for Best Crime Novel of 1997 for Black And Blue,
continues this week's
> investigation of the many facets of crime. He puts
the fate of the police
> officer in crime fiction history under the magnifying
glass in this five-part
> series. Ian begins with the early 19th century and
the fictional memoirs
> of the real life French police detective Vidocq. The
story moves on to
> characters like Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's
Bleak House, and
> Sergeant Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone. The
century closes with
> Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's consulting detective
destroying the
> emerging police officer in fiction.
ED
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