You Only Live Twice - Part two

This episode is the second part of our exploration of 'You Only Live Twice' (book published 1964, film released 1967).

Featuring Sean Connery as James Bond and Akiko Wakabayashi ask Aki, with Donald Pleasence as the arch nemesis Blofeld.

We start with an unknown spacecraft capturing an American capsule in orbit. With the US and the Soviet Union up in arms, WWIII is on the brink. Only one man can get to the bottom of it - British agent James Bond. And when he is seemingly assassinated in Hong Kong, he is able to operate unseen, travelling to Tokyo and meeting head of Japanese Secret Service Tiger Tanaka and agent Aki who are also trying to uncover the truth. Bond traces the suspicious liquid oxygen supplies used by the spacecraft to Osato Chemicals and travels to a remote fishing village where he begins his infiltration of the scheme spearheaded by his arch nemesis, Blofeld.

We kick things off with an investigation into the 'Stirred, not shaken' Martini incident with intelligence operative Dicko Henderson. Is it a bluff? Or a genuine mistake? We then dig into a bottle of 1970s Martini Extra Dry, look into why Fleming thought the best whisky is made where you can take great photographs and taste a forgotten bottle of Akadama 12yo sweet wine which makes a cameo in the film.

We also dig out a 1970s bottle of Suntory - perhaps close to what Bond might have been drinking in Japan - and ruminate about what makes up 'Blofeld's poison'.

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DRINK ALONG!

Suntory whisky - take your pick

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EAT ALONG!

Oysters

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