The Loving Delights: An Alternative Commentary To The Living Daylights
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Tom & Chris
4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2017
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Dan Gale returns to James Bond Radio this week with an alternative commentary to The Living Daylights. Play along with the movie itself or listen as a standalone podcast, it works both ways.
If you're not familiar with Dan's previous work be sure to check his JBR documentary podcasts, TAPE SECRET!: The Audiobooks of James Bond and You Only Live Splice: The Editing of John Glen.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom, boom, boom, boom. |
| 0:04.0 | Blah, t'laloo, daooo... |
| 0:07.0 | M... |
| 0:08.0 | M... |
| 0:09.0 | M... |
| 0:10.0 | ...that sound can only mean one thing. |
| 0:18.0 | You're about to watch the living daylights. For the 96th time. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello comrades. I'm Dan Gale from Station S in Somerset. Yes, it's one of those. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome to this episode of James Bond Radio, which takes a unique form, that of an alternative |
| 0:49.9 | movie commentary. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the film I've chosen to comment upon |
| 0:55.6 | is the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights. Now this podcast is designed to be played |
| 1:02.0 | alongside the movie with notes from me on the film's production, the actor's careers, its critical |
| 1:08.1 | reception and place within the Bond series, plus various little |
| 1:12.5 | oddities I've noticed whilst watching this film practically on a loop for the last 30 years. |
| 1:18.2 | A commentary by the filmmakers themselves already exists on the DVD and Blu-ray, so I'll |
| 1:23.0 | try not to repeat any information from that. |
| 1:26.2 | Instead, hopefully, I'll compliment it with a more |
| 1:29.2 | personal viewpoint. You could also just listen to this episode, like any other podcast. You don't |
| 1:35.2 | need to be watching the film. You won't be missing out. First, I have to make a fairly |
| 1:40.7 | embarrassing confession. I mean, not quite Lee Tamahori embarrassing, but it's almost there. |
| 1:47.0 | I have yet to purchase Charles Helfenstein's indispensable book, |
| 1:52.0 | The Making of the Living Daylights, and have been justly ridiculed for this fact by my peers. |
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