05/10/2012 The Review Show

This programme contains strong language.

The review show is back on track for a colourful autumn of cultural

highlights. She made millions, and wowed millions of Muggles with

Harry Potter. Can she do the same for grown-up fiction? JK Rowling's

the casual casual. On The Road finally -- The Casual Vacancy. On

The Road finally makes it into the cinema. Is it true to the book. 50

years since The Beatles relosed their first single, The Magical

Mystery Tour is up for grabs. And the Turner Prize. The return of

007. My name is Pussy Galore. review show celebrates James Bond

Day. I'm joined by critic and

broadcaster, Paul Morley, novelist Julie Myerson, and writer and

critic, Natalie Haynes, and Mika will be in the studio later. She

made her name with a boy called Harry, and a villain called

Voldemort, now JK Rowling attempts to cast a spell on the adult

audience, with Middle England. Cheek-by-jowl it is set in a run

down council estate. A million Muggles have pre-ordered the novel.

It is top of the book charts already. Set in the seemingly

idyllic fictional West Country village of Pagford. The Casual

Vacancy is a tale of local politics and poverty. It is a move from

fantasy to social realisim, which features adult themes such as

violence, rape and drug addiction. The "vacancy" of the title, is a

seat on the local parish council, where there is a long dispute

between fields and the local council estate, which has long been

seen as an unsavoury blight, by Pagford's middle-class majority.

"there was nothing, as far as Harry could see, to stop the Fielders

growing vegtables, or stop them pulling themselves together as a

community and tackling the dirt and the shabbyness. Nothing to stop

them cleaning themselves up and taking jobs, nothing at all. So

Howard was forced to draw the conclusion that they were

choosinging of their own free will to live the way they lived, and

that the estate's air of slightly threatening degradation, was

nothing more than a physical manifestation of ignorance and

indolence. Rowling says the book's characters reflect the snobbery and

pretensions she sees in Britain's middle-classes, and society's

treatment of the less fortune was something she witnessed in her

early years as a young single mother. Wefrpblgts talk about this

homogeneous faceless mass. With the best intentions of the world, one

of the first things to go is your individuality, you are seen so

differently. I think if you have been there, you never forget that

experience. Rowling claims she doesn't mind how sales figures

measure up to the Harry Potter series, which has sold almost half

a billion copies around the world. But will the citizens of Pagford

work the same magic on the British public, as Harry in Hogwarts.

Julie, you have a got family breakdown, alienation, troubled

teenagers, in a funny way, a lot of elements in Harry Potter, but

shape-shifted to the adult market. Did it work? I was very surprised

by this novel. On the one hand I think it comilts a lot of the

things that I think -- commits a lot of things that are fictions for

crime writing so, many adverbs, you could go through it with a red pen,

she tends to tell, not show. But I have to say I thought it was a

really good read. I thoroughly enjoyed it t I was moved, affected

and engaged. The last 200 pages really, I thought were really good

story telling. I think in some ways, the Dickensian element, some of the

tragedy there, I found it very moving. She did succeed. Did you

become immersed in Pagford? I felt a responsibility to read it, after

a few pages you think it will be a lot of effort. She is unbelievably

brilliant at something, that is a form of writing. She can describe

something so wonderful. You start to get into the idea of this is

interesting, this is how she managed to weave her spell with the

children's books, she is unbelievably brilliant at decribing

things. After you have read the 512 pages, at the end of it, it is

amazing how little there is in there for all that work. I give it

a lot of credit. I love the idea she has stopped the momentum of a

successful career to do it. She has earned it. It is the kind of book

without Harry Potter would have sold 200 copies. I applaud that. It

is oddly old fashioned, considering it is set in the Internet world.

is a campaigning novel, she speaks so passionately about her own

situation those years ago, clearly things have affected her very

deeply? It is very serious, it is a very serious, 70s, lefty-sort of

book. I would have liked it if they hadn't gone through all the

ridiculous pal lava with the PR, and they had withdrawn it a bit and

we had to find it. It withdraws what is going on. There is a quaint

worthiness about it. The PR campaign is slightly corrupted.

