Coules, Bert: Watson

Bert Coules worked at the BBC as a music librarian, later moving to the radio drama department, first as an audio technician, then as a script-reader, and finally as a producer-director before leaving to become a freelance writer. He built up a reputation both for original pieces and for dramatisations, including versions of books by Isaac Asimov, Ursula le Guin, Ian Rankin, Alastair MacLean, J B Priestley, Val McDermid, and many others.He was the head writer on the BBC's unique project to dramatise all sixty of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the first time it had ever been done with the same two actors in the leads throughout, an undertaking chronicled in his book 221 BBC.