Podcast appearances and mentions of Len Deighton

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2024 48:35

On today's episode, acclaimed spy authors Joseph Kanon and Paul Vidich sit down for an intriguing discussion that delves deep into the world of writing spy fiction. As many of you know, I've been lucky enough to share drinks, meals, and some unforgettable conversations with some of the best spy authors working today. And every time, I think to myself, "I wish I had brought a bug— or called Roddy Ho for some tech to record this!" Well, today, that wish comes true, well, kind of. We're bringing you an intriguing chat with two living legends of spy fiction—Joseph Kanon and Paul Vidich. Now, Joseph needs no introduction. If you're a fan of the genre, you've probably read Los Alamos or Defectors, one of my all-time favorites. He's even ranked number three on Tim Shipman's list of the best spy authors. But why stop there? I thought, why not bring another heavyweight into the mix? So I invited Paul Vidich, author of the brilliant Beirut Station, to host this conversation. Paul's work is always top-notch, and having him on the show alongside Joseph to discuss why they love reading and writing spy fiction is 'premier cru' for us fans of spy novels. Whether you're an aspiring author or a die-hard fan, you'll pick up some valuable insights into the craft of writing spy fiction. Their conversation spans themes of desperation, moral dilemmas, and the unique ways spy novels probe into character development. They highlight the tension of leading double lives and discuss the differences in British and American spy fiction. Kanon reveals how the setting of a city sparks his storytelling and how he meticulously reconstructs its historical authenticity through detailed research. Both authors underscore the critical role of dialogue in character development. Check out Joseph Kanon's latest novel Shanghai. Joseph Kanon also reflects on the dramatic weight of World War Two settings in his novels and the moral imperatives faced by those in desperate circumstances. The spy authors discuss why they enjoy reading and writing spy ficition and compare and contrast the writing of Len Deighton. Graham Greene and John le Carré. Kanon shares his admiration for Len Deighton's societal observations from an outsider perspective and he reveals some of his own writing habits, which have evolved during the pandemic yet remain rooted at the New York Public Library. Whether you're a dedicated fan of spy fiction or curious about the intricacies of writing spy fiction, today's episode promises fascinating insights . So, sit back and enjoy as Joseph Kanon and Paul Vidich talk all about writing spy fiction.

A Very Working Class Spy with Gordon Henderson MP

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 26:17

Order! Order! Welcome to Episode 239 of the Spybrary Spy Book Podcast! I'm your host, Shane and today Whaley goes to Westminster. But don't worry; I'm not running for office! I recently had the pleasure of enjoying a tea break with Gordon Henderson MP. I am a politics nerd so it was a delight for me to combine both of my passions, espionage and politics. Gordon isn't just a sitting member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent—he's also a passionate writer of spy fiction. We'll dive into his experiences and inspirations, including his admiration for Len Deighton and his creation of a very relatable, working-class spy named Steven Statton. Join us as Gordon Henderson MP shares insights into his writing process, offers advice for aspiring authors, and Shane cheekily asks him about the latest spy scandals in Parliament. Plus, you'll hear his thoughts on his favorite spy novels, films, and music that fuels his creativity. So, grab a cup of tea and settle in for an engaging conversation in the heart of the Palace of Westminster. All this and more, coming up on Spybrary! Steven Statton - a very working-class spy, is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue and betrayal at the heart of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency. Although set mainly in London, the story sees Steven Statton travel the world in an effort to counter an Iranian plot to use the Mafia to destabilise Britain by flooding its streets with heroin. However, Statton's task is made harder when he is betrayed by somebody working in the British Secret Service. Matters come to a head in a lockup garage in London's East End, where Statton has a violent confrontation with two Mafia hitmen, and with his own boss.

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Decoding Funeral In Berlin starring Michael Caine with Spybrary's Section F

Never Mind The Dambusters

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 48:33

Welcome to the second episode of Section F - our Spy Movie track on the Spybrary Spy Podcast. Our handpicked hosts and guests discuss their favorite spy movies both the classics and the hidden gems of spy films. Today Section F delve into the movie adaptation of Len Deighton's Funeral in Berlin, starring Michael Caine as the iconic Harry Palmer. Unlike the suave and debonair James Bond, Harry Palmer brings a gritty, realistic edge to the spy genre, challenging traditional spy representations with his working class cunning and street smarts. Spybrary's Section F dissects Palmer's intricate world of divided loyalties set against the vivid backdrop of 1960s Berlin. It discusses the film's complex plot, the innovative use of the Technoscope filming technique, and the nuanced portrayal of characters who navigate the murky waters of Cold War espionage. Join us as we explore how "Funeral in Berlin" not only captured the essence of its era but also set new standards in spy filmmaking. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the Harry Palmer series, this episode delivers deep insights and lively discussions. Meet Your Section F - Spy Film Hosts. Jonathan Melville Michael Huie Eric Newsom Steve Lichtman Producer: Shane Whaley

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Episode 4 Planning a Bombing Operation: Wuppertal 1943 (Pt.1)

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 41:28

In this episode, Jane and James discuss the planning of the raid on Wuppertal on 29/30 May 1943. They explore the reasons why Bomber Command targeted the Ruhr Valley and how targets were selected and operations were planned. They also focus on two rookie crews from 10 Squadron who took part in the raid, the Pennicott and Clarke crews. The episode highlights the constant activity and preparation involved in carrying out a bombing raid, as well as the young age of the crew members and the responsibilities they carried. The role of various trades on the ground is also discussed. Jane and James take us right into the briefing hall, and consider the reactions of the crews when yet another raid on the Ruhr Valley is announced. What was it like, anticipating your first bombing operation? The team also answer listeners' questions on cooperation between the RAF and USAAF. The conversation concludes with a discussion on the reality of strategic bombing and the impact on civilians.More details of the Wuppertal raid and the crews involved can be found in Jane's book (Chapters 12 and 13) https://www.justcuriousjane.com/store-buy-books/ABOVE-US-THE-STARS-p191664106For more reading on the Battle of the Ruhr, try Alan Cooper's excellent 'Air Battle of the Ruhr', and the novel 'The Happy Valley' by Jules Roy. The greatest (fictional ) work on Bomber Command is still Len Deighton's 'Bomber' ( also available on BBC Sounds) To see the work involved in preparing and implementing a bombing raid, try Night Bombers Send us a Text Message.Support the Show.Please subscribe to Never Mind The Dambusters wherever you get your podcasts. You can support the show, and help us produce great content, by becoming a paid subscriber from just $3 a month here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/support . Supporters get show transcripts and a shout-out, plus an invitation to participate in our recording sessions as an audience member. Thank you for listening! You can reach out to us on social media at @RAF_BomberPod (X) or @NeverMindTheDambusters (Instagram)You can find out about James' research, articles, lectures and podcasts here .You can read more about Jane's work on her website at https://www.justcuriousjane.com/, and listen to podcasts/media stuff here

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Spy Movie Navigator: Cracking The Spy Movie Code With Dan Silvestri And Tom Pivvato

