Introduction

Part 1: Initiate countdown. 1945: There's nobody to talk to when it's raining

1952: All of his own darkness

1956: I would have liked to have seen the boys growing up

1960: A notorious centre for prostitution

1961: Unashamedly, for pleasure and money

1962: Glutted with the overload of stuff

Part 2: Detonate. 1962: Bigger than the Beatles

1962: Sean Connery (1930-2000)

1963: There are truths in that screaming

1964: Ian Fleming (1908-1964)

1964: A film with four long-haired schnooks

1965: It would take too much else away

1965: It would take too much else away

1965: Not as good as James Bond

1965: Greater than the sum of their parts

1965: The things I do for England

1967: What did he want to communicate

1967: Larger than reality

1967: 007 (Shanty Town)

1967: Welles was trying to put a voodoo mind-grip on him

1968: On the banks of the River Ganges

1968: Yoko and Billy

1969: John, Paul and James get married

1969: George Lazenby's hair

1969: Paul is dead

Part 3: Aftermath. 1970: Answer: no

1970: Mother/love

1970: The best

1970: Phil and Allen

1971: To deny that love was desirable

1973: Christopher Lee (1922-2015)

1973: The problem is Bond

1974: In the material world

1977: Risking their lives for the audience's entertainment

1980: The no-mark

1980: John Lennon (1940-1980)

1981: For a true artist their life is their art

Part 4: Grow up, 007. 1983: A symbol of real value to the Free World

1984: Wacky Macca thumbs aloft

1995: Too much of a good time

1999: Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999)

2001: George Harrison (1943-2001)

2002: The fate of the pixels

2003: Come on, Mr Putin!

2008: The death of Strawberry Fields

2012: A golden thread of purpose

2015: What is the new evil in the world?

2021: Time to die

2021: Ringo and Paul

2022: James Bond will return