Fall Asleep to the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Man Who Killed Sherlock Holmes | Full Documentary

He was a ship's surgeon in the Arctic at twenty, a penniless doctor at twenty-three, and the most famous writer in England at thirty-two. He created Sherlock Holmes, grew tired of him, and pushed him over a waterfall. The public would not allow it. In this calm, full-length documentary to fall asleep to, follow Arthur Conan Doyle from a crowded flat in Edinburgh to a Jesuit boarding school, a whaling ship among the ice, an empty waiting room in Southsea, the gaslit rooms of Baker Street, the Reichenbach Falls, the snows of Davos, the Boer War, the real cases he solved himself, the loss of his son, and the long last adventure of his belief in the spirit world. The story is drawn from his own memoir and letters, his Arctic diary, and the standard biographies. Where a tale is only a tale, the narration says so. Chapters 0:00:00 Welcome 0:06:36 Picardy Place 0:14:26 The Jesuits 0:22:11 The man who noticed 0:30:06 The whaler Hope 0:37:37 One Bush Villas 0:45:29 Twenty-five pounds 0:53:33 The empty waiting room 1:01:14 Reichenbach 1:08:59 Snow and sand 1:16:44 The war and the hound 1:24:24 The real detective 1:32:26 The lost world 1:40:22 The other side 1:48:02 Steel true, blade straight If these quiet evenings are a comfort to you, you are welcome to subscribe, and to tell us in the comments where you are listening from and whose life you would like to hear next. #sherlockholmes #arthurconandoyle #historyforsleep #biographyforsleep #sleepdocumentary