Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Raymond Chandler Meets Ian Fleming

Richard Metzger's DangerousMinds.net has a good story on one of the greatest literary mashup interviews in radio history:

Philip Marlowe and James Bond are two of the greatest fictional characters of the 20th century, and this is what happened when their authors, Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming met for a BBC radio program in July 1958.

Fleming and Chandler talk about protagonists James Bond and Philip Marlowe in this conversation between two masters of their genre. They discuss heroes and villains, the relationship between author and character and the differences between the English and American thriller. Fleming contrasts the domestic “tea and muffins” school of detective story with the American private eye tradition and Chandler guides Fleming through the modus operandi of a mafia hit while marvelling at the speed with which his fellow author turns out the latest Bond adventure...

When Raymond Chandler met Ian Fleming
2.02.2011
Paul Gallagher
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