BBC Radio 4 - James Bond Radio Drama, Moonraker

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First broadcasted on March 31, 2018.
It's 1954, Winston Churchill sends Bond undercover to protect Moonraker against possible treachery. Can the launch go ahead? Martin Jarvis directs Toby Stephens and a stellar cast.
Martin Jarvis directs this surprisingly up-to-date, all-star guided missile drama.
It's 1954 and British patriot Sir Hugo Drax (Samuel West) has built an atomic rocket, Moonraker, vital to Britain's defences. It's ready for a trial launch. But after a double-murder, James Bond (Toby Stephens) goes undercover at Moonraker's secret base. He and agent Gala Brand (Katherine Kingsley) discover possible treachery. Can they prevent a catastrophe?
Archie Scottney's compelling dramatization of Ian Fleming's novel is Jarvis and Ayres' seventh Bond on Radio 4. Janie Dee, John Standing and Julian Sands return as Moneypenny, M and Q. Jared Harris is Head of Special Branch, Patricia Hodge a hearty missile expert, Ian Ogilvy a BBC man, and Nigel Anthony is a Peter Lorre-inspired Krebs.
Sound design: Mark Holden
Specially composed music: Mark Holden and Mike Lopez
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to this radio drama. All rights go to BBC Radio 4 and all its contributors.
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@leijen208 Год назад

These dramas have gotten me to seek out the books. I am a fan of the movies, but wish so many of them would've stuck to the books. Storylines for some so much better. Actually would love to see the BBC do a TV series and redo the books as written. Allow the movies to do whatever they want. Kind of like what happens with Jane Austen adaptations

@NoosaHeads 3 года назад

Dr. Krebs is the best Peter Lore impersonation ever.

@mohammedashian8094 Год назад

Kinda funny considering Fleming described him as a mad scientist version of Peter Lorre in the book

@UltraCoolSuperOne97 2 года назад

Couldn't help but laugh when Gala Brand said "My real name's even worse," I instantly thought of the name of the bond lady in the movie

@allan4922 Год назад

Oh, a woman.

@TheJanbakema 4 месяца назад

ï😢tt😊😊 im

@clnhunter9137 4 года назад

Wish the film version was truer to the book, instead of the nonsensical space shuttle version. One of my favorite Bond stories. Well played Mr Stevens !

@slagit 3 года назад

Yes it would be interesting. Many years ago I started to read some of the original Bond novels and it was interesting to see oh close a few of the Connery films were to the novels!

@warrenrhinerson6373 2 года назад

@@slagit I’m reading them now. Really enjoyed Moonraker, working on Diamonds are Forever. I find it a bit sad that only 7 or 8 of the films are accurate to the books

@lpvp1 3 месяца назад

Thank very much looking forward

@leijen208 Год назад

Awesome Peter Lorre type impersonation

@mohammedashian8094 Год назад

Krebs actually is described as a mad scientist version of Peter Lorre

@fanboy2015 3 года назад

I’m reading the book now. So far 52% of it. This play has been pretty spot on with the story so far.

@caileanthomson1286 5 лет назад

"You die a hero, or you live long enough to become a villain." Aside from Toby Stephens it seems. From Bond Villain to James Bond himself. What a performance from Mr. Stephens and the rest of the cast. I now intend to find other BBC dramas like this.

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

If you do, make sure you do it in chronological order: - Moonraker - Diamonds Are Forever - From Russia with Love - Dr. No - Goldfinger - Thunderball - On Her Majesty's Secret Service

@caileanthomson1286 5 лет назад

Thanks for the heads up,@@naughtydog1617. I hear that these stories contain quite the cast line-up. XD

@OverlandOne 5 лет назад

Check out BBC radio's play of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Lecarre'. I have listened to it many times as I can download it from my local library online using their Overdrive media app. It is just awesome and very well done.

@caileanthomson1286 5 лет назад

Oooh, a adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,@@OverlandOne? Colour me intrested. I adored the 2011 film, so this has a lot to live up to. But, I have confidence, thanks to these BBC Bond Dramas. Thanks for the heads up.

