Fake Jungle Book, the definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and the Demon Headmaster are just three of the subjects discussed on the sixth installment of The View podcast.
00:00: The Demon Headmaster audiobook
06:33: Memories of watching Pickwick video’s ‘fake’ Jungle Book (i.e. not Disney) with a ginger Mowgli and how it compared with the ‘real’ Jungle Book animation.
13:17: Preview of my book about The Man in Room 17 - how the show was commissioned and developed.
21:14: Did Douglas Wilmer give us the definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes? Talking about how his Holmes compares with previous and later iterations of the character
38:39: Preview of the next installment of The View
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Fake Jungle Book on VHS, the definitive Holmes and the genesis of 'Room 17