The BBC Radio 4 James Bond series

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  • moneyofpropremoneyofpropre Posts: 38MI6 Agent
    Well I know, but want to save it. Cause I want to listen it later (way later than a month). So I hope to see it in YT.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Listening to it right now. Very faithful to Fleming, which will bamboozle anyone who only knows the film. It's approaching the end now, Scaramanga is just eating a snake.
  • JoshuaJoshua Posts: 1,138MI6 Agent
    I recorded it yesterday and listened when I got home from work. TMWTGG is my least favourite book and this has carried over to the play. That said I have all the other plays and will add this as soon as it comes on you tube.

    I am not sure why most of the actors who play the villains in these BBC radio plays have to use very unrealistic accents? Scaramanga was no different in this respect.
  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    To be fair, Rami Malek seems to be doing an outrageous ‘evil foreigner’ accent in NTTD too! :D
  • JoshuaJoshua Posts: 1,138MI6 Agent
    emtiem wrote:
    To be fair, Rami Malek seems to be doing an outrageous ‘evil foreigner’ accent in NTTD too! :D

    I have deliberately not seen any footage of the new film, but take your word.

    In my opinion Scaramanga's accent is a rival to David Suchet's Dr No!
  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    Ha! Suchet's Dr No was indeed amusingly ripe! But that kind of fits the material I think.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Suchet's Dr No was very odd, I think they also did some odd voices for DAF, Maybe
    EON would only let them do the plays if the villains all put on odd accents ? :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,702MI6 Agent
    I wonder who in this forum has the best villan accent? I may have a decent one :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I'm rather proud of the fact that a few
    People have told me I should be doing
    Movie trailer voice overs. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • JoshuaJoshua Posts: 1,138MI6 Agent
    It may be me! I am regarded as a villain already by some here on AJB!!! :))

    Of course this has nothing to do with me using juju against those who disagree with me!

    Thunderpussy can be my henchman! I will have a steel rimmed bowler hat made for him!

    Now, does anyone know how I can get to Fort Knox?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) Seems the real money these days is in Toilet Roll !!! I'd be trying to
    gain the world's supply, Then I'd be ... The Man with the Golden Bum !! {:)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • JoshuaJoshua Posts: 1,138MI6 Agent
    Yes. Here is my plan. I will hire some pilots to fly over the Andrex factory and spray knock out gas. You will then take in a small atomic bomb. That will detonate and radiate Europe's supply of toilet rolls. Using juju I have already hypnotised some women. They will go out and spread germ warfare capsules across all the other toilet rolls factories. Once the mission is complete I (I mean we) will have control over all remaining stocks. We can then set our price and will achieve world domination. We just have to make sure that people don't start using newspaper to wipe their behind!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Hmm, I can sense another adventure for Shakespeare's Sir James coming on....
  • moneyofpropremoneyofpropre Posts: 38MI6 Agent
    Joshua wrote:
    I recorded it yesterday and listened when I got home from work. TMWTGG is my least favourite book and this has carried over to the play. That said I have all the other plays and will add this as soon as it comes on you tube.

    I am not sure why most of the actors who play the villains in these BBC radio plays have to use very unrealistic accents? Scaramanga was no different in this respect.

    ah nice, very thanks to you.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    edited January 2022

    bumping the BBC radio play series thread, because there's been new interest in the topic. Please continue discussion here!


    Like Fay Dalton's illustrations for the Folio editions, or the old Daily Express comic strip, these are alternative adaptations of Fleming that are just as valid as the film series, and deserving of more attention and discussion. And folks may prefer them to the depressing new movie!!, so if you've never listened to one, follow the youtube links and check them out! the ones based on novels EON deviated from are especially satisfying.

    But it seems like a long time since the last one, has there been any since the Man with the Golden Gun in March 2020? if anyone knows please give us a link.

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    I think the pandemic may have slowed things down production-wise, unfortunately.

  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent

    I can see social distancing rules preventing film and tv productions, but surely a radio play can be done with all the actors recording their parts separately? for example I think the voice actors from the Simpsons never have to leave their homes. They could even do it live via Zoom or WebEx, for spontaneity's sake, just hit record and leave the camera off.

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    I honestly don't know! I do know that I'd like to hear more, though- ideally all of Fleming's novels and the short stories that would be practical.

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