@rareimer 4 года назад

@@caileanthomson1286 There were actually two radio adaptations of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. One was done in 1988, in seven half-hour episodes, with Bernard Hepton as Smiley. This was released on cassette, but is out of print now. Then, in 2009-2010, there was a series with the explanatory title THE COMPLETE SMILEY, starring Simon Russell Beale. This did TINKER in three hour-long episodes. It is available on CD and as a download.

@michaelwilkins5841 5 лет назад

These radio plays are so well done...Thank you, Thank you

@slagit 3 года назад

So interesting how different these original BOND tales are from the films. I know some of the early BOND films were close to the novels it would be interesting to see these the novels that were changed so much be adapted as films closer to the source. Although some of these films might be short and in the end like this one Bond did not end up with the woman.

@godsentjesustosetusallfree9859 2 месяца назад

I do love James, James Bond

@J-SH06 4 года назад

Why? “Because Hugo drakes cheats at cards”. Never forget it!

@JavertRA 4 года назад

Bond swimming in blue pants? That rings a bell...

@klilinoklire4403 4 года назад

1:21:02 The sound of the explosion gave me goosebumps.

@hugohugo2832 3 года назад

So good. The only Bond book set in England

@hermajesty52 3 года назад

love Toby's audio dramatizations! Check out his Philip Marlowe's---with an impeccable American accent!

@2msvalkyrie529 2 года назад

!!!???......his excruciating mannered delivery as Bond is like a parody of a certain type of actor . As for his American accent. .... .....awful.!

@WhiteJarrah 3 года назад

Sir Hugo Drax sounds like Sideshow Bob in this audio play.

@Dragonfly-0010 5 лет назад

Best one yet. My favourite.

@mariagalek-tanaka6121 2 года назад

Masterpiece.

@clarencebeeks1528 4 года назад

I accidentally stumbled across this channel - to my sheer delight! These productions are just super ! *Subbed* I really enjoy Toby Stephen's portrayal of Bond.

@kidz4p509 4 года назад

It's kind of ironic that a Bond villain would play Bond himself 16 years later.

@alexcaruso8766 Год назад

The Bond we never had.

@spikemcnock8310 5 месяцев назад

Nothing like the film but equally has good. Thanks

@PeanutFactory14 5 лет назад

This is amazing! Please post more if it’s possible 🙂🙂

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

Glad you like it. There are others already posted on RU-vid by other people. So just search for them on RU-vid. They are: - Diamonds Are Forever - From Russia with Love - Dr. No - Goldfinger - Thunderball - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Like I said the rest are already posted by other people. But if you want ME to post more (for whatever reason lol), I will do it JUST FOR YOU😉

@BelatedCommiseration 4 года назад

I really wish Toby Stephens could have at least had a stint as Bond in the movies. He embodies the character of Bond better than Pierce Brosnan ever did! And when he was younger (like when he was Gustav Graves in Die another day) he certainly would have had the physicality to pull of being Bond. Plus, I think he looks and sounds a bit more like the original Bond of the books before Connery put his stamp on the character! Also, Samue West would have made an excellent villain in the movies too. Can easily imagine him being a fantastic Blofeld!

@zgamingandmore209 5 лет назад

Thank you

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

You're very welcome ☺

@markusmegatron Год назад

Excellent...i listened to this several times 😊

@michaelkingsbury4305 7 месяцев назад

They skipped the details of the Duke of Cumberland Hand at the card table, and that Bond sobered up with amphetamines...

@margacat Год назад

Thanks!

@axm282 2 года назад

I love these radio plays, but when will the next one come out?

@Scotscan 5 лет назад

Featuring the great Sir Winston Churchill.

@billymcclelland8855 4 года назад

War monger

@barrydavidcooper 3 года назад

I listened to this shortly after re-reading the book. It's very close and I recommend it. The film was an abortion, nothing to do with the book.

@5cloudwalker 5 лет назад

I love these radio plays I think they are much better than the Bond movie interpretations. Screen writers always love to rearrange the original story but end up replacing it with their own creation... most Bond films did this shameless act

@theshadow3103 4 года назад

Thx for posting!! I enjoy listening to these!

@ToylandChairman666 5 лет назад

Holy crap, Toby Stephens made a seventh one of these? I didn't even realize. I like the MOONRAKER movie, but from what I've read it's next to nothing like the book. Which begs the question why it hasn't be adapted more faithfully, but apparently some elements made it into DIE ANOTHER DAY?

