Thunderball Radio Play
12th December 2016
Listen online to the latest James Bond novel adaptation for BBC Radio 4
By MI6 Staff
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First broadcast on Saturday 10th December 2016 by BBC Radio 4, the sixth radio play adaptation of a James Bond novel was 'Thunderball.' Toby Stephens returns once again as 007 for the airwaves.
Thunderball - BBC Radio Play
It's 1959. Blackmail. The western world is in jeopardy. Can James Bond prevent nuclear disaster?
Martin Jarvis directs an all-star cast as SPECTRE's pilot hijacks a Vindicator bomber carrying two atomic bombs. Once its cargo is delivered to the Bahamas, he is killed and the bombs are secreted on board the cruiser Disco Volante. The British Prime Minister receives a letter from criminal mastermind Ernst Blofeld - two major cities will be decimated unless a huge ransom is paid.
Operation Thunderball attempts to recover the nuclear weapons.
M assigns 007 to the Bahamas. He joins forces with CIA's Felix Leiter. Bond meets Domino - mistress of Blofeld's second-in-command, Largo and sister of the dead pilot - and recruits her to spy on Largo.
The ransom deadline nears. After an undersea battle Bond locates the bombs en route to the first target. Will nuclear disaster be averted.
Cast
| James Bond | Toby Stephens |
| Largo | Tom Conti |
| Blofeld | Alfred Molina |
| Domino | Janet Montgomery |
| Dr Wain | John Sessions |
| Patricia | Lisa Dillon |
| Lippe | James Callis |
| Leiter | Josh Stamberg |
| Governor | Ian Ogilvy |
| M | John Standing |
| Miss Moneypenny | Janie Dee |
| Q | Julian Sands |
| Captain Clark | Nigel Lindsay |
| Petacchi | Matthew Wolf |
| Dietl | Matthew Wolf |
| Sam | Alan Shearman |
| Beresford | Darren Richardson |
| Pilot | Darren Richardson |
| Kalyagin | Aaron Lyons |
| Operator | Aaron Lyons |
| Santos | Simon de Deney |
| Officer | Simon de Deney |
| Ian Fleming | Martin Jarvis |
| Author | Ian Fleming |
| Adaptor | Archie Scottney |
| Composer | Mark Holden |
| Composer | Michael Lopez |
| Director | Martin Jarvis |
| Producer | Rosalind Ayres |
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