Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

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

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.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

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.