Octopussy

Brian Baker joins me to talk about the late great spy writer Len Deighton. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data f...

19 Mar 1h 2min

MUSIC by TWO MINUTE NOODLES Here. The first James Bond novel Casino Royale was written by Ian Fleming and published in 1953. Neil Alcock, the author of Hitchology, joins John Bleasdale to talk about t...

24 Des 20251h 10min

Dr. Brian Baker joins me to talk John Gardner's third novel featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond finding himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an alliance of agents from the...

2 Des 20251h 30min

Christopher Wood's novelisation of his screenplay of The Spy Who Loved Me (co-written with Richard Maibaum) is unlike most novelisations a reimagining of the story. Wood's James Bond is closer to Ian ...

20 Nov 202557min

John Gardner's first continuation novel and the first book to feature 007 since Kingsley Amis' Colonel Sun is a 1981 nuclear age thriller. Dr. Brian Baker joins me to discuss whether James Bond deserv...

6 Nov 20251h 30min

Journalist and film programmer, Laurence Boyce joins me to discuss Trigger Mortis, Anthony Horowitz's James Bond continuation novel, a sequel to Goldfinger. Incorporating original, never-before-publi...

2 Okt 20251h 15min

Season Two kicks off with the continuation novels. Kingsley Amis - under the pen name Robert Markham - started the post-Fleming Bonds with a brilliantly written adventure which takes Bond into the he...

19 Sep 202554min