Episodes

  • Octopussy

    Octopussy
    Nov 8 2024
    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 episode of Season 1 of the James Bond Book Club.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Man with the Golden Gun

    The Man with the Golden Gun
    Nov 1 2024
    The Man with the Golden Gun sees James Bond return for his final novel length mission in Ian Fleming's series. I am joined by filmmaker, podcaster and writer Alasdair Satchel, as we explore one of the strangest most nipple-y James Bond novel. Visit Alasdair's site here.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • You Only Live Twice

    You Only Live Twice
    Oct 25 2024
    Film critic for the Irish Times, Donald Clarke, talks Ian Fleming's eleventh James Bond 007 novel You Only Live Twice which begins eight months after the murder of Tracy Bond, James Bond's wife. Bond is drinking, gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments when, as a last resort, he is sent to Japan on a semi-diplomatic mission. While there he is challenged by the head of the Japanese Secret Service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. Bond realises that Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld—the man responsible for Tracy's death—and sets out on a revenge mission to kill him and his wife, Irma Bunt. The novel is the concluding chapter of the "Blofeld Trilogy", which had begun in 1961 with Thunderball.

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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Oct 18 2024

    Ian Killick, filmmaker, joins me to talk James Bond 007 and the 10th novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the tenth novel and eleventh book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1963. Fleming changed the formula and structure from the previous novel, The Spy Who Loved Me, and made a determined effort to produce a work that adhered to his tried and tested format. The initial and secondary print runs sold out quickly, with over 60,000 copies sold in the first month, double that of the previous book's first month of sales. Fleming wrote the novel at Goldeneye, his holiday home in Jamaica, while Dr. No, the first entry in the James Bond film series by Eon Productions, was being filmed nearby.

    (From Wikipedia)


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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • The Spy Who Loved Me

    The Spy Who Loved Me
    Oct 11 2024

    Philip Gwyne Jones, author of the Nathan Sutherland series of Venetian set crime novels, joins me to discuss Ian Fleming's most bold experiment with super spy James Bond yet.

    The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel and tenth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as the only Bond novel told in the first person. Its narrator is a young Canadian woman, Viv Michel. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book, arriving at precisely the right moment to save Viv from being raped and murdered by two criminals. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving the character Viv credit as a co-author.


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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Thunderball

    Thunderball
    Oct 4 2024
    Writer Rob Palk joins John Bleasdale to talk Ian Fleming's 9th James Bond 007 book Thunderball.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • For Your Eyes Only

    For Your Eyes Only
    Sep 27 2024
    Dr Brian Baker joins John Bleasdale to talk James Bond and Ian Fleming's short story collection For Your Eyes Only. The collection contains five short stories: "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico" and "The Hildebrand Rarity".

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Goldfinger

    Goldfinger
    Sep 20 2024
    Secret agent James Bond, 007, investigates the activities of Auric Goldfinger, a gold smuggler whom M suspects of being connected to SMERSH. Rob Palk and John Bleasdale delve deep into the 7th novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 series.

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    1 hr and 22 mins