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pls forgive sir miles but just wanted to mk sure collecting brethren saw this....i rarely check the events section myself... 230 pm today goldfinger on bbc radio 4.....shd be superb
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Yes....please forgive me
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so i was out all day, hence i tgt i'd post this to make sure someone recorded it.... (i was watching my boys spank Leeds 3-0 actually!)
to get home and find my sky box had failed and it hadn't recorded!....arghghhh...
so did anyone record it?....
pls pm me....
If you are in UK you can pick up on BBC Iplayer above.
thx...that's my sunday afternoon sorted....
and if anyone has anything more permanent
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
James Bond returns in this Broadcast Premiere: a dramatisation of the classic 1959 novel.
When Bond begins his pursuit of a monstrous international criminal he discovers that a daring heist is on the agenda - plus mass murder. But what is the American connection? And where do the Russians fit in? Can OO7 survive to fight another day?
Goldfinger ..... Ian McKellen
James Bond ..... Toby Stephens.
'M' ..... John Standing.
Col. Smithers ..... Ian Ogilvy
Pussy Galore ..... Rosamund Pike
Tilly Masterton ..... Lisa Dillon
Du Pont ..... Henry Goodman
Hawker ..... Alistair McGowan
Helmut Springer ..... Hector Elizondo
Jill Masterton ..... Anna Louise Plowman
Johnny Solo ..... Tim Pigott-Smith
Mr Strap ..... Tom Hollander
Felix Leiter ..... Lloyd Owen
Jed Midnight ..... Nigel Anthony
Oddjob ..... Jon David Yu
Alfred ..... Alan Shearman
Nigel ..... Matthew Wolf
Fleming ..... Martin Jarvis
Doctors and Pilot ..... Kyle Stoller
Nurse ..... Tracy Pattin
Dramatised by Archie Scottney.
Music composed by Mark Holden and Sam Barbour.
Director Martin Jarvis. Producer Rosalind Ayres.
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So here's my take on the play:
On Good Friday we set off for a short break at my in-laws caravan in Skegness, (and believe it or not we got there and back without getting stuck in a single que of traffic - now that's what I call a miracle!).
Now on the Saturday morning it dawned on me that the radio play was on but I couldn't for love nor money remember the time it was on or the frequency for Radio 4. Even a shifty trip to a newsagents was no good as the closest newsagents were the only two in Lincolnshire not to stock the Radio Times, (for those of you outside the UK that's a BBC produced TV listing magazine that also has listings for BBC radio stations).
Now I really wanted to catch the show - so I ended up phoning my sister and she googled for me and we managed to catch the show, (thanks sis! you're one a million!). I also recorded it with the voice memo feature that I have on my iPod Nano. In the not too distant future I'll be more than happy to share this copy with you... although I'm sure you'll be able to hear the bit where a seagull landed on the caravan roof and the dogs barked to scare it away. So I'm working on a "Plan B" - so watch this space.
As for the play itself I really did enjoy it and found it to be somewhere between an audio book and watching a film. It was very faithful to the book as opposed to the film, although I was surprised to hear Oddjob speak - I guess that mute Korean henchmen do not translate that well into characters in a radio play. All in all a very enjoyable 90 minutes hearing Bond take on the man with the midas touch.
You can also read about the play at the Ian Fleming publications website: http://www.ianfleming.com/ which also has a link to a very informative article in The Times about Goldfinger.
cheers AMDBS....would really appreciate a copy....seagull an all....
loved the story....esp the seagull.... and i hope to get to loisten to the iplayer version as soonas i get a spare hour...
cheers
Glad that you liked the story - just sent you a PM
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