Kate Roger

And if we think about the franchise, that's over five decades we've been entertained by 007.

And the fascination, I don't think, has waned in that time.

And our obsession with wanting to know who this latest Bond is, because it's been 15 years.

Daniel Craig just wouldn't let go of Bond and he was so great at it.

But that's the longest tenure.

of any actor playing 007.

So when we had news that auditions had begun, you can just imagine the bedding houses suddenly had a lot of business.

Yeah.

The Bond zeitgeist, I know.

That's exactly how I refer to it as well, Alexia.

I don't know how you perceive your relationship with Bond, but I know a huge number of people listening right now grew up with James Bond.

And he, whether it was the books, the Fleming books, but obviously the films with the broccolis.

as they're known, the owners and the custodians of James Bond.

When they sold, I'm going to say these terrible words, sold out, but I don't actually really mean that.

Why wouldn't you bank Bond?

But for the first time, of course, Amazon owns Bond.

Yeah, they did.

I mean, the shortest, I'm going to say shortest, but he was one of the tallest.

And he was the only non-Brit, which we'll go into further shortly, to be cast as Bond was Australian George Lazenby, who has the record of only being Bond for one single film.

And the only Bond that got married.