Michael Williams (Obituary, January 13) spoke his first words as Dr Watson at 10.15am on October 9 1989, in a one-off Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet.
Clive Merrison wrote a letter to the Guardian to say how much he loved his Watson, Michael Williams, and now I’m crying.
We both enjoyed the derring-do, the chase, the "murder, 'orrible murder!" in the stories, but we preferred to be back in those strange little lodgings, in an England of empire and aspidistra. Give us the sounds of crackling fire, the ticking of the grandfather clock and the clip-clop of hansom cabs on Baker Street outside, and in that place, just the two of us, with gentle tweaking from our directors, Enyd Williams and Patrick Rayner, and usually in a script by our main adapter Bert Coules, we would like to think that we could cook up a bit of jazz.
