I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere Interviewed by T.E. Hodden
Since John Watson was first advised of a rum sort in need of sharing the cost of his lodgings, Sherlock Holmes has never been unpopular. Through Conan Doyle’s canon of stories, the countless stage plays, movies, spin off novels and television shows, every generation has had their Sherlock of choice.
dissected in a scholarly way began with Monsignor Ronald Knox, an English theologian and crime writer. In his first publication, “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes,” he laid out the intellectual exercise of discovering a deeper knowledge of the stories by For years now, Scott Monty and Burt Wolder have been presenting “I Hear Of correlating the Canon with historical fact. He applied the “Higher Criticism” Sherlock Everywhere”, the Podcast, a regular insight into the world of all things of Biblical scholarship and the Game was born. But it’s always been done Sherlockian. with tongue firmly planted in cheek, but with “the solemnity of a cricket match at Hi, would you mind telling us a little Lord’s,” as Dorothy Sayers put it. about yourselves and your podcast? We’re both members of the Baker Street Over the years you have covered a Irregulars, an international literary wide range of interviews and articles, society dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. We’ve been friends for over 20 years and from Sherlock’s original name, and both work in the field of communications the various adaptions of the stories, to things as diverse as the online “I and marketing. At one point in early 2007, we decided that the Internet needed believe in Sherlock” campaign. Is there any you would consider a highlight? a talk radio program rooted in Sherlock We’re fairly proud of all of our work, Holmes. So we started one. from the interviews we’ve landed with regular, everyday Sherlock Holmes Do you think there has always enthusiasts to producers of international Sherlockian Scholars because the hit shows. We were the first to refute the character is so popular, some of the erroneous report of a newly-discovered fans were bound to be academic in Conan Doyle story, which Mattias nature, or is there something about Bostrom wrote for us (Link: https://www. Conan Doyle’s character that attracts ihearofsherlock.com/2015/02/conanthe scholarly minded? The notion that doyle-didnt-write-lost-sherlock.html). Sherlock Holmes stories could be There has also been Sherlockian Scholars, writing about the Great Detective, and playing the Great Game, teasing the details of his life and times from the records we have of his most notable cases.
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