Desert Island Discs- Ian Fleming (1963)

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  • @Username1171000
    @Username1171000 Рік тому +9

    I one day hope to be half as good as Fleming writing wise. His books got me through high school education. My attempts to write a poor excuse of a novel are about 40 pages in and I'm hoping no one will see it but you've got to start somewhere. I figured my persistence with what I am writing is in the spirit of Fleming. After all, he once said, "The distance between Insanity and genius, is only measured by success."

  • @andrewbooth4776
    @andrewbooth4776 2 роки тому +11

    This is superb, my favourite author.What a tragedy that he didn't stay with us longer and enjoy the great success of his novels and films.

    • @WhiteJarrah
      @WhiteJarrah 11 місяців тому +1

      I do wonder what he would have thought of the latter Connery films and the majority of the Roger Moore films, given how far they strayed from their namesakes.

    • @crazy9ist777
      @crazy9ist777 11 місяців тому +1

      He died months before the release of “Goldfinger” (1964)-the film that really cemented the formula (outlandish plots, gadgets, women, gags, and all). Had he been alive, he would have had mixed feelings about that film. Given how the latter Connery films and Roger Moore films were definitely lighter in tone and completely deviated from the more overt cold-war espionage thriller aesthetic in the novels.

  • @Spatzna
    @Spatzna 6 років тому +26

    Class interview. Currently reading From Russia with Love and loving it. The days when people spoke with dignity and answered the bloody question. "Everyone liked it but then in the last one there wasn't enough Bond and it was from a lady's perspective and then they didn't like it". Why is it so refreshing to hear someone actually answer a question honestly? I love their accents; I don't know why this way of speaking had to make way for Estuary English which is kind of annoying but c'est la vie. Great interviewer too

    • @Budgieboy4068
      @Budgieboy4068 Рік тому +4

      I'm on Live And Let Die so am still quite early on in the series. They're so good. I agree wholeheartedly with you about interviews being better years ago. No interruptions or making unfunny jokes, just classy and intelligent conversations. Absolutely wonderful. Fleming was an exquisite writer.

  • @cjkelley333
    @cjkelley333 11 років тому +19

    It's terrific to hear the voice of such a great writer.

  • @megranita
    @megranita 8 років тому +21

    It's brilliant to hear his voice .. such a great writer.

  • @CaminoAir
    @CaminoAir 10 років тому +22

    The interviews I've heard with Fleming are refreshing in that he's honest about his writing process and how much work needs to be done, as well as how intimidating it can be to begin.

  • @andrewbird57
    @andrewbird57 2 роки тому +6

    What is really interesting is that Fleming reveals he was at the Dieppe Raid (Aug 1942), at a time when his involvement with that raid was still classified information. Only now, as historians are poring over recently declassified documents, is it becoming fully discovered how deep was Fleming's involvement in that fiasco, where so many Allied soldiers were killed, wounded or captured (my father was captured).

  • @RighteousBrother
    @RighteousBrother 6 років тому +10

    This is brilliant - thank you so much for posting.

  • @pushthetempo2
    @pushthetempo2 8 років тому +33

    Ending sentence- 'I've got no ambitions'
    If only he could have seen it now, most successful movie franchise ever made

  • @orbisrex
    @orbisrex 11 років тому +9

    Thanks for posting this - excellent to hear more of this interview!

  • @kyleadams1454
    @kyleadams1454 10 років тому +20

    Good interview. Like Ian Fleming. Love the books and the movies. Like the deep voiced British accent too.

  • @TheBrothersWhite
    @TheBrothersWhite 11 років тому +21

    This is brilliant- successful authors tend to slip into highly subjective answers to such questions and can come across as self-satisfied and arrogant. Ian Fleming gives straight-forward and non-embellished answers, which is selfless and pretty inspiring.

