Walk another day

WITH three recycled-plastic ships floating in mid air above gushing fountains and a Ukrainian flag flying defiantly above the South Wing, Somerset House hardly recalls St Petersburg, but the London landmark played the role brilliantly in GoldenEye. Filmed on a steely day in April, the scene has Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond driven by CIA operative Jack Wade in a crumbling car that breaks down in the middle of ‘Central Square’, against the backdrop of a fake Lenin bust, only to be fixed with a good hammering. Location consistency has never bothered 007 filmmakers, so, two years later, in a much swankier motor—his customary Aston Martin DB5—Bond, still played by Mr Brosnan, passes through Somerset House’s North Wing arch to meet Judi Dench’s M in Tomorrow Never Dies.

‘Of course, Bond doesn’t miss the opportunity to have a dry