Happy New Year, listeners! As we look ahead now to all the ambition and promise of the new year, this week we watched a film featuring one of the most ambitious and accomplished characters of all time - the great Sherlock Holmes. In this iteration, he is portrayed by the incomparable Sir Ian McKellen, who alongside Laura Linney, Milo Parker, and Hiroyuki Sanada, delivers an incredibly heartfelt and moving performance as a version of Holmes perhaps previously unseen and unexplored. An older Holmes who is beginning to lose just a bit of that brilliant mind of his and is struggling desperately to cling to enough of it to piece together the answer to one last mystery...
