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🗓️ 8 August 2014
⏱️ 92 minutes
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It's time to learn all about Jamaica and it's influence on Ian Fleming and James Bond. On today's show we're joined by Matthew Parker, the author of "Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica."
We hear all about how Jamaica was THE place to be in the 1950s, it's hedonistic party scene, and some intruiging thoughts on how pirates were a big influence on Fleming.
The book comes out on Thursday August 13th, so be sure to grab your copy.
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0:00.0 | Who are you? |
0:04.6 | My name's Bond. |
0:06.2 | James Bond. |
0:07.1 | 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. |
0:16.1 | News, reviews and discussion of all things, 007. |
0:20.4 | Who's she? As you can see, I have no problem with female authority. Oh, I don't know. reviews and discussion of all things, 007. Booster. |
0:21.1 | As you can see, I have no problem with female authority. |
0:23.9 | Oh, pipe down, 007. |
0:25.8 | Do you expect me to find? |
0:27.1 | No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die. |
0:34.5 | Hello, welcome to James Bond Radio. |
0:36.0 | This is podcast number 19, and this is our interview with |
0:39.4 | Matthew Parker, the author of Golden Eye. I've got my good buddy Tom Sears when we were here. Say hi, Tom. |
0:44.8 | Hello, mate. How's it going? Not too bad, sir. Not too bad. How are you doing your end? |
0:49.1 | Yeah, not so bad. Not so bad. I'm excited about this today yeah it's uh it was a good time it's like we didn't |
0:55.9 | know a huge amount about the book did we before and we kind of knew it was it wasn't fiction you know |
1:01.2 | it's it's sort of fact and matthew is a bit of historian um but getting a lot of detail on |
1:07.0 | in fleming and jamaica and golden eye it was uh yeah's good. Yeah, so to clear it up for any confused listeners, |
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