#012: The Battle for Bond [Robert Sellers Interview]
James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews & Interviews!
Tom & Chris
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2014
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
On today's show we interview the author of 'The Battle for Bond,' Robert Sellers. We talk all about the Kevin McClory debacle, from what might have happened had Alfred Hitchcock agreed to direct, to the real choices Fleming made for who should play Bond. Discover who came up with the original idea for Thunderball (it wasn't Fleming) and find out who was the guilty party in the plagiarism case!
Get ready for a 2 hour epic...though be warned, you might just come away with a different opinion of Ian Fleming after you hear today's episode.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:04.9 | My name's Bond. |
| 0:06.1 | James Bond. |
| 0:08.9 | James Bond. |
| 0:10.0 | How do you think you're doing? |
| 0:11.7 | Keeping the British end up, sir. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to James Bond Radio, news, reviews and discussion of all things, 007. |
| 0:20.4 | Who see? I see. I have no problem with female authority. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, pride down, 007. |
| 0:25.8 | Do you expect me to find? |
| 0:27.1 | No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die. |
| 0:33.8 | Okay, hello and welcome to episode 0012 of James Bond Radio. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Tom Sears and I've got my good buddy Chris. Say hello Chris. |
| 0:41.3 | Hello Chris. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.3 | Now today we are talking all about the Battle for Bond. |
| 0:48.3 | We're talking all about the whole Kevin McClory Thunderball shenanigans, which is all very, very exciting. And we've got an interview |
| 0:55.5 | with the guy who wrote the book on the Battle for Bond, Mr. Robert Sellers. He's going to be |
| 0:59.8 | joining us shortly. And he's going to take us through the whole journey of everything. We've both |
| 1:04.5 | got our books here. We've both been pouring through it, but we've got the man himself to talk us |
| 1:08.4 | through the whole thing. So are you excited about that chris oh great i mean it's been so good having read the book i actually bought it last year and read |
| 1:16.8 | through it and thought it's fascinating and now sort of reading through it again i you just forget |
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