PR campaign, she could have done without it, I know a lot of big

novels are shrouded in secrecy now? They want to shift copies, they

have one million pre-orders, they won't take the high road, she may

not need the money, but the publishing house certainly wants it

and needs it. I agree, it would have been nicer to discover it

rather than having it thrust upon you. Wake up one morning and there

it is, magically appearing at the bottom of your bed. Like a letter

from hog wart. I wanted to like it very much. I like her hugely as a

writer, I like her hugely as a human being. She seems to decent.

In the -- seems so decent. The last 200 pages were good, the first 300

were in need of an edit. Because of the tonal lurch, it is a comedy of

manners, look how hilarious the middle-classes are for the first

300 pages. Then it is a terrible tragedy. I can't be moved by these

people's awfulness, because we have been laughing at them for 400 pages.

It seems to me, she just has a fantastic affinity with teenagers.

They are by far the best people in it. In a weird way, two of the

teenage characters, Fats and obviously Crystal, who are actually

the kind of beating heart of this novel. In a sense, you felt that

maybe she wanted to do that, but it wouldn't be seen as an adult book.

If she had centered on them? would have been a better book.

don't agree, one of the strengths is the huge cast of characters. I

found the first 200 pages hard, because she's giving us a lot of

people to keep up with. I think the novel is so well observed, that is

what won me over. There was not a single detail I thought, no, that

wouldn't happen. The teenage thing, you kind of think this is like

Krystal, surely that is Tulisa, I think I won't question it because

she seems to know what she's doing it, that "I ain't done nothing

wrong", then you think you won't question it, I think she knows what

she is doing. I wasn't ready for that. I think the funny thing is as

well, when you hear her reading passages, that has strong languages,

you think of all the kids with their children listening to it.

says life is about trying to get a fuck and trying not to die.

think JK Rowling said that! It is about sex and death. It is about

difficult, and hard things, drug addiction and rape. She is very

convincing about that. She has taken it seriously, I was very

suspicion of, the idea that -- suspicious of, that if you were

reading Harry Potter you would go on to read literature, and it might

be that it is. It is a serious book, that if someone moves on from

reading Harry Potter as a ten-year- old, they would go to this and look

at serious issues. My children did do that, I don't think they are

ready for this, it is a book for older people. A lot of people who

started with Harry Potter at 12 will now be adult. All those

million pre-orders, because we didn't know much about the book, do

you think it is hopeful parents thinking it will be a young adult

book? No, because of the publicity. Because of the PR campaign everyone

knows there will be swearing and drugs and sex and rape, and all

things you don't want your children to read about. She gave a good

quote saying she hasn't represented herself as the child's teacher or

babysitter. She wrote good books, that doesn't make her the thing of

children. She is allowed to move. think the million people buying the

book are wanting to be educated by JK Rowling on how to write book. I

get that feeling, those first people want to know how does she do

T there is an element, in a middle brow way, that she does something

magical, there is an illusion about her. I don't want to criticise t if

she could lose the thing, she will give you a scene, and sum it up

with one line, and then prequels things, saying "guess what happens

next". What do you think it will do for her reputation. With Harry

Potter she has moved on, maybe she will write fiction for children and

adults again. Harry Potter was also for adults. Do you think this is

her saying I'm out there now, I have changed, I'm moving on to a

different kind of writer? It has that passion. It has the passion of

someone writing what they wanted to write. It shows nudges she could

move into the literary world, she could pull it off. The Casual

Vacancy by JK Rowlingcy -- is available now.

Many thought On The Road was unadaptable for the screen. Walter

Salles, perhaps buoyed by his 2004 success, the Motorcycle Diaries,

has taken on the challenge. After its publication, it was labelled as

an anti-establishment piece of literature, bringing the arrival of

the Beat Generation. Largely based on Jack Keroac's experiences of

travelling across America. It charts their collision with a post-

war America. To living and to life. Sal Paradise,

Keroac's vision of himself, played by Sam Riley, embarks on a journey

with anti-hero, Dean Moriarty. day before my father died, he took

hold of my hand, and he looked at it, and he said, "you got no

callouss Sal, that's because you don't do any real fucking work,

boy". Fuelled by jazz, poetry and drugs, they embark on a road trip,

with Kirsten Stewart's Marylou. Can't you wait until Frisco.

don't care. Dean's going to leave me any way. But how do the leads

convince as the pioneers of the Beat Generation? And 60 years on,

does the film lend a new interpretation to this classic tale.

