Shaken Not Stirred; A BBC Bond Collection

A later edition of Back Row suggests that the score can be integral to box-office success. Throw in some double entendres and the all-important Bond girl and the recipe is complete: Alan Whicker interviews the girls of You Only Live Twice on exotic Japanese location and a 1995 Radio 4 Woman's Hour discussion considers the changing role of the Bond girl within the films.

The collection also points to the longevity of the franchise. A Radio 4 celebration of the centenary of Fleming and an interview with Sebastian Faulks — author of Bond novel Devil May Care — focus on the renaissance of Bond in literature.

BBC Archive executive producer, Julie Rowbotham, says of the collection: "James Bond is such an iconic part of British culture and we are thrilled to be able to release these programmes re-examining the legend and exploring why successive generations have taken 007 to their hearts."

The fascinating collection of programmes and images is available now the BBC Archive website. The BBC Archive is one of the largest multimedia archives in the world, held in 27 locations across the UK. As well as close to a million hours of TV and radio programmes it also holds six million still photographs, over four million items of sheet music, and over half-a-million documents and records.

BBC Archive collections allow you to explore around 75 years of UK and BBC history. Programmes, documents, and images bring the past to life and enable content discovery within a rich interactive resource, available to UK audiences.

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