ClubCast 2: Blades in Fleming's James Bond novels

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ClubCast 2: Blades in Fleming's James Bond novels

Seth Thévoz

Aug 04, 2025

This week’s edition of ClubCast (the Clubland Podcast) offers a deep dive into one of the best-known fictional clubs of all time - Blades, in Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels of the 1950s and 1960s. And it asks how accurate and plausible it was, compared to the clubs of the day?

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ClubCast 2: Blades in Fleming's James Bond novels

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