How It Happened: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859. His childhood was blighted by his father's heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing.

He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, `The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe', was published in Blackwood's Magazine. Despite several other stories and some ar...