I just had a great idea. You guys are gonna love it. Do you think

Salles nails the spirit of the book? I don't think he does, but

I'm not sorry, I always hated those boys who read the book, and said

they were free spirits, no they were a tit. It has always irritated

me, I wasn't looking forward to the film. I was kind of dreading it,

but I kind of liked it. I think those two boys are terrifically

booed, Garrett Hedlund, especially, as Dean Moriarty, is super-

charismatic, doing that Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louis, turning up,

saying I'm enormously handsome, and will be around for a while, as you

were. He absolutely has the capacity to come in at the end and

remind you that character is super charismatic and also fragile.

Dangerous and fragile. Did you love the book as a

teenager? Yes, it was biblical properties, and what I imagine and

remember of it is not what the film is. This film is respectful to the

text itself. That is what you yes or no for from a film version of

this, is not that at all, but something that gets into the spirit

of it. It is an American ideal of what a teenager would be, viewed

from the perspective of a teenager looking back now and looking back.

It is too decorative and loyal. is like a Leviad? It is a

commercial for a weird idea of a teenager. It is nothing to do with

the book at all. What you would really want from a film version is

something so experimental and adventurous, it doesn't go anywhere

near, being slavist to the text and we don't have Keroac sat in front

of a typewriter with a bit of paper, wondering what to write next.

agree, it is an irritating thing with a film that thinks it is cool,

and the actors are flawed by it, thinking they were in a very cool

film. It was irritating. It is years since I read the book. But it

suffers from the fact that there is no drama. Because nobody ever does

anything that has any consequences. It is a fatal lack of come up pence

for anyone. Not that, Sal and the girl, Marylou finally get to sleep

together, he has been wanting that for ages, in a morning she leaves a

note saying goodbye and that's it. He has dysentery in Mexico? And the

next shot he's fine. That stopped me feeling bad, he made a brilliant

film about the road, and not this. That is why people thought he would

be the one to make this film. only way to do it is to do

something experimental. It is about finding freedom at the time, now it

is so far removed, if you put a bunch of sudden dough teenagers for

now, it is like a commercial. It is difficult to get to be a teenager

in 1940s, and now, now you are liberated by the experimental work

done in the late 1940s, if you are going to be genuinely faithful to

the book, you are not faithful to the text. They did a lot of work,

all the actors, all this improvisation with Salles. Your

heart sinks as soon as you hear that. You can see there is a big

music scene, a big jazz scene, where you think we are all thinking

we are juing actors having a lot of fun. -- young actor having a lot of

fun? It is not how they would dance now and not then. They were dancing

like it was a rave? That Kirsten Stewart scene, it is very modern,

isn't it? It is the most exciting performance she has given in

anything. She was modern in it. She seemed like someone from now. She

has meernd face. There was a lot of wasted actors in there. You go from

Steve Buschemi, and Amy Adams, he jumps about through generations and

actors. You have Kirsten Dunst and you

wanted her to turn around and do something, because we are modern,

but she was sat upon. I thought she was the most dramatic of characters.

It is like women putting up with this for 20 years, and then it was

like which bit of free a liberation means you get to treat everyone

terribly. That was one of the pieces that seems real in terms of

the 40s, girls did just go, that is just free spirity, and sat there.

Her performance was the best in the film. The scenes she was in came to

life, I cared about them. Even if there was no consequence, you felt

there might be one. She plays, that is the way Keroac wrote her, as an

intelligent woman, that Neil Cassidy was giving a really hard

time to, in the book as I remember it. I thought also, the way they

treated, you were meant to know this was Ginsberg and Burroughs?

Viggo Mortensen does that, almost corny set piece, a corny idea of

what life with William S Burroughs would be and Ginsberg. Almost pop

videos, insip pid and let tharpblgic. The men are all -- Ince

sip pid andlet thatic. -- Inspipid and lethargic.

thought the best way is to start at the end, and end with them at the

beginning, all young and fresh. That would have been moving. As it

is we didn't care. There was no journey, for a book called On The

Road. To begin the film with a conversation like this, but how it

is impossible to film and then do it. Do it with bravado. The Keroac

observation character, Sal, he was an incredible insipid character.

fundamental error, a series of so obvious fundamental errors that you

cannot believe it eventually got made. However long it is, it is

that long, too long. We talked about it being a bit of a

commercial the way it was shot. Is it did look, I thought, terrific?

