The Secret History of James Bond Podcast
Join John Cork as he takes listeners and viewers on a globe-trotting journey to uncover the amazing stories behind the James Bond adventures, and the remarkable life of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming. Secrets will be revealed—from the real-life inspiration behind Bond’s greatest villains to the novel that Ian Fleming never read that helped inspire one of the original 007 adventures.
The Secret World of James Bond will look at the world that inspired Fleming, see how that world has changed, and how a fictional spy influenced literature, popular culture, and global politics.
The project will feature not only audio episodes, but videos.
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Who Wrote Blue Moon?
Was the iconic song “Blue Moon” written by an aspiring songwriter you’ve never heard of?
This is the motivating question for Liz Roman Gallese, a former journalist who for years has been searching for the lost legacy of her father, Edward W. Roman. All her life, the story had been told in the family that her father Ed wrote “Blue Moon,” sent it off to a song broker, then years later heard it on the radio…and sued two of the most prominent songwriters in the world, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Could the story be true?
Who Wrote Blue Moon? will look into what is known and unknown about “Blue Moon” and the remarkable quest of a daughter searching through the history of Troy, New York, for the young man who would later become her father.