Actor Toby Stephens, who portrays 007 in this BBC radio play production, previously portrayed the arch villain Gustav Graves in the James Bond movie 'Die Another Day' (2002).
Fifth of seven new BBC 4 radio play productions of James Bond novels by Ian Fleming.
Official BBC publicity for this production stated: "Fleming's fourth Bond novel is especially dazzling. Its dark humour encompasses millions of pounds worth of diamonds smuggled out of British mines in Africa. Responsible? Somebody known as 'ABC'. James Bond is sent undercover by MI6 to New York to follow the pipeline. Masquerading as a courier he meets enticing, ice-cold, Tiffany Case. She stands between Bond and gang-bosses whose criminal diamond business stretches from Sierra Leone, via London, to the gambling tables of Las Vegas.Bond infiltrates the mob. Horse-racing scams, a car chase, a rigged card game, pursuit by locomotive - Bond and Tiffany endure all. Eventually flown to West Africa, Bond unmasks the ultimate villain."
This BBC 4 radio play production of the James Bond 'Diamonds are Forever' novel by Ian Fleming was staged in the same 2015 year as the first release of the James Bond movie 'SPECTRE' (2015).
Seventh radio play production of an Ian Fleming James Bond novel.