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Mario Vargas Llosa was at the forefront of South American fiction in the mid-20th century. Nicolas Shakespeare looks back on the film he made following Vargas Llosa in his bid to become president of Peru.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fzbf/remembers-nicholas-shakespeare-remembers-mario-vargas-llosa
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fzbf/remembers-nicholas-shakespeare-remembers-mario-vargas-llosa
Remembers... - Nicholas Shakespeare Remembers... Mario Vargas Llosa
Nicholas Shakespeare looks back on the film he made for Omnibus that followed his friend and fellow writer Mario Vargas Llosa in his bid to become president of Peru.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Mario Vargas Llosa was at the forefront of South American fiction in the mid-20th century. Nicolas Shakespeare looks back on the film he made following Vargas Llosa in his bid to become president of Peru.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fzbf/remembers-nicholas-shakespeare-remembers-mario-vargas-llosa
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fzbf/remembers-nicholas-shakespeare-remembers-mario-vargas-llosa
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Contrary to Darwin’s thinking, the Yagan were not cannibals who ate their old women.
✍️ Nicholas Shakespeare
✍️ Nicholas Shakespeare
Charles Darwin’s contribution to Patagonia’s grim history
It was a journey Bruce Chatwin hankered to make: to Southampton and the grave of General Juan Manuel de Rosas, the exiled Argentine dictator described in the Southampton Times after his funeral in 1877...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Contrary to Darwin’s thinking, the Yagan were not cannibals who ate their old women.
✍️ Nicholas Shakespeare
✍️ Nicholas Shakespeare
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Lisa Scott reads The orange-bellied parrot by Nicholas Shakespeare , Miss Martin’s wish by Maeve Binchy and Ghosts & Empires by Lauren Goff.
March 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Lisa Scott reads The orange-bellied parrot by Nicholas Shakespeare , Miss Martin’s wish by Maeve Binchy and Ghosts & Empires by Lauren Goff.
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For decades, the CIA smuggled works by George Orwell, Hannah Arendt, Czeslaw Milosz and many others into the Soviet bloc in a battle for hearts, minds and intellects
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE
A war of words: circulating forbidden literature behind the Iron Curtain
If James Bond, now in American hands, re-emerges refreshed as an agent of the CIA, then it will be a homecoming of sorts, given that his creator played a role in drawing up the blueprint for…
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March 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
For decades, the CIA smuggled works by George Orwell, Hannah Arendt, Czeslaw Milosz and many others into the Soviet bloc in a battle for hearts, minds and intellects
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE
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Just read Nicholas Shakespeare's 2023 Ian Fleming biography. It's cracker.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Just read Nicholas Shakespeare's 2023 Ian Fleming biography. It's cracker.
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here is a 2002 movie I love called The Dancer Upstairs with Javier Bardem, and the last scene is scored to the live version of Who Knows Where The Time Goes, and of course she is a genius and a legend but that pairing is one of the best heartbreaking things in the world.
youtu.be/xlJfrpuhlPI?...
youtu.be/xlJfrpuhlPI?...
Nina Simone - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Live) (Audio)
YouTube video by NinaSimoneVEVO
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November 18, 2024 at 4:37 AM
here is a 2002 movie I love called The Dancer Upstairs with Javier Bardem, and the last scene is scored to the live version of Who Knows Where The Time Goes, and of course she is a genius and a legend but that pairing is one of the best heartbreaking things in the world.
youtu.be/xlJfrpuhlPI?...
youtu.be/xlJfrpuhlPI?...
So thrilled by this. Fleming was as Scottish as Bond.
October 31, 2024 at 8:04 PM
So thrilled by this. Fleming was as Scottish as Bond.
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Nicholas Shakespeare’s elegant biography of the James Bond author Ian Fleming takes its subtitle from a journalist’s observation, quoted halfway through, that its subject was “for a moment of time, a complete man” while working for British naval intelligence in the second world war.
April 10, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Nicholas Shakespeare’s elegant biography of the James Bond author Ian Fleming takes its subtitle from a journalist’s observation, quoted halfway through, that its subject was “for a moment of time, a complete man” while working for British naval intelligence in the second world war.
