• The image of Sherlock Holmes is clearly stamped on our minds: a deerstalker, a pipe, Basil Rathbone or Peter Cushing. But it took Carleton Hobbs on BBC Radio to establish the sound of Sherlock Holmes for all time.

• These 12 adventures are chosen from the many appearances made by Hobbs and his superb Doctor Watson, Norman Shelley, during the 1950s and 1960s.