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Crime Writers: 1: The Great Detective

BBC One
on BBC One London

Six programmes telling the story of crime fiction from Poe to the present.

Commentary by Julian Symons, with Lord Gore Booth and an archival interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

How the omniscient detective was invented by Edgar Allan Poe; how he was epitomised by Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes; and how E.W. Hornung created his antithesis in Raffles, the super-criminal.

With Jeremy Clyde, Michael Cochrane and Alex Davion

Book (same title), £5.35 (hardback), £3.25 (paperback), from bookshops

Contributors

Commentary:
Julian Symons
Interviewee:
Lord Gore Booth
[Actor]:
Jeremy Clyde
[Actor]:
Michael Cochrane
[Actor]:
Alex Davion
Studio Director:
Douglas Argent
Producer:
Bernard Adams
Source: Radio Times

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