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Sure:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gdtd
After that, should they continue? Personally I'd like them to try to do some of the short stories, maybe by creating an overarching narrative to connect The Living Daylights, From A View To A Kill, For Your Eyes Only, and Risico into one story. Colonel Sun would be a good adaptation too. They can skip the Gardner & Benson novels (imo) & adapt the five new continuation novels if allowed by Eon & Ian Fleming Publications.
They have been faithfully adapted, intelligently abridged and extremely well produced.
TMWTGG was no exception.
The most dramatic introduction was there in all its glory and you could virtually smell Jamaica when the setting moved - not to mention the cordite from Scaramanga’s .45
Toby Stephens is phenomenal as Bond. He shows Craig a clean pair of heels.
What’s more when you listen to this, you realise how fantastic faithful screen adaptations of Fleming’s novels could be !
BonSimonLeBon_1, The Pussy agrees that it’s his weakest novel but strangely he thought it performed better as a radio dramatisation.
I'm looking forward to hearing Toby Stephens' portrayal in YOLT. His performance really rings true to Bond from the books.
From what I heard, the original plan was to cover all.of Fleming's works. I think they're more sporadic now but we can hope that they'll eventually be completed.
Yes, it looks like they're going to do all of the Fleming Bond novels and maybe even the short stories too somehow though that remains to be seen of course.
I just thought that with the revival of my thread I'd perhaps missed an announcement on the next Radio 4 adaptation! :)
Sorry to get your hopes up. I can't imagine YOLT will be far away. They've done practically all the others.
Don't worry about that. Yes, I'll be looking forward to them doing YOLT even though BBC Radio did a good version of it back in 1990 with Michael Jayston as Bond.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/martin-jarvis-james-bond-audiobooks-radio-william/
Oh awesome!
That's welcome news. For some reason I had it in my head that they'd already done all of the Fleming Bond novels and we were waiting to see how they would approach the short stories. It would be great to see them adapted too. A radio adaptation of Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun would be the icing on the cake once all the Fleming Bonds were adapted. It was written in the 1960s and is the best written Bond continuation novel in my opinion so it should really be adapted too. Realistically, it might be the only chance to ever see the book adapted in full given they've already taken so many bits from it in the Eon Bond films.
Exactly.
I'd missed this bit of news and very welcome it is, too. Given we're going on four years since Golden Gun was broadcast, I'd rather assumed the series had ended. Nice to think there's a chance they'll complete the set. And I second @Dragonpol's idea of them adapting Colonel Sun, even if I don't hold that novel in quite so high regard. Just as likely is them tackling the Horowitz trilogy given they slot in around the various other adaptations.
The tenth Ian Fleming radio adaptation by Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres, starring Toby Stephens as 007 is on its way, to be broadcast on 20th April. Also starring Hugh Bonneville as Le Chiffre and Susannah Fielding as Vesper Lynd.
Full listing:
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Dramatised by Archie Scottney
Directed by Martin Jarvis
Cast:
James Bond - Toby Stephens
Vesper Lynd - Susannah Fielding
Le Chiffre - Hugh Bonneville
Felix Leiter - Josh Stamberg
René Mathis - Matthew Wolf
M - John Standing
Head of Staff - Lloyd Owen
Barman - Darren Richardson
Mrs Dupont - Anna Mathias
Assassin - Andre Sogliuzzo
Nurse - Moira Quirk
Doctor - Henri Lubatti
Le Patron - Alan Shearman
Ian Fleming (Narrator) - Martin Jarvis
Other parts played by members of the company.
Original music composed and played by A-Mnemonic
Sound design: Charles Carroll, Neil Wogenson, Mark Holden
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4
Super excited to see what I hope is not the last adaptation announced.
I'm unsure whether You Only Live Twice would be adapted as it has been before and if The Spy Who Loved Me would as it is not told from Bond's perspective.
Interesting this one seems to be one hour as opposed to 90 minutes.
Thanks, I tried a search for the thread but the search system isn't much good as we all know (well, unless you want to find the On This Day thread :D )
Amazon should be taking notes!
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/cate-blanchett-starring-in-first-radio-4-drama-the-fever
It's fine. At least one of those threads was mine. I had no idea there were so many of them! Good idea that they've been merged together.