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Inventing James Bond
FromThe History Hour
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy, James Bond plus, how the British government shifted social care for the disabled away from large institutions and into the community and the Cape Town bombings in 1990s South Africa. Also how a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived and the birth of the Sony Walkman, a device that changed listening habits forever.
Photo: Ian Lancaster Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character, in 1958. (Getty Images)
Photo: Ian Lancaster Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character, in 1958. (Getty Images)
Released:
Sep 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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