  • @CrocTV
    @CrocTV 10 років тому +12

    A man with great focus, self-discipline and attention to detail - what an inspiration for other writers! (pity he couldn't give up smoking)

    • @megranita
      @megranita 8 років тому

      +Adam L Do you write ?

    • @CrocTV
      @CrocTV 7 років тому

      Yes I do - And you?

    • @ruggernutter03
      @ruggernutter03 6 років тому +1

      ....and drinking, too...

    • @Supertramp1966
      @Supertramp1966 3 роки тому

      Not really.
      It would have been a true pity if he hadn't lived his life as he desired, on his own terms.

  • @wendywilliams9667
    @wendywilliams9667 9 років тому +8

    This is great! Thank you posting.

  • @grahamsclater9988
    @grahamsclater9988 Рік тому

    Wonderful to hear

  • @haint1
    @haint1 3 роки тому +2

    Awesome interview! Thank you for posting!

  • @thatguyfromcetialphaV
    @thatguyfromcetialphaV 3 роки тому +8

    People spoke and wrote and acted with much more class back then. Fleming, MacLean, Bagley, Conan Doyle, geniuses all. RIP

  • @bhartley868
    @bhartley868 8 місяців тому +1

    Fleming is holding a Ruger target .22 long rifle pistol , probably his , as he owned one , it is listed in his estate... He was an excellent shot and represented Sandhurst military academy in competitions against West Point...

  • @chloebakewell4641
    @chloebakewell4641 9 років тому +5

    this helped me so much with a project i am doing on Ian Fleming when i have to write about an interview with him.
    Thank you so much for posting !

  • @BluGiant14
    @BluGiant14 12 років тому +5

    this is pretty cool...thanks for posting.

  • @mileristic2084
    @mileristic2084 2 роки тому +1

    One man changed everything...Walter...from old nazy and ustasha SPECTRA...

  • @Kfinnerty6853
    @Kfinnerty6853 2 роки тому +5

    And I hopped from Eton to the City, to Reuters and then knocked Bond off. What a jolly life.

  • @shankarbalan3813
    @shankarbalan3813 4 роки тому +4

    What a first class chap!

  • @heathstjohn6775
    @heathstjohn6775 3 роки тому +1

    For a close, unintended comparison of delivery, 'Why Bother?', from 1995, with Peter Cook, should be listened to; especially the war memories episode.

  • @jamesmalone9076
    @jamesmalone9076 Рік тому

    Amen please yes thank God

  • @mezzoly
    @mezzoly 11 років тому +9

    "Some kind friend pointed out my error. . . " The British talent of appearing to thank someone while actually saying "Go to blazes."

  • @Bad_At_Parties
    @Bad_At_Parties 11 років тому +8

    The legend himself. What a man, what a voice.

    • @ruggernutter03
      @ruggernutter03 6 років тому +3

      In am a huge fan myself. Sometimes I wishI could go back in time and meet him.

  • @pavithraparanam
    @pavithraparanam 11 років тому +4

    very interesting Mr Bond!

  • @VincentComet-l8e
    @VincentComet-l8e 7 місяців тому

    ‘The second film (From Russia with Love) is now in production…and should be as much of a success as the first (Dr No)...’
    In fact, it was far more successful, garnering praise from critics, breaking box-office records and playing to packed houses nationwide. The most popular movie in Britain in 1963 it is generally considered one of the finest Bond films…

  • @allancerf9038
    @allancerf9038 11 років тому +3

    cracking! fantastic. and Ian, whose immense biography I've been 'listening' to (audio book) was in a high-spirited, friendly mood for this interview - not always the case.

  • @DarksaberForce
    @DarksaberForce 11 років тому +10

    "One girl per book" Show you how the movies messed up Ian's vision until Dalton.

    • @keizenberg351
      @keizenberg351 10 років тому +4

      THANK you. I personally think that the first conversation Brosnan has with Judi Dench is the perfect tone for their relationship - it's so overlooked as a pinnacle moment in setting the tone between M and 007.