They cut 20 minutes out of it since it showed at Cannes. They knew it

was too long, they were right. still have a way to go. It would be

a great three-minute edit. Do you think people will return to Keroac

because of it? I wouldn't have thought so. On The Road drives into

cinemas next Friday. It was 50 years ago today that The Beatles

relosed their first single, Love Me Do, pop music changed forever, it

wasn't until five years later that they made a film to capture their

own creative explosion, and the next chapter for Keroac's Beat

Generation. The Magical Mystery Tour screened on Boxing Day in 1957

tuned in, and the BBC was inundated with complaints. Tomorrow the BBC

will show the film, and we look back at the making of The Magical

Mystery Tour. When The Magical Mystery Tour was

broadcast on Boxing Day in 1967, nestled in the BBC One schedule

between Petula Clarke and the Norman Wisdom movie, it caused a

sensation. Listen, this film. us something about the storyline?

It is about a group of commoner garden strange people, on a coach

tour, around anywhere, really. Things happen to them, you see.

think the younger people would get t people who knew it was going on,

in society. They would get it, and the older people, who were

expecting mother came and Wise or the British -- Morcame and Wise, or

the Royal Variety Show, would feel annoyed, and been cheated out of

their Christmas Special. Speaking to those involved, Arena looks back

on the impact of the movie, and the contribution to the cultural

change? I was 15-year-old, and we sat and watched it right the way

through in silence. Afterwards we looked at each other and said, what

was that all about? When a man buys a ticket for a

Magical Mystery Tour, he knows what what to expect. We guarantee him

the trip of a lifetime. And that's just what he gets. The incredible

Magical Mystery Tour. So how significant was The Magical Mystery

Tour to the rise of counter culture, and how successfully does this film

examine that particular moment in time. Two things here, we have the

documentary about The Magical Mystery Tour, the making of t and

the movie. First of all, on the documentary, did it show Paul

McCartney and Ringo Starr in a different light, the conversation

they were having? Paul McCartney is claiming to be the avant garde part

of the group, we don't think of him like that, he has gone out of his

way that it was him jamming in the 60s with the avant garde band in

front of eight people, and it was him that pushed the idea. Ringo

hasn't taken any responsibility for the movie, that is pure Ringo. I

love it so much, now it makes sense in the historical context, the

jamming together in the 1970s that The Beatles epitomised, and the

things. 1960s? What did I say, 1970s. Sorry, I have taken

something. The merging together of psyche Dell ka, it was interesting

variety with European avant garde, it is the merging of ...That Whole

thing about Paul McCartney and the avant garde, the former editor of

the International Times, talking about the amazing thing at Crystal

Palace where they did the benefit. That is modern his treatment it is

fantastic to see that? We are shifting from lived memory, living

through it, to recorded memory. I have spent 30 years ducking The

Beatles, because it gets in the way of radical movement. It is like a

distorted autobiography of four young kids from Liverpool, having

the time of their lives for four years, and they were in a right

state, and you see right inside. They earned the right to do

whatever they wanted, nobody could tell them what they should wear and

sing and they earned creative freedom, and God, they had it.

you look at the movie you see later Python stuff? I don't know if I did.

I don't know that stuff well enough. It is a funny film. If you want to

talk about the documentary, I thought that was a thin documentary,

but shed an interesting light on the film, I which had already

watched that first. When I first watched the film I thought it was

padded and dreadful in places, apart from when they played. The

red nosed wizards in the caves? It was really bad. When I watched the

documentary, there is an innocence to it, it is four lads using their

imagination. It couldn't happen today and that is sad. The story of

everyone watching it on Boxing Day and being so furious, is very funny.

Natalie, we have to take it you have a pathological dislike of the

Beatles. Let's just. I hated them my whole life, I hate them though

my parents and my boyfriend like T I hate them so much I think the

rest of you are tricking me by tree tending to think they are good --

pretending to think they are good. That is a given, let's look at the

set pieces, not even the set pieces for you were quite engaging to

watch? No they were lamentable. You look back and think why were people

so dull to think their drug experiences were inspiration for

the rest of us. People of the 1970s were wise. Walter Salles is looking

back and thinking he's doing it for Keroac? In fact Ringo and Paul

should have made On The Road. This is On The Road. Can you imagine.

