The Sound of Sherlock
By bert coules, former BBC radio producer-director on 22 Oct 2014
Clive Merrison and Michael Williams in ‘His Last Bow’
I first met the doctor and the detective on the BBC airwaves in the late 1950s. I was around ten years old and I still recall the thrill of the wonderfully contrasted voices of Norman Shelley as the affable port-and-cigars storyteller and Carleton Hobbs as the ever-civilised, unflappable sleuth. Rather too civilised and unflappable for my tastes now, but every Sherlock is a reflection of the times he appears in and those were very different days. 
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