An Interview with Ian Fleming
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- The only surviving film or video of Ian Fleming is this 27 minute interview conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation half a year before Fleming's death. It aired on the CBC-TV program "Explorations" on Aug. 17, 1964. Apologies for the low visual quality.
Thank you so much for uploading and making this available.
You're very welcome. I only wish there more videos of Fleming to share, but this is all that survived.
I'm currently reading the four remaining 007 books I somehow missed decades ago, and what is most striking, is how smart and literate Fleming was. It comes across on virtually every page.
As someone who has had articles published and worked as an editor and proofreader as well as story reader for a literary agency, he had a real style which might seem dated by today's standards, but I was struck by Fleming's considerable knowledge of world events. He must've been an incredibly voracious newspaper reader as his knowledge of international events is impressive. And this was decades before any Internet.
His intelligence is always on display and in many ways, despite what the interviewer is implying here with his questions, the 007 stories come across as almost quaint by today's standards (2024),, so readers should take that into consideration today or they might be disappointed, especially when comparing the books to the movies as after Thunderball, there's virtually no similarities except the titles.
People forget that he wrote most of these in the 1950s, and early 60s, and the descriptions of sex and violence is almost nil! I just finished reading "The Spy Who Loved Me" which was considered rather inappropriate by some when it was released and there's not a single 4 letter word in the entire story, and the single act of sex is glossed over and merely hinted at in a single sentence!
I drive a lot for my job and I listen to the audiobook versions. They are certainly wonderful in their descriptive language and they really put me there.
This is an extremely valuable upload !
60 years ago, British author Ian Fleming had spent his last visit to Oracabessa on the North shore of Jamaica as the "Commander" regularly overwintered at "Goldeneye" as clockwork, arriving in late December and back in England by late March.
Fleming was determined to spent his spring/summer of 1964 between his house in Sevenhampton, London and the small cottage at St Margaret's Bay right beside the white cliffs near Dover. A perfect place to visit the nearby Royal St George Golf Club in Sandwich, hoping to become club Captain in 1965.
It was not to be, the summer of 1964 was tragic as his mother died in July and Ian Fleming passed away in August...
Great to see the whole interview, only clips were previously available on YT
Intelligent, articulate. How people were back then.
Brilliant! Many thanks.
A Gentleman
Excellent!
Marvellous
IF's knowledge of the geo-politics of his time is impressive.
I believe he was foreign editor for the London Times for a number of years after the war.
With the ever-lasting cigarette
He was quite prescient about China.
To read Fleming's other interviews, go to www.mi6community.com/discussion/21262/interviews-with-ian-fleming/p1
He predicted globalism in the interview
Should have questioned Ian about the 1942 Dieppe Invasion. It was a complete fail with a 98 per-cent causality rate for Canadian troops. Fleming was a major planner😮
Fleming helped plan a commando "pinch" mission to capture a German Enigma code machine, and those commandos were part of the Dieppe Raid, which was primarily Lord Mountbatten's project. There is a theory that the raid was really a diversion for Fleming’s mission, but this has yet to be universally accepted.
If he had an actual hair style I think he would have looked younger or at least his real age rather than like an old man. But I am sure he couldn't care less.
The tobacco killed him.
Tobacco, alcohol, rich food...as one of Fleming's characters said, "Perhaps they will put on my tombstone 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'."
70 cigarettes per day 🚬 until his doctor persuaded him to cut down by 10 to sixty, we won't talk about all the drink,
@@barringtonsmith9147, yeah, like Bond. I was shocked, when I heard that in the audio book. And remember: no filter back then.
@@barringtonsmith9147how does one smoke that much ?
If I were him in that position I couldn't resist wearing a ridicolous hat or so. ^^
The interviewer sounds like Allan Alda.