Ringo Starr talking about taking his camera with him. That was the

age of small cameras. They had technology for the first time.

McCartney doing home movies, he was 25, why not? What he says about the

slicing of the eyeball leading to Psycho, every second of the

original film leads to pop video. The imagery, the way of presenting

pop music through visuals, it is the source of all video in the

1980s. I wouldn't miss video if it never existed for pop songs ever.

Nobody I like has produced pop videos, I couldn't care less about

everything The Beatles have done, has an impact in a world I haven't

got an interest in. Everything you wouldn't like would not be here

without The Beatles. It would be fine without them. I'm not as bad

as you! But I don't love The Beatles, I never got them. This

film is fascinated as a piece of archive. Also, I thought the

funnyiest thing in the documentary is Martin Scorsese is so influenced

by it! There might have been revisionist there? Paul Gambacini

is bewildered, floundering to explain what is going on. The idea

that you had a pop group that was the most commercial pop group of

the time, embracing the experimental, and the avant garde,

in way we yes or no to happen now. It is so ex-- we yaeorn to happen

now, it is so exciting. All the things you love in popular culture,

from Batman to Dick van Dyke, would not have happened without these

people opening up. What is the most recent film. At that time you were

having all the kind of, you know, before that, the Cliff Richard

summer holidays, and all, that the inheritors of that is Spice World.

Who is doing that now? 45 years later you looking at On The Road,

it is not 45 years after that film, and it should be. What we are going

next to the Turner Prize, is what we should be, it should be 45 years

after The Magical Mystery Tour. Were weren't there more of their

songs in it. When they were performing their songs in it, it

was brilliant, there were only four or five. Your mother should know.

It is fantastic at the end, the set piece at the end. There was a tonal

world, in four years after Love Me Do, that urban harmonica that

begins Love Me Do, that completely cuts open popular culture. I'm not

a Beatles fan, four years later they are here and the sound is

extraordinary. It is amazing. have to say they can't act.

with Kirsty it is Monty python. go finally someone else has in

theed. We have to agree to -- Notice Noticed. We have to agree to

disagree. Unseen footage at the Beatles is at

space.org. Who knows if The Magical Mystery Tour had been around for

the Turner Prize, it might have been a contender. Artists who revel

in detail and others are shortlisted for the prize. Going by

the postcards pinned on the wall of Tate Britain as visitors leave,

passions are running high. Paul Noble's intricate pencil designs

are part of a larger body of work that has consumed the artist for

decades. Newton's is an urban Metropilis and dystopian dream.

Palaces, rain drops and pebbles, and even feeies, are rendered in

pencil drawings and marble sculpture.

When the city chambers were built, a quarter of the city of gas glow

lived in tenement blocks, like this, this is one of the finest examples.

Glaswegian artist, Luke Fowler, explores the life of controversial

psychiatrists RD Laing, a 90-minute video collage, including archive,

specially shot sequences and testimony. Laing confronted the

medical profession with new ways of healing and treating the mentally

ill, they ran contrary to popular medical culture. He explores

Laing's fragile mental state and holding up a mirror for our own.

The Woolworths Choir of 1979 by Elizabeth Price unites disjointed

ideas under a common binding aesthetic, which shows how divided

subject matters can be united by art. Ecclesiastical architecture,

pop music, and a fatal fire in Woolworths in 1979, is combined

with arresting graphics and a powerful landscape. This year the

Turner Prize has nominated a performance artist for the first

time in history. Spartacus Chetwynd invites gallery goers to interact

with dancers, with a papier mash chet structure to look into the

future, and puppets that look at the Bible story between Jesus and

bar rab bus. It has polarised critical opinion, who from this

challenging quartet stands out. The Tate judges don't look at one

piece of work, it is a whole body of work for the contention of the

Turner Prize. Somebody who has a body of work here is Noble. It

disPopeian vision of Knobs and Newton? It is my least favourite,

it is not that I don't think he can draw, but I can never shake the

belief as I went around perfectly and neatly rendered shit, that the

whole thing has been put on by Vizf they thought let's satirise the

whole thing with drawings and things made of shit. I can't

believe no-one jumped out and I think well done Viz you, you got me

again. I note at no point does it mention in the skrigs of his work

in the catalogue that is the majority of what he has drawn or

skutped, you think it is not there, that is most of what you have done,

let's pretend it is not there. Like the description of what he was

about to do, before I had actually seen it, much more than seeing it.

