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Ian Fleming

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ian-Fleming.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/10/2003 Ian Fleming Transcript Ian Flemming, the author of the original James Bond novels, once said of himself that he had never grown out of his adolescence. Whether or not this is true, it is possible that Flemming’s greatest character, James Bond, derives much […]

Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/29/2001 Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Transcript Most people recognize the name Ian Fleming as the author of the original fourteen James Bond novels. But Fleming is also remembered for another work, the well-known children s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In 1921, when Fleming was twelve years old, […]