"The World Needed Him in 1887 and the World Needs Him Now."

25 Oct, 2026

Stephen Fry:

Like London and the wider human world, the world of Holmes and Watson is a work in progress, capable of being modernised and made over in countless ways, but always, underneath it all, entirely its noble and magnificent self.

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Link:

• Stephen Fry: ‘Sherlock Holmes altered the course of my whole life’, by Stephen Fry, The Guardian (From the introduction in * Sherlock: Short Story Anthology*)