Dominic Sandbrook

And then he's got this slightly more taciturn junior kind of a colleague who writes down all the stories.

And that's the genius of it.

Cause anytime Conan, as you say, when Fletcher Robinson, by the way, I love people from Victorian era with two surnames as their name.

Um, when he says, Oh, there's this beast.

And, uh, you know, uh, it's, it's, it's on the more he immediately, uh,

He can start writing the first Watson chapter.

He's got the voice.

He knows exactly what that is.

And he's got the juxtaposition between the two people.

Any story can fit into that format.

I'm very envious of that.

That's such a lovely thing to have as a writer.

Yeah.

P.G.

And there's an economic reason why Sherlock Holmes endures and is so enormous.

And that's, of course, because he's out of copyright.

Which means that anyone can make any version of any Sherlock Holmes story that they wish.

That's why there's so many movies, so many TV series.

You and I could do a Sherlock adaptation if we chose to.

But unfortunately, we're not as talented as Guy Ritchie.