Much like my simmering interest in David Bowie, the stories of Sherlock Holmes were always on the back burner of my brain. I always knew they was there, I just needed to turn up the heat; I was teetering on the edge of a diving board, secure in the knowledge of my future fandom but biding my time. My childhood, my family, the wiring of my brain – it was all inextricably leading me to 221b Baker Street. And while I knew all this, what I could not have known was the immenseness of the magic that would occur when I finally jumped in.
I spend my childhood talking to adults. I was an only child (not only that, but on the paternal side an only grandchild as well) born to strongly entrepreneurial but not particularly social parents, living on the …show more content…
One of the stories presented for reading and dissection was “The Red Headed League”. I adored this story, and felt some warmth knowing that I was finally, in some way, dipping my toe into the waters of Conan Doyle. However, I still didn’t go off in pursuit of more at that time. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it was simply meant to wait a little longer; destiny knew I needed a little more time and a little more life and a little more pain of feeling other to fully appreciate it all. My second experience with Sherlock Holmes, several years later, is the one that set it off properly, and it was thanks entirely to my love for audio drama. In search of more audio dramas to listen to, I ran across the BBC 4 radio dramatization of the complete Sherlock Holmes cannon – 64 hours of fully casted, nearly word for word adaptions of the stories and novels put to radio recordings. This was nothing short of life changing. Not only was I simply thrilled to have found another cache of audio fiction to listen to, but I was finally able to discover the real content of the character and stories of Sherlock Holmes. I had always known they would be amazing, but it was now that I got to see for
I spend my childhood talking to adults. I was an only child (not only that, but on the paternal side an only grandchild as well) born to strongly entrepreneurial but not particularly social parents, living on the …show more content…
One of the stories presented for reading and dissection was “The Red Headed League”. I adored this story, and felt some warmth knowing that I was finally, in some way, dipping my toe into the waters of Conan Doyle. However, I still didn’t go off in pursuit of more at that time. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it was simply meant to wait a little longer; destiny knew I needed a little more time and a little more life and a little more pain of feeling other to fully appreciate it all. My second experience with Sherlock Holmes, several years later, is the one that set it off properly, and it was thanks entirely to my love for audio drama. In search of more audio dramas to listen to, I ran across the BBC 4 radio dramatization of the complete Sherlock Holmes cannon – 64 hours of fully casted, nearly word for word adaptions of the stories and novels put to radio recordings. This was nothing short of life changing. Not only was I simply thrilled to have found another cache of audio fiction to listen to, but I was finally able to discover the real content of the character and stories of Sherlock Holmes. I had always known they would be amazing, but it was now that I got to see for