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Post by ljwilson on May 19, 2019 11:19:50 GMT
Plus Diamonds are Forever currently on iplayer. Excellent it is too.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 11:31:05 GMT
With Toby Stephens starring and Martin Jarvis directing?
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Post by ljwilson on May 19, 2019 11:47:01 GMT
Yep. First time I've heard any of these and Live and Let Die is brill.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 12:17:05 GMT
Oh, they're rather fun. Very stylish and the villains are quite magnificent. Ian McKellen plays a harrumphing Auric Goldfinger in one; David Suchet, a thoroughly alien Dr. Julius No in another. I have to give special mention to the Moonraker adaptation, though, for bringing to life the earthenware atmosphere of the novel. Far cry from the spacefaring film and very compelling.
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Post by ljwilson on May 19, 2019 13:51:21 GMT
Oh, they're rather fun. Very stylish and the villains are quite magnificent. Ian McKellen plays a harrumphing Auric Goldfinger in one; David Suchet, a thoroughly alien Dr. Julius No in another. I have to give special mention to the Moonraker adaptation, though, for bringing to life the earthenware atmosphere of the novel. Far cry from the spacefaring film and very compelling. wolfie, did these come out on CD?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 14:40:02 GMT
No, they've not been released on disc, sadly. I love these. Whenever we have one of those "What properties should BF do?" and someone says "Bond", I always mention these as despite being an audio fandom, a lot of non BF seems to be of less interest to a lot of people which, considering I-Player costs nothing and the radio part is available worldwide is a bit odd to me. These Bond adaptations come only every few years but are always looking worth forward to. Even in addition to the people mentioned above by Wolfie, the cast is unreal in these - Alfred Molina is Blofeld, Joanna Lumley is Irma Bund, Peter Capaldi even plays Q (well, Boothroyd) in Dr. No. Rosamund Pike, Burt Kwuok, John Standing, Julian Sands and on and on. Pike and Stephens make a rather better team on audio Bond than they did on screen in Die Another Day! They do have more than a touch of the exposition problem of having Bond talking to himself a lot for the sake of the audience but there's no real way around that bar some narration, which there is a bit of from Martin Jarvis too. Stephens is terrific as Bond, very human but every bit as severe and cold as Fleming's Bond could be. If you hear all of these make sure to go and seek out You Only Live Twice from 1990 from the BBC where Michael Jayston is Bond and the definitive audio Sherlock Holmes, Clive Merrison, is Tiger Tanaka.
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Post by muckypup on May 19, 2019 16:39:18 GMT
If you hunt about on you tube most of the other bond plays lurk about on their.......
But they are all blooming fantastic.....
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Post by constonks on May 20, 2019 4:55:18 GMT
Thanks for posting this! I've been wanting to check these out for a while, so I just redownloaded iplayer to do so.
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Post by mbt66 on May 22, 2019 13:05:22 GMT
These adventures are always a good listen. I am surprised in a way that they are not recorded and released in order. Live and Let Die has only just been broadcast, but just like the novel it is clearly set before Diamonds Are Forever and after Casino Royale which I don’t believe they have done as yet.
But back to Live and Let Die...
I have only read half a dozen of the Ian Fleming Bond novels, so I wasn’t familiar with the book. It was interesting to hear elements, that were later used in the film License To Kill, in their original setting.
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Post by OneTen on May 22, 2019 13:43:33 GMT
I have only read half a dozen of the Ian Fleming Bond novels, so I wasn’t familiar with the book. It was interesting to hear elements, that were later used in the film License To Kill, in their original setting. Haven't heard the audio yet, but from the book there are also elements later used in the film For Your Eyes Only (and even a few used in Live and Let Die!)
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Post by mbt66 on May 22, 2019 15:04:45 GMT
I have only read half a dozen of the Ian Fleming Bond novels, so I wasn’t familiar with the book. It was interesting to hear elements, that were later used in the film License To Kill, in their original setting. Haven't heard the audio yet, but from the book there are also elements later used in the film For Your Eyes Only (and even a few used in Live and Let Die!) I cannot say I noticed anything regarding For Your Eyes Only in the audio. What was reused from the book in the film?
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 1:38:02 GMT
Haven't heard the audio yet, but from the book there are also elements later used in the film For Your Eyes Only (and even a few used in Live and Let Die!) I cannot say I noticed anything regarding For Your Eyes Only in the audio. What was reused from the book in the film? For Your Eyes Only is a big gallimaufry of little things from various novels (the Identigraph scene, for instance, comes from the literary Goldfinger) . From the Live and Let Die novel, the keelhauling sequence is the big one. It was reappropriated fairly faithfully for the Doctor and Melina in the film from the book. You could argue plot elements such as Bond's contact abroad being incapacitated and the main villain working for Soviet counterintelligence, but that's the one that that tends to stick out.
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Post by Timelord007 on May 25, 2019 11:50:36 GMT
No crocodiles where harmed during the making of this audio drama.
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Post by iainmclaughlin on May 25, 2019 14:43:59 GMT
I do enjoy these Bond radio dramas. They have their own feel, making them quite different from the films and the books while still being clearly related to them other branches of the franchise. I really do like them. Stephens is a pretty decent Bond.
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Post by number13 on May 26, 2019 12:16:34 GMT
No crocodiles where harmed during the making of this audio drama. You are quite correct, Mr. Bond; as we are in the Americas, my little pets are alligators. Similar to the untrained eye, but easy to distinguish - at close quarters. Allow me to give you the opportunity...
( I take it the audio is a good deal more authentic to the novel then and reptile-free? Bank holiday listening I think!)
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Post by ljwilson on May 26, 2019 13:38:46 GMT
No crocodiles where harmed during the making of this audio drama. You are quite correct, Mr. Bond; as we are in the Americas, my little pets are alligators. Similar to the untrained eye, but easy to distinguish - at close quarters. Allow me to give you the opportunity...
( I take it the audio is a good deal more authentic to the novel then and reptile-free? Bank holiday listening I think!) It is indeed...but sharks and barracuda aplenty.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2019 11:56:06 GMT
You are quite correct, Mr. Bond; as we are in the Americas, my little pets are alligators. Similar to the untrained eye, but easy to distinguish - at close quarters. Allow me to give you the opportunity...
( I take it the audio is a good deal more authentic to the novel then and reptile-free? Bank holiday listening I think!) It is indeed...but sharks and barracuda aplenty. The film and "Attack of the Alligators!" from Thunderbirds has given me a pathological fear of these meat-seeking missiles ever since. They look slow, but crocodile or alligator, they move fast.
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