James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews & Interviews!

JBR returns this week with Part 2 of our mammoth 3-part Bond Girl coverage. This time we go from The Man With The Golden Gun to Licence To Kill discussing all Bond girls big and small. We also revisit Sam Smith's <em>Writing's on the Wall</em> a week on from release.

Direct download: JBR054-The-Bond-Girls-Part-2.mp3
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It's a red letter day for Bond fans across the world today with the big reveal of SPECTRE's title song, Writing's on the Wall by Sam Smith. The JBR team thought we'd leap into action and record a special emergency podcast dedicated to the new song, with a section by section break down, lyrical discussions and more!

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Following on from our recent interviews with Caroline Munro and Martine Beswick, it's time for James Bond Radio to talk about Bond Girls! We'll be going right back to Dr. No through to Live & Let Die in today's podcast talking Honey Ryder to Solitaire with all the Bond girls in between.

In addition, the second round of Bond Celebrity Deathmatch comes to an end, we run the usual gauntlet of quotes, trivia and all the usual JBR goodness!

Direct download: JBR053-The-Bond-Girls-Part-1.mp3
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It's time to open the MI6 Mailbag at James Bond Radio. This week we're answering listener questions including thoughts on The Living Daylights starring Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton in Casino Royale and what Quentin Tarantino's take on Casino might have been like. 

Not only that we give an exclusive play to what could possibly be the greatest undiscovered Bond song ever written!

Enjoy :-)

Chris & Tom

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It’s a red letter day at James Bond Radio. We have our very first Bond girls on the show!
 
First up we have The Spy Who Loved Me’s Caroline Munro regaling us with stories of working with Sir Roger Moore, Richard Kiel and Lewis Gilbert. Then we talk to 2 time Bond girl, Martine Beswick who we all know as Zora the fighting gypsy girl in From Russia With Love and for her turn as Thunderball’s Paula Caplan.

 

 
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Well, well, well we reached 50 episodes of James Bond Radio. What better way to celebrate than for us to conclude our review of that most polarizing of Bond films; Moonraker.

Along with the Roger action we run the usual gauntlet of Bond Trivia, Guess The Music Q, Complete The Lyric, Guess The Quote and the latest round of Bond Celebrity Deathmatch!

Direct download: JBR050-Moonraker-Reviewed-Part-2.mp3
Category:TV/Film -- posted at: 10:48pm UTC

Wheeeere aaaare you? Why do you hiiiide?

That's right JBR army, it's time for us to review that most misunderstood of James Bond films, 1979's Moonraker. 

Until 2002, this film tended to be the butt of many a joke. "Bond in space? Come oooon" and "That's the crazy one that's a bit like Star Wars, right?" have been common remarks throughout the years. 

So it's time for Tom & Chris, your intrepid Bond reporters to revisit what was once one of the most controversial among fans and see how it stands up today.

Sit down, strap in and see how many G's you can take!

Direct download: JBR049-Moonraker-Part-1.mp3
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JBR has been on leave for the last 3 weeks but as of today we're officially back to Bond it up! This week we have a big old catch up with Tom telling us all about his trip to see some killer Casino Royale locations in the Czech Republic along with some classic Living Daylights locations in Vienna.

Chris tells us all about his Diamonds Are Forever pilgrimage to Amsterdam ("Who is your floor?"), we catch up on all the latest Bond news from Lazenby's recent visit to Piz Gloria to Jane Seymour's story about falling asleep whilst in bed with Sir Roger...

...And finally we reveal the details of a VERY special competition you won't want to miss!

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This week we're joined by an unsung hero of Bond, Nikki Van Der Zyl. As a voice artist she provided the voice of some of the most iconic Bond girls of all time from Honey Ryder (...and yes that is Nikki singing Underneath the Mango Tree), to Shirley Eaton's Jill Masterson,  and Thunderball's Domino. The list doesn't end there either. Nikki was involved in a total of 10 Bond films with Moonraker being her last. 

This is another behind the scenes interview with someone who was there from the very beginning of the cinematic Bond. You'll hear tales of hanging out on set with Gert Frobe during the filming of Goldfinger, you'll hear how she revoiced the entire female cast of Dr. No (with the exception of Moneypenny and Miss Taro) and maybe...just maybe you might even hear Nikki performing a line of Bond girl dialogue too. 

Enjoy :-)

Direct download: JBR047-Nikki-Van-Der-Zyl.mp3
Category:TV/Film -- posted at: 12:30am UTC

We're concluding our coverage of the supporting characters from the world of Bond this week. Last time we covered everyone from Dr. No through to For Your Eyes Only and today we're completing the set all the way up to Skyfall. 

We'll be talking Vijay, Sir Godfrey Tibbet and Saunders through to Sharkey, Jack Wade and Kincade.

Direct download: JBR046-The-Allies-of-Bond-Part-2.mp3
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