Jan 21, 2013
Our 50th episode is a fitting one. As you know, a 50th
anniversary is typically celebrated with gold. Because we
appreciate our listeners so much, we would settle for nothing less
than the same.
But our gold comes in the form of a scintillating conversation with
the two editors of the Baker Street Irregulars' eighth entry in
their
Manuscript Series, The Wrong
Passage, which is a look at the manuscript of
"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez." Co-editors Andrew Solberg,
BSI ("Professor Coram") and Robert Katz, MD, BSI ("Dr. Ainstree")
joined us to discuss just what it is that goes into creating a
significant piece of scholarship such as we've come to expect from
BSI publications of late.
From the history of the manuscript itself, to artifacts from Paul
Churchill's famed "evidence boxes," to an in-depth look at the
historical background alluded to in the tale, the breadth of topics
within the book is impressive. Also included are a number of other
analyses on topics ranging from the historical and geographical to
the linguistic, religious and medical, by noted Sherlockians Peggy
Perdue, BSI ("Violet Westbury"), Denny Dobry, Donald Pollock, MD,
BSI ("The
Anthropological Journal") former member of the
BSI, Albert Silverstein, BSI ("Professor Presbury"), C. Paul
Martin, MD, BSI ("Dr. Leslie Armstrong"), Jacquelynn Morris,
Richard J. Sveum, MD, BSI ("Dr. Hill Barton"), John Baesch, BSI
("The State and Merton County Railroad"), and William Hyder, BSI
("A Most Valuable Institution").
Our discussions range as far and wide as the book itself, and we
also cover just a bit of the BSI Weekend festivities from 2013. But
more on that in a future episode. This one clocked in at over an
hour and 20 minutes, but we think you'll enjoy the conviviality
between four Sherlockians as you spend a long evening with
Holmes.
The Editor's Gas-Lamp: We thought it was
fitting to focus on 50th anniversaries, so we took a page from the
50th anniversary year of the Baker Street Journal and read
the Editor's Gas-Lamp of Vol. 46, No. 4 from December 1996, with
Donald ("I'm not a member of the BSI") Pollock as editor.