    • @ruggernutter03
      @ruggernutter03 6 років тому +3

      Nice, another Dalton fan, I love his approach to Bond! With him my entire obsession with OO7 began!

  • @peterfranks6243
    @peterfranks6243 5 років тому +3

    Fascinating...poor sod died the following year

  • @Coruscant98
    @Coruscant98 11 років тому +8

    Very interesting, sad that he passed away a year later. I wonder which Bond film would have been his favorite. I'm sure he would have been very proud of "Casino Royale" (2006).

    • @clonecommanderfoggy682
      @clonecommanderfoggy682 2 роки тому +1

      I reckon he'd have a go at Bond being small and blonde but other than that I'd think he'd like it

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 Рік тому +1

      I think his favorite would’ve been dalton because from what I’ve read he actually read the books for research and tried to put as much of that bond in the performance

  • @jeffryphillipsburns
    @jeffryphillipsburns 3 роки тому +2

    What about the discs?

  • @EdnaMillion.
    @EdnaMillion. 5 років тому +11

    “I don’t have Bond’s appetites.” Ha, really?

  • @phmwu7368
    @phmwu7368 3 роки тому +2

    Ian Fleming wrote an amazing paper entitled " Rumour as a weapon " ... 9 years before beginning "Casino Royale" in February 1952 !
    A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit. (Ian Fleming 1908-1964)

  • @aleksandarkjurciev5870
    @aleksandarkjurciev5870 2 роки тому

  • @victorguevara9227
    @victorguevara9227 2 роки тому

    My little sister is a Bond fan. She likes Connery (despite his views on hitting women, which he later apologized for.), Dalton and Craig. She was born on what would have been Peter Fleming's (Ian's older brother, who was a journalist and travel writer and more successful than Ian, more often than not, which he was insecure about) centenary. She read all the Fleming novels, aged 13 whilst in Virtual Learning, in 2021. It took her a month, from February to March, to finish all of them.

  • @SuperTigerTV
    @SuperTigerTV 9 років тому +1

    “What effect do you think these things are to have on the average reader are they to get unhealthy ideas or Is this vicarious violence a harmless way of sublimating aggressive tendencies?” SO VEDDY, VEDDY BRITISH A QUESTION!

    • @Samrules888
      @Samrules888 2 роки тому

      I hope that sheds some perspective next time some anita or jack thompson shows up.

  • @BluGiant14
    @BluGiant14 11 років тому +12

    "No, I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes, I've got no ambitions." Except for creating a cultural phenomenon...and putting together some pretty well-written books as well.

  • @robharding4028
    @robharding4028 2 роки тому

    Victorludorum ! I won one of those prestigious silver cups at 13. thought I was a natural born athlete.lol.

  • @ricarleite
    @ricarleite Рік тому

    I wonder if there are recordings of his brother Peter, who was far more talented and fascinating.

  • @MrBurtonshaw
    @MrBurtonshaw Рік тому

    Isn't it lovely how going to Eton gets you into jobs anywhere you fancy... reads like Boris Johnson's easy ride. I notice he didn't mention that 'Mumma' rang her friend Churchill to get him a nice senior job in the Admiralty .... Another thing he got wrong... the honey he said JB had in his breakfast rotation doesn't seem to have even been sold. The little scarlet jam and marmalade are still available excusing the name change on the correct marmalade.

  • @DarthCipient
    @DarthCipient 5 років тому +2

    Genius.

  • @robertbrown8362
    @robertbrown8362 6 років тому +2

    The sexuality rumours of the man with the golden gun is amusing.

  • @gregs7720
    @gregs7720 7 років тому +5

    Decent interview but annoying that he wasn't asked about his thoughts on casting Connery

    • @neiljones1938
      @neiljones1938 2 роки тому

      @Ian Robert Turner Fleming originally wanted the late, great Richard Burton to play Bond. Burton was considered for Thunderball - supposed to be first, then Dr. No but was already cast in Cleopatra where he met Liz Taylor, and again for OHMSS. The greedy producers had foolishly lost Connery but should have offered Burton decent money. He'd have been brilliant. At least million times better than Lazenby - who wasn't bad to be fair, but he wasn't Sean Connery who had literally inhabited the role. Fleming was impressed by Connery's performance in Dr. No, so later made Bond a native Scot. Fleming himself had Scottish ancestry.

