Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

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If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Vincent Dowd.

After COVID-related delays, we are about to see the new James Bond film.

No Time to Die is the 25th screen adventure since 1962.

A decade before that, Ian Fleming wrote the first Bond book.

But how much of what we expect from James Bond still comes from those

novels, or have the screen incarnations all but erased the James Bond Ian Fleming created.

We used to be able to get into a room with the enemy.

Now they're just floating in the ether.

And life is all about leaving something behind.

Come on Bond, where the hell are you?

There have been six years between no time to die and its predecessor, a big gap for what since the 60s has been a cinematic

money-spinner around the world.

And it's the final outing for Bond Actor Number Six, Daniel Craig.

The journalist Ian Fleming created Bond in his first novel in 1953, a drab era in Britain when excitement was hard to come by

and a trip to a casino near Dieppe was a glamorous adventure.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

Then the sole erosion produced by high gambling, a compost of greed and

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