While They Were Bond — Sean Connery in The Hill

Introducing our new series of podcasts: While they were Bond.

In this new series we look at the other films Bond actors starred in during their tenure as 007.

Our first episode focuses on Sidney Lumet’s extraordinary and harrowing wartime prison drama, The Hill, starring Sean Connery who by 1965 was anxious to be cast in roles very different to James Bond. He certainly got his wish with this outstanding yet deeply controversial telling of life for British soldiers in a North African prison camp during the Second World War.