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

I THINK it originally was going to be a lot more faithful to the original novel, but the massive success of the 1977 "Star Wars" movie had influenced them into changing it into what we got. And what I remember off the top of my head, there are 2 elements from the Moonraker novel that made it into DAD: 1. Gustav Graves being some sort of "hero" to Great Britian like Hugo Drax was in the novel. 2. Graves constructed a monumental achievement (space laser) for the "good of the people" only to actually use it for evil intentions like Drax did with his monumental rocket in the novel. Did you enjoy Moonraker's radio drama? What is your favorite so far after listening to this one? :)

@ToylandChairman666 5 лет назад

@@naughtydog1617 Hopefully there's another adaptation then. Still listening to MOONRAKER. My favorite that I've heard so far might be DR. NO, since they were able to clean it up a bit from the book. Aside from No's weird voice.

@epsilonalphaargo1948 5 лет назад

@@naughtydog1617 Die Another Day (DAD) was going to incorporate more elements from the Moonraker novel before studio executives got in the way. Originally, the Bond Girl of DAD was Gala Brand and Jinx was the mole (this is why she is called Jinx). It was changed when Halle Berry was cast as Jinx as the studio executives thought that audiences would rather have Berry as a Bond Girl than a Femme Fatale. Jinx was made the Bond Girl and Gala Brand the mole. Brand was then renamed Miranda Frost to avoid displeasing fans of the Moonraker novel. Does anyone else wish that they had stuck to the original plan?

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

@@epsilonalphaargo1948 yeah but I also wish Halle Berry wasn't cast and DAD had a much better director. Maybe we wouldn't have gotten the MESS it turned out to be 😒

@epsilonalphaargo1948 5 лет назад

@@naughtydog1617 Yeah, studio executives and directors like Lee Tamahori have a bad habbit of adding into good film scripts their ideas of what will make them cooler but actually just damage what makes the scripts good. They also tend to make casting decisions based on anything other than acting talent. Researching the production history of Die Another Day gave me the feeling that it could have been a much better film had the higher ups not forced changes onto it. Originally the story was more about Bond trying to uncover the real traitor by hunting down Zao, Wai Lin from Tommorow Never Dies was meant to assist Bond in Hong Kong instead of Mr Chang and the final showdown took place at an indoor beach resort in Japan rather than on a large flying Antonov jet aircraft (I feel that the indoor beach resort would've been a more believable location for the final showdown).

@katerinachernyshev4992 4 года назад

Çok sevdim...Teşekkürler😉

@cjamthepatricianakabilldoo7852 5 лет назад

Is that a saint a bond and a warlock I hear

@thereisadog3717 Год назад

I have heard and loved all these plays. One question, what part does Ray Winstone play?

@jamesyoung6379 Год назад

I would like to see Toby replace Daniel Craig as Bond.

@MrSb192 3 года назад

Welcome to The Mystery Hour with Peter Lo... Oh sorry, it's another Bond story...

@PureFPSPwnage 3 года назад

That's where Captain Flint went!

@timonijenhuis7113 3 года назад

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@johnstringer2566 2 года назад

Better than the bloody film version. I'm glad I won tickets for that one ....would have hated to think I paid to see that one. Having said that had to buy the dvd for the collection. Oh woe.

@pertuk 2 года назад

Of course Toby Stephens and Samel West both played Soviet agents before

@moneyofpropre2 5 лет назад

Can we hope Live and let Die ?

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

BBC Radio 4 hasn't done it yet. But one of these four will be next from them: - Casino Royale - Live and Let Die - You Only Live Twice - The Man with the Golden Gun BBC Radio 4 should have a new James Bond Radio Drama sometime this year or next year.😉

@moneyofpropre2 5 лет назад

@@naughtydog1617 Oh they did it last week : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004sb9

@naughtydog1617 5 лет назад

@@moneyofpropre2 HOLY SH*T!! I had NO idea! My mistake lol. I will upload Live and Let Die as soon as I can when I find it. Ahh, my FAVORITE James Bond novel coming up from BBC Radio 4 , I CAN'T WAIT! Thanks for letting me know about this!😁

@user-ht8pn6dv9j 2 года назад

@@naughtydog1617 Seems I'm a couple of years late here. We now have LaLD and TMwtGG & I really wish they'd reach to the conclusion of the Blofeld Trilogy: You Only Live Twice - by re-recording the ruddy thing with (not only Toby, but also…) Joanna Lumley and Alfred Molina.

