Live and Let Die

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James Bond

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Toby Stephens stars as James Bond - Secret Service agent 007 created by Ian Fleming.

Toby Stephens stars as James Bond - the British Secret Service agent 007 created by Ian Fleming.

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James Bond: Live and Let Die

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007’s most exotic adventure - New York to Jamaica - with a stellar international cast.

4 Extra Debut. From Harlem jazz joints to danger in Jamaica with 007’s unexpected ally - Bond’s deadly battle with Mr Big. Stars Toby Stephens.

007’s most exotic adventure - New York, Florida, Jamaica - with a stellar international cast, recorded on location in America. 

Bond tracks down monstrous Mr Big in Harlem. Big is importing priceless gold coins to finance Russian spy operations and captures Bond. Beautiful, mysterious Solitaire is also a prisoner.

Bond escapes. Solitaire follows. They pursue the source of the gold, first to Florida where Solitaire is captured by Mr Big's minions. 

007 continues on to Jamaica. But can he survive the barracudas? Will he rescue Solitaire, recover the treasure and bring Mr Big to justice? Well, there’s a fair chance. He is James Bond!

Written by Ian Fleming.

Starring Toby Stephens and Kevin Daniels.  

Dramatised by Archie Scottney.

James Bond …... Toby Stephens
Mr Big …... Kevin Daniels 
Solitaire …... Rutina Wesley  
‘M’ …... John Standing
Leiter …... Josh Stamberg
Tee-Hee …... Michael A. Shepperd
Whisperer/Blabber …... Lovensky Jean-Baptiste
Quarrel …... Ron Cephas Jones
Baldwin …... John Cothran 
Strangways …... Jonathan Cake
‘The Robber’ …... James Morrison 
Dexter …... JD Cullum
Halloran …... Jake Green 
MC/Maitre d’ …... Gilbert Glenn Brown
Connie/Operator …... Anna Louise Plowman
G-G/Waitress …... Janine Barris 
Flannel/Conductor …... Larry Powell
Mrs Stuyvesant …... Anna Mathias
Voice of Ian Fleming …... Martin Jarvis

Other parts played by: 

Darren Richardson
Alan Shearman,
André Sogliuzzo
Matthew Wolf 

Specially composed music by Mark Holden and Julian Nicholson.

Producer:  Rosalind Ayres.

Director:  Martin Jarvis    
       
A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2019.

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