Open Book: Russell Kane on James Bond and audio books
Books and Authors
BBC
4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and author Russell Kane is in the presenter's chair this week talking to Enid Shomer about her novel which fictionalises a meeting between Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale. Russell also discusses Ian Fleming's James Bond novels with writer Tom Rob Smith and asks: is reading a book better than listening to it being read to you?
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| 0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:10.7 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
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| 0:22.4 | helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all |
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| 0:45.7 | Hello, fellow book lovers. Mariella is on her holidays, so she's asked a middle-brow jester, |
| 0:51.1 | normally seen japing around with Radio 1's Greg James, to fill in as her temp. |
| 0:55.4 | What could possibly go wrong? |
| 0:57.5 | On today's edition of Open Book, does it really matter how we get our literary fix? |
| 1:02.1 | Is reading a book definitively better than listening to it being read to you? |
| 1:06.8 | Oh, and Seven is back. |
| 1:08.7 | Double O-7. |
| 1:17.1 | Music Oh, and seven is back. Double O seven. Suddenly Bond felt the sweat on his palms. |
| 1:20.2 | Now it was Le Schiff who looked across into Bond's eyes |
| 1:23.1 | and hardly glanced at the card as he flicked it face upwards on the table. |
| 1:28.1 | He had won. |
| 1:29.7 | Bond was beaten. |
| 1:32.9 | The famous Baccarat scene from Casino Royale read by Dan Stevens. |
| 1:37.6 | And to mark the 50th anniversary of Bond's first appearance on the silver screen in Doctor No, |
| 1:42.2 | all 14 of Ian Fleming's original books are being |
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