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And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.

Hi! oh dear.

My apologies ladies and gentlemen, try to employ a bit of modern slang in an attempt to draw

in younger listeners won't happen again.

You have my word.

Greetings!

My name is H.G. Wells and I am your host for this, the 10th chapter of the Dead Authors

podcast with a special guest Arthur Conan Doyle.

As you may know, Sir Arthur was both a contemporary and a countryman of mine, and as such, I've long

considered him an excellent candidate for our little reading series.

In fact, my familiarity with his locations both geographical and temporal made his selection the proverbial

no-brainer.

Unfortunately, that jocular expression was to prove all too apropos as I unwittingly

bungled my programming of my own time machine. It was my intention to select 1890, a significant year for crime-offs as it marked the opening of

new Scotland Yard, the facility from which Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service

operates still to this day. But blast my fumbling fat fingers, I mistakenly

plotted a course for 1980, an absolutely dreadful year for the British people. Not only

did we lose Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Sellers, and

John's Bonham and Lennon all in a single 12-month span, but by then we were well into the

Roger Moore era of the James Bond films.

I defy anyone to keep calm and carry on whilst seated in a cinema showing moonraaker.

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