Thanks, David. Do you - does anyone - know when this programme was made and when it was broadcast? I can't find any mention of it in any reference source.
Roger
David Vopicka > MagersfonteinSeptember 1, 2008 at 8:30pm
I don't know anything about The Good Giant. I never heard Sir Authur called the good giant.
Magersfontein > David VopickaSeptember 2, 2008 at 6:04am
The phrase crops up in various of the biographies, as far back, I think, as John Dickson Carr's. In his introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", Sir Christopher Frayling says:
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Into these years he crowded a variety of activity and creative work that earned him an international reputation and inspired the French to give him the epithet of 'the good giant'."
It's odd that this BBC programme is not mentioned in the definitive bibliography, "The Universal Sherlock Holmes" - online at http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/ush/ush.html - or anywhere else that I can find. I'd guess that it was made for the BBC World Service, for broadcast outside the UK.
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Roger
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Into these years he crowded a variety of activity and creative work that earned him an international reputation and inspired the French to give him the epithet of 'the good giant'."
It's odd that this BBC programme is not mentioned in the definitive bibliography, "The Universal Sherlock Holmes" - online at http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/ush/ush.html - or anywhere else that I can find. I'd guess that it was made for the BBC World Service, for broadcast outside the UK.
Roger