    • @victorguevara9227
      @victorguevara9227 2 роки тому

      @@neiljones1938 I thought Ian wanted David Niven to play Bond intially.

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 Рік тому

      @@neiljones1938 not dr no but from Russia with love that he started liking Connery

    • @Apuleius_
      @Apuleius_ Рік тому +1

      In a letter to his mistress Fleming wrote "the man they have chosen for Bond, Sean Connery, is a real charmer---fairly unknown but a good actor with the right looks and physique."
      Fleming was similarly positive in interviews: “Cary Grant, David Niven and James Mason wanted to play James Bond. But I said why spend millions of pounds on one of these characters, why not create our own Cary Grant? We made a nationwide search and hit on Sean Connery, a young Shakespearean actor who weightlifts for Scotland and is a very solid fellow."
      “Physically he’s a very good example of James Bond-except he’s got rather a strong Scottish accent. He’s very slow moving, powerfully built, six feet tall, dark hair...yes, I think he will be very good in the part, and if he clicks, his fortune is made because I’m going to do a Bond film a year from now on.”
      “This chap, Sean Connery, is damn good. When I first met him I thought he was a bit on the large side and rugged. But he looks and moves very well indeed which, of course, is important. Intelligent sort of chap too. I think he makes a very good James Bond.”

  • @darren6768
    @darren6768 7 місяців тому

    It makes me laugh that the author of he's own books doesn't know when he wrote them. Casino Royale was written in 1952 and published in 1953 . You can forgive him for not remembering that he got married in 1952 and wrote the book to take he's mind of getting married..

  • @davidhull1481
    @davidhull1481 3 роки тому +2

    Fascinating. This is the first time I’ve ever heard that he was involved with the Dieppe raid. I doubt that he was one of the raiders, must’ve been in the planning.

  • @oesandb24
    @oesandb24 3 роки тому

    Ian Flemings Bond actor
    Inside Thunderball documentary
    People say Ian Flemings Bond movies actor DAVID NIVEN
    Inside The man view a golden gun documentary
    Christopher Lee and Fleming :FAMILY
    Roger Moore and Lee :Friends

  • @SuperTed19021
    @SuperTed19021 4 роки тому +2

    Together with Sean Connery, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman again, with all four making 007 in Heaven!

  • @jasonmackintosh6075
    @jasonmackintosh6075 4 роки тому

    William Stewart Ford grandad God blessings

  • @malcolmnorton2217
    @malcolmnorton2217 4 роки тому

    Such a great writer indeed: "Me and a lot of my friends decided..." [00:33]

  • @Bootrosgali
    @Bootrosgali 4 роки тому

    "[Vicarious violence], a harmless way of sublimating violent tendencies(?)" This is how I'm wading into the next "videogames cause mass shootings" argument.. with posh accent n all

  • @EdnaMillion.
    @EdnaMillion. 5 років тому +1

    His given reason for leaving sandhurst is interesting. He probably repeated it so often he believed it himself!

  • @sillyone52062
    @sillyone52062 11 років тому +3

    I just watched "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" His only child's story. Too bad that Mr. Fleming was a heavy smoker, turned his blood to treacle with carbon monoxide and died of a heart attack not long after this interview.

    • @Supertramp1966
      @Supertramp1966 3 роки тому +2

      "Too bad"? I doubt Mr. Fleming would see it that way.
      I'm sure he realized that his vices came with a risk, but decided he would live life on his terms.
      And, besides, none of us are getting out of here alive, however austere/spartan a lifestyle we may chose to live...