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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Bond Strikes Camp - again

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James Bond parodies – I'm thinking here exclusively of the short stories in magazines and newspapers – tend to explore similar themes. T...
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Sunday, 12 July 2015

More ideas in the Bond books that originated with Thrilling Cities

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In a recent post I wrote about an idea or meme that emerged in a James Bond novel, in this case the phrase 'quantum of solace', and...
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Sunday, 5 July 2015

Blofeld's cat in the Bond films and beyond

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There's a moment in Spooks: The Greater Good when MI5 agent Will Holloway, played by Kit Harington, enters the house of a suspected vil...
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Sunday, 28 June 2015

Ian Fleming's alternative Quantum of Solace

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What does Quantum of Solace mean? In Ian Fleming's story of that name, written in 1958 and published in For Your Eyes Only in 1960, the...
Friday, 19 June 2015

Two references to James Bond heard this week on Radio 4

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This week, while listening to BBC Radio 4, I heard two references to James Bond. Neither was in what might be described as the conventional ...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Going underground - the buildings inspired by James Bond

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Hampshire's Daily Echo reported the other week on a curious James Bond-inspired building project. The Plaza Theatre in Romsey dates to ...
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Sunday, 7 June 2015

Reflections in a double sake - James Bond's Tokyo

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Following a recent visit to Tokyo, guest blogger Radley Biddulph considers what James Bond might think of the city today, some 50 years aft...