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Lucy Worsley's Holmes Vs. Doyle

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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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• 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.

  Next Airing:	Thu, Dec 26th, 2024 at 11:00 PM on KUED-HD
  Length:	00:53:30
  Usage rights:	12/8/2024 to 12/9/2031

• Doctor and Detective

  Join Lucy as she unearths Holmes' origins in Doyle's life as a young medical student in Edinburgh. In the early stories, she discovers the dark underbelly of late Victorian Britain and traces the author's growing disenchantment with his detective.

  Length:	00:54:30
  Usage rights:	12/8/2024 to 12/9/2031

• Fact and Fiction

  Explore Doyle's desire to distance himself from Sherlock after the famed detective's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls, and discover how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story, even taking on the role of detective himself.

  Length:	00:54:00
  Usage rights:	12/8/2024 to 12/9/2031

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