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Inventing James Bond

How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

The author Ian Fleming created the fictional super-spy, James Bond, in the 1950s. Fleming, a former journalist and stockbroker, had served in British naval intelligence during the Second World War. Using interviews with Fleming and his friends from the ±«Óãtv archive, Alex Last explores how elements of James Bond were drawn from Ian Fleming's own adventurous life.
Photo: Ian Lancaster Fleming, British author and creator of the James Bond character, in 1958. (Getty Images)

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