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Apr. 14th, 2020 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreWhen I was a kid, my aunt gave me a set of cassette tapes with episodes of the Sherlock Holmes radio show with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson as Holmes and Watson. It wasn't anything like whole run of the show - I think I had 8 or 10 episodes, and a few of them I listened to very seldom for various reasons. But I used a few of them as bedtime listening to the point of basically memorizing them. One of those was the episode dramatizing NORW, which remains to this day one of my favorite stories in the canon.
It is also the reason that, every time I ever listen to any other adaptation or audiobook reading of that story, I spend the first several minutes being extreme surprised that "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane" isn't going to be Scottish this time, as my childhood remembrances insist that he should be.
He is not Scottish in the audiobook version I'm currently listening to and I am once again a little put off by it.
It is also the reason that, every time I ever listen to any other adaptation or audiobook reading of that story, I spend the first several minutes being extreme surprised that "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane" isn't going to be Scottish this time, as my childhood remembrances insist that he should be.
He is not Scottish in the audiobook version I'm currently listening to and I am once again a little put off by it.