Growing Older with Gusto

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 23:09

Who doesn't love a good James Bond thriller? In this episode, our guests, after spending over 50 years in the high-tech business, decided they wanted to return to their passion. What is their passion? Their passion is spy movies. Dan Silvestri and Tom Pivvato did their research and they discovered that most sites are dedicated solely to James Bond movies. They kept exploring and found out by examining other spy movies that had been made that so many of them are interrelated. Their curiosity led them to discover things about the origins of spy movies, common themes, scenes that you see within different movies, and the influence each spy movie has on others in this genre. They started a podcast called Spy Movie Navigator, and this podcast is designed to enhance your viewing experience when you watch different movies. It was created as a landing pad for people interested in spy movies, from the classics to current releases. There's so much to talk about in this episode so tune in! — Watch the episode here https://youtu.be/6Ez6fNzjH-o?si=ICE3OxN6tKHvFYCf Listen to the podcast here Spy Movie Navigator: Cracking The Spy Movie Code With Dan Silvestri And Tom Pivvato Who doesn't love a good James Bond thriller? In this episode, our guests after spending over 50 years in the high-tech business decided they wanted to return to their passion. What is their passion? Their passion is spy movies. They did their research and they discovered that most sites are dedicated solely to James Bond movies. They kept exploring and found out by examining other spy movies that had been made that so many of them are interrelated. Their curiosity led them to discover things about the origins of spy movies, common themes, scenes that you see within different movies, and the influence each spy movie has on others in this genre. They started a podcast called Spy Movie Navigator, and this podcast is designed to enhance your viewing experience when you watch different movies. It was created as a landing pad for people interested in spy movies, from the classics to current releases. There's so much to talk about in this episode so let's get started. Welcome to the show, Dan and Tom. We're very happy to be there. Gail, it's fantastic to be here. Thanks for inviting us. I'm excited to talk to you and learn more about this passion of yours. First of all, tell the readers what ignited your passion for delving into the genre of spy movies. I'll go first on that one. First of all, we have a website called SpyMovieNavigator.com and the podcast show is called Cracking the Code of Spy Movies! It went back to high school. I was at St. Ignatius High School, and my friends and I decided when Goldfinger came out that we were going to cut classes and sneak downtown and go see Goldfinger. It was the third James Bond movie ever out. We had a system in the class where the teachers took a roll call and they put the names on a piece of paper. They clipped it outside the door and then someone would come and pick it up. If your name was on the list, you were in the class. If it wasn't, you were absent. A friend of ours, our mission was to go downtown and see Goldfinger. Our inside guy was going to put our names on the lists for each of our classes and everything was going to be great. We went downtown and saw Goldfinger. It was terrific. I went back to school the next day, and we were in detention. Our friend chickened out. We were in detention for about a week, but it was worth it. That's got me started on the spy movies and James Bond in particular. How about you? For me, it was back in spy movies and the Columbo TV show. Columbo's not a spy, but it got me going on the genre of it. However, when I looked at things like The Spy Who Loved Me, which was the first Bond movie that I saw in the theater, it was like, “This is different. I like this type of movie.” That helped me with that. Why we started delving into them other than being fans is that we were on a trip and we were up in Piz Gloria, which is this mountaintop retreat that was used in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It's gorgeous up there, and it's like this remote little thing on top of a mountain. Where is this located? It's in Switzerland. It's 10,000 feet up. It was above the town of Mürren. Dan and I were sitting in the bar that night and we're like, “We liked it so much. There's got to be other people who would like this.” We started looking into, “Can we do something around this?” I was thinking at that time about retirement and looking for something to do, and we were like, “Can we do something here?” A few years later, here we are and having a heck of a good time. Tell us about what are the origins of spy movies. You mentioned Columbo. I would think of Columbo off the top of my head or Goldfinger. I think it was one of the first James Bond movies I saw. What are the origins of spy movies? As you did your exploration into this genre, what did you discover? When you look back on spy movies, everyone thinks of James Bond. Ian Fleming wrote all the novels and stuff starting in 1953 but if you look back on spy movies, they've been around for decades before that. You go back in the history of spy movies, you look at the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie, The 39 Steps. Many people consider that to be the first official spy movie. There were a few before that. It was a silent movie too, as well. I was going to ask about that. If there were any silent movies. I'll talk about one of those. It's one that I like better than Dan does. As I said, there were a few others before that. The 39 Steps though was the birth of the more modern concept of what a spy movie is. A lot of the elements that we see now in spy movies from that point forward came from the roots of these older spy movies like The 39 Steps in 1935, Secret Agent, which was also a Hitchcock-directed movie in 1936 and others liked. Those began the real spy movie genre back in the '30s. What was the Doris Day movie where she sang Que Sera, Sera? The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was both a 1934 version and a 1956 version of that. He was in the 56th version of that but Hitchcock did both of them. I also think that influencing spy movies, World War I and World War II played a big role. In what way? It's because a lot of the early spy movies were around spying on your war enemy. There was a lot of influence there. The first spy movie that I know of is something called Spione. It's a German silent movie by Fritz Lang. It being silent is nice because they can put up English subtitles there, which is nice. What year did that come out? That was a 1928 movie. You can find it online on YouTube. There's a version out there by BluRay Classic Studios. It's a pretty good print of it. There are some that are tough prints, but that one's a pretty good one. We see many of the tropes used in that movie used in future movies even though this was a silent movie. You also have The 39 Steps that Dan talked about. By the time he got to that, the formula was there in terms of getting us into what a spy movie should look like or what the industry thinks it should look like. Tom mentioned the spies, World War II, and the World Wars. There's a movie coming out now. It's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and that is based on a real World War II Operation, Operation Postmaster. We already saw it. When you first started getting together and getting your ideas together, how did you discover that certain spy movies or themes are interrelated? What was your take on that? Why do you think that is? I think a couple of things. Spies, like Ian Fleming, for instance, he was an internal intelligence officer for the British. He was a naval intelligence officer. He knew a lot of stuff that was going on. As a matter of fact, he was involved in many of the operations that were executed in World War II. The concept of what goes into real spying worked its way into the movies for sure certainly because of Fleming and how he popularized spies. However, it's the real-world element I think that influenced what went into spy movies. Absolutely. Also, trains, Dan. Every spy movie has got to have a train. The early spy movies all had train scenes, and now almost every spy movie has a train scene in it. Many with a fight on the train which is pretty interesting. The greatest fight of all on the train was From Russia with Love. You see something like that and it influences the next movie out. Also, other things like there's a mole in the organization. Hitchcock called it MacGuffin, where you have an object that people are going for. What it is doesn't matter. It's the mission of getting that whatever it is, that MacGuffin. Hitchcock started that and everybody started using that. It's another tool that Hitchcock used. I was going to ask you. You saw that in other spy movies. Does he always appear in every movie? Yes, he did. In some form. Yes. Did other people copy him or not? Yes. They did. A little bit here and there, but not as much as Hitchcock, I don't think. Is Michael G. Wilson a producer or owner? He's one of the two guys that owns Eon Productions. He produces the James Bond movies. Since he started working on them, I don't know one that he's not in. I think he's in all of them. He's not in all of the early ones, but he's in certainly the later ones. He started working. He does that. He makes a little cameo. It has been done. Hitchcock though, when he did it, he started putting himself in earlier in the movies because people were so distracted looking for him that they weren't paying attention to the movie. I think one other influence that I wanted to make sure I talked about here is real-world spy stuff. Real-world espionage tasks. Things like something called a brush pass where you two people pass and they hand something off. It's so fast you don't even see it or a dead drop where they put something somewhere or a predetermined place and somebody else comes by later and picks it up. As things change in the real espionage world, some of that stuff ends up hitting into the real spy movies. The real-world espionage world is influencing what we see on screen. Do you think there are ebbs and flows to the audience's interest in this genre? Does it change according to world events? You mentioned world events do play into the development of these spy movies. Does what's going on in the outside world have any impact on the interest in the genre? I think, absolutely especially in Eon Productions, the people who produce the James Bond movies. They are constantly looking at what's going on in the world for their movies because they're out of Fleming material. Fleming wrote about thirteen novels and short story collections. They're out of Fleming material for the most part. They're always constantly looking at what's going on in the real world, what's the influence of that on the global perspective of country versus country, and so on. Also, spy versus spy. That makes a lot of sense for them to do. Also, the people who are familiar with it, they're going to be more interested in that. It's smart business to do it, but it's certainly a good source of information for them to do the screenplays and write new material. I also think the whole ebb and flow thing comes into play with things like the Cold War. There were a ton of spy movies and they had to shift after the Cold War “ended.” How espionage was done is still all there, but it's not as big of a thing in people's minds as when we were very heavily involved in the Cold War. As the world events happen now, I'm going to bet we're going to see more Russian and Asian spy conflicts happening here and that will be a very big influence on the industry. That leads to the next question that came top of mind. Are spy movies in different countries different than ones that originate in the United States or do they play off one another? Do they copy or is there something common depending on which country they're produced in? We did one on Raazi, which was produced in India. Again, I think you have a subset of themes that are in spy movies, and it's oftentimes country versus country for one reason or another. In this Indian movie, it was the Indian-Pakistani War during that timeframe. Again, they're going to frame it from their Indian perspective and what a spy organization looks like for India versus Britain, the United States, or whatever. However, that was a very interesting movie because now you're seeing their perspective of their battle basically with Pakistan. They did a fair job of presenting both sides evenly. It's going to be different from each country, but it's going to be their perspective that brings it to the film but still this subset of tropes, standards, and things that happen in the real spy world that are going to be used over and over again. Also with India, though, Dan, there's a different formula in India for doing a movie. Most of the movies that are over two hours long get an intermission. It's Bollywood-based, there's a dance break in the middle of the movie with a song. Even if you don't have the dance break, they've got musical interludes where they advance the story without dialogue. It's just whatever the lyrics to the song are and not the actors talking. The style is different, but the concepts are going to be very often similar. If you take a look at the Chinese movie Cliff Walkers from a few years ago where you take Pathaan, which was another Indian movie. It's us versus them, whoever them is, whether it's a country or another organization and we've got to stop them from doing something bad. That's very common across all of the movies that I've seen across all the different nationalities. In Raazi, when they were smoking, they put a flash-up on the screen saying, “Smoking kills.” They do some things differently. What other influencers would you say play into the spy genre? I think you have a lot of things. We were talking about the real world that influences what goes in but you also have spy movies that influence other spy movies. Those are the kinds of things that I think we look at. This one we did was on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. We looked at maybe 4, 5, or 6 other movies that you can reference within that movie that you could say, “This kind of thing was going on in this movie or that movie,” and so on. I think that's a big influence. What happens in one spy movie, if it's successful, you will see it over and over again like the train concept that Tom was talking about in future spy movies. That's a biggie. One example of things coming from the real world was from the Goldfinger movie in 1964, when James Bond in the pre-title sequence comes out of the water in a wetsuit. He's going to go into this area and blow up some stuff he needs to blow up. He's in a wetsuit, but he unzipped it and he's in a tuxedo so that he looks like he fits into his atmosphere. You'd think, “This could never happen in the real world, and this is just fantasy stuff.” However, it did happen in the real world in World War II. There was an operation in the Netherlands where a specially made wetsuit was made for this diver. He was to go in and extract a couple of prisoners from this German mansion, and he was going to fit in because he had the tuxedo on and be able to walk right in and do this. It happened in real life. It's that kind of stuff constantly they're looking for. Tom and I look for that in these movies and bring that out because a lot of people would not pay attention to that kind of thing. We're bringing these different elements out to the movies, but they're big influencers in what happens in the movies. I think the times matter a lot too. When we talked about the Cold War, there were a lot of things. If you think about something like Star Wars, it wasn't a spy movie, but it had a very direct influence on the James Bond movie Moonraker. Bond used to smoke cigarettes. He doesn't do that anymore. The womanizing has been brought way down and now, the next thing we're seeing in spy movies is the topic of artificial intelligence. Many people don't know what it means so in the movies that makes it be anything they want, and totally ridiculous. I think it's going to be overplayed. We saw it in the last Mission Impossible movie, and it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I understand that stuff a bit. The other thing is you see influences on what was successful in another movie, maybe not on a specific, “We were on a train and had a fight,” but action sequences have gotten bigger and bigger. They keep trying to outdo the last movie with an action scene and stunts. It's raising the budgets to an almost unsustainable level. I think it's going to be interesting to see how that calms down because if you look at something like The Ministry that we talked about or Raazi, there are not as many of those big action scenes in them but the industry was trying to one-up each other for quite a while there with the stunts mainly in spy movies and that's not really about the espionage. That's just about how a spy movie is made. That's what's going on now, and it's been going on for several decades. It's the battle between espionage for spy movies. We're talking about espionage and real espionage life happens in From Russia with Love versus action movies, which many of the Mission Impossible movies are. The producers are constantly looking at what selling and they're making those adjustments. If action is selling, their spy movie is more action-oriented than espionage-oriented. That's a constant battle, and it changes over time. It also changes from country to country. It is a battle for the producers to try to figure out what to do next but it has been a battle between those two elements, espionage and action for decades. They say timing is everything and I know that the James Bond series has been constantly popular with every generation. Let's talk a little bit about that. Is that sustainable or is there any other competition to James Bond that has been as successful? I think James Bond, it's been around since 1962 for movies. It was in 1953 when Ian Fleming started writing Casino Royale. It's been around for over 60 years. Is this sustainable? It looks like it. They've done a good job so far. Will it continue to be sustainable? Everyone's waiting to see what their next decision is because Daniel Craig is no longer James Bond. That's been since 2019. That's been out and nothing's been done since. People are wondering what's going to happen next. It's a challenge, but I think they're going to continue to try to produce it. They do get new and younger people interested. They must or else the older people are not going to be around to watch the new movies. It's interesting how all the different generations enjoy it and flock to those movies. If you ask somebody who their favorite James Bond actor is, it's likely to be whoever they saw first in the role. I mentioned that these things change over time and adapt to time. If they were putting out some of the womanizing stuff that happened in the early Bonds, they might not get the audiences now. Their ability to adapt is extremely important. It's a must for the money or just to be successful. If you look at other series that have tried to take on Bond, you had Bourne, which was a very good probably first two movies, and then it tapered off. You had Mission Impossible, which is still very strong although they're at a critical point now with Ethan Hunt and Tom Cruise playing Ethan Hunt. Now, the nice thing with Mission Impossible is the team members come and go so they could easily say, “It's not Ethan Hunt. We've got a new head of whatever the team is.” With the Bond movies, it's harder for them to do that. They have to say, “Here's a new actor and we're going on our merry way.” Mission Impossible is the franchise that has any chance of competing with the James Bond franchise. You look at that by Box Office numbers, and they're the only ones who compete globally versus James Bond. James Bond is a global phenomenon, and so is Mission Impossible. Many of the other franchises that are trying. They even tried Harry Palmer in the mid-'60s, and that was based on Len Deighton's books and so on. They did three of them and that was the end of that. It's very difficult to do, but Mission Possible probably is in the best position to challenge the Bond franchise. With streaming, there are a lot of companies trying. Netflix has put out a bunch of things that they've said, “This is our answer to go after Bond. We want this to be a series like Bond.” You had the Kingsman. We are watching A Gentleman in Moscow right now. This series happens, but nothing stuck as well as Bond. Let me ask you this. How did your background in high tech play into, if in any way, your passion for the spy genre? Did it have any influence or was that something that was different for you when you wanted to pursue that? I'll let Tom talk about that because his background is high-tech. Mine is sales and marketing. I have a sales and marketing angle too. For me, I got hooked on Bond in high school. Gentlemen, we are running out of time, I'm sorry to say but tell me quickly how did this interest come after retirement and how has it helped you? You're growing older with gusto, you're passionate about this, and you have so many interesting things to talk about. In one sentence, tell us how this interest has helped you after retirement. Everyone wants to retire and when they get there, they're bored. I think before you retire, you need to know what you're going to do. If you're going to be traveling half the year, great. If you're going to write a book, great. Tom and I are doing this because it keeps your mind and body moving. It keeps you thinking and it keeps you moving forward. You have to have something to do after you retire. This is a productive entertaining thing. We're in the entertainment business so we're trying to entertain people. For me, all I would add that is my wife gave me the guidance before I retired that I needed to have something specific to do. She was right and this ended up being a perfect opportunity for me. I get to keep my technical skills going a little bit with what I do. I enjoy doing the spy movie, so it gives me something to keep driving for. How can our readers find you and find your podcast? We have a website, SpyMovieNavigator.com. Our podcast show is called Cracking the Code of Spy Movies! It's also a YouTube channel with the same name. We're in every major podcast app like Apple, Overcast, and everything. Every one of them, we're in. You could go to your podcast app, look for Cracking the Code of Spy Movies, and start listening. We appreciate it. Thank you, readers. I'm sure you enjoyed this episode. Please share it with your friends, and remember to stay curious and stay connected. Thank you very much. Thank you, Gail. Important Links SpyMovieNavigator.com Cracking the Code of Spy Movies! YouTube – Cracking the Code of Spy Movies Apple – Cracking the Code of Spy Movies About Dan Silvestri and Tom Pivvato Dan & Tom get together through a mutual interest in spy movies. This catapulted into their developing spymovienavigator.com and Cracking the Code of Spy Movies. Passionate about spy movies leads to a third act for Dan & Tom. They took a deep dive on the subject and created Cracking the Code of Spy Movies.

PAUL VIDICH & CHARLES CUMMING In Person With Paul

Crime Time FM

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 74:50

PAUL VIDICH & CHARLES CUMMING chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels BEIRUT STATION and KENNEDY 35 respectively. The Cold War, the luminal space, inherently political.BEIRUT STATION Lebanon, 2006. The Israel–Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos.The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist. They turn to young Lebanese-American CIA agent, Analise, who has the perfect plan. However, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has a motive of its own.She alerts the agency but their response is for her to drop it. Analise is now the target and there is no one she can trust.Paul Vidich was a senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. His first novel, An Honorable Man, a Publisher's Weekly top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016, was followed by The Good Assassin. The Coldest Warrior is his third novel. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Lithub, The Nation, CrimeReads, and elsewhere. Beirut Station is his 6th novel.KENNEDY 35: 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency BOX 88, but also for his relationship with Martha.2023: Eric Appiah, an old friend from Kite's days at school and an off-the-record BOX 88 asset, makes contact with explosive information about what happened all those years ago in West Africa. When tragedy strikes, Kite must use all his resources to bring down a criminal network with links to international terror … and protect Martha from possible assassination.Charles Cumming debut A Spy by Nature (2001) announced a major new talent in the espionage field. His 10th novel Box 88 introduced Lachlan Kite, Kennedy 35 is the third novel to feature Lockie. Charles has been described as the new le Carré. Recommendations David McCloskey, IS Berry, Joseph Kanon, Mick Herron, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, John le Carré. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023. His first book An Encyclopedia of Spy Fiction will be out in 2025.Music courtesy of Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir 20232024??

Books, Bernard, and Blogs with Deighton Dossier's Rob Mallows

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2023 66:03

Episode 107 features Rob Mallows the man behind The Deighton Dossier website and blog, who is here to talk about Len Deighton, Bernard Samson, Harry Palmer, as well as collecting books and feeding our reading habit, spy fiction, spybrary and much much more... Throughout the conversation, we discuss: Len Deighton Reading Collecting Harry Palmer Bernard Samson Starting a website Spybrary Connections La Carre, Fleming, and Deighton The Cold Ward Human Intelligence And much more Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode deightondossier.net spybrary.com AgentPalmer.com Tweets @AgentPalmer @DeightonDossier @ThePalmerFiles Other Links Palmer's Trek: Star Trek V The Final Frontier Eric Idle Presents a Sortareminder to Laugh Through Life You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette. Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions. --End Show Notes Transmission--

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Len Deighton's Bomber - The Historians

The Damcasters

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2023 67:50

Len Deighton's Bomber, both the original novel and the 1995 Radio 4 adaptation, have had a huge impact on both readers and listeners of the last flight of O Orange for decades. But how has this impact affected the view of Bomber Command and did Len get it right? Dr Dan Ellin the archivist and historian for the International Bomber Command Center Digital Archive and James Jefferies, PhD Candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the University of Essex, join me to discuss Bomber's place in Bomber Command's histography. ★Read Dan's paper on LMF, A ‘Lack of Moral Fibre' in Royal Air Force Bomber Command and ★Popular Culture, here: https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/view/1425/1538★Follow Dan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/danmadmorgan★Follow James on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jamesjhistory★Check out James LinkTree which includes many of his talks, here: https://linktr.ee/jamesjhistory★Buy Bomber by Len Deighton from The Damcasters Bookshop. 10% of each purchase supports the pod: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9780241493700Please check out the latest from our sponsor, the Pima Air and Space Museum, through the links below: ★Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum's website here: https://pimaair.org/★Learn more about the Titan Missle Museum here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/★Find out who is in the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame here: https://pimaair.org/about-us/arizona-aviation-hall-of-fame/★Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/★Fancy becoming a Damcasteer? Join the fun on Patreon! Join from just £3+VAT a month to get ad-free episodes, chat with Matt and grab some merch. Click here below for more info: https://www.patreon.com/thedamcastersThe Damcasters © 2022 by Matt Bone is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Len Deighton and Radio 4's Bomber - The Cast and Crew Reunion

