Len Deighton RIP
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 Mars 1h 2min
Casino Royale
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 Dec 20251h 10min
Icebreaker
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 Dec 20251h 30min
James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me
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
License Renewed
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
Trigger Mortis
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
Colonel Sun
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
Octopussy
Featuring the final appearance of Ian Fleming's superspy, James Bond 007, Octopussy contains 3 stories - 4 if you're including 007 in New York and Laurence Boyce joined John Bleasdale for the final ep...
8 Nov 20241h 11min