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The new Ian Fleming biography by Nicholas Shakespeare is leading me down lots of interesting byways - other authors educated in Kitzbühel in the 1920s (Cyril Connolly, Nigel Dennis, Ralph Arnold), and Phyllis Bottome's The Lifeline, which may have inspired James Bond - a new edition is out next year
November 9, 2023 at 3:12 PM
The new Ian Fleming biography by Nicholas Shakespeare is leading me down lots of interesting byways - other authors educated in Kitzbühel in the 1920s (Cyril Connolly, Nigel Dennis, Ralph Arnold), and Phyllis Bottome's The Lifeline, which may have inspired James Bond - a new edition is out next year
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‘lan Fleming: The Complete Man’ by Nicholas Shakespeare is now available.
At over 800 pages, the book provides a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact.
📓 Learn More: wp.me/pbs8To-1zQ
At over 800 pages, the book provides a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact.
📓 Learn More: wp.me/pbs8To-1zQ
October 7, 2023 at 12:43 PM
‘lan Fleming: The Complete Man’ by Nicholas Shakespeare is now available.
At over 800 pages, the book provides a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact.
📓 Learn More: wp.me/pbs8To-1zQ
At over 800 pages, the book provides a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact.
📓 Learn More: wp.me/pbs8To-1zQ
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Talked to Nicholas Shakespeare about his extraordinary book on Ian Fleming www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/nich...
Nicholas Shakespeare: The Complete Man
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. He tells me about the astonishing secret life of a writer whose adventures in espionage ...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 2, 2023 at 8:34 AM
Talked to Nicholas Shakespeare about his extraordinary book on Ian Fleming www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/nich...
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Twist! Nicholas Shakespeare tracked this tweet down at the other place and snapped at me. He said I should skip the pity and buy one of his books instead.
There are times when I stop to consider the writer named Nicholas Shakespeare and I always think, "That poor son of a bitch."
October 9, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Twist! Nicholas Shakespeare tracked this tweet down at the other place and snapped at me. He said I should skip the pity and buy one of his books instead.
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This was most enjoyable. Nicholas Shakespeare talks like he writes, fluently, no pauses or hesitation, no filler. I particularly liked how he described how, when Fleming had an affair with Lord Rothermere’s wife, the Daily Mail ‘rendered him down to tabloid fat’ in revenge.
Talked to Nicholas Shakespeare about his extraordinary book on Ian Fleming www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/nich...
Nicholas Shakespeare: The Complete Man
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. He tells me about the astonishing secret life of a writer whose adventures in espionage ...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 2, 2023 at 11:38 AM
This was most enjoyable. Nicholas Shakespeare talks like he writes, fluently, no pauses or hesitation, no filler. I particularly liked how he described how, when Fleming had an affair with Lord Rothermere’s wife, the Daily Mail ‘rendered him down to tabloid fat’ in revenge.
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare - Episode 3. Writing Bond - BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare - Episode 3. Writing Bond - BBC Sounds
Intriguing, new insight into the life of James Bond's creator - Ian Fleming.
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December 27, 2023 at 11:47 AM
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare - Episode 3. Writing Bond - BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Extremt detaljerad biografi. Vilket är ett problem när den handlar handlar om en introvert tråkmåns
November 13, 2023 at 11:52 PM
Extremt detaljerad biografi. Vilket är ett problem när den handlar handlar om en introvert tråkmåns
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Personally, I rather doubt he could write as well as NICHOLAS Shakespeare, after a DECADE of trying.
October 10, 2023 at 11:57 AM
Personally, I rather doubt he could write as well as NICHOLAS Shakespeare, after a DECADE of trying.
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This is my first Nicholas Shakespeare and I shall have to hunt down more. I've read more than my fair share on Churchill though the years but Six Minutes in May is intriguing. It's a pity that 2024 already seems fully booked with books...
December 17, 2023 at 6:56 PM
This is my first Nicholas Shakespeare and I shall have to hunt down more. I've read more than my fair share on Churchill though the years but Six Minutes in May is intriguing. It's a pity that 2024 already seems fully booked with books...
Watching Trump talk, you have to wonder who he’s aiming at. Certainly, no one who knows the world or who can judge character or who rates probity, common decency and talent. It’s all wordspray - meaningless and phony.
August 8, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Watching Trump talk, you have to wonder who he’s aiming at. Certainly, no one who knows the world or who can judge character or who rates probity, common decency and talent. It’s all wordspray - meaningless and phony.
I have just joined Bluesky having flirted unsuccessfully with Threads. Any tips welcome.
August 8, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I have just joined Bluesky having flirted unsuccessfully with Threads. Any tips welcome.