@hugohugo2832 3 года назад

Better than the film. Fabulous

@drock5404 3 месяца назад

I dont recall the part of this story where Bond doesnt get the girl. Talk about a nasty case of blue balls!

@mohammedashian8094 2 месяца назад

That’s how the book ended and I’m sure it was a surprise to everyone when it was published. It’s my personal favourite book of Fleming for that reason and that it has my favourite Bond girl ever

@takethehighroad5027 5 лет назад

someone find the bob holness version and upload that

@rareimer 4 года назад

There is no reason to suppose it still exists.

@colinglass1342 10 месяцев назад

How many Ian Flemming 007 books So. Far I only heard 3 Goldfinger You Only ive Twice on audiobooks now moonraker does it matter which order I listen to these 007 audio bookbnovels

@ricardocantoral7672 5 лет назад

I enjoy these radio dramas but I'm annoyed by the addition of Q and some of the clumsy attempts at humor.

@theunknownworrier 5 лет назад

Hehe, I see what you did there, very droll! :) *Humour.

@thefonzkiss 3 года назад

The Unknown Worrier Humor is correct in the USA.

@louisbrugnoni1291 4 года назад

I hate James Bond but I love these radio dramas! Much cooler listening than watching. Btw Sean Connery is the only James Bond worth watching!

@thejacksonsferenclisztlisz3364 2 года назад

The moral of the story buy out the Corporate BBC before 2035 and turn into a Silicon Valley Computer Games Show for the people of 2070 and the years 2080, 2090 and naughty 2090's . I hate James Bond movies, watch a Martin Bashir Documentary about Michael Jackson !

@johnvonkreuz6579 4 года назад

Ruined by a goon show Krebs and cartoon performance by Patricia Hodge. Not a patch on Dr No or FRWL.

@dan4lau 5 лет назад

I'm sorry, but I personally think they're murdering this. Almost every single actor is totally unsuitable for their role, in particular that woman playing the rocket scientist. It sounds to me as though the character was originally an australian man and the role has simply been given to a woman. There is no way a woman with that accent would have talked that way in 1954. I also think Jarvis' narration, while he is obviously a stella reader, is intrusive and jarring. Really rather blandly visualized and very poorly executed in my opinion at least.

@Dragonfly-0010 5 лет назад

''There is no way a woman with that accent would have talked that way in 1954.'' HUNDREDS of women spoke like that in the 1950s. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA how bloody clueless are you. What a joke. Are you even English? Fool.

@dan4lau 5 лет назад

Well Justin, I am English, and I've read books and listened to drama from the period. Still I have never come across a woman with an upper class British accent using the word 'sport' in the sense of mate or friend, much less the word bally. If you can show me evidence of British women talking in this way, I'll be more than happy to admit my error.

@Dragonfly-0010 5 лет назад

@@dan4lau You do realise the character is meant to be a lesbian, don't you?

@dan4lau 5 лет назад

Justin Todd-Walker, not at all sure what that's got to do with it... and I fear that nugget of information went over my head. If this is true, it's a blatant piece of stereotyping. Still waiting for your evidence of other women who spoke this way in the 1950s.

@philhealey449 4 года назад

@@dan4lau Upper classes don't use received pronunciation ! Anyway the electronic door- lock noises suggest late sixties not fifties and the instant response from the car radio turning on has no valve warming up period, so 1960's again and the instantaneously lighting 'mechanic's blowtorch' is also unconvincing as in the 1950s this would be a roaring paraffin Primus blow lamp needing pre heating with meths and much pumping up of the pressure tank and I defy anyone to light and regulate an oxy-acetylene torch in a nanosecond. 'Blowtorches' are more 1970s. Better we just go with the flow, you guys have now got me ranting at the technical anachronisms and errors, never mind fussing over minor points like the choice of the cast or their speech patterns!