Hello, my lovely betwixters, it's me, Kate Lister. I am here with the Affair Doos warning

to make sure that nobody gets overly offended whilst listening to this complete nonsense that's

going to come your way. We just have to be extra specially sure. So, this is an adult podcast

spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things and an adulty way and you should be an adult,

too. So I don't actually think this is the rudest one that we've done. No, we're looking at

bond girls today. So we'll probably be straining into discussions around sex and there's

definitely some swearing and just all the things that James Bond entails. And if that's not for

you today, then Fair Doos, you have been warned and you can back out now while you still can.

But the rest of you, let's do it.

She's silhouetted in the opening credits. She's seduced by Drinkinson,

well timed quips and chatter blinds. But however instrumental she may have been in Bond's mission,

or however much that spy seemed to actually love her by the end of the film, very worried about

it. She'd magically forgotten by the time the next lot of opening credits roll around. What is a

Bond girl? Today, but Twix, the satiny sheets, we are sliding in to find out.

Hello, and welcome back to the Twix, the Sheet, the history of sex,

scandal and society with me, Kate Lister. 70 years ago, this week, Ian Fleming released the

first novel in the series, which has become entwined with Britishness. Whether you like it or not.

When you think of James Bond, what do you think of? Fast cars, cocktails, shaken nuts stirred,

some very questionable methods of international espionage. Well, you can hear about all of these

things this month in a special series on our sister podcast, patented the history of inventions.

But you probably also have conjured up the image of at least one Bond girl into your sorted little

brains. So, who are these women? Why do we never actually call them women? They're always Bond girls.

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