I thought that's going to be interesting until I saw it, I

didn't fall for the maps he was drawing and what was happening.

spent decades drawing this thing. If you think about other artists

who have done brilliant intricate work, like Michael Landy doing

Weeds, beautiful in the humanity of it. I couldn't find the heart of

it? I'm going to be like Natalie about The Beatles, I hated the room

so much, I almost can't talk about it. I thought those drawings were

empty, lifeless, I don't know what it was about them. Because I found

them so difficult to look at. I disliked them so much, I made

myself go back and look at them again. I'm wondering if it is a

very small fraction of the universe. He's the favourite to win, isn't

he? I don't know if he's the favourite. Let's not deal with that.

I thought this is a universe that I need to spend the rest of my life

looking at, but I wasn't sure. Fowler and his work, looking at RD

Laing, the kind of psychiatry he espoused and what was going on with

RD Laing's fragile state. 45 years after The Magical Mystery Tour, is

where certain sort of films should be in the mainstream. The fact that

it has been shoved to concept actual art shows the difficulty

people have with a non-linear exploration of a great mind. This

is how a great mind should be explored in film. It is not my

favourite of the exhibition, it is tremendous. I love Luke Fowler's

subjects. I also love the idea that this is how you should really do a

profile of a graert artist and mind and thinker. And -- A great artist

and mind and thinker. Also the beautiful way of compiling the

information in a way we are used to in our own life. It is 90 minutes

long, you would have to say the exhibition will take four or five

hours to see. It bears sitting through that film. It is a very

moving exploration of human fragility and vulnerability, and

mental health, which needs to be talked about. But my only problem

with it, I would have happily gone to see it at the cinema, he didn't

know why it was in an art gallery? The mainstream world has become so

banal, this type of work that should be on television and cinema,

has been shoved out to the fringes. Whoever commissions film in this

country has allowed that to happen. Let's talk about this, for the

first time the Turner Prize has a performance artist. Spartacus

Chetwynd, there a bit of her work here, and she traced David

Copperfield's wok over from Dover. She has always been a performance

artist and looking back at history? I feel like Paul does about Luke

Fowler, it is not my favourite piece or the one I would like to

win. She is so happy and sin see, I find it improsable not to like her.

-- sincere, I find it impossible not to like her. I like that it is

handmade. She reminds me of everybody, most of all Josie Long,

the handmade appliqueed nonsensicalness of it.

With such since certificatity. not -- Since sert. It is not -- I

would like to see it 25 minutes a week. I might be mitsing the larger

universe, I have to say, having gone through -- missing the larger

universe. I have to say having gone through a lot of things I loved at

the Turner Prize, then I made a quick exit, it was like I'm going

to punish you now. Let as talk about the Elizabeth Price that

brings together ecclesiastical architecture, the shaing gri las,

and a dreadful tragedy at Woolworths in Manchester. It is

wonderful. It is hard to talk about it, it is 20 minutes long, it is

one of the most original, eerie, strange, jep upsetting, beautiful

elating things -- upsetting and beautiful and elate things. I

watched it six times, I wish there was a way of buying it and having

it to show on your wall. It is amazing. It is so heartening that

you know there are artists out there diagnosing the contemporary

circumstances, this absolutely does it. It is a revelation for the

turner price that it transcends, it is slightly glimicy, classic award

kind of thing -- gimmicky, classic award kind of thing. I hope she

wins, I thought it was beautiful and harrowing, the opposite of the

opening room, the Paul Noble room, where you go in and say this is

what the grown-ups are doing. melds together different things,

old pictures of architecture. woman's arm coming out of

Woolworths where she can't get out. The moment when the film changes,

it is the twist of the wrist and then the arm comes out. It shows

you how banal On The Road is, when you look at these things. I know

you have Elizabeth Price as the winner? Elizabeth Price. Elizabeth

Price. I will be very upset if she doesn't win! We have hyped her now.

