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Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began was a 2008 documentary presented by Joanna Lumley which explored the life of the author Ian Fleming and the origin of his character James Bond. It was first broadcast on BBC One at 6:10pm on Sunday 19 October 2008 and was commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth and the then forthcoming release of the film Quantum of Solace .
The programme begins with Joanna Lumley narrating an account of Ian Fleming's mission to Occupied France in June 1940. Lumley visits Fleming's childhood home Joyce Grove in Oxfordshire. While at the country house, Lumley talks to Ben Mcintrye, who had written a biography of Fleming. They discuss Fleming's style and inspiration for his books. Lumley visits Eton College's library and talks to the Librarian Micheal Meredith about Fleming's time at Eton and his tense relationship with his housemaster E.V. Slater. Meredith shows Lumley, Fleming's first published work “The Ordeal of Caryl St. George” which was released in The Wyvern magazine of which Fleming was an editor.
Between Lumley's visits and interviews, Footage from the EON Bond films and passages from Fleming's Bond books including Casino Royale, From Russia with Love and For Your Eyes Only are voiced by Jonathan Pryce. Lumley narrates Fleming's time at Reuters news agency and Fleming's trip to Soviet Union to cover the Metro-Vickers Affair in 1933. Fleming decided to leave journalism as he wanted better pay and became a stockbroker which he was unsuccessful at.
In 1939, Fleming became Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey. Lumley talks with Sebastian Faulks in Horse Guards Parade and discuss Fleming's journalistic writing style of short sentences which create action. Lumley discusses Fleming's relationship with Ann Chateris, who at the time was married to Lord O'Neill to whom she had two children. Ann was also having an affair with Esmond Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere. Fleming also had numerous affairs.
Lumley travels to Jamaica. After the war ended, Fleming built a small bungalow which he named “Goldeneye”. Frequent visitors were Noel Coward and also the newly married Ann, who had married Rothermere after O’Neill died in action in 1944. Fleming became the Foreign Editor for The Times. The Rothermeres divorced in 1952, after which Ian and Ann married in Jamaica. Fleming started to write Casino Royale, the first Bond novel which was inspired by his past experiences. In 1953, Casino Royale was published and the Fleming's only child together was born who they named Casper. After the success of his first novel, Fleming wrote one Bond novel per year.
In 1962, Fleming had a heart attack. Ann Fleming “confiscated Ian's typewriter” and so Fleming wrote by hand a story for his son, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Despite his poor health, Fleming continued to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes heavily.
Lumley travels to the Royal St George's Golf Club in Kent. Lumley meets Fionn Morgan, Ann's daughter and Fleming's step-daughter, they discuss Ann and Ian's relationship and recounts the story when the Flemings were staying at a countryside house and had an argument which ended in Ann leaving and reversing her car into Fleming's Ford Thunderbird.
The dying Fleming wrote a first draft of The Man with the Golden Gun however Fleming died in mid 1964 before he finalised the novel. The documentary ends with Lumley sitting at Goldeneye commenting on Fleming's "extraordinary" life.
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
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Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London.
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Eon Productions Limited is a British film production company that primarily produces the James Bond film series. The company is based in London's Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the UK.
SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. It was written by Charlie Higson and released in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2005, by Puffin Books in conjunction with a large marketing campaign; a Canadian release of the same edition occurred in late March. The United States edition, which was slightly edited for content, was released on April 27, 2005, by Miramax Books.
Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. In 1952, author Ian Fleming bought it after completing his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale; he assigned most of his rights in Casino Royale, and the works which followed it to Glidrose.
Zero Minus Ten, published in 1997, is the first novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond following John Gardner's departure in 1996. Published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in America by Putnam, the book is set in Hong Kong, China, Jamaica, England and some parts of Western Australia.
The Life of Ian Fleming is a biography of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and author of the children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The biography was written by John Pearson, Fleming's assistant at the London Sunday Times, and published in October 1966 by Jonathan Cape (ISBN 1448208068). Pearson later wrote the official, fictional-biography James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 in 1973, and his research papers and interviews for the biography were published as Ian Fleming The Notes by Queen Anne Press in 2020. The Life of Ian Fleming was one of the first biographies of Ian Fleming and is considered a collectible book by many James Bond fans, since Pearson would become the third, official James Bond author.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall. The film is based on the 1964 children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming, with a screenplay co-written by Hughes and Roald Dahl.
Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1956.
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories. Set in London, the United States and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published; much of the background came from Fleming's travel in the US and knowledge of Jamaica.
Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica. He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach. The three-bedroom structure was constructed from Fleming's sketch, fitted with wooden jalousie windows and a swimming pool. Fleming's visitors at Goldeneye included actors, musicians, and filmmakers, among others. As of 2010, the property operates as Goldeneye Hotel and Resort, consisting of Fleming's main house and several cottages.
"Casino Royale" is a live 1954 television adaptation of the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. An episode of the American dramatic anthology series Climax!, the show was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, and stars Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, and Linda Christian. Though this marks the first onscreen appearance of the secret agent, Nelson's Bond is played as an American spy working for the "Combined Intelligence Agency".
Commander James Bond is a character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) and Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)—were published posthumously.
Shane Edward Robert O'Neill, 3rd Baron O'Neill was an Anglo-Irish peer and British Army officer. He served during World War II and was killed in action in Italy.
Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming was a British aristocrat and socialite. She had three husbands: Lord O'Neill, Lord Rothermere and Ian Fleming.
Colonel Raymond Arthur Clanaboy O'Neill, 4th Baron O'Neill,, is a Northern Irish peer, retired reservist officer and public administrator. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Antrim between 1994 and 2008.
