Charlie Higson

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driving the old deuce coupe

that's what i meant of course

do like his home uh home repair home improvement project show that's kind of fun

he kind of needs it doesn't he

Rob Schneider turns 63 tomorrow Dermot Mulrooney also 63 Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings guy 65 Dan Rather will be 95 good lord and he's still there for now Michael Collins during Apollo 11 he's the one that had to stay on board the ship while the other guys got to go play around on the moon he's no longer with us Oh, yeah, let's collaborate.

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I want to get to the bottom of this.

Okay, so Charlie Higson wrote the adult James Bond novel King Zero...

I don't like its pornography.

It does sound a bit like it, doesn't it? Well,

And also Dan Jones is a hysteria and best-selling author.

He wrote an upcoming James Bond novella, which is scheduled for release soon.

So I guess this is the Charlie Higson one.

And what, that made him feel old, did it?

Yes.

And telling Charlie Higson to make 40 foot pair of trousers.

And he said, I didn't really mean 40 foot, but that's what he's written.

So that's what Charlie Higson's got to do.

It's like messing with the team who's making it.

Yeah, definitely.

Just wanted to say how excited I am for Silverfin.

I read the Charlie Higson books when I was at school and I've been hoping that they get a full cast adaptation.

This feels like a very good excuse to go back to them.

Big finish doing Bond.

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Hi, Charlie Higson here with another chance to listen to the second series of my podcast, Willy Willy Harry Ste.

As you may have guessed from the title, the inspiration for the first series was taken from the rhyme I learnt at school, Willy Willy Harry Ste, a mnemonic for remembering the kings and queens of England in order from William the Conqueror.

And that rhyme allowed me to take a deep dive into the lives of every individual king and queen named.

And between them, this brother and sister took on the might of the Vikings and tried to push into the Danelaw and expand territory under Saxon control.

Follow the podcast now to make sure you don't miss a single episode.

Willy Willy Harry Steve was written and presented by me, Charlie Higson, with music by Tom Jenkins and production by Mark Jeeves.

Willy Willy Harry Steve, the podcast, is the copyright of Charlie Higson, 2024.

And so we've just submitted it.

We've written half of it ourselves and we've had contributions from people like Annabella Pollan, who's written about the Kindred of the Kivu Kift, John Higgs, who's written about the Beatles and William Blake and the KLF, Charlie Higson from The Fast Show, who wrote all those books on the young James Bond.

And we have asked people to suggest lost texts that may inform us about our Albion spirits.

And we've sort of defined the Albion spirit as, you know, the visionary spirit of Blake, the protest spirit of the Women of Greenham Common, the mischief of Viz,

On the telly that night, BBC Two had a new sketch show at 10 o'clock, The Fast Show, Series 1, Episode 4.

Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson had only launched it on the 27th of September.

In that first series, the titles ran with Release Me, the old Engelbert Humperdinck hit sung by Whitehouse as the lounge singer, Kenny Valentine.

Here's the Fast Show opening titles.

He's the author of the best-selling Young Bond series, as well as many adult thrillers and works of non-fiction.

And here to tell us about his latest novel, King Zero, a James Bond book, no less, it's Charlie Higson.

Hello.

Hello there, Joe.

And next to him, they find a circular object i- coated in gold with runes on it.

And so that's, that's the entry point for, for, for the book and Q's away.

Is there a world in which two authors, I don't know, let me pluck two names out of the ether, Charlie Higson, Naseem Khan, might be brought together to co-author a book starring, I don't know, characters like Q and James Bond? [laughs] Could it work? Would it ever happen? Would it be good? [laughs] Well, uh, there's a friend of mine who's, who's sort of working on a book, which I think the name is Tetbesh, I'm not a hundred percent sure.

So it's a, it's a special kind of book where you have two intertwined stories, but both starting from, uh, that's opposite ends of the book, literally in page format.