The Russians want James Bond dead. Will his romance with a beautiful spy ultimately cloud Bond's judgment? With Toby Stephens and John Sessions.
The year is 1955 and the Russians are planning a terrorist act. Choice of target? James Bond. Being “killed in ignominy”: a major sex scandal will leave his reputation, and that of MI6, in tatters.
KGB Colonel Rosa Klebb hatches a plan to lure Bond into their trap, using beautiful Corporal Tatiana Romanova as bait – as well as a Spektor, Russia's latest code-breaking device. MI6 learns that Tatiana wants to defect and "M" orders Bond to go to Istanbul. When Tatiana makes contact, she appears to be in love with him – but is she? Regardless, he soon falls in love with her and they leave Istanbul together, accompanied by the larger-than-life Darko Kerim, head of British intelligence in Turkey. The drama's climax includes a surprising confrontation between Bond and murderess Rosa Klebb.
Starring Toby Stephens as James Bond, John Standing as M, Janie Dee as Moneypenny, Julian Sands as Q, John Sessions as The General, Mark Gatiss as Kronsteen, Eileen Atkins as Rosa Klebb, Tim Pigott-Smith as Kerim and Martin Jarvis as Ian Fleming. .
In writer Archie Scottney's brilliantly evocative "radio script", we see a different side of 007. Unsure of his judgement, will he be able to bring the lovely Tatiana safely to England, along with the precious Spektor? Will the Russians succeed in having Bond killed? If so, who is the potential murderer?
This is Jarvis & Ayres' third James Bond dramatization.
Music specially composed by Mark Holden and Michael Lopez
Director: Martin Jarvis
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.
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