Licence To Queer

Licence To Queer

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  • Our Year in Bond - Review of 2023

    Antony and David review a fully stocked 2023. Rather than retread things they've already talked about in detail on episodes of Our Month in Bond they instead choose one highlight from each month to elaborate on, sharing hitherto unheard stories. Their selections include book launches, film screenings, events, trips to Bond locations at home and abroad, charity fundraisers, awards and - most thrillingly of all - making new Bond friends.

    The episode ends by bringing the Our Month in Bond series up to date with their Christmas trip to Venice and their exclusive first reading of the new Bond novel (due out in April 2024) A Spy Like Me.

    1 hr 12 min
  • Christmas comes again! (And again!): The various versions of The World Is Not Enough

    In the latest instalment of their popular series uncovering how Bond films developed through the scripting process, Tom Mason and David Lowbridge-Ellis set their gunbarrel sights on The World Is Not Enough. Early versions of the script reveal significantly different locations, different action sequences, different characters and different versions of the infamous gag which brings the film to its memorable climax!

    Previous episodes (available on YouTube and wherever you find podcasts) have tackled early drafts of Diamonds Are Forever and The Spy Who Loved Me.
    Which film do you think Tom and David should do next?

    2 hr 27 min
  • Our Month In Bond - Countdown to Christmas

    Your hosts recount their trip to Buckingham Palace to pick up David's MBE, the climactic 007GB event of 2023 and their experience of David Arnold's intimate live gig. After making a Doctor Who-themed Martini, they run through Christmas gift ideas for Bond fans, the release of Mark Edlitz's new book and finish with a discussion of Bond-tangential media they have enjoyed, including the film Saltburn and a 'shaken not stirred' Super Mario video game.

    Your hosts will return before the end of the year, live from Venice, where they will be spending Christmas day itself.

    42 min
  • The Road Ahead for 007: Road to a Million?

    While Antony and David really enjoyed 007: Road to a Million and are looking forward to the next series, they both choose three things which they think could make the show even better for all audiences, including the hardcore James Bond fans.

    Contains spoilers for the whole series.

    33 min
  • Our Month In Bond - October 2023

    Antony and David reflect on another busy month which included David introducing a special screening of Casino Royale and interviewing six Bond authors at Pinewood Studios for Bondstars. They also discuss the Doctor Who connections with Bond (Doctor Who is celebrating its 60th anniversary), Halloween-related articles on the LTQ website, the Roger Moore auction and David receiving a very special item that once belonged to Roger Moore.

    45 min
  • Our Month(s) In Bond: August/September 2023

    A bumper double episode, bringing you two months in one. We've both been so busy being 'problem eliminators' with our day jobs we didn't have chance to record at the end of August, so we saved it for now. We look back at the brilliant 007GB Club Belfry event in Birmingham, new editions of Bond novels for Global James Bond day, the excellent new Bond video game Cypher 007, our holiday plans to a classic Bond location and what's hot on the Licence to Queer website including new cocktail - the 'Kara Milovy'.

    Our review of Cypher 007 in the main body of the episode is spoiler free but the last 10 minutes of the podcast are full of plot spoilers for the first 10 missions of the game. There is plenty of warning so you won't stray into this section by accident.

    53 min
  • Sharing passions with Raymond Benson
    Benson’s Bond books updated 007's world for their period and were even ahead of their time in key ways. On the eve of the re-release of Zero Minus Ten, Raymond and I chat in detail about not just Bond but also other mutual passions, including Hitchcock, Hong Kong cinema and listening to The Beatles without earmuffs.
    As well as being a novelist, Raymond has been a theatre director, music composer, computer game creator and film historian. Although he’s now written over 40 books, 1997’s Zero Minus Ten was his first novel to be published.
    Zero Minus Ten is being re-released on 5th October 2023.
    Although we discuss Benson’s Bond books in some detail, none of the twists and turns in the stories are given away.
    Here’s an overview of our chat:
    00:00 Bond and Bergman 
    04:50 Hitchcock and Kubrick 
    07:00 Acting, directing and many other careers
    09:25 Zero Minus Ten - his first novel (if you don’t count the one starring his nephew)
    12:50 A Hitchcockian approach to plotting
    20:25 Hong Kong history - a succinct summary of British Colonial History
    29:40 Hong Kong cinema and the ‘casting’ of Zero Minus Ten
    32:50 Modernising Bond’s world
    34:00 Sex scenes: a focus on female pleasure. 
    39:40 Getting inside Bond’s head
    43:20 “You asked, why do I love Bond…”
    46:50 Early Bond obsession: awkward admissions from childhood!
    48:20 The peaks and troughs of Bond’s popularity
    49:30 Bond films: a history of pop culture
    50:00 Nerdy questions about Raymond’s Bond books
    57:20 The novelisations
    01:02:00 Looking back on seven years of writing Bond novels
    01:04:00 Looking ahead: reprints and a rendezvous at Pinewood
    Due to a little internet lag, the video is occasionally out of sync and we inadvertently talk over each other here and there early on, but not enough to hamper your enjoyment.
    1 hr 10 min

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On a mission to uncover why James Bond appeals so much to LGBTQ+ people and our allies. Why not see 007 from a different angle?