Inventing James Bond
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond, how a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived and the invention of the Sony Walkman.
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)
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