BBC Radio 4 - James Bond Radio Drama, From Russia with Love

[@georgealexander141]

These BBC plays are such great adaptations of the books. Just finished reading this one and the radio drama is spot on with the book. Kudos!

[@tonybutcher8141]

Great radio presentation of James bond 007 .Toby Stevens makes a good Bond.More bond on the radio please.😀.

[@globalman]

What a brilliant cast of actors ....... I would listen to them reading a shopping list. How extraordinary. Thank you so much for sharing this and lightening the burden of these present times. From my isolation in Europe gratitude.

[@ElectronicazMusic]

To cast a Bond Villain as Bond, is genius. I've listened to all these new radio productions many times. They get better woth each listen. Let's hope for more!

[@christhornycroft3686]

If they wanted to cast a Bond villain it should have been Sean Bean. Die Another Day was the worst of the series with the worst villain and Bond performance ever. I don’t know why everyone loves Pierce Brosnan so much. Sure, women and gay men love him for the same reason I love rewatching that scene from Basic Instinct, but for everyone else, he’s a cartoon character designed for 13 year old boys. I rooted for Zao in DAD.

[@christhornycroft3686]

He's much better as Bond here than he ever was as a villain.

[@matthewmayton1845]

I think he also read an audio book version of From Russia With Love.

[@martinskeet2111]

I think these are really well made and so skilfully take a rich novel and compress it to just 1 and a half hours, keeping the sense and the style. Excellent cast too.

[@ABMultimediaDesigner]

If the 007 stories were remade, the way the fleming books are portrayed in this audio makes it good for a netflix-type series

[@jmann6130]

oh yeah it would be a great series to adapted to Netflix they could adapt it like the series of unfortunate events with each book being a two part serial

[@rorywillis7228]

Great idea

[@UncleLumbago1899]

Except The Spy Who Loved Me will never be fully adapted as requested by Fleming

[@mohammedashian8094]

Too bad they would be pussifed for pc reasons because when it comes social consciousness Ian Fleming is far from it and I love him for that

[@Professor_Fate]

From your mouth to Barbara Broccoli's ear!

[@Garrystephens92]

Toby Stephens much like his father has proven himself well worthy of great roles in BBC audio dramas his father Robert Stephens voiced Aragorn in the 1981 Lord of the Rings BBC Production written by Brian Sibley

[@JckSwan]

Cool. 😁

[@timothyflyte9443]

These are fantastic kudos to the cast and the people who made these.

[@Allan-et5ig]

Some of them aren't that good but this one is outstanding- which is good because From Russia with Love is by far the best book in the series.

[@jwg5774]

Ian Fleming intended for this to be his final Bond novel as he was growing tired of the character, but much as with Conan Doyle's failed attempt to distance himself from Sherlock Holmes, Fleming's fans wouldn't allow Bond's death to be a final death. They inundated his publishers, agent, and Fleming himself with letters begging for Bond to be saved.

[@jmann6130]

Yeah that unfortunately happens to a lot of writers who feel like they have been stuck to a book series that the fans now demand that you have to keep writing for witch is a shame because he really did put in a lot of work into 007 and caused a world wide of interest into espionage and supervillain’s

[@naughtydog1617]

@JW G sorry for the late reply but that notion of yours is actually a common misconception. In fact, Fleming NEVER had any intention of "killing Bond off." He only went with this ambiguous ending because he was inspired by a book before his that did the same kind of thing. I forgot what book it was though. I learned all of this from listening to the commentary of the From Russia with Love film on Blu-ray.

[@mohammadmostafa9215]

@@naughtydog1617 Maybe, (the final problem) short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, where Holmes was killed.

[@Niala8419]

I wonder if John Gardner and Raymond Benson were similarly inundated 😬

[@maryhaddock9145]

He said he couldn't afford to kill him off.

[@phillipwickert4698]

Olga Fedori provides the voice for Tatiana Romanova. I didn't see her credited above.

[@TheWaffleman54]

Nor Red Grant

[@philnewton-england7795]

Full credits at 01:25:45

[@BenNZ-j9n]

Toby Stephens was fantastic

[@timmellor2599]

Such a shame he played a villain in a Bond film, otherwise he could have been a contender. He does a good job in these recordings, which I’ve been enjoying (thanks for uploading!), along with a star-studded cast

[@EthanKnight97]

Good to hear Adult Bond and Young Bond meeting each other. Nathaniel Parker always the voice of the Young Bond books.

[@EthelCaseyAnnabelle]

Can't wait to listen to this!

[@WhiteJarrah]

Funny they should call the character "Kerim Bay", in the novel he was called "Darko Kerim"

[@gavinsladen5334]

"Bey" is a Turkish honorific, the equivalent of "Mister".

[@Professor_Fate]

Didn't listen to the whole broadcast, eh?

[@jmann6130]

Thank god Fleming’s mind was changed about killing off Bond

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

EON, on the other hand.....

[@michaelwilkins5841]

Fantastic thank you

[@naughtydog1617]

Welcome😉

[@RR-ky6eu]

Great

[@katerinachernyshev4992]

Teşekkürler👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😻

[@lynchaney6844]

Rosa kleb said at the beginning Mi5. .... it's Mi6

[@hugohugo2832]

Excellent again

[@NoosaHeads]

Olga Fedori played Tatiana. She is a genuine "Russian" (actually Ukrainian) and is a very beautiful lady.

[@TheWendable]

🤔 So how can she be a genuine Russian if shes Ukrainian? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@CaptAwesumNo1Zone]

So does Specter not exist in the books? I take it then Blofeld and connections to Dr. No don't exist except in the movies?

[@naughtydog1617]

In the books, SPECTRE doesn't get introduced until Thunderball. And no, there aren't any connections between Dr. No and Blofeld in the books.

[@matthewphillips9938]

Yes Capitan Flint is James bond

[@michaelalbert9299]

Conspicuously absent were the gypsy camp and killing of Krilencu scenes. Not vital to the story and probably omitted to keep the run time manageable, but would have loved to have seen (heard) how it would have been presented for radio.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes. The Gypsy Camp Scene was a brilliant piece of writing by Fleming . And sadly missed here .!

[@12cricketmad]

I found that quite bizarre! They are 2 crucial scenes to book

[@GsCConcrete123]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 world of the worlds so funny. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@Ansemrp]

There's only one minor thing that bugs me during this. The part where Bond and M are reciting "That's what little boys are made of" is very out of character for both of them. Bond would never make a comment like that to to his superior during a briefing, and M certainly would not go along with it. Otherwise, this is an excellent audio drama version of the story.

[@lynchaney6844]

Also at the beginning Rosa kleb said Mi5....it's Mi6

[@Niala8419]

Continuation or adaptions seem to struggle with the Bond M relationship. John Gardner had a weird take on it. Like M was permanently p1ssed off with him and held Bond in permanent contempt. That wasn't the dynamic created by Fleming. Artist licence I guess.

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

Sunday

[@JC-fd9zt]

👏

[@hudsony777]

Love Eileen Atkins as Klebb.

[@arturboras6615]

and the daughter ?

[@danielw7732]

That Russian accent puts me in a daze

[@arturboras6615]

well 😊

[@arturboras6615]

like the brother of Dalida ?

[@arturboras6615]

two victims ?

[@senorblancosenorblanco]

29:00 what food? What exercise???

[@arturboras6615]

partners of children ..,🤔