Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.