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BBC Radio 4 Bond adaptations starring Toby Stephens - Casino Royale 20th April 2025

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  • timdalton007timdalton007 North Alabama
    edited April 3 Posts: 162
    Casino Royale has an episode page up on the Drama on 4 site now. Worth bookmarking to listen to at once it airs.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002b6lr
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 17,829
    Casino Royale is on BBC Sounds now:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002b6lr

    Plus a 15min look at the novel in Opening Lines:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002b6lp

    And the Cinematic Soundtracks programme featuring David Arnold's Casino Royale:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00274vm
  • Reflsin2bourbonsReflsin2bourbons
    Posts: 381
    Listened to From Russia With Love. Is there a reason they refer to MI5 rather than MI6?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,645
    Darn, I forgot this was on so soon! I'll have to catch up with it on BBC Sounds instead.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 17,829
    I listened to Casino Royale yesterday; it's alright. As with a lot of these adaptations, I found it made me yearn for the much superior film version (or the novel of course). Bonneville made for an oddly avuncular Le Chiffre and the romance between Bond and Vesper comes out of nowhere as it's so truncated. The music was apparently composed for the play which is surprising as it doesn't seem to suit either the setting or drama. Martin Jarvis has new teeth by the sounds of it.

    Opening Lines is quite fun.
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