Chapter 38: Ian Fleming, featuring Matt Gourley

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Chapter 38: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes the creator of James Bond himself, Ian Fleming (Matt Gourley) to the Dead Authors stage. Mr. Fleming is a troubled soul who only wants to be a monstrous misogynist. Is that so much to ask? Apparently so.

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0:00.0	This podcast is intended as entertainment for grown-ups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18.
0:08.5	Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, including the time travel
0:14.4	Mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the host of the
0:19.5	Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to Chapter 38 of the Dead Authors Podcast. I am, of course, your host, H.G. Wells.
0:31.0	And my guest this time round is a British author, journalist and naval
0:34.9	intelligence officer Ian Fleming. You might know him as the creator of the
0:38.7	James Bond series of spy novels that later became the James Bond series of motion pictures that later
0:44.4	became the James Bond series of film novelizations. I suspect Agent 007
0:49.4	even mated onto the odd t-shirt or lunchbox before all was said and done. At this point I can
0:55.6	practically hear you crying out, Well's old sock you've botched it! After that bloody
1:00.5	great lot of service to the British Empire both fictional and
1:03.5	non surely you're meant to have said Sir Ian Fleming get it right next time
1:08.7	you daft Wally first of all there's no call for that sort of rudeness, and secondly, you're wrong.
1:14.8	Fleming's multitudinous contributions to English safety and culture were never recognized with
1:19.8	a knighthood.
1:20.8	It's not so uncommon really. Some of Britain's greatest writers were
1:24.8	never so honored. I'm hard-pressed to think of one off the top of my head, but let's
1:29.1	see now. Conan Doyle, no, no, he's got one. Arthur C. Clark, no, no he's got one.
1:32.6	Arthur C Clark, no him as well, there's Dame Agatha Christie of course, she got hers.
1:38.2	I wonder what notable British author might be missing from this list. I suppose your guess is as good as mine.
1:47.0	Of course I'm winding you all up a bit. It's true that I, your humble host, was never granted the honor of a knighthood.
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