The winner will be announced on 3rd of December, you can see all four

shortlisted artists until January. 1962 was an auspicious day on

Boxing Day, when Love Me Do was released, the start of another

culture brand began. Dr No, the first James Bond film hit the

cinemas, it is still going strong. In a few weeks Skyfall will be in

the sin mals, with Daniel Craig in his third outing. James Bond Day.

He has been in every Skype possible, glamorous galls and the odd qip and

thrills and spills. What are you doing? Keeping the British end up.

Our enduring fascination with the spy who loves us is half a century

old, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. To coincide with his landmark

birthday, the theme tune to the latest film, Skyfall by Adele, was

released in the early hours of this morning. It is already topping the

iTunes Chart. # This is the end

Aityure-length documentary, the untold story of 007, Everything or

Nothing, is also released today, unveiling the key players behind

the bond movies, past and present. After his successful skydiving

mission with the Queen at the Olympics, VisitBritain have

launched their campaign with Bond as the poster boy. Seeing him as a

British brand shaken not stirred. Some men are going to kill us, we

are going to kill them first. Only a couple of minutes on this.

Paul, what is your favourite Bond theme tune? Anything by Bassey, she

should do them all. I was disappointed this time, I was

hoping it to be Morrisey or Susan boil, Adele should have come down

the line. Victoria pendle done could have given it a good --

Pendleton could have given it a good go. What is your favourite

Bond film? Anything with sharks. I love the pool with them dangling

over the sharks. My favourite bit is the bit where they are on the

train and you think it is all right, and the bed is flipped up so the

girl is stuck there for the whole time he fights and then it comes

down. Mine is Odd Job throwing the hat. Why is it such an enduring

brand? Personally I think it is because Ian Fleming taps into

figures and myths we want all the time, the shadowy figures. The

first-ever Bond villain has a pool of man-eating rays, when a slave

boy drops one of his crystal glasses, he orders that the boy be

thrown to the man-eating eels, and someone stops it happening.

think it will continue through the centuries. We are talking about

theme tunes, you have listened to the Adele, we have all listened to

it, has it all the makings of a classic Bond theme? My rule is

could this person thing Goldfinger karaoke at their aunt's wedding,

Adele could do that, that makes her perfectly suitable. I only heard

half of t it gave me a thrill feeling and made me want to see the

film. As a musician, we are about to hear Mika singing his own song,

if had you a chance to sing the Bond team what would you seen?

Louis Armstrong, All The Time in the World. We will discuss the film

in few weeks time. Thank you to all my guests. Next Friday we will have

a run down of the six books competing for the Man Booker price.

More music, including Bobby Womack on Later. Here to play us out, we

have Mika, with a track from his album, The Origin of Love.

# From the air I breathe # To the love I need

# Only thing I know # You're the origin of love

# From the God above # To the one I love

# Only then that's true # The origin is you

# From the air I breathe # To the love I need

# Only thing I know # You're the origin of love

# From the God above # To the one I love

# Only thing that's true # The origin is you

# Love is a trap # And you are my secret

# Love is addiction # And you are my nicorett

# Love is like chocolate and cigarette

# I'm feeling sick # I have to medicate myself

# Like everything you fear # And hold dear

# Everything you keep in your pocket

# You are the sun and the light # You are the freedom I fight

# Go will do nothing to stop it # The origin is you

# You're the origin of love # Love is a drawing

# And you are my cigarette # Love is addiction

# And you are my nicorette # Love is a drug like chocolate

# And cigarettes # I'm feeling sick

I have to medicate myself # What if God is a priest

# And the devil and slug # Like every word you teach

# Every rule you preach # You know the origin is you

# The air I breathe # To the love I need

# Only thing I know # You're the origin of love

# From the God above # To the one I love

# Only thing that's true # The origin is

# Like stew bid Adam and Eve # They found a love in a tree

# God didn't think they deserved it # He taught them hate and pride

# Gave them a leaf and pushed them # Let's push the stories aside

# The origin is you # To the air I breathe

# You are the origin of love # To the God above