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By now, the world should have been able to enjoy the 25th official big-screen outing of perhaps the world's most famous fictional spy: James Bond, in
No Time to Die.
But the COVID-19 pandemic has put paid to that and the film won't now be released until April 2021 at the earliest – 12 months after it was originally supposed to hit our local multiplexes.
What kind of a Bond will we see when the film is finally released? What kind of impact will the #MeToo movement have had on the notorious womanizer?
To look deeper into the history and future of the world's most famous martini drinker,
The Agenda with Stephen Cole
speaks to **Penny Fielding, Edinburgh University professor and organizer of Edinburgh's Spy Week, and to Dr Monica Germana, author of the book **Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender
. And it turns out that Bond may not be the alpha male you suspected...
"Bond represents a kind of masculinity which on the outside represents confidence, strength, virility," says Germana, "But under his clothes, so to speak, is a very scarred body and sense of panic."
