For our 250th episode we listen to an adaptation of a landmark detective story, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Final Problem,” presented by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! In this broadcast, Sir John Gielgud’s Sherlock Holmes attempts to once and for all put an end to the criminal machinations of Orson Welles’ James Moriarty! Will the World’s Greatest Detective be able to outsmart the Napoleon of Crime? How far will Holmes go to succeed? Which of your hosts didn’t know how this story would end the first time he encountered it? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think!
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Bland boring story. ACD brings in the phrenology stuff because he was a big believer in that. He totally bought into the whole, black people have smaller craniums, therefore are mentally inferior BS. He wasn’t a product of his time, he just held morally repugnant views. This is him telling the public he wasn’t going to do more Sherlock Holmes. It isn’t really a story, no mystery, no heart, no emotion. Holmes follows typical English virtues and he doesn’t sacrifice his friendship with Watson, instead he saves him. Watson is the stand in for the English empire, the every man… Read more »