The Damcasters

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 96:51

On Saturday the 18th of February 1995, Radio 4 dedicated prime slots of its schedule for an unprecedented airing of an adaptation of Len Deighton's Bomber. Aired throughout the day, at timings to coincide with what was happening at that moment in the drama, Bomber would be nothing like what had come before and has not been done since. Joining me to discuss the production is producer Jonathan Ruffle, director Adrian Bean, writer Jope Dunlop and actress Alice Arnold to discuss the making of Bomber and its impact nearly 30 years later.★Follow Jonathan Ruffle on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/JonathanRuffle★Check out Jonathan's website, which includes the original Bomber veteran interviews here: https://www.gbfilms.com/★Follow Alice Arnold on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/alicearnold1★Adrian Bean's IMDB page can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063764/★Joe Dunlop's IMDB page can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242457/★The full IMDB Bomber cast list can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15248828/Buy Bomber by Len Deighton from The Damcasters Bookshop. 10% of each purchase supports the pod: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9780241493700Please check out our sponsor, the Pima Air and Space Museum, through the links below: ★Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum's website here: https://pimaair.org/★Learn more about the Titan Missle Museum here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/★Find out who is in the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame here: https://pimaair.org/about-us/arizona-aviation-hall-of-fame/★Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/★Fancy becoming a Damcasteer? Join the fun on Patreon! Join from just £3+VAT a month to get ad-free episodes, chat with Matt and grab some merch. Click here below for more info: https://www.patreon.com/thedamcastersThe Damcasters © 2022 by Matt Bone is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Bomber - Len Deighton/BBC

Gas Giants

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 62:23

Tom and Gav listen to the astonishing BBC radio drama adaptation of Len Deighton's Bomber.Subscribe to Gas GiantsRSS https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/311033.rss This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gasgiants.substack.com

Conversation with Authors David Brierley and Mike Ripley

Faster, Please! â€” The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2023 63:37

On Episode 204 of the Spybrary Spy Book Podcast, we chat with the author of the best spy book I read last year, Big Bear Little Bear, David Brierley. We are also joined by the publisher, thriller critic, and author Mike Ripley as we dig into David's work and, in particular, how he researches locations for his spy novels. Join the Spybrary Community As I shared in the best spy books of 2022 post, Big Bear Little Bear, published in 1981, was the best spy thriller I read last year. It was hard to ignore this recommendation from Mike Ripley, who shared that the man himself, Len Deighton, had stumbled on a copy of Big Bear Little Bear in a second-hand shop in LA and loved it. He urged Mike to republish Brierley's work under his Ostara publishing arm. David Brierley comes in at #63 on Tim Shipman's best spy writers of all time list: 'Brierley created Cody, one of the very best female leads in spy fiction. She is a CIA trained agent who has gone freelance, who we first meet in Cold War, a 1979 novel set in the midst of a French election, which involves assassination, betrayal, and real tension (It scores 4.14 on GoodReads, which is much higher than a lot of books I love). Cody is resourceful and Brierley was hailed on publication as “a new name joins the world's greatest spy fiction writers”. Best of all his books are not long and written with a spare and unflashy style that nonetheless has real novelistic flair. This is espionage for grown-ups. Blood Group O, Skorpion's Death and Snowline followed. Between those Cody books, Brierley also became renowned for spy thrillers set in Eastern Europe, such as Czechmate. His best book, though, is Big Bear Little Bear set in 1948 Berlin, before the airlift, where the sole survivor of a blown network works to expose a traitor in British intelligence. My paper, The Sunday Times, reviewed it thus: “ Has the rancid strength of a distillation of the best of Le Carré and Deighton: an authentic winner.” That this praise is only slightly excessive tells you what you need to know.' Big Bear Little Bear by David Brierley Kiss Kiss Bang - The Boom in British Thrillers by Mike Ripley Dead Man Telling Tales by David Brierley - just released (2023) Czechmate by David Brierley Jeff Popple (Spybrarian) Review of Czechmate Skorpions Death by David Brierley The Cloak and Dagger Girl by David Brierley Best Spy Books of 2022 (Spybrary) Tim Shipman's best spy writers ranked list. Adam Hall/Elleston Trevor Raymond Chandler Join the Spybrary Community

ANTONY JOHNSTON In Person With Paul

Crime Time FM

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2022 62:13

ANTONY JOHNSTON, (THE COLDEST CITY - ATOMIC BLONDE) chats to Paul Burke about the third novel in the Brigitte Sharp series THE PATRIOS NETWORK. Writing screenplays, games, comics and novels. The making of Atomic Blonde (fr. The Coldest City). Classic Cold War spy fiction and Berlin. THE PATRIOS NETWORK: When a renegade British officer steals plans for a high-tech weapon that could plunge whole cities into darkness, elite MI6 hacker Brigitte Sharp is sent to get them back. But her mission goes badly wrong.Meanwhile a ‘deepfake' video of a senior US politician calling for race war in Europe sends a flood of Americans to join neofascist militias on the continent. The Russians nurse a ruthless grudge against a fugitive whistleblower. In the wings, the Chinese flex their muscles. Everything seems connected…but how?In her toughest challenge yet, Bridge ventures undercover into the heart of the mysterious Patrios network. Her task? To make sense of the growing chaos before darkness and bloodshed engulf Europe. If a powerful enemy doesn't get her first...ANTONY JOHNSTON is a New York Times bestselling writer. The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde is based on his graphic novel; his Brigitte Sharp thriller novels are critically acclaimed; and his first videogame, Dead Space, redefined its genre. Antony's books, graphic novels, and videogames include The Exphoria Code, The Tempus Project, The Fuse, Daredevil, Shang-Chi, Shadow of Mordor, the Alex Rider graphic novels and the adaptation of Alan Moore‘s ‘lost screenplay' Fashion Beast. He also hosts the podcast Writing And Breathing.Antony Johnston's writers podcast WRITING & BREATHING: https://writingandbreathing.com/RecommendationsIan Fleming MoonrakerJohn Birmingham The Cruel Stars Greg Rucka Queen & Country (graphic novel)The Sandbaggers (TV)Mick Herron, John le Carré, Len Deighton (spy classics)Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimePaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

"Memorial Hospital", "The Tourist" und "Die Ipcress-Datei"

Serienweise

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 69:06

Bevor ihr und wir in den nächsten Wochen mit großen Marken wie "Herr der Ringe", "Game of Thrones", Marvel und Star Wars überflutet werden, hatten Michael und Rüdiger noch einmal Zeit, sich Serien vorzunehmen, die vielleicht ein wenig unter dem Radar fliegen. Den Auftakt macht die Hurricane-Katrina-Serie "Memorial Hospital" (4:05) von Apple, die zwei Serien zum Preis von einer ist. Warum das kein unwiderstehliches Angebot ist und weshalb man sich gründlich überlegen sollte, die letzten drei Folgen zu sehen, ist eines der zentralen Themen des Podcasts. Im Anschluss geht es mit "Fifty Shades of Grey"-Star Jamie Dornan ins australische Outback, wo er als "The Tourist" (28:15) sein Gedächtnis verliert und in mysteriöse Dinge verwickelt wird. Lohnt sich der frei in der ZDF Mediathek verfügbare Thriller? Und schließlich durchleuchten wir noch "Die Ipcress-Datei" (42:11) von Wow, eine Miniserien-Neuadaption des Spionage-Romans von Len Deighton, der bereits 1965 mit Michael Caine die Leinwand erreichte und einen Lieblingsfilm von Michael darstellt.Cold-Open-Frage: "Wer würde sich in der neuen Serie ,The Franchise' gut als eine Art Kevin Feige machen?"

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 45:39

What if the Roman Empire had experienced an Industrial Revolution? That's the compelling hook of Helen Dale's two-part novel, Kingdom of the Wicked: Rules and Order. Drawing on economics and legal history, Helen's story follows the arrest and trial of charismatic holy man Yeshua Ben Yusuf in the first century — but one with television, flying machines, cars, and genetic modification.In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I dive into the fascinating world-building of Kingdom of the Wicked with Helen. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.James Pethokoukis: Your Kingdom of the Wicked books raise such an interesting question: What would have happened if Jesus had emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? What led you to ask this question and to pursue that answer through these books?Helen Dale: There is an essay in the back of book one, which is basically a set of notes about what I brought to the book when I was thinking. And that has been published elsewhere by the Cato Institute. I go into these questions. But the main one, the one that really occurred to me, was that I thought, what would happen if Jesus emerged in a modern society now, rather than the historic society he emerged in? I didn't think it would turn into something hippy-dippy like Jesus of Montreal. I thought it would turn into Waco or to the Peoples Temple.And that wasn't necessarily a function of the leader of the group being a bad person. Clearly Jim Jones was a very bad person, but the Waco story is actually much more complex and much messier and involves a militarized police force and tanks attacking the buildings and all of this kind of thing. But whatever happened with it, it was going to go badly and it was going to end in violence and there would be a showdown and a confrontation. And it would also take on, I thought — I didn't say this in the essay, but I thought at the time — it would take on a very American cast, because that is the way new religious movements tend to blow up or collapse in the United States.And so I was thinking this idea, through my head, “I would like to do a retelling of the Jesus story, but how do I do it? So it doesn't become naff and doesn't work?” And so what I decided to do was rather than bring Jesus forward and put him now, I would put us back to the time of Jesus — but take our technology and our knowledge, but always mediated by the fact that Roman civilization was different from modern civilization. Not in the sense of, you know, human beings have changed, all that kind of thing. We're all still the same primates that we have been for a couple of hundred thousand years or even longer. But in the sense that their underlying moral values and beliefs about the way the world should work were different, which I thought would have technological effects. The big technological effect in Kingdom of the Wicked is they're much better at the biosciences and the animal sciences. They're much weaker at communications. Our society has put all its effort into [communication]. Their society is much more likely to put it into medicine.To give you an idea: the use of opioids to relieve the pain of childbirth is Roman. And it was rediscovered by James Young Simpson at The University of Edinburgh. And he very famously used the formula of one of the Roman medical writers. So I made a very deliberate decision: This is a society that has not pursued technological advancement in the same way as us. It's also why their motor vehicles look like the Soviet-era ones with rotary engines. It's why their big aircraft are kind of like Antonovs, the big Ukrainian aircraft that we've all been reading about since the war has started in Ukraine. So, in some respects, there are bits of their culture that look more Soviet, or at least Britain in the 1950s. You know, sort of Clement Attlee's quite centralized, postwar settlement: health service, public good, kind of Soviet-style. Soft Soviet; it's not the nasty Stalinist sort, but like late-Soviet, so kind of Brezhnev and the last part of Khrushchev. A few people did say that. They were like, “Your military parades, they look like the Soviet Union.” Yes. That was deliberate. The effort has gone to medicine.It's an amazing bit of world-building. I was sort of astonished by the depth and the scale of it. Is this a genre that you had an interest in previously? Are there other works that you took inspiration from?There's a particular writer of speculative fiction I admire greatly. His name is S.M. Stirling, and he wrote a series of books. I haven't read every book he wrote, but he wrote a series of books called the Draka series. And it's speculative fiction. Once again, based on a point of departure where the colonists who finished up in South Africa finished up using the resources of South Africa, but for a range of reasons he sets out very carefully in his books, they avoid the resource curse, the classic economist's resource curse. And so certainly in terms of a popular writer, he was the one that I read and thought, “If I can do this as well as him, I will be very pleased.”I probably didn't read as much science fiction as most people would in high school, unless it was a literary author like Margaret Atwood or George Orwell. I just find bad writing rebarbative, and a lot of science fiction struggles with bad writing. So this is the problem, of course, that Douglas Adams famously identified. And one of the reasons why he wrote the Hitchhiker's books was to show that you could combine science fiction with good writing.In all good works of speculative fiction of the alt-history variant, there's an interesting jumping-off point. I would imagine you had a real “Eureka!” moment when you figured out what your jumping-off point would be to make this all plausible. Tell me about that.Well, yes. I did. Once I realized that points of departure hugely mattered, I then went and read people like Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle. The point of departure for him is the assassination of Roosevelt. I went and read SS-GB [by] Len Deighton, a great British spycraft writer but also a writer of speculative fiction. And in that case, Britain loses the Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, the putative land invasion of the UK, is successful. And I really started to think about this and I'm going, "Okay, how are you going to do this point of departure? And how are you going to deal with certain economic issues?"I'm not an economist, but I used to practice in corporate finance so I've got the sort of numerical appreciation for economics. I can read an economics paper that's very math heavy because that's my skill based on working in corporate finance. And I knew, from corporate finance and from corporate law, that there are certain things that you just can't do, you can't achieve in terms of economic progress, unless you abolish slavery, basically. Very, very basic stuff like human labor power never loses its comparative advantage if you have just a market flooded with slaves. So you can have lots of good science technology, and an excellent legal system like the Romans did. And they reached that point economists talk about of takeoff, and it just never happens. Just, they miss. It doesn't quite happen.And in a number of civilizations, this has happened. It's happened with the Song dynasty in China. Steve Davies has written a lot about the Song dynasty, and they went through the same thing. They just get to that takeoff point and then just … fizzled out. And in China, it was to do with serfdom, basically. These are things that are very destructive to economic progress. So you have to come up with a society that decides that slavery is really shitty. And the only way to do that is for them to get hooked on the idea of using a substitute for human labor power. And that means I have to push technological innovation back to the middle republic.So what I've done for my point of departure is at the Siege of Syracuse [in 213-212 B.C.]. I have Archimedes surviving instead of being killed. He was actually doing mathematical doodles outside his classroom, according to the various records of Roman writers, and he was killed by some rampaging Roman soldier. And basically Marcellus, the general, had been told to capture Archimedes and all his students and all their kids. So you can see Operation Paperclip in the Roman mind. You can see the thinking: “Oh no, we want this fellow to be our DARPA guy.” That's just a brilliant leap. I love that.And that is the beginning of the point of departure. So you have the Romans hauling all these clever Greek scientists and their families off and taking them to Rome and basically doing a Roman version of DARPA. You know, Operation Paperclip, DARPA. You know, “Do all the science, and have complete freedom to do all the…” — because the Romans would've let them do it. I mean, this is the thing. The Romans are your classic “cashed up bogans,” as Australians call it. They had lots of money. They were willing to throw money at things like this and then really run with it.You really needed both. As you write at one point, you needed to create a kind of a “machine culture.” You sort of needed the science and innovation, but also the getting rid of slavery part of it. They really both work hand in hand.Yes. These two have to go together. I got commissioned to write a few articles in the British press, where I didn't get to mention the name of Kingdom of the Wicked or any of my novels or research for this, but where people were trying to argue that the British Empire made an enormous amount of money out of slavery. And then, as a subsidiary argument, trying to argue that that led to industrialization in the UK. … [So] I wrote a number of articles in the press just like going through why this was actually impossible. And I didn't use any fancy economic terminology or anything like that. There's just no point in it. But just explaining that, “No, no, no. This doesn't work like that. You might get individually wealthy people, like Crassus, who made a lot of his money from slavery.” (Although he also made a lot from insurance because he set up private fire brigades. That was one of the things that Crassus did: insurance premiums, because that's a Roman law invention, the concept of insurance.) And you get one of the Islamic leaders in Mali, King Musa. Same thing, slaves. And people try to argue that the entirety of their country's wealth depended on slavery. But what you get is you get individually very wealthy people, but you don't get any propagation of the wealth through the wider society, which is what industrialization produced in Britain and the Netherlands and then in Germany and then in America and elsewhere.So, yes, I had to work in the machine culture with the abolition of slavery. And the machines had to come first. If I did the abolition of slavery first, there was nothing there to feed it. One of the things that helped Britain was Somerset's case (and in Scotland, Knight and Wedderburn) saying, “The air of the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe.” You know, that kind of thinking. But that was what I realized: It was the slavery issue. I couldn't solve the slavery issue unless I took the technological development back earlier than the period when the Roman Republic was flooded with slaves.The George Mason University economist Mark Koyama said if you had taken Adam Smith and brought him back to Rome, a lot of it would've seemed very recognizable, like a commercial, trading society. So I would assume that element was also pretty important in that world-building. You had something to work with there.Yes. I'd read some Stoic stuff because I did a classics degree, so of course that means you have to be able to read in Latin. But I'd never really taken that much of an interest in it. My interest tended to be in the literature: Virgil and Apuleius and the people who wrote novels. And then the interest in law, I always had an advantage, particularly as a Scots lawyer because Scotland is a mixed system, that I could read all the Roman sources that they were drawing on in the original. It made me a better practitioner. But my first introduction to thinking seriously about stoicism and how it relates to commerce and thinking that commerce can actually be a good and honorable thing to do is actually in Adam Smith. Not in The Wealth of Nations, but in Moral Sentiments, where Adam Smith actually goes through and quotes a lot of the Roman Stoic writers — Musonius Rufus and Epictetus and people like that — where they talk about how it's possible to have something that's quite base, which is being greedy and wanting to have a lot of money, but realizing that in order to get your lot of money or to do really well for yourself, you actually have to be quite a decent person and not a s**t.And there were certain things that the Romans had applied this thinking to, like the samian with that beautiful red ceramic that you see, and it's uniform all through the Roman Empire because they were manufacturing it on a factory basis. And when you come across the factories, they look like these long, narrow buildings with high, well-lit windows. And you're just sort of sitting there going, “My goodness, somebody dumped Manchester in Italy.” This kind of thing. And so my introduction to that kind of Stoic thinking was actually via Adam Smith. And then I went back and read the material in the original and realized where Adam Smith was getting those arguments from. And that's when I thought, “Ah, right. Okay, now I've got my abolitionists.”This is, in large part, a book about law. So you had to create a believable legal system that did not exist, unlike, perhaps, the commercial nature of Rome. So how did you begin to work this from the ground up?All the substantive law used in the book is Roman, written by actual Roman jurists. But to be fair, this is not hard to do. This is a proper legal system. There are only two great law-giving civilizations in human history. The Romans were one of them; the English were the other. And so what I had to do was take substantive Roman law, use my knowledge of practicing in a mixed system that did resemble the ancient Roman system — so I used Scotland, where I'd lived and worked — and then [put] elements back into it that existed in antiquity that still exists in, say, France but are very foreign, particularly to common lawyers.I had lawyer friends who read both novels because obviously it appeals. “You have a courtroom drama?” A courtroom drama appeals to lawyers. These are the kind of books, particularly if it's written by another lawyer. So you do things like get the laws of evidence right and stuff like that. I know there are lawyers who cannot watch The Wire, for example, because it gets the laws of evidence (in the US, in this case) wrong. And they just finish up throwing shoes at the television because they get really annoyed about getting it wrong.What I did was I took great care to get the laws of evidence right, and to make sure that I didn't use common law rules of evidence. For example, the Romans didn't have a rule against hearsay. So you'll notice that there's all this hearsay in the trial. But you'll also notice a mechanism. Pilate's very good at sorting out what's just gossip and what is likely to have substantive truth to it. So that's a classic borrowing from Roman law, because they didn't have the rule against hearsay. That's a common law rule. I also use corroboration a lot. Corroboration is very important in Roman law, and it's also very important in Scots law. And it's basically a two-witness rule.And I did things, once again, to show the sort of cultural differences between the two great legal systems. Cornelius, the Roman equivalent of the principal crown prosecutor. Cornelius is that character, and he's obsessed with getting a confession. Obsessed. And that is deeply Roman. The Roman lawyers going back to antiquity called a confession the “Queen of Proofs.” And of course, if confessions are just the most wonderful thing, then it's just so tempting to beat the snot out of the accused and get your bloody confession. Job done. The topic of the Industrial Revolution has been a frequent one in my writings and podcasts. And one big difference between our Industrial Revolution and the one you posit in the book is that there was a lot of competition in Europe. You had a lot of countries, and there was an incentive to permit disruptive innovation — where in the past, the proponents of the status quo had the advantage. But at some point countries realized, “Oh, both for commerce and military reasons, we need to become more technologically advanced. So we're going to allow inventors and entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas, even if it does alter that status quo.” But that's not the case with Rome. It was a powerful empire that I don't think really had any competitors, both in the real world and in your book.That and the chattel slavery is probably why it didn't finish up having an industrial revolution. And it's one of the reasons why I had to locate the innovation, it had to be in the military first, because the military was so intensely respected in Roman society. If you'd have got the Roman military leadership coming up with, say, gunpowder or explosives or that kind of thing, the response from everybody else would've been, “Good. We win. This is a good thing.” It had to come from the military, which is why you get that slightly Soviet look to it. There is a reason for that. The society is more prosperous because it's a free-market society. The Romans were a free-market society. All their laws were all sort of trade oriented, like English law. So that's one of those things where the two societies were just really similar. But in terms of technological innovation, I had to locate it in the army. It had to be the armed forces first.In your world, are there entrepreneurs? What does the business world look like?Well, I do try to show you people who are very commercially minded and very economically oriented. You've got the character of Pilate, the real historical figure, who is a traditional Tory lawyer, who has come up through all the traditional Toryism and his family's on the land and so on and so forth. So he's a Tory. But Linnaeus, who he went to law school with, who is the defense counsel for the Jesus character, Yeshua Ben Yusuf, is a Whig. And his mother was a freed slave, and his family are in business in commerce. They haven't bought the land.A lot of these books finished up on the cutting room floor, the world-building. And there is a piece that was published in a book called Shapers of Worlds: Volume II, which is a science-fiction anthology edited by a Canadian science-fiction author called Ed Willett. And one of the pieces that finished up on the cutting room floor and went into Shapers of Worlds is a description of Linnaeus's family background, which unfortunately was removed. You get Pilate's, but you don't get Linnaeus's. And Linnaeus's family background, his dad's the factory owner. The factory making cloth. I was annoyed with my publisher when they said, “This piece has to go,” and I did one of those snotty, foot-stamping, awful things. And so I was delighted when this Canadian publisher came to me and said, “Oh, can we have a piece of your writing for a science-fiction anthology?” And I thought, “Oh good. I get to publish the Linnaeus's dad story in Shapers of Worlds.”And I actually based Linnaeus's dad — the angel as he's referred to, Angelus, in the Kingdom of the Wicked books, and his personality is brought out very strongly — I actually based him on John Rylands. Manchester's John Rylands, the man who gave his name to the Rylands Library in Manchester. He was meant to be the portrait of the entrepreneurial, Manchester industrialist. And to this day, authors always have regrets, you don't always get to win the argument with your publisher or your editor, I am sorry that that background, that world-building was taken out of Kingdom of the Wicked and finished up having to be published elsewhere in an anthology. Because it provided that entrepreneurial story that you're talking about: the factory owner who is the self-made man, who endows libraries and technical schools, and trains apprentices, and has that sort of innovative quality that is described so beautifully in Matt Ridley's book, How Innovation Works, which is full of people like that. And this book as well, I've just bought: I've just bought Arts and Minds, which is about the Royal Society of Arts. So this is one of those authorial regrets: that the entrepreneur character wasn't properly fleshed out in the two published books, Kingdom of the Wicked book one and book two. And you have to get Shapers of Worlds if you want to find out about Linnaeus's industrialist dad.Is this a world you'd want to live in?Not for me, no. I mean, I'm a classically trained lawyer. So classics first, then law. And I made it a society that works. You know, I don't write dystopias. I have a great deal of admiration for Margaret Atwood and George Orwell, who are the two greatest writers of dystopias, in my view, in contemporary, and not just contemporary fiction, probably going back over a couple of hundred years. Those two have really got it, when it comes to this vision of horror. You know, the boot stamping on the human face forever. I greatly admire their skill, but those are not the books I write. So the society I wrote about in Kingdom of the Wicked is a society that works.But one of the things I deliberately did with the Yeshua Ben Yusuf character and what were his early Christian followers, and the reason I've taken so much time to flesh them out as real characters and believable people [is] because the values that Christianity has given to the West were often absent in the Roman world. They just didn't think that way. They thought about things differently. Now some of those Christian values were pretty horrible. It's fairly clear that the Romans were right about homosexuality and abortion, and the Christians were wrong. That kind of thing. That's where they were more liberal. But, you will have noticed, I don't turn the book into Gattaca. I try to keep this in the background because obviously someone else has written Gattaca. It's an excellent film. It's very thought provoking. I didn't want to do that again. It's kept in the background, but it is obvious — you don't even really need to read between the lines — that this is a society that engages in eugenics. You notice that all the Roman families have three children or two children, and there's always a mix of sexes. You never have all boys or all girls. You know what they're doing. They're doing sex-selective abortions, like upper-class Indians and Chinese people do now. You've now dealt with the problem of not enough girls among those posh people, but they still want a mixture of the two. You notice that the Romans have got irritatingly perfect teeth and their health is all very good. And people mock Cyler, one of the characters, because his teeth haven't been fixed. He's got what in Britain get called NHS teeth. He hasn't got straightened teeth, because he genuinely comes from a really, really poor background. I have put that in there deliberately to foil those values off each other, to try to show what a world would look like where there are certain values that will just never come to the fore.And as you mentioned, industry: how those values also might influence which areas technology might focus on, which I think is a great point.I did that quite deliberately. There is a scene in the first book in Kingdom of the Wicked where Linnaeus — who's the Whig, the nice Whig, the lovely Whig who believes in civil rights and justice and starts sounding awfully Martin Luther King-ish at various points, and that kind of thing; he's the most likable form of progressive, Stoic Roman ideas — and when he encounters a child that the parents have kept alive, a disabled child, which in his society would just be put down at birth like Peter Singer, they have Peter Singer laws, he's horrified. And he doesn't even know if it's human.I actually wrote a piece about this couple of years ago for Law & Liberty, for Liberty Fund. I did find that people wanted to live in this sort of society. And I just sort of thought, “Hmm, there are a lot more people out there who clearly agree with things like eugenics, Peter Singer laws, a society that has absolutely no welfare state. None.” There are people who clearly find that kind of society attractive. And also the authoritarianism, the Soviet-style veneration of the military. A lot of people clearly quite like that. And clearly like that it's a very orderly society where there are lots of rules and everybody knows where they stand. But even when the state is really, really very powerful.I deliberately put a scene in there, for example, where Pilate's expectorating about compulsory vaccinations — because he's a Roman and he thinks compulsory vaccinations save lives and he doesn't give a s**t about your bodily integrity. I did try to leave lots of Easter eggs, to use a gaming expression, in there to make it clear that this is a society that's a bit Gattaca-ish. I did that for a reason.I don't know if there's a sequel in mind, but do you think that this world eventually sort of Christianizes? And if this is what the world looks like 2000 years ago, what would that world look like today?I haven't thought of the answer to the first one. I must admit. I don't really know the answer to that. But in the second one, I did discuss this in quite a bit of detail with my then partner. And she said, “I honestly think that with that sort of aggressiveness and militarism, they will finish up conquering the planet. And then it'll start looking like a not-nice version of Star Trek. It won't be the Federation. It will be much more likely to be Khan and the Klingons and they'll start looking really, really Klingon basically.” That was her comment at the time.Like a more militaristic version of Star Trek.Yeah. But sort of very militarized and not the Prime Directive or any of that. Obviously Star Trek is very much an American conception of Americans in space. My Romans in space would look much more like the Centauri out of Babylon 5 or the Klingons in Star Trek. They would be much more aggressive and they'd be a lot more ambiguous…I don't know how much of a Star Trek fan you are, but of course there's the mirror universe, which kind of looks like that. We have the evil Kirk and the evil Spock. There's still advance, but there's like a Praetorian Guard for the captain and…All of that. Yes. I hadn't really thought about the first question, but the second question I thought, “Yeah, if this persists into the future, imagining a hypothetical future, then I think you are going to be dealing with people who are really, really quite scary.”Apparently you're not working on a sequel to this book, but what are you working on? Another book?Yes. I'm actually being pursued at the moment by a British publisher, who I won't drop into it because otherwise, if I say the name, then I will never, never be forgiven. And then they will insist on me writing a book. I'm never going to be the world's most super productive novelist. I think that I may finish up in my life writing maybe another two. I look at Stephen King. That man writes a door stopper of a book every time he sits down to have a hot meal. Incredible. How does he do it? I'm not that person.Helen, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.Thank you very much for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

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Les séries à ne pas rater en juin

BetaSeries La Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022

On fait tomber la veste, le beau temps est de retour tout comme de nombreuses séries. Les nouveautés sont plus rares ce mois-ci, mais valent toujours le détour. Nouvelles séries IPCRESS FILE - 1ER JUIN Rendez-vous en 1963 pour ce thriller d'espionnage anglais. Autour de Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton et Tom Hollander, des visages familiers britanniques, une chasse à l'homme va se dérouler. La série est l'adaptation libre du roman The IPCRESS File de Len Deighton et les costumes et décors sauront vous convaincre. https://youtu.be/PT0yc_6J3FA SUPER PUMPED: BATTLE FOR UBER - 2 JUIN Dans cette nouvelle anthologie de Showtime, le duo Brian Koppelman et David Levien (Billions) commence par l'histoire derrière l'entreprise Uber et son fondateur, Travis Kalanick (interprété par Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Super Pumped: Battle for Uber revient sur la création, les coups bas et les idéologies des personnes derrière la société de VTC. Les saisons suivantes de l'anthologie s'arrêteront sur d'autres figures du monde du business. https://youtu.be/fKX6_LPLXBM MISS MARVEL - 6 JUIN La nouvelle super-héroïne de Marvel est toute jeune, et Miss Marvels'adresse à un public plus adolescent. En pleine crise d'adolescence et en quête de reconnaissance, Kamala Khan est une jeune américaine de confession musulmane qui a grandi en adorant les comics et les jeux vidéos. Sa vie bascule quand elle se découvre des super pouvoirs… https://youtu.be/JTb4NIzxtYE IRMA VEP - 7 JUIN La mini-série d'Olivier Assayas avec Alicia Vikander dans le rôle principal a été projeté à Cannes et débarque sur OCS. Elle y joue une actrice prête à jouer le rôle d'Irma Vep dans le remake d'un classique français Les vampires, le film muet de Louis Feuillade. Beauté singulière et mini-série d'un cinéaste auteur, la curiosité est attisée. https://youtu.be/BPtNOSJMJlQ BECOMING ELIZABETH - 12 JUIN Une revisite de la légende d'Elizabeth Ire, reine d'Angleterre est proposée par Starzplay. Fresque historique avec des acteurs de renom et une Elizabeth inconnue, Becoming Elizabeth pourrait bien être le début d'une belle histoire. https://youtu.be/Ga3vxrWsMQE LANDSCAPERS - 13 JUIN Olivia Colman et David Thewlis dans un thriller bizarre qui frôle l'horrifique, c'est dans Landscapers, une mini-série de la BBC qui arrive sur Canal+. Ils y interprètent un couple qui cache un lourd secret qui aurait affaire avec un certain crime… https://youtu.be/BtB8QyWeH3I L'ÉTÉ OÙ JE SUIS DEVENUE JOLIE - 17 JUIN Après l'adaptation de À tous les garçons que j'ai aimés, c'est l'autre trilogie de Jenny Han qui arrive sur petit écran : L'été où je suis devenue jolie. Dans sa première trilogie littéraire pour young adult, on fait connaissance avec Isabel Conklin dans cette histoire de passage à l'âge adulte. De la romance, des questionnements, quelque chose de très naïf ajoute une petite touche de poésie. https://youtu.be/Zxv0QpmjkrI LOOT - 24 JUIN Dans Loot, Molly Novak (Maya Rudolph) est une milliardaire menant une vie de rêve avec jets privés. Mais trompée par son mari après 20 ans de mariage, elle part en vrille en public, devenant la proie des tabloïdes. Nouvelles saisons BORGEN SAISON 4 - 2 JUIN Près de 10 ans après la fin de Borgen, une saison 4 de la série danoise d'Adam Price revient. Le casting principal est de retour malheureusement sans Pilou Asbæk. Après avoir créé un nouveau parti, Birgitte Nyborg s'était un peu retiré de la vie politique mais il semblerait qu'une nouvelle opportunité et la volonté de changer le monde se font ressentir à nouveau. https://youtu.be/pmRJiZ4mFQU THE BOYS SAISON 3 - 3 JUIN The Boys are back, les super héros véreux et les vrais héros terroristes de Prime Video font leur grand retour pour une saison toujours aussi gore et irrévérencieuse. https://youtu.be/K-8VYKUZYiw PHYSICAL SAISON 2 - 3 JUIN Le fitness n'a pas dit son dernier mot dans Physical qui remet en lumière l'aérobic des années 80. Rose Byrne reprend son rôle de Sheila au bord de la crise de nerfs entre mariage décousu et aigreurs non cachées. https://youtu.be/8bjNCzXcky8 LOVE LIFE SAISON 2 - 9 JUIN Après la vie romantique de Darby, c'est celle de Marcus qui va être analysée dans cette nouvelle saison de Love Life. https://youtu.be/Zh_jq0XwfXk PEAKY BLINDERS SAISON 6 - 10 JUIN Les voyous de Peaky Blinders avec un Tommy Shelby qui est entré dans la vie politique de Birmingham reviennent dans une saison 6. https://youtu.be/QlU-5RsnYTk FOR ALL MANKIND SAISON 3 - 10 JUIN La plus grande série de science-fiction du moment est de retour avec une saison 3. L'équipe de For All Mankind est prête à coloniser Mars après être passé par la Lune. https://youtu.be/M4EOW9oqZ4k MADE FOR LOVE SAISON 2 - 13 JUIN Les relations modernes ne sont toujours pas faciles. Cristin Milioti est toujours Hazel pour ces huit nouveaux épisodes de cette dramédie au concept étrange. https://youtu.be/tvexuElKdck LOVE, VICTOR SAISON 3 - 15 JUIN La dernière saison du drame romantique de Disney+ Love, Victor, va partir en grandes pompes. Victor a bien grandi avec ces années lycée et ce spin-off de Love, Simon a su charmer son public. Simple et efficace, on n'oubliera pas cette romance de jeunes ados en recherche de leur sexualité. https://youtu.be/W1MdRb-meZU LOVE & ANARCHY SAISON 2 - 16 JUIN On vient de vous en parler dans une reco du weekend, Love & Anarchyla comédie suédoise revient avec une saison 2. Sofie a vu sa vie changer la saison dernière, et sa relation va encore prendre un nouveau cap. https://youtu.be/VMa_tY8XhH4 BEAU RIVAGE SAISON 2 - 16 JUIN La saison 2 de la série flamande Beau séjour débarque et change de nom. C'est Beau rivage cette fois-ci qui va vous intriguer. P-VALLEY SAISON 2 - 19 JUIN Les danseuses du Pynk ont eu du mal à lier les deux bouts pendant la pandémie mais la réouverture du club devrait les aider à se remettre à flot. Chacun des personnages a de nouvelles problématiques dans leur vie mais vont tout faire pour s'en sortir dans cette nouvelle saison de P-Valley. https://youtu.be/umacHHefZ3g SNOWFALL SAISON 5 - 21 JUIN La course au crack n'a pas fini de faire parler d'elle. Plongée dans les années 80 en plein Los Angeles où les drogues impactent énormément la société, Snowfall revient avec une saison 5 où les trahisons sont nombreuses. https://youtu.be/DhF_TXsLd7E UMBRELLA ACADEMY SAISON 3 - 22 JUIN Les enfants de la Umbrella Academy dans leur nouvelle ligne temporelle ne sont plus exactement qui ils étaient et c'est la Sparrow Academy qui a pris leur place dans cette saison 3. Qu'est-ce qu'on peut attendre du hit Netflix ? https://youtu.be/7k9VJjEvR8c L'AMIE PRODIGIEUSE SAISON 3 - 23 JUIN L'adaptation du roman italien d'Elena Ferrante débutera sa saison 3, et n'aura plus qu'une saison restante. Direction les années 70 pour ce nouveau pan de vie des deux meilleures amies de L'amie prodigieuse. https://youtu.be/X3KT90WNTd4 WESTWORLD SAISON 4 - 27 JUIN On l'attendait, elle arrive enfin en US+24 sur OCS, la saison 4 de Westworld avec comme nouvelles têtes Aaron Paul et Ariana deBose. La série d'anticipation s'était absentée des écrans depuis deux ans mais revient pour continuer les destins tragiques de ces personnages qui veulent dépasser leurs limites. https://youtu.be/_-0MwZPWKD4 ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING SAISON 2 - 28 JUIN Le podcast de true crime fait par des amateurs qui habitent un immeuble où un 2e meurtre a eu lieu reprend. Only Murders in the Building commence sa saison 2 avec le trio d'enfer Steve Martin, Martin Short et Selena Gomez avec cette dernière qui est dans une belle mouise. https://youtu.be/cMIdScgVZSM Intégrales Los Angeles Bad Girls - 10 juin Toutes les séries Marvel live action - 29 juin

Q&A with Tom Bradby (Yesterday's Spy)

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 16:52

Tom Bradby chats about some of his favourite authors including Len Deighton, Delia Owens, Thomas Harris and Simon Mayo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Otto Penzler on meeting Spy Fiction Authors and Collecting Books

Sizzling Samachar of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2022 82:41

This week, Spywrite's Jeff Quest welcomes Otto Penzler to the show. Otto shares stories from his many years of collecting books and meeting spy fiction authors. You'll hear stories about Eric Ambler, Charles McCarry, John le Carré and many more. , Plus, hear about his meeting with Len Deighton, how Ross Thomas nearly lost out on a million dollars, and a shocking revelation about a piece by Quiller writer Adam Hall.

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Will Smith to appear on David Letterman's show

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 3:15

Welcome to Sizzling Samachar on OTTplay , i'm your host NikhilSizzling news first up,Cobra Kai Season 5 to release in SeptemberThe fifth season of the popular martial arts series Cobra Kai will drop on Netflix on September 9. The series, created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, is a sequel to the Karate Kid films by Robert Mark Kamen. Ralph Macchio and William Zabka will reprise their roles as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence along with Xolo Maridueña, Martin Kove, Mary Mouser, Thomas Ian Griffith, Courtney Henggeler, and Tanner Buchanan.Quantum Leap reboot gets series order on NBCThe reboot of the classic sci-fi series, Quantum Leap, gets a series order on NBC. Mozart in the Jungle actor Raymond Lee appears as Dr Ben Seong in the upcoming series. The series also features Caitlin Bassett, Ernie Hudson, Mason Alexander Park, and Nanrisa Lee. Don Bellisario, the creator of Quantum Leap, will produce the reboot along with Deborah Pratt and Martin Gero. Elizabeth Banks to star in A MistakeThe Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect actress Elizabeth Banks is set to star in a medical drama titled A Mistake. Banks essays the role of a surgeon in the film which is based on the novel by Carl Shuker. Christine Jeffs, who has previously directed Sunshine Cleaning and Rain, will helm the project.Alex Pettyfer, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hopper and Frank Grillo team up for new filmMagic Mike actor Alex Pettyfer, Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova, Umbrella Academy actor Tom Hopper and Kingdom star Frank Grillo will star in a film titled Branded. Kieron Hawkes will helm the project which is based on a New Yorker article by David Grann. The film tracks the origins of crime gangs in America's prisons. Will Smith to appear on David Letterman's showWill Smith, Cardi B, Kevin Durant, Billie Eilish, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ryan Reynolds will appear as guests in the fourth season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman. The new season will drop on Netflix on May 20.Joe Cole to play Harry Palmer in The Ipcress FilePeaky Blinders alum Joe Cole will play the iconic British spy Harry Palmer in the upcoming spy series The Ipcress File. Based on the Len Deighton novel of the same name, the series also stars Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. Emmy winner James Watkins will helm the project.Amazon Prime Video acquires My Fake Boyfriend and 1UpAmazon Prime Video has acquired the films, My Fake Boyfriend and 1Up from BuzzFeed Studios and Lionsgate. My Fake Boyfriend is a romantic comedy starring Keiynan Lonsdale, Dylan Sprouse and Sarah Hyland. 1Up features Ruby Rose and Paris Berelc in lead roles. Both these films are expected to be released globally on the platform this year. Well thats the news for today from the world of movies and entertainment, until the next episode its your host Nikhil signing out,.Aaj kya dekhoge OTTplay se poochoWritten by - Arya Harikumar

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Actress Lucy Boynton and the remake of The Ipcress File

RNZ: Standing Room Only

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022 15:01

Playing a steely female spy in a man's world in a remake of the movie The Ipcress File was an opportunity British actress Lucy Boynton embraced. The thriller's set in 1963 when former army sergeant Harry Palmer becomes a spy for British intelligence tasked with tracking down a kidnapped British nuclear scientist. The 1965 film starring Michael Cain as Palmer based based on Len Deighton's novel written in 1962. In the both those versions, the role of female spy Jean Courtney was more of a bit part, but in the ITV series about to air on Acorn TV, that's all changed. Lucy talks about her latest role with Lynn Freeman.

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The IPCRESS File (2022) Episode 2/6

Spies Like Us Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2022 48:30

British ITV adaptation of the Len Deighton novel, also famously adapted for film in 1965. This version sticks firmly to its 1960's roots but makes interesting update choices in other areas. We will continue to discuss each episode of the six-episode miniseries on a weekly basis. IN ADDITION we are working on a movie episode for 1967's Billion Dollar Brain, another Harry Palmer movie, hopefully for release as soon as next week.

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Steven Saltzman – An interview with the Executive Producer of THE IPCRESS FILE 6-part series!

We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2022 44:18

Steven Saltzman, the son of Harry Saltzman who co-produced the first 9 Eon Productions James Bond movies and who in the mid 1960s, also produced the first three Harry Palmer movies based on Len Deighton's books, THE IPCRESS FILE, FUNERAL IN BERLIN and BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN - Steven is now an Executive Producer of the 6-part TV series, THE IPCRESS FILE, that is out now - and Steven joins us today to tell us the exclusive inside scoop on the Hows and Whys of THE IPCRESS FILE TV series production! THE IPCRESS FILE TV series through is now showing in some countries, will show in the US on AMC+ and stars Joe Cole as Harry Palmer, Tom Hollander as Major Dalby, Lucy Boynton as Jean Courtney, David Dencik as Colonel Stok and other great cast members as well! And today our guest is Steven Saltzman! Ideas? Info@SpyMovieNavigator.com Website Episode Page: https://spymovienavigator.com/podcast/steven-saltzman-an-interview-with-the-executive-producer-of-the-ipcress-file-6-part-series/

12 Days of Christmas - Bomber

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2021 26:41

12 Days of Christmas - BomberDescriptionAl Murray reads a chapter from Bomber written by Len Deighton. Bomber is a fictionalised account of "the events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943"A Goalhanger Films productionProduced by Vasco AndradeExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: www.wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Traitor King - Part Two - Andrew Lownie on the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

Aspects of History

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2021 30:19

In Part Two, Andrew Lownie chats with me about being warned off the story, unsolved murder, conspiracy and Guy Burgess.You can get hold of me on Twitter @olliewcqAndrew is @andrewlownieAndrew has written a new book, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of WindsorYou can donate to his Crowd Justice case here.In our discussion we talked about a few things you can find out more about:Len Deighton's SS-GB (also a good TV Series on Netflix)Any Human Heart, by William Boyd.John Banville: The Untouchable based on the Cambridge Spies.The movie with (young) Rupert Everett and Colin Firth: Another Country based on Guy BurgessThe Alan Bennett play, An Englishman Abroad, based on Burgess' chance encounter in Moscow.Andrew's book is Stalin's EnglishmanMerry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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A SERIOUS DISC AGREEMENT: IMPRINT FILMS - The Harry Palmer Collection

One Heat Minute

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 31:17

Imprint Companion is the only podcast on the Australian Internet about "DVD Culture."Hang onto your slipcases because Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) team up to unbox, unpack and unveil upcoming releases from Australia's brand new boutique Blu-Ray label Imprint Films. This is episode is all about the pick of the October British Batch, The Harry Palmer Collection. FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL THREE ORIGINAL 1960S FILMS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN ONE COLLECTION, WITH BONUS FEATURES WORTHY OF FURTHER INVESTIGATION.The Ipcress File (1965) – Imprint Collection # 75Starring Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, and Gordon Jackson.Based on Len Deighton's bestselling novel, the realistic, landmark spy thriller of espionage and counter-espionage centres on Harry Palmer, an intelligence agent assigned to investigate fears over British security. Produced by 007's Harry Saltzman, with music by John Barry, The Ipcress File provides a downbeat, yet realistic and exciting portrayal of 1960s espionage. Special Features and Technical Specs:1080p high-definition master from a restored 2k scan by ITV StudiosAudio commentary by director Sidney J. Furie and film editor Peter Hunt (1999)Audio commentary by film historian Troy Howarth and film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer (2020)Michael Caine is Harry Palmer – interview with Michael Caine (2006)The Design File – interview with production designer Ken Adam (2006)Locations Report with Richard Dacre (2021) Through The Keyhole – interview with 2nd assistant director Denis Johnson, Jr. (2021)Counting The Cash – interview with assistant production accountant Maurice Landsberger (2021)Isolated Music & Effects audio track Textless Material, Theatrical Trailers, U.S. Radio Spots and Extensive Photo GalleriesDTS HD 5.1 surround / LPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English subtitlesFuneral in Berlin (1966) – Imprint Collection # 76Starring Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka, Eva RenziHarry Palmer is sent to Berlin where he is to extricate a Russian general who wants to defect. Director Guy Hamilton's follow-up to The Ipcress File is the second in the film series based on Len Deighton's novels. Special Features and Technical Specs:1080p high-definition transfer by Paramount PicturesAudio commentary by Rob Mallows of The Deighton Dossier (2021)Fun in Berlin – interview with editor John Bloom (2021)Afternoon Plus – interview with Len Deighton (1983) Candid Caine: a self portrait by Michael Caine – documentary (1969) Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold – documentary (1994)Theatrical Trailer and Photo GalleryLPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English subtitlesBillion Dollar Brain (1967) – Imprint Collection #77Starring Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka, Francoise DorleacHarry Palmer is blackmailed into working for MI5 again on his wildest – and most dangerous – assignment yet as he pits his wits against an insane billionaire and his supercomputer. From 007 producer Harry Saltzman and acclaimed director Ken Russell come the final film in the 1960s Palmer trilogy. Special Features and Technical Specs:1080p high-definition transfer by MGM Audio commentary by film historians Vic Pratt and Will Fowler (2021))Interview with Rob Mallows of The Deighton Dossier (2021) Photographing Spies – interview with cinematographer Billy Williams (2021)Billion Dollar Frame – interview with associate editor Willy Kemplen (2021)This Week – excerpt of Michael Caine discussing the British film industry (1969)Theatrical Trailers LPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English subtitlesBlake Howard - Twitter & One Heat Minute Website Alexei Toliopoulos - Twitter & Total RebootSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

OCTOBER 2021: The Harry Palmer Collection

Imprint Companion

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 31:17

Imprint Companion is the only podcast on the Australian Internet about "DVD Culture."Hang onto your slipcases because Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) team up to unbox, unpack and unveil upcoming releases from Australia's brand new boutique Blu-Ray label Imprint Films. This is episode is all about the pick of the October British Batch, The Harry Palmer Collection. FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL THREE ORIGINAL 1960S FILMS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN ONE COLLECTION, WITH BONUS FEATURES WORTHY OF FURTHER INVESTIGATION.The Ipcress File (1965) – Imprint Collection # 75Starring Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, and Gordon Jackson.Based on Len Deighton's bestselling novel, the realistic, landmark spy thriller of espionage and counter-espionage centres on Harry Palmer, an intelligence agent assigned to investigate fears over British security. Produced by 007's Harry Saltzman, with music by John Barry, The Ipcress File provides a downbeat, yet realistic and exciting portrayal of 1960s espionage. Special Features and Technical Specs:1080p high-definition master from a restored 2k scan by ITV StudiosAudio commentary by director Sidney J. Furie and film editor Peter Hunt (1999)Audio commentary by film historian Troy Howarth and film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer (2020)Michael Caine is Harry Palmer – interview with Michael Caine (2006)The Design File – interview with production designer Ken Adam (2006)Locations Report with Richard Dacre (2021) Through The Keyhole – interview with 2nd assistant director Denis Johnson, Jr. (2021)Counting The Cash – interview with assistant production accountant Maurice Landsberger (2021)Isolated Music & Effects audio track Textless Material, Theatrical Trailers, U.S. Radio Spots and Extensive Photo GalleriesDTS HD 5.1 surround / LPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English subtitlesFuneral in Berlin (1966) – Imprint Collection # 76Starring Michael Caine, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka, Eva RenziHarry Palmer is sent to Berlin where he is to extricate a Russian general who wants to defect. Director Guy Hamilton's follow-up to The Ipcress File is the second in the film series based on Len Deighton's novels. Special Features and Technical Specs:1080p high-definition transfer by Paramount PicturesAudio commentary by Rob Mallows of The Deighton Dossier (2021)Fun in Berlin – interview with editor John Bloom (2021)Afternoon Plus – interview with Len Deighton (1983) Candid Caine: a self portrait by Michael Caine – documentary (1969) Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold – documentary (1994)Theatrical Trailer and Photo GalleryLPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English subtitlesBillion Dollar Brain (1967) – Imprint Collection #77Starring Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka, Francoise DorleacHarry Palmer is blackmailed into working for MI5 again on his wildest – and most dangerous – assignment yet as he pits his wits against an insane billionaire and his supercomputer. From 007 producer Harry Saltzman and acclaimed director Ken Russell come the final film in the 1960s Palmer trilogy. Special Features and Technical Specs:1080p high-definition transfer by MGM Audio commentary by film historians Vic Pratt and Will Fowler (2021))Interview with Rob Mallows of The Deighton Dossier (2021) Photographing Spies – interview with cinematographer Billy Williams (2021)Billion Dollar Frame – interview with associate editor Willy Kemplen (2021)This Week – excerpt of Michael Caine discussing the British film industry (1969)Theatrical Trailers LPCM 2.0 Mono Optional English subtitlesSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/imprint-companion/donations

The Sounds of Self-Defense

The James Bond A-Z Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 52:12

Dans cet épisode de 3d8plus4 - après avoir bitché solide sur nos problèmes techniques - on commence par parler du Book of Boba Fett (à ne pas confondre avec le Bike of Booba Feet) et on rectifie le tir sur la sortie prochaine de la S2 de The witcher. Côté jeux video, c'est le calme plat - New World (Luis), Disgaea 5 (Dan). Côté jeux de table on célèbre notre première game 'présentielle' de SPACE QDRPG; Luis parle de Meeplemart et de ses nouvelles acquisitions (Black Powder: Waterloo) alors que Dan nous raconte ses aventures dans le merveilleux monde de la peinture sans primer. Dans la rubrique 'livres' - Luis nous parle avec enthousiasme du roman historique 'Bomber' de Len Deighton. Finalement, côté TV, Dan nous donne ses impressions sur deux films d'horreur et un film de guerre et Luis clôt l'épisode en parlant du premier chapitre de la nouvelle saison de Doctor Who (Flux).Newsy News:Book of Boba FettThe Witcher S2Jeux:New WorldDisgaea 5Jeux de Table:Black Powder : WaterlooMeeplemart (site web et au centre-ville de Toronto)Peinturlurage de figuriines sans primerSPACE QDRPG - chapitre 1Livres:Bomber - Len DeightonTV:Doctor Who (Flux)I See YouHereditaryThe Forgotten Battle

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Sally Woodward Gentle

Scripted

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 17:38

Paradox House presents... Episode 2 of Scripted, hosted by Daisy Lewis. Episode 2 is here and this week, Daisy sat down with TV producer, Sally Woodward Gentle from Sid Gentle Films! Listen in as Sally walks us through her development process, what stories she looks out for and how she works with writers. Sally Woodward Gentle is a BAFTA winning, Golden Globe and Emmy nominated, executive producer of television dramas including Killing Eve, Any Human Heart, Enid, The Durrells and Whitechapel. In 2019 Sally was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Television Society. Since forming Sid Gentle Films Ltd in September 2013 Sally has executive produced four seasons of the BAFTA nominated and ITV ratings hit The Durrells, as well as Sky Arts equally highly acclaimed Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories. Sally also executive produced SS-GB, the Purvis and Wade adaptation of Len Deighton's classic thriller that aired on BBC One in February 2017. Sally executive produced all three series of Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award winning Killing Eve. Prior to Sid, Sally was Creative Director of Carnival Films. In 2010 she appeared in Broadcast's Power List for women in film and television. Enjoy!

D Part 2: Roger Deakins, Len Deighton, Tracey Di Vicenzo and more

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 82:21

On this episode of The James Bond A-Z Podcast hosts Tom Butler, Brendan Duffy, and Tom Wheatley tackle more filmmakers, characters and topics from the letter D. In this show you'll learn about: Sir Roger Deakins, the award-winning cinematographer of films such as 'Blade Runner 2049', '1917', 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'Fargo', who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on 2012's 'Skyfall'. Len Deighton, the acclaimed spy fiction writer on 'The Ipcress Files' who had many brushes with Ian Fleming and Bond, including writing an unused screenplay for 'Never Say Never Again'. Paul Dehn, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 'Planet of the Apes' sequels who was co-writer on 'Goldfinger', and instrumental in changing the tone of the 007 films. Max Denbigh, AKA C, the Spectre agent embedded at the highest level of the secret service in 'Spectre', played by Andrew Scott, star of 'Sherlock' and 'Fleabag'. Dink, the Bond girl played by Margaret Nolan who enjoyed a short but memorable scene with Sean Connery in 'Goldfinger', and went on to have an astonishing art and film career. Tracey Di Vicenzo, considered by many to be one of the best ever Bond girls, and played with considerable aplomb by the late, great Dame Diana Rigg. She won Bond's heart, but broke it too. Please rate this podcast and leave a review wherever you listen. James Bond will return... in next week's James Bond's A-Z Podcast. Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/jamesbondatoz Find us on Instagram: instagram.com/jamesbondatoz Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Billion Dollar Brain - Decoded!

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2021 56:00

Harry Palmer, a cold Helsinki winter, virus-filled eggs, outdoor festivals, evil computer programs, a maniac billionaire, a double-cross - make up the story of the third Harry Palmer movie, Billion Dollar Brain! Join Dan and Tom as they decode the third Harry Palmer movie with Michael Caine, based on the Len Deighton novels! Lots of connections to other movies and some disagreement between Dan and Tom on this one! Join the fun! Feedback/Your Thoughts: info@SpyMovieNavigator.com

Harry Palmer, Len Deighton, Billion Dollar Brain with Rob Mallows!

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2021 19:32

Rob Mallows of DeightonDossier.net joins Dan and Tom as our prelude to our Billion Dollar Brain podcast! We talk about Deighton, The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin with a focus on Billion Dollar Brain! What Deighton novel should be turned into another movie? Listen now! Feedback: info@SpyMovieNavigator.com

Spy talk

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2021 45:02

One Cold War spy has his story retold by journalist Simon Kuper, while the granddaughter of another - Charlotte Philby - writes novels that explore the human side and cost of espionage. Nigel Inkster, former MI6 director of operations and intelligence, looks at the role of spying in present day relations between China and the US, while journalist Margaret Coker explains how old school intelligence gathering without any hi-tech bells and whistles has been reaping rewards in Iraq. Rana Mitter hosts a conversation about spying fact and fiction. The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia - The Extraordinary Story of George Blake by Simon Kuper is out now. Charlotte Philby's most recent novel is A Double Life. The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy by Nigel Inkster is out now. Margaret Coker's book Spymaster of Baghdad is out now. Penguin Classics is re-issuing Len Deighton's novels. In our archives you can find Stella Rimington in discussion with Alan Judd https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048ngpw John le Carré in conversation with Anne McElvoy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039q13n The links in the world of French philosophy and spies https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2mfh3 And a playlist of programmes on War and Conflict https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kgbyb Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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What the H-E Double Fuck

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2020 70:24

Dans cet épisode de 3d8plus4, alors que nous attendons avec angoisse les résultats de l'élection américaine, nous parlons du nouveau event de Apple, de l'annonce de Disgaea 6 avant de couvrir l'expansion de DOOM Eternal (Ancient Gods part 1), Mortal Shell, Disgaea 4 et Hades. Côté littérature nous parlons de 'Secret History' de Donna Tartt, de 'Battle of Britain' de Len Deighton et du nouveau gagnant du World Fantasy Award 2020 : Queen of the Conquered. Sur le front TV et Cinéma, nous parlons de Black Hawk Down, des films Ip Man, du bénéfice de regarder Star Trek Discovery en 'binge-watch', du film Sorkinesque 'Trial of the Chicago 7' et finalement, du premier épisode de la deuxième saison de Mandalorian et... Parlant de Sorkinismes.. Du spécial 'West Wing'....Nouvelles:Disgaea 6 sur la Switch!!'One more thing' Apple Event le 10 novembre : 'Apple Silicone'Jeux Vidéo:DOOM Eternal + Ancient Gods part 1Mortal ShellDisgaea 4HadesLivres:The Secret History - Donna TarttBattle of Britain - Len DeightonQueen of the Conquered - Kacen CallenderTV/Cinema:Black Hawk DownIp Man (1-2-3)Star Trek Discovery S1 + S2The Mandalorian S2 E1West Wing Special (HBO)Questions, commentaires: 3d8plus4@gmail.comSuivez-nous sur Twitter: @3d8plus4

Joyeuse Allouigne

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2020 67:26

Dans cet épisode de 3d8plus4, agités par la frénésie de la saison, nous parlons de rumeurs et nouvelles excitantes ( Apple Event, James Bond et Jon Stewart sur Apple+) ou enrageantes (Cyberpunk 2077 delayed!!) avant de parler longuement de jeux vidéo : FFXIV, DOOM Eternal DLC 1, Solasta, Mortal Shell et Disgaea 4.. Puis de survoler à peine les jeux de table (Hammerfall bunker de Space Marines!) avant de parler de guerre et d'expériences de guerre avec Blitzkrieg de Len Deighton et la compilation d'interviews 'A Mile in their shoes'. En termes de films et TV on jase de 'Da 5 Bloods' de Spike Lee, de l'excellent documentaire 'Almost the Truth' sur Monty Python, du nouveau film de Borat pis des films Christine et The Nun.Nouvelles:Apple Silicon EventJames Bond... Jon Stewart... Sur Apple+ Cyberpunk 2077 *ENCORE* repousséCostume Quest 2 GRATUIT sur EPIC Store!Jeux Vidéo:FFXIVDOOM Eternal DLC 1 'Ancient Gods'SolastaMortal ShellDisgaea 4Jeux de Table:Hammerfall Bunker (GW 40k)Livres:Blitzkrieg - Len DeightonA Mile in their Shoes: Conversations with WWII VeteransTV Cinema:Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)Monty Python : Almost the Truth (Netflix)Borat Subsequent Movie (Prime)ChristineThe NunQuestions, commentaires: 3d8plus4@gmail.comSuivez-nous sur Twitter: @3d8plus4

Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Part 2

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 34:04

Join Dan and Tom as they head to Germany to attend the Funeral in Berlin! This 1966 movie is the second installment after The Ipcress File, with Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, based on Len Deighton's novels. Part 2 of 2. Lots of Bond connections, quips, key scenes are explored from a fresh angle. If a funeral could be fun, this is it! Join us, wont you?

Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Part 1

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 29:31

Join Dan and Tom as they head to Germany to attend the Funeral in Berlin! This 1966 movie is the second installment after The Ipcress File, with Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, based on Len Deighton's novels. Part 1 of 2. Lots of Bond connections, quips, key scenes are explored from a fresh angle. If a funeral could be fun, this is it! Join us, wont you?

Everything I Do, I Do It For You (Alex)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 70:38

Dans cet épisode de 3d8plus4, au son lointain d'une pluie d'automne, nous parlons du Virtual Event de Apple (15 septembre), de la sortie en novembre de Hyrule Warriors : Age of Calamity (aka Breath of the Wild 2) avant de voir comment Dan a aimé son SIDEQUEST (Card Crawl), comment Luis aimé Warhammer Quest : Silver Tower; comment Dan aime depuis longtemps 'Twinbee' et comment les deux ont un fun fou sur Final Fantasy XIV. Après avoir parlé de ces jeux en long et en large - et sans pause! - nous continuons sur 'XPD' de Len Deighton; on parle de Family Guy S18, du film.. Inclassifiable 'I am thinking of Ending Things'; de la très nouvelle et très prometteuse série 'Raised by Wolves'.. Et du deuxième album de Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights. Nous fermons le pas sur une promesse cryptique.. Le suspense sera terrible...Nouvelles:The JEEP is BACK!Apple Virtual Event - iPad et apple Watch (15 septembre)Hyrule Warriors : Age of Calamity (novembre 2020)EPIC Store : Into the Breach (gratuit cette semaine)Jeux Vidéo:SIDEQUEST : Card Crawl (iOS, Android, Steam...)Warhammer Quest Silver Tower (iOS, Android)Twinbee (Nintendo Switch)Final Fantasy XIV Jeux de Table:Rien cette semaine!Livres:XPD - Len Deighton (1978)TV/Cinéma:Family Guy S18 (Netflix)I am Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)Raised by Wolves (HBO Max)Musique:Julien Baker - Turn Out the LightsQuestions, commentaires: 3d8plus4@gmail.comSuivez-nous sur Twitter: @3d8plus4

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THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) - Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2020 30:20

Join Dan and Tom and they take a fresh look into one of the more significant spy movies of the 1960s, The IPCRESS File. Starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, this movie has a lot of Bond connections in staff, including Harry Saltzman as producer! Great acting, great, gritty spy adventure and based on Len Deighton's novels. Harry Palmer's character revealed! Keep scenes examined! Looking at what was happening in the world at the time, and key scenes. Is Harry Palmer at all like James Bond? Let's see! Part 2 of a 2 Part podcast.

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Episode 58: Jack Pearl

Paperback Warrior

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 40:30

On jam-packed Episode 58 of the Paperback Warrior Podcast, we discuss author Jack Pearl as well as many other topics including: Cancer perks! Ed McBain! Maltese Falcon! Len Deighton! Ace Doubles! Christmas in August! And much, much more. Listen on your favorite podcast app or paperbackwarrior.com or download directly here: https://bit.ly/3hlxq8E (Music by Bensound)

Jusqu'au Bout de la Nuit

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 68:27

Dans cet épisode de 3d8plus4 nous survolons rapidement les 'Appstore Wars' de 2020 ainsi que l'intriguant nouveau 'PinePhone' avant de plonger tête la première dans City of Heroes, un MMORPG classique désormais disponible sur serveur privé qui a provoqué des élans de plaisir et des émois nostalgiques à Dan; nous parlons ensuite de Keyflower, que Luis a essayé avec son groupe de jeux de table. Au retour de la pause, Luis parle du livre de Brian Kernighan sur 'son' histoire de UNIX (et Dan lui enseigne par la même occasion qu'il a toujours mal écrit et prononcé le nom de l'auteur!) ainsi que du roman 'Berlin Funeral' de Len Deighton, un vrai classique délicieux de la guerre froide. Côté TV et cinéma, nous parlons du petit bijou sombre et sordide qu'est Perry Mason, et du navet inexplicable 'The Big Ugly'Intro:PinePhone et PostmarketOSNews:AppStore Wars 2020 : EPIC vs Apple vs Google vs LE MONDEJeux de Table:KeyflowerLivres:UNIX : A history and a memoir (Brian Kernighan)Berlin Funeral (Len Deighton)TV/Cinéma:The Big UglyPerry MasonEntrevue entre Brian Kernighan et Ken Thompson sur youtube :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-oQuestions, commentaires: 3d8plus4@gmail.comSuivez-nous sur Twitter: @3d8plus4

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THE IPCRESS FILE - Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 32:32

Join Dan and Tom and they take a fresh look into one of the more significant spy movies of the 1960s, The IPCRESS File. Starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, this movie has a lot of Bond connections in staff, including Harry Saltzman as producer! Great acting, great, gritty spy adventure and based on Len Deighton's novels. Looking at what was happening in the world at the time, and key scenes. Is Harry Palmer at all like James Bond? Let's see! Part 1 of a 2 Part podcast.

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Spy Fiction with Shane Whaley of Spybrary

The Curiously Specific Book Club

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 71:17

Episode 22 features Spybrarian Shane Whaley, host and creator of The Spybrary Podcast. We discuss getting started in the fandom of spy fiction, James Bond, Len Deighton, the Cold War as perhaps the hottest topic, human intelligence, and sometimes spy fact being stranger than spy fiction. During the episode we cover: Our Introductions to Spy Fiction Getting into reading Len Deighton Harry Palmer (The Unnamed Spy) Bernard Samson James Bond Books Spy Movies Spy Television Buying Books Reading begets reading The Cold War Spy Comedy Launching Spybrary Building a community Bomber And much more... Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode AgentPalmer.com Spybrary.com The Wicked Theory Podcast Patreon to listen to "Ed Bonds with Bill" Agent Palmer's Brush Pass Episode of Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton (Spybrary Episode 33) Tweets @ThePalmerFiles @AgentPalmer @Spybrary You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and as mentioned on this show as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette. Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions. --End Show Notes Transmission--

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Explore swinging 60s Soho with 'The Ipcress File': S1 Ep13

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 46:40

‘A plan to brain-wash the entire framework of the nation,' said Jean, over the coffee and croissants. ‘It's hardly credible.' After a long hiatus, Tim and Lloyd are back with the (unlucky-for-some) 13th Curiously Specific Book Club podcast. They start with something that comes easy to them both – a leisurely stroll around Soho. Who knew Len Deighton's classic 1962 spy novel The Ipcress File was the perfect excuse for a long lunch and a general loaf? Our mission at the 'CuSpec' Book Club is to road test works of fiction that appear to be curiously specific about dates and locations. We go to the places mentioned and see if descriptions are accurate, journey times credible, dates and days all in order. Along the way, we learn things about the book and its author. For early access to ad-free episodes - and exclusive access to all our show notes, maps, photos and videos - please support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/curiouslyspecific. Get early access to new episodes and bonus content Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Murderous tools

Partners in Crime

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 34:23

Would you like to hear Adam's tips on how to keep your grass looking lovely and green? Did Bob get past the first round on Pointless Celebrities? And just how loud is his shirt this week? To find out all this and more, listen to the latest episode of Partners in Crime, with Adam Croft and Robert Daws. Adam tells us all about HarperFiction's plans to mark Karin Slaughter's 20th book in 20 years with SlaughterFest, Bob recommends some audiobooks and we hear who the Theakston Old Peculier New Blood authors are for this year. Bob talks about himself on the telly (with a few name-drops, naturally), while Adam takes the promotion of his new book a little too far, by turning his garden into Rutland Water. ~ Moriarty ~ RECOMMENDATIONS Bluebird, Bluebird audiobook by Attica Locke https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/bluebird-bluebird-3 Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899 - 1945 audiobook by Len Deighton https://www.kobo.com/en/audiobook/winter-a-berlin-family-1899-1945-2 June's Patreon free book of the month: Kill For Love by Malcolm Richards https://www.kobo.com/en/ebook/kill-for-love To get this book for free, become a patron at patreon.com/partnersincrimepodcast Don't forget your exclusive Partners in Crime discounts through Kobo. Get 90% off your first purchase using the code CRIME at checkout. And you can also get 40% off all books using the code PARTNERS when you shop using this link: bit.ly/PartnersKobo If you’d like to support Partners in Crime and get early access to every episode — on video — plus lots of other goodies, head over to patreon.com/partnersincrimepodcast CONTACT US Email: hello@partnersincrime.online Facebook: facebook.com/groups/crimefictionpodcast/ Twitter: twitter.com/crimeficpodcast Instagram: instagram.com/crimefictionpodcast/ Website: partnersincrime.online Patreon: patreon.com/partnersincrimepodcast

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Episode 30: The many trouser-legs of time

Two Chairs Talking

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 71:54

Perry and David are joined by Dr. Lucy Sussex to talk about alternate history novels. In particular, they discuss those alternate timelines in which the Axis powers won the Second World War. COVID-19 Restrictions (00:26) How libraries are dealing with the pandemic (03:08) Restrictions at aged care facilities (00:52) Great time to catch up on books and TV (00:21) Alternate History fiction (02:33) Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (00:07) Lord Darcy series by Randall Garrett (00:28) The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (00:11) The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinson Kowal (00:20) What if Hitler had won? (01:02:35) Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (06:43) Small Change trilogy by Jo Walton (06:39) Among Others by Jo Walton (01:22) Dominion by C. J. Sansom (05:13) The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad (01:30) SS-GB by Len Deighton (06:48) Fatherland by Robert Harris (07:33) Bosch series by Michael Connelly (01:28) The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (07:10) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (17:08) Image from Pexels.com

Episode 30: The many trouser-legs of time

Two Chairs Talking

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 71:54

Perry and David are joined by Dr. Lucy Sussex to talk about alternate history novels. In particular, they discuss those alternate timelines in which the Axis powers won the Second World War. COVID-19 Restrictions (00:26) How libraries are dealing with the pandemic (03:08) Restrictions at aged care facilities (00:52) Great time to catch up on books and TV (00:21) Alternate History fiction (02:33) Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (00:07) Lord Darcy series by Randall Garrett (00:28) The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (00:11) The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinson Kowal (00:20) What if Hitler had won? (01:02:35) Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (06:43) Small Change trilogy by Jo Walton (06:39) Among Others by Jo Walton (01:22) Dominion by C. J. Sansom (05:13) The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad (01:30) SS-GB by Len Deighton (06:48) Fatherland by Robert Harris (07:33) Bosch series by Michael Connelly (01:28) The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (07:10) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (17:08) Click here for more information and links Image from Pexels.com

For Your Ears Only: Spring 2020

Calibre For Your Ears Only

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 183:35

Welcome to the latest edition of For Your Ears Only. At the time of writing we are still in lockdown and restricted on our everyday social activities so we hope you are all keeping well and hopefully you’ll find some titles to entertain you and to keep you company among this season’s new books. We have the newest titles from Tracy Chevalier with “A Single Thread” and Jojo Moyes with “A Giver of Stars. Perhaps you fancy a classic spy story, so may be tempted with Len Deighton’s “The Ipcress File” or Ken Follet’s “Eye of the Needle”, or just want something to make you laugh, in which case Sue Townsend’s “Queen Camilla” is one to try.

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Episode 448: Ten Minutes with Dave Hutchinson

The Coode Street Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 26:20

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends about thirty minutes talking to Dave Hutchinson about reading and writing during the Great and Terrible Pause, the novels of Len Deighton, an unexpected follow-up to The Fractured Europe Sequence, a brand new Fractured Europe novelette "Nightingale Floors" (from Ian Whates's forthcoming anthology London Centric: Future Tales of London), and much more. Books mentioned include: The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man by Dave Hutchinson The Fractured Europe Sequence by Dave Hutchinson The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hilary Mantel The Martian by Andy Weir The Bernard Samson Series by Len Deighton

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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)

New Books in Military History

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 61:58

In his new book Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 2019), Steve Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was “Operation Gold,” a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . . Betrayal in Berlin is a heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 61:58

In his new book Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 2019), Steve Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was “Operation Gold,” a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . . Betrayal in Berlin is a heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)

New Books in German Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 61:58

In his new book Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 2019), Steve Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was “Operation Gold,” a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . . Betrayal in Berlin is a heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 61:58

In his new book Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 2019), Steve Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was “Operation Gold,” a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . . Betrayal in Berlin is a heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 61:58

In his new book Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 2019), Steve Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was “Operation Gold,” a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . . Betrayal in Berlin is a heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 61:58

In his new book Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 2019), Steve Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it. Its code name was “Operation Gold,” a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . . Betrayal in Berlin is a heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0042 Film Review The Ipcress File (1965)

The 00 Files

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2020 89:37

The 00 Files go rogue! Again! Yes, it sounds like the tagline from a Daniel Craig James Bond film, but it is the God honest truth. We take a little side step from the 007 film franchise and have a look at another 1960s British spy thriller: The Ipcress File (1965). Interestingly enough many Bond alumni have worked on The Ipcress File, such as Harry Saltzman (producer), Peter Hunt (editor), Ken Adam (production design) and John Barry (composer). The Ipcress File is based on a novel by Len Deighton and stars Michael Caine - with glasses - as Harry Palmer. In many ways this film is quite the opposite of the Bond films. And in many ways this podcast review is also the opposite of the usual reviews from The 00 Files… Are you intrigued yet? Come and have a listen! If you like our podcast, please share it with others! You can follow us on social media, contact us at moneypenny@the00files.com or our website www.the00files.com. The 00 Files are counting on you being an insubordinate bastard…

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Storytelling with Paula Allen

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2020 86:19

For episode ten of The Palmer Files guest Paula Allen, host of the Tell Me Stories Podcast, joins Agent Palmer to discuss storytelling, writing, podcasting, listening and of course we tell a few stories, including the unwelcome welcome at the beginning of our friendship. Paula and Jason relive the origins of their meeting up, the run not taken, music, and it all comes back to the importance of storytelling. Throughout the conversation, we cover: Why is storytelling important? Why podcasting for Paula? With Story, it is the details and little things Great Stories Fiction Escape (from politics) Generational narratives Growing with experience and people Road Trips Online relationships Storytelling and experience Storytelling the skill Musc listen to the album vs live performance Hero stories Going through strife What writing is… That one story (Death of a storyteller) The writer writes always blogging/process Writing fiction (I don't usually) Old drafts Idea packrat (writing hoarder) Consuming stories More Tell me stories coming soon Being the audience Atmosphere and storytelling Palmer Files Pressure On not being PRess Paula and Palmer Origin story Podtoberfest Writer's room Unwelcome welcome IRL it was instant The run not taken Introverted Extraverts New Stories vs. Old Stories Mom Stories The best storyteller Paula knows YouTube/Twitch Personality and storytelling Sage advice from agent palmer Being the silent audience The worst grade Paula ever got Ethnography Sermonizing The Rabbi Not Taken Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode AgentPalmer.com TellMeStoriesPodcast.com Len Deighton's Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a great read that crosses genres. The Passing of a Story Teller The Video The Story of the Story The Palmer Files Episode 1: The Dip with Bill Sweeney The Palmer Files Episode 2: Blogging with Kristin Maier The Palmer Files Episode 3: Podcasting with Dan Lizette The Palmer Files Episode 4: Health & Wellness with Margo Donohue The Palmer Files Episode 5: Modern Archaeology with Tristan Boyle the Anarchaeologist The Palmer Files Episode 6: Changing Careers with Carl Landra The Palmer Files Episode 7: The Reigning Lunatic with Geoffrey Welchman The Palmer Files Episode 8: Fine Art with Sean Hizny The Palmer Files Episode 9: Adaptation and Interpretation with Jason Zapata. Tweets @ThePalmerFiles @AgentPalmer @Stories_Podcast You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and as mentioned on this show as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette. Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions. --End Show Notes Transmission--

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Adaptation and Interpretation with Jason Zapata

Monocle 24: Meet the Writers

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2019 74:11

For episode nine of The Palmer Files, guest Jason Zapata joins Agent Palmer to discuss adaption versus interpretation; from Tolkien and Terry Brooks to Batman, Bond, and Beowulf, plus many many more properties, it's a pop culture cornucopia. Jason and Jason relive old arguments about Tolkien's seminal adaptation by Peter Jackson and discuss many book to screen adaptations and other interpretations plus go on a few sidetracks, because why not? Throughout the conversation, we cover: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Book vs. Film Purist Perspective Tom Bombadil The Hobbit Terry Brooks and The Four Lands The Shannara Chronicles The Sword of Shannara Trilogy Being Generational Game of Thrones and George R.R. Martin The Name of the Winds by Patrick Rothfuss Rock Star Authors The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker Do Not Touch list All Adaptations Are Not Created Equal Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Adaptation to Big or Small Screen Star Wars Comic Book Adaptations Batman as the new Macbeth James Bond Does the visual media inspire looking for the source material? Gender and Interpretation vs. Adaptation Women deserve better than gender-swapped characters Beowulf with Christopher Lambert The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice The IPCRESS File Everyone should read more Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode AgentPalmer.com JasonZapata.com Thanks to a friend, I've entered the World of Shannara Galilee: A Romance by Clive Barker is a Masterpiece of the Written Word Ernest Cline shows his immense geek cred with Ready Player One The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton is a MAsterpiece of Spy Fiction (Spoiler Free Review) Microserfs by Douglas Coupland is the Psychology of the Geeks Written Yesterday for Tomorrow Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins is a must-have for NASAphiles Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Beowulf Tweets @ThePalmerFiles @AgentPalmer @ZapataWordsmith You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and as mentioned on this show as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette. Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions. --End Show Notes Transmission--

Charles Cumming

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2019 30:00

Georgina Godwin talks to bestselling UK thriller writer Charles Cumming about his book ‘The Man Between’. Cumming has been described as one of the best of the new generation taking over from where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off. He’s won the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming steel dagger award for best thriller and crime book of the year at the Bloody Scotland festival. He was even approached by MI6 to become a spy himself, an experience that inspired his career.

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A President and a Spy

"Don Morrison's 3 Minutes of Madness"

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2019 3:02

Spy thrillers may not be for everyone, but the genre is getting a shot in the arm -- thanks to Trump and the Russians.

Merle Nygate - The Righteous Spy (Ep 62)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2018 42:43

On this episode of the Spybrary Spy Podcast we talk to author Merle Nygate all about her first espionage novel The Righteous Spy In a Goodreads review - Spybrary listener Gary Dexter raves that The Righteous Spy is: The best espionage book that I have read with a contemporary U.K. setting since Mick Herron's "Slow Horse" series. Gary Dexter, Spybrarian Gary has read many a spy novel in his time and does not dish out the praise lightly so we were intrigued to talk to Merle Nygate and find out more. A twisting international spy thriller, The Righteous Spy is a shocking page turner that portrays a clandestine world in which moral transgressions serve higher causes. A must-read for fans of Homeland, Fauda and The Americans, it will also appeal to readers of Charles Cumming and John le Carré. Merle Nygate is a screenwriter, script editor, screenwriting lecturer and novelist; she's worked on BAFTA winning TV, New York Festival audio drama and written original sitcoms; previously she worked for BBC Comedy Commissioning as well as writing and script editing across multiple genres. Most recently, Merle completed her first espionage novel which won the Little Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award. It was described by the judge as 'outstanding'. In this Spybrary Podcast interview the author of the Righteous Spy reveals that her book was inspired by feedback she received in a class exercise whilst studying for a MA in Crime Fiction. She shares more about her research for the book and also talks us through her writing process and inspiration. This is a candid discussion with an author who knows her way around the greats (she lists Len Deighton as her favourite spy author) and shares the story of a pivotal moment when she decided to take writing seriously whilst passing a book store on her way back to her office job one lunch time.

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Len Deighton and Bernard Samson's Berlin. Spybrary Meetup (ep 60)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2018 68:38

Listeners of Spybrary met up in Berlin to follow in the footsteps of Len Deighton's Bernard Samson. Be a fly on the wall as the Spybrarians visit Berlin landmarks. Listen to the spy book, tv, movie and music chat as the beers flow!

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A Photographic Life - 24: Plus Brian Duffy

A Photographic Life

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 19:25

In episode 24 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott considers writing and photography. The use of captions and the provision of text to provide context on websites, in books and as part of a photographic exhibition, and the first steps to consider when looking to get commissioned. Plus this week legendary photographer Brian Duffy recalls making the iconic image of David Bowie and designing the iconic 1973 album cover Aladdin Sane as well as revealing the inspiration for Bowie's zig-zag make-up. This brief audio is extracted from a telephone conversation between Duffy and Grant Scott recorded shortly before Duffy's death in 2010. In 1955 Duffy began freelancing as a fashion artist for Harper's Bazaar magazine where he first came into contact with commercial photography. Inspired by the photographic contact sheets he saw passing through the art director's desk he sought a job as a photographers assistant, and was subsequently employed at Carlton studios and then at Cosmopolitan Artists. Duffy went on to work as an assistant to the photographer Adrian Flowers and whilst working for Flowers he received his first photographic commission for the The Sunday Times magazine. In 1957 Duffy was hired by British Vogue where he remained working until 1963. With fellow photographers; David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy was a key player in the 'Black Trinity' as affectionately named by Norman Parkinson, who redefined not only the aesthetic of fashion photography but also the place of the photographer within the industry. Apart from Vogue, Duffy also worked for numerous publications including Glamour, Esquire, Town, Queen, The Observer, The Sunday Times and the Telegraph Magazine. Duffy was also a highly successful commercial advertising photographer. In 1968 he set up a film production company with Len Deighton and went on to produce the film adaptations of Deighton's book Only When I Larf (1967), and of the musical Oh! What a Lovely War. Duffy had an eight-year working relationship with David Bowie and shot five key sessions over this period providing the creative concept as well as the photographic image for three album covers, including the 1973 Aladdin Sane, 1979 Lodger and 1980 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). The story of his life and work is documented in a BBC documentary titled The Man Who Shot the 60's. Duffy died in May 2010, after suffering from the degenerative lung disease pulmonary fibrosis. www.duffyphotographer.com You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto and on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book #New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay will be screened across the UK and the US in 2018. © Grant Scott 2018

58: Battle for Bond - Brush Pass Review

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 12:12

Spybrary Spy Podcast with Matthew Kresal After a rejuvenating few months at Shrublands our Brush Pass Reviews makes a welcome return to the Spybrary Spy Podcast. Matthew Kresal’s brush pass has been decoded. Tune in and hear his transmission where he gives us his rapid briefing on the Battle for Bond, a book written by Robert Sellars. ‘In 1963, Ian Fleming, the creator of the 20th century’s greatest fictional character was in court, accused of plagiarism. The screen version of James Bond was not Fleming’s creation. It was the creation of Jack Whittingham, who was employed by maverick producer Kevin McClory to adapt the character to the big screen. Had this screen character never been developed, James Bond might have been just another minor fictional spy character. Battle for Bond – Robert Sellars The Battle for Bond is a tale of bitter recriminations, betrayal, multi-million dollar lawsuits and even death. It is the fabled story of Kevin McClory’s 40 year legal battle over the rights to the screen version of James Bond, which he and Whittingham had created. The first edition of this book was banned by the Ian Fleming Will Trust. But the truth never dies! This second edition features a new foreword by Len Deighton.

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PHM Séries #01 - SS-GB

Clube dos Generais

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2018 24:39

Neste episódio nós abrimos uma nova variante de assuntos. O objetivo do PHM Séries é conversar sobre séries de guerra que podem ser assistidas nos mais diversos serviços de streaming ou baixados por modos alternativos. O primeiro episódio é dedicado à série SS-GB, uma adaptação do livro de Len Deighton. . Link para o ebook: https://amzn.to/2xACXUd .Assine o CGcast no seu agregador favorito! . O Clube dos Generais é membro associado do Programa de Associados da Amazon Brasil! Link geral: http://amzn.to/2wIzQrF . Acesse o Clube dos Generais: Web: www.clubedosgenerais.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/clubedosgenerais/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/clubedosgenerais Instagram: @clubedosgenerais Twitter: @clubegenerais Email: contato@clubedosgenerais.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clubedosgenerais/message

56: Len Deighton's Berlin Game - Book Club

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2018 82:03

Berlin Game -Len Deighton - Spybrary Book Club Edition Spybrary listeners voted overwhelmingly for Berlin Game to be the first spy book to be discussed in our first ever book club Spybrary edition. Listen to an in-depth conversation on this spy classic with Spybrary host Shane Whaley, Deighton expert Rob Mallows and newcomer to Len Deighton's work but not the spy genre Peter Newman. WARNING - Please do not listen to the Berlin Game Book Club edition of Spybrary if you have not read the book. Unlike other episodes of the Spybrary Spy Podcast this episode if full of Berlin Game spoilers. It is a book club edition so we cover lots of aspects of the book including many of the twists and turns. Spybrary Host Shane Whaley claims that this is one of the top 3 spy books ever written, if not the best! 'Not just a multi-layered spy novel but also a love letter from Len Deighton to Berlin' he says. Rob Mallows says Berlin Game is the book that got him hooked on Len Deighton. Peter Newman delivers a fresh approach as this was his first time reading Berlin Game. What did our panel think of the plot, the characters, the writing, the conclusion? Tune in to find out! 'Fleming made spy fiction globally popular, but it took Deighton in the Sixties with novels such as The IPCRESS File to make it hip. His finest work, though, came later, in the Eighties, with this trilogy (completed by Mexico Set and London Match) about the disillusioned SIS agent Bernard Samson. Less exuberant than his early books but more subtle, Berlin Game is a terrific feat of plotting that out-le-Carrés le Carré in its sardonic portrait of Secret Service office politics. Tarantino (who had Max Cherry read a copy in Jackie Brown) should hurry up and film it, like he said he would.' Jake Kerridge - The Telegraph. Notable Quotes from Berlin Game by Len Deighton 'How long have we been sitting here?’ I said. I picked up the field glasses and studied the bored young American soldier in his glass-sided box. ‘Nearly a quarter of a century,’ said Werner Volkmann. His arms were resting on the steering wheel and his head was slumped on them. ‘That GI wasn’t even born when we first sat here waiting for the dogs to bark.’ Bernard Samson ----- 'Do you know some quiet restaurant where they have sausage and potatoes and good Berlin beer?’ ‘I know just the place, Bernie. Straight up Friedrichstrasse, under the railway bridge at the S-Bahn station and it’s on the left. On the bank of the Spree: Weinrestaurant Ganymed.’ ‘Very funny,’ I said. Between us and the Ganymed there was a wall, machine guns, barbed wire, and two battalions of gun-toting bureaucrats.'

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50: Len Deighton/Bernard Samson Meetup - Berlin

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 22:36

Follow in the steps of Bernard Samson - Len Deighton Meetup - Berlin Listen to a special message that Len Deighton has sent us on Episode 50 of the Spybrary Spy Podcast! Rob Mallows from the Deighton Dossier returns to the show to talk with Spybrary Spy Podcast host Shane Whaley. We talk through our schedule for the day walking in the footsteps of Bernard Samson from the classic spy novels written by Len Deighton. Join us in Berlin on August 4th.

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33: Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2018 10:51

Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton is the subject of our Brush Pass Review. Listen in to this bite size review from Spybrary contributor Agent Palmer.

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EP1 Imperial Germany vs Nazi Germany

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017 52:04

Dan once said that he thought Germany's First World War military was superior to Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht. He is often asked to elaborate, so he does in this show (note:this “pilot” show was previously posted on YouTube) Notes: The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian (post war memoirs) Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton

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All about Len Deighton with Deighton Dossier’s Rob Mallows