1964: Actor Sean Connery poses as James Bond next to his Aston Martin DB5 in a scene from the United Artists release 'Goldfinger' in 1964 (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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What will Amazon mean for James Bond?

 

Did James Bond prevent a generation of British men from putting on a suit, ordering fancy wine, going into a casino or having sex with someone, without feeling a sense that they were falling pathetically short of the master?

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Joining Robert Thicknesse to address the riddles of James Bond and to discuss the handover of creative control to streaming giant Amazon, is Simon Winder, author and publishing director at Penguin Books, who helped bring Ian Fleming’s novels back into print. Professor James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester and a leading expert on Bond and British cinema, and Lucy Lethbridge, author and journalist known